Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Performance Robust Project Scheduling Polices for Naval Ship Maintenance
(2016-09-28)The research presented in this thesis concentrates on robust project scheduling for resource and time-constrained naval maintenance projects. In the naval maintenance environment, and many other real world cases, project ... -
Performing Public Policy - An Institutional Ethnography of the Relationship Between Nova Scotia’s Provincial Government and the Professional Theatre Sector
(2020-12-17)The Government of Nova Scotia invests in the province’s professional theatre sector through the provision of public support. The administrative processes which implement this public support organise how theatre professionals ... -
Performing the self in camera: Charlotte Bronte, the camera obscura and the protocols of female self-enactment.
(Dalhousie University, 1997) -
Periodic Coefficients and Random Fibonacci Sequences
(2012-08-27)The random Fibonacci sequence is defined by t_1 = t_2 = 1 and t_n = ± t_{n–1} + t_{n–2} , for n ? 3, where each ± sign is chosen at random with P(+) = P(–) = 1/2. We can think of all possible such sequences as forming ... -
PERIODICITY ENVELOPE ENCODING: EVIDENCE FOR TWO SITES OF INTRODUCTION
(2015-04-06)The Envelope Following Response (EFR) has been under investigation as part of the ASSR evoked potential but it is unclear where exactly this periodicity envelope originates. The commonly accepted theory holds that the ... -
Periodicity in Cretaceous pelagic sequences.
(Dalhousie University, 1991) -
PERIOPERATIVE PROCESS AND OUTCOME INDICATORS FOR PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA IN A TERTIARY CARE INSTITUTION: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY
(2019-05-06)Background: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is a deadly disease with variable treatment practices and quality of care between healthcare systems. Processes of care may be used to describe the quality of care provided ... -
Peripheral regulation of inflammatory pain and neuropathic pain by adenosine.
(Dalhousie University, 2001) -
Peripheral visions: Postcolonial images of Africa in the fiction of Margaret Laurence, Audrey Thomas, and Dave Godfrey.
(Dalhousie University, 1994) -
PERMA-RUN: A Persuasive Game to Create Awareness and Promote Secure Smartphone Behaviour
(2022-08-15)Smartphones have become an integral part of people’s everyday lives. Due to the ubiquitous nature of smartphone and their functionalities, the data handled by these devices are sensitive. Despite the measures taken by ... -
Persistent Mapping in Quasi-static Dynamic Environments using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(2021-04-06)Mapping and tracking Arctic sea ice is critical to protecting the people and animals that inhabit and transit the Canadian Arctic. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are well suited to these activities given the vast area ... -
PERSISTENT POWER? THE WEAKENING OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION'S CONTROL OVER KNOWLEDGE IN CANADA
(2013-08-08)Canadian doctors have historically been an extremely powerful interest group. While there are many variables that account for their political influence, it is widely accepted that much of their power is due to their control ... -
Personal autonomy.
(Dalhousie University, 1994) -
Personal Rapid Transit for Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2012-04-05)As auto-dependent development has forced the urban limits of the city to sprawl, it has put considerable pressure on the transportation corridors that serve the city center. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, this condition is ... -
PERSONALITY AND MOTIVES FOR ALCOHOL USE IN ABORIGINAL ADOLESCENTS: A CULTURALLY RELEVANT APPROACH TO ALCOHOL ABUSE EARLY INTERVENTION
(2011-09-06)There are high levels of alcohol abuse and associated problems among Aboriginal youth in Canada. In order to understand high-risk adolescents’ relationships with alcohol, four inter-related questions were explored: 1) How ... -
Personality Profiles and Injury Occurrence in a Population of Varsity Athletes
(2017-12-18)Using the stress-injury model (Williams & Andersen, 1998), this retrospective study examined the relationship between perfectionism and injury occurrence among varsity and competitive club athletes. This study also sought ... -
PERSONALITY TO SUBSTANCE MISUSE IN YOUNG PEOPLE: HOW DOES WHO YOU ARE AFFECT WHAT AND WHY YOU USE?
(2018-10-29)My dissertation sought to better understand the ways in which personality confers vulnerability for substance misuse. Four traits have been reliably implicated: anxiety sensitivity, hopelessness, sensation seeking, and ... -
Personality, Motives and Patterns of Prescription Anxiolytic and Sedative Misuse
(2014-04-01)Misuse of prescription anxiolytic and sedative medication is a widespread phenomenon in Canada and a topic of increasing concern among health care providers. While anxiolytics and sedatives have important therapeutic uses ... -
Personality, Motives, and Substance Use among Opioid Agonist Therapy Clients
(2022-07-19)Background: The Four Factor Personality Vulnerability model (Castellanos-Ryan & Conrod, 2012; Conrod, Pihl, et al., 2000) implicates four personality traits in conferring vulnerability to substance misuse: sensation seeking ...