Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Occupational well-being and resilient ageing in older women with mental illness
(2020-04-17)Background. Canada has an ageing population. The importance of identifying innovative and effective ways to promote and maintain health in older adults is of upmost concern, including utilizing an individual’s strengths ... -
Occupy gardens? A case study of the People's Peas Garden in Toronto, Canada
(2014-12-19)The purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of guerilla gardening as a possible means for political change. This study traced the historical roots of the People’s Peas Garden (PPG), a garden planted without ... -
Occupy Hong Kong: Blossoming in the Gaps
(2020-09-08)In addition to rapidly increasing political repression in recent years, the people of Hong Kong have long suffered economic repression, facing challenges such as severely constrained living space and world-leading inequality. ... -
Occupying the Threshold: Voids as Opportunities
(2016-04-08)Cities begin as vast vacant land; when physical form is inserted a void is created. Infrastructure is the foundation that enables the growth, mobility and exchange of cities and their inhabitants. As these infrastructures ... -
Occurrence of hexazinone-resistant red sorrel (Rumex acetosella L.) and evaluation of spring non-bearing year and autumn bearing year herbicides for red sorrel management in lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium Ait.) fields in Nova Scotia
(2020-08-28)Weeds are a major limiting factor in wild blueberry production and compete with wild blueberries for space, light, moisture, and nutrients. Red sorrel is a common creeping herbaceous perennial weed in commercially managed ... -
Ocean Ambient Noise Field Modelling and the Optimized Noise Term
(2023-03-16)The objective of this thesis is to determine the frequency and wind-wave forcing dependent effective sea surface noise source level per unit area (NSL/A) extracted from the hourly minimum sound power levels of six month-long ... -
Ocean Back: Inuit-led Governance for the Future of Fisheries in Nunatsiavut
(2023-07-14)Fisheries governance represents a key opportunity for upholding the rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. But how to fulfill these rights, and how to ensure that Indigenous Knowledges, values, and priorities guide ... -
Ocean Literacy: Examining the Inclusion of the Ocean Literacy Principles within High School Science Courses in Nova Scotia
(2018-04-06)The defining feature on earth, the ocean is an essential component in enabling the existence of life on earth. As anthropogenic threats to the ocean increase, it is integral for individuals to become ocean literate to ... -
Ocean Model Validation and Downscaling for Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction
(2020-11-26)Subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) prediction is a global effort to forecast the state of the atmosphere and ocean with lead times between two weeks and a season. This thesis explores the feasibility of S2S prediction of the ... -
OCEAN SOUND FIELD CHARACTERIZATION USING PROCESSING TECHNIQUES BASED ON NOISE SPATIAL COHERENCE
(2022-04-12)The spatial coherence of ambient noise can be used for noise-based inversion studies using appropriate coherence models. The main findings of this thesis are presented in four chapters. In chapter 2, using a two-component ... -
Ocean states: Archipelagic regimes in the Law of the Sea.
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ODYSSEUS AND THE SONG OF ARES AND APHRODITE: MĒTIS AND MOICHEIA ON OLYMPUS AND ON EARTH
(2016-09-01)Since antiquity, Hephaestus in the song of Ares and Aphrodite has been seen as a paradigm for Odysseus. Similarities have been noted between Odysseus’ dispute with Euryalus and Hephaestus’ capture of Ares, while the violence ... -
OF CRYMSEN TISSUE: THE CONSTRUCTION OF A QUEEN. IDENTITY, LEGITIMACY AND THE WARDROBE OF MARY TUDOR
(2011-12-15)Clothing, together with other bodily adornments, is a valuable tool for communicating loyalty, identity and status. The coded messages inherent in the interplay between garments, bodies and society play a fundamental role ... -
Of Factory Girls and Servings Maids: The Literary Labours of Working-Class Women in Victorian Britain
(2009-12-17)My dissertation examines the political and formal aspects of poetry written by working-class women in England and Scotland between 1830 and 1880. I analyse a poetic corpus that I have gathered from existing publications ... -
Of Suffering and Social Norms: Social Workers' Conceptions of Trauma in Canadian Children and Youth
(2021-08-04)Social workers have long been involved in moral regulation projects. Historically and currently, children and families are frequently acted upon by social workers to govern and shape a morally desirable population. With ... -
...of the Dead: The Rhizombie, An Indigenous-Informed Approach to Contagion
(2024-04-11)Contagion increasingly overlays other social concerns infecting our world, such as racial oppression and climate crises, and thus threatens to render all other issues invisible. This project, however, argues that contagion ... -
OFDM Transmission for Doubly Dispersive Underwater Acoustic Channels
(2015-04-06)In this thesis, an OFDM simulator is designed based on the theory presented, and tested with a real underwater acoustic (UWA) channel. The UWA channel is analyzed and a simplified model is presented that holds under ... -
Office-Based Virtual Surgical Planning for Dental Implant Surgery
(2024-03-04)The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of office-based virtual surgical planning for dental implant surgery using tooth-supported surgical guides. Secondary outcomes included determining risk factors ... -
Offshore Power System Micro-Grid Design
(2017-08-25)Micro-grid based power systems will have a significant roll in the development of the modern renewable energy power grid. A subset of this distributed generation system involves offshore micro-grid systems. These offshore ... -
'Oh My Pen Drops From Me Here' Bliss, Pleasure and Sexual Encounter in the Erotic Novel
(2011-09-06)This thesis explores three accounts of male erotic fantasy. In my second chapter, I apply Roland Barthes’ conceptions of bliss and pleasure to John Cleland’s 18th century erotic novel, Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman ...