Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Planting Seeds for Healthy Youth: Exploring Parents' Perceptions of a Community-Based Program in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2017-04-07)There is relatively little research focusing on how social programs influence multiple dimensions of youth’s health. This study explored one community-based program aimed at inner-city youth in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The ... -
Planting Urban Health - Integrating Architecture and Productive Urban Greenspace into an Educational Health Facility
(2012-04-04)Chronic health conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes are on the rise in Canada, and particularly in Nova Scotia. Lifestyle-related factors including stress level, exercise, and a healthy diet are ... -
THE PLASMINOGEN RECEPTOR S100A10: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION STUDIES
(2021-02-24)The critical role of the fibrinolytic system is the maintenance of vascular patency. Dysregulation ultimately leads to death; an inappropriate activation that causes excessive bleeding, or an inability to clear blood clots, ... -
Plasmon Dispersion at a Superconductor-Dielectric Interface
(2019-08-29)Dispersion of the plasmon behaviour at an interface between a dielectric and a superconducting material is studied and numerically analyzed considering the electron gas is moving along the interface at a temperature of 44 ... -
Plasmon-Enhanced Spectral Changes in Surface Sum-Frequency Generation with Polychromatic Light
(2013-09-05)In this thesis, the spectral behavior of the fundamental and sum-frequency waves, generated from the surface of a thin metal film in the Kretschmann configuration, is theoretically studied with coherent ultrashort pulses. ... -
Plasmonics in Semiconductors
(2017-09-08)This thesis establishes a mathematical, physical and experimental framework for description, characterization, and application of semiconductor plasmonic properties. Plasmonic phenomena in semiconductors are found in the ... -
PLASTIC POLLUTION AND YOUTH ENGAGEMENT: ADDRESSING NEGATIVE HEALTH IMPACTS
(2021-07-15)The health impacts of plastic pollution are critical issues to be addressed in Nigeria and globally. It is speculated that the engagement of youth in tackling plastic pollution will prove effective. Youth, who represent a ... -
Plastid genome structure and evolution: Operons, novel genes and inteins.
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Platelet-derived growth factor and pentoxifylline modulation of collagen synthesis in vivo and in vitro.
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Plausible Reasoning Over Knowledge Graphs: A Novel Approach for Semantics-based Health Data Analytics
(2020-08-07)The Semantic Web is regarded as the next generation of World Wide Web, in which human and machine readable and understandable knowledge is exchanged. The Semantic Web allows the generation of new knowledge by analyzing the ... -
Playing on the Tracks: Rethinking Transit Infrastructure as Event Space to Generate a City of Culture and Play
(2018-07-31)This thesis investigates the potential of a combination between event spaces and transit infrastructure. The project explores the city of Edmonton, Alberta, and a new typology of infrastructure called transit oriented ... -
"Playthings in the Margins of Literature": Cultural Critique and Rewriting Ideologies in Supernatural and Star Wars Fanfiction
(2010-08-31)Building on the questions of gender and sexuality proposed by the ethnographic analyses of first wave fanfiction criticism, I identify the ways in which fanfiction may function as a feminist response to the mainstream ... -
PLEASURE AND PAIN: NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE IN ACUTE AND CHRONIC PAIN
(2022-07-04)The nucleus accumbens (NAc) is a heterogenous hub involved in the motivational salience of rewarding and aversive stimuli, and in the aetiology of chronic back pain (CBP). Its role in responding to varying threats and ... -
Pnicogylidenes.
(Dalhousie University, 1994) -
Pnictazane oligomers [RNPnX](n): Towards polypnictazanes .
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Poisons, Pathogens, And Parasitoids: The Immunophysiological Network Of Manduca Sexta Explored Through Trade-Offs, Microbiome Interactions And Exploitation By The Wasp Cotesia Congregata
(2022-08-31)Animals require sophisticated means of defense against a harsh and constantly changing environment. The immune system, detoxification system, and fight-or-flight responses are generally viewed as disparate systems and ... -
Poliovirus 1 Seroprevalence in Nova Scotia, Canada
(2021-05-05)Thanks to the efforts of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, the world has never been closer to eradicating polio as it is today. Without complete eradication from the remaining strongholds, all countries remain at ... -
Political Atheism vs. The Divine Right of Kings: Understanding 'The Fairy of the Lake' (1801)
(2014-05-01)In 'Political Atheism vs. The Divine Right of Kings,' I build on Thompson and Scrivener’s work analysing John Thelwall’s play 'The Fairy of the Lake' as a political allegory, arguing all religious symbolism in 'FL' to ... -
The Political Ecology of the Canso Causeway: Development, Marine Harvesting, and Competing Notions of Progress
(2018-08-27)Completed in 1955, the Canso Causeway spans the Strait of Canso and radically transformed the surrounding area’s political ecological landscape. Addressing the strained relationship between fishing and the State, this ... -
Political Spaces: Urban-Rural and Digital Divides in the Political Practices and Views of Atlantic Canadians
(2019-08-27)Divides in political participation and political views are often explained “spatially,” where space can be either physical, as in urban-rural divides, or digital, as in “cyberspace.” These divides are more commonly invoked ...