Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Multiplexed Sensitivity Encoding of Multi-Shot Diffusion-Weighted Echo Planar MRI at 0.5 Tesla for Cholesteatoma Imaging
(2023-10-27)Cholesteatoma is an abnormal skin mass in the middle ear requiring surgical excision, and accurate post-surgical imaging is of interest to avoid repeat surgeries. MRI suffers from susceptibility-induced field gradients at ... -
MULTISCALE STRETCHED-GRIDS FOR FINE RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION IN A MASSIVELY PARALLEL CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODEL
(2020-11-09)Modeling atmospheric composition at fine resolution globally is computationally expensive; the capability to focus on specific geographic regions using a multiscale grid is desirable. This work develops, validates, and ... -
Multiview model for protection and access control.
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Multus Homo Es: Desire, Identity, and Conquest in Catullus' Carmina
(2016-08-26)The Roman poet Catullus has occupied a curious place in the hearts of scholars and lovers of literature alike. On the one hand, he writes some of the most violent and hateful poetry to have survived from the Ancient World, ... -
Mundane Intimacies and Everyday Violence in Contemporary Canada Comics
(2021-05-05)This dissertation argues that contemporary Canadian comics construct a sustained and critical gaze of the mundane and the everyday. Canadian artists are using the form of comics to reveal the structures of oppression and ... -
MUNICIPAL MUSSELS: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE MUTUAL BENEFITS OF FRESHWATER MUSSEL PRESENCE IN A MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY
(2023-08-30)Freshwater mussels are a keystone group in lake ecosystems, including some surface water supply sources utilized by Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM) Water Utility. My research aims to establish the value of ecosystem ... -
MUSCLE SPINDLE FEEDBACK AND LIMB COORDINATION DURING LOCOMOTION
(2021-04-27)Understanding how the nervous system controls locomotion is of great importance to improve treatments of mobility disorders. The numerous muscles and joints in a limb participating in a given movement, have to feed sensory ... -
Music Composer Recognition from MIDI Representation using Deep Learning and N-gram Based Methods
(2022-10-07)In order to answer conceptually basic queries like “Who created this piece?” the discipline of computational musicology frequently requires the analysis of detailed characteristics. Melodic lines, rhythmic patterns, ... -
MUSIC IN PEACEBUILDING: Examining Music within the Peacebuilding Discipline
(2018-04-25)This thesis will examine the peacebuilding discourse, alongside current findings in the music discourse, to determine whether the integration of music could enhance current peacebuilding practices. Music is an important ... -
Music, Madness, & the Mainstream: The Communication of Bipolar Disorder in the Art and Reception of Kanye West & Mariah Carey
(2024-04-13)Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Mariah Carey are two of the biggest stars of popular music. While they have both earned vast amounts of critical and commercial success throughout their respective careers, this has ... -
Musical Works Without Musical Works: An Essay in Ontology
(2013-08-26)This thesis provides an answer to the question, “what is a musical work?” I begin by canvasing four of the leading accounts in the literature, two Platonist theories and two Nominalist theories. Nominalism is, I suggest, ... -
Mutational analysis of the NS-1 protein of the MVM parvovirus.
(Dalhousie University, 1993) -
Mutational analysis of the yeast chromatin modulator complex FACT.
(Dalhousie University, 2004) -
MUTUAL AUTHENTICATION SCHEME FOR MOBILE RFID SYSTEMS
(2013-04-16)Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are rapidly becoming popular in a variety of applications such as supply chain management, storage management and healthcare. Such a system consists of a tag with a unique ... -
My Brother’s Life Mattered: A Scholarly Personal Narrative of Grief from an African Nova Scotian Woman’s Perspective
(2024-03-30)This qualitative study used Black feminist theory (BFT) and Scholarly personal narrative (SPN) methodology to explore grief from the perspective of an African Nova Scotian woman. Using my personal narrative of the unexpected ... -
My Friends Don't Really Understand Me: Examining Close Friendships of Adolescents with Chronic Pain
(2011-08-22)Chronic pain negatively affects all dimensions of an adolescent’s life. Little is known about the social impact of chronic pain for adolescents, especially on close friendships. More is known about peer acceptance and ... -
My House is Your House: Toward a New Composition of Living and Working in the City
(2023-07-19)This thesis investigates the housing accommodation that combines living with working, commonly referred to today as “live/work.” Expanding on the notion of living and working beyond its literal interpretation as live/work, ... -
"MY vs THEIR World": "OUR World" Learning Network for Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2020-08-28)People with Autism Spectrum Disorder are not properly accommodated in the built environment, societal daily life, and medical services. Autism is a behaviourally defined disorder based on impairments in social-emotional ...