Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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The ontogenesis of innovative tool use in an American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos).
(Dalhousie University, 2004) -
Ontogeny of timber wolf vocalizations: Acoustic properties and behavioural contexts.
(Dalhousie University, 1995) -
ONTOLOGY MERGING USING SEMANTICALLY-DEFINED MERGE CRITERIA AND OWL REASONING SERVICES: TOWARDS EXECUTION-TIME MERGING OF MULTIPLE CLINICAL WORKFLOWS TO HANDLE COMORBIDITIES
(2014-01-22)Semantic web based decision support systems represent domain knowledge using ontologies that capture the domain concepts, their relationships and instances. Typically, decision support systems use a single knowledge ... -
An Ontology-Based Electronic Medical Record for Chronic Disease Management
(2011-03-11)Effective chronic disease management ensures better treatment and reduces medical costs. Representing knowledge through building an ontology for Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) is important to achieve semantic interoperability ... -
ONTOLOGY-BASED KNOWLEDGE MODEL FOR AN ACS MANAGEMENT CLINICAL GUIDELINE: HANDLING KNOWLEDGE UPDATES AND INSTITUTIONAL PRIORITIES
(2011-12-16)Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) in an emergency department setting is challenging due to the complexity of the disease and the multi-disciplinary care environment, leading to the need for standardized protocols ... -
Open [Architecture] School
(2013-04-05)The thesis will propose a decentralized building type for the contemporary development of urban architecture schools. The largest component of architecture education left out of universities at present is the ability for ... -
Open address from the guild plays to Shakespeare.
(Dalhousie University, 1998) -
Open secrets: Fetishicity in the poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen.
(Dalhousie University, 2001) -
Operant conditioning of central nervous system electrical activity implications for research on brain stimulation reward.
(Dalhousie University, 1985) -
OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES OF A DIRECT FILTRATION WATER TREATMENT PLANT IN LIGHT OF LAKE RECOVERY
(2020-02-13)There are many direct filtration plants across North America and around the world that continue to provide safe drinking water. One of the biggest challenge they have faced in recent times is changing water quality due to ... -
Operational Parametric Study of a Prototype Tesla Pump
(2016-05-02)A parametric study of a prototype Tesla pump was performed for various disk pack spacings and rotational speeds. The 15 thou spacing was the most effective disk pack spacing. A 40/60 weight percent mixture of propylene ... -
OPERATIONALIZING “WHOLE-OF-GOVERNMENT” AS AN APPROACH TO STATE FRAGILITY AND INSTABILITY: CASE STUDIES FROM OTTAWA, CANADA AND LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
(2016-09-02)Whole-of-Government (WoG) is a form of collaboration that occurs between any number of government departments; however, over the past 20 years the word has been adopted by international security and development actors as ... -
The Opioid Crisis and Canadian Public Libraries: Before and During COVID-19
(2022-08-10)This pilot study examines the impact of COVID-19 and the opioid crisis on Canadian public libraries. Views on these issues were gathered using a mixed methods process including a survey of Canadian library workers and ... -
Opioid Prescribing Patterns and Prolonged Opioid Use in Opioid-Naive Adults after Surgical and Emergency Care in Nova Scotia
(2022-05-03)I conducted three studies about opioid prescribing and prolonged opioid use - an important outcome of opioid prescribing for acute pain. In the first study I employed systematic review methodology to summarize risk of ... -
Opioid receptor rhythms and the control of sexual maturation.
(Dalhousie University, 1986) -
Oppression and the Struggle for Hope
(2017-08-23)This dissertation aims to understand how hope is formed and lost in human lives; particularly, by revealing the ways in which patterns of privilege and oppression can affect the hopes we come to form, and those that are ... -
Oppression: A conceptual analysis.
(Dalhousie University, 2006) -
Oppression: Exploring Conceptual Potential in Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
(2020-04-29)Oppression-related concepts can deepen understandings about the ways in which occupational potential (Wicks, 2001) can become narrowed. Using these concepts incorporates philosophy and theory developed by Bourdieu, Collins, ... -
OPTIC NERVE INTERGRITY FOLLOWING RETINAL INACTIVATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF POST-CRITICAL PERIOD AMBLYOPIA
(2020-07-16)In animal models, monocular deprivation (MD) by lid closure mimics the effects of unilateral amblyopia in humans. In cats, inactivation of the fellow (non-deprived) eye, with intraocular administration of tetrodotoxin has ... -
Optical coherence gratings and lattices and their propagation properties
(2015-04-23)Partially coherent sources have been widely used in speckle-free imaging, distortion-less information transfer and optical communications in free space. In this thesis, we introduce a novel class of partially coherent ...