Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
Now showing items 5460-5479 of 7606
-
Potential Formulation For The Dynamics Of Pressure Spiking In Response To Fluid Percussion Brain Injury
(2017-02-21)A mathematical description of percussive pressure events is considered. This model gives a clearer clinical understanding of how these events lead to percussion injury affecting the brain, a mechanism for traumatic brain ... -
Potential Inversions And Local Adaptation Among Small Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) Populations
(2023-04-25)Chromosomal inversions can play a role in local adaptation as advantageous alleles become linked by supressed recombination in heterokaryotypes. Understanding the role of inversions in adaptation among small, isolated ... -
Potential mediators of the downregulation of cytochrome P450 during central inflammation.
(Dalhousie University, 2001) -
POTENTIAL OF WASTE-TO-ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES IN SAUDI ARABIA – IMPACT OF INCREASED POPULATION, HAJJ AND UMRAH, AND GLOBAL WASTE REDUCTION TRENDS IN 2030
(2019-11-27)Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Management is an ever-present environmental issue in many developing nations, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), where each year millions of Muslims across the world visit the Holy ... -
POTENTIAL ROLE OF IRON CHELATION IN EXPERIMENTAL SEPSIS
(2019-12-19)Sepsis is a life-threatening medical condition characterized by a dysregulated immune response to an infection. The increasing incidence, remaining high mortality and enormous costs burden, make sepsis a real public health ... -
Potential roles of the chaperonin (HtpB), polyamines, and the polyamine binding protein (PotD) in Legionella pneumophila pathogenesis
(2011-09-06)The intracellular pathogen Legionella pneumophila replicates in a membrane-bound compartment known as the Legionella-containing vacuole (LCV) where it abundantly releases its chaperonin HtpB, suggesting that HtpB may have ... -
Potential Urban Forest Carbon Sequestration and Storage Capacities in Burnside Industrial Park, Nova Scotia
(2012-05-22)Urban and industrial settings represent potential areas for increased carbon (C) sequestration and storage through intensified tree growth. Consisting of an estimated 1270 ha of land once entirely forested, Burnside ... -
Pour désorienter une autoethnographie orientale : une étude des représentations identitaires chez quatre écrivains québécois d’origine asiatique
(2014-11-13)Since the end of World War II, migration has significantly changed the demography of ethnic minorities in Canada. In Quebec, the writing of this heterogeneous group participates in the questioning of identity that has been ... -
POUR UN CADRE CANADIEN COMMUN DE RÉFÉRENCE DANS LE CONTEXTE DU FRANÇAIS LANGUE SECONDE POST-IMMERSIF
(2009-12-15)This thesis analyses the application of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (2001) to the Canadian context, using a better understanding of the notion of competence. It begins from the observations ... -
Pour une approche sémantique de l'enseignement de la morphologie flexionnelle verbale française aux apprenants anglophones adultes
(2011-01-31)Inflectional verbal morphology, the system of correspondences between grammatical meanings and their means of expression, is an area of language which is difficult for adult L2 learners. The purpose of this thesis is to ... -
Powder Metallurgical Processing of Titanium Alloys and Aluminides
(2016-09-07)In this thesis, the economical powder metallurgical approach was investigated to produce two Ti binary alloys (i.e. Ti-Ni and Ti-Sn) and a Ti-48Al based intermetallic alloy. In the first part of the work, Ni and Sn (up to ... -
POWDER METALLURGICAL PROCESSING OF TITANIUM AND ITS ALLOYS
(2011-09-06)Titanium is well known for its excellent properties, such as high strength-to-weight ratio and outstanding corrosion resistance. However the high cost of this metal has confined its applications to those mostly within the ... -
Powder Metallurgy Processing of an Al-0.7Mg-0.4Si-(Sn) Alloy
(2022-05-27)6xxx series (Al-Mg-Si) alloys represent one of the most widely used systems for automotive applications, offering an advantageous balance of thermal conductivity, formability, and strength. In a wrought context, over 45 ... -
Power & Profit: Slave Traders in Parliament & The Life of Humphrey Morice, 1690-1730
(2018-12-21)This thesis explores the rise in prominence of the merchant class in England within the commercial, political, and financial spheres using London slave-trader and MP, Humphry Morice (c. 1671-1731), as a case study. It ... -
Power Allocation in Cooperative Space-Time Coded Wireless Relay Networks
(2011-09-06)Cooperative communications is a new wireless networking paradigm that allows networking nodes to collaborate through distributed transmission and signal processing to implement spatial and time signal diversity to combat ... -
Power Efficient Time Domain Analog to Digital Conversion and PVT Compensated Subthreshold Architectures
(2021-05-05)This thesis facilitates the design challenges of analog and mixed-signal circuits in deep sub-micron technology. In this regard, the design of two analog multiplication architectures is proposed. The process, voltage, ... -
Power In Presence: Understanding Black-led coalitions and policy change in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2023-04-24)This dissertation explores the tactical and discursive means that Black activists and community organizations in Halifax, Nova Scotia use to prompt policy change in public health and policing. This dissertation argues that ... -
Power Intermittency and Technoeconomic Performance of Solar Photovoltaic Systems With Energy Storage
(2021-07-13)In support of continued photovoltaic (PV) electricity development this thesis uses measured PV generation and residential load data to evaluate the impacts of PV intermittency on grid stability, and the importance of ... -
The Power of Participation: How Can Community Partners Sustain the Halifax Mobile Food Market?
(2019-12-09)Mobile Food Markets (MFMs) are innovative interventions which can support healthy eating within lower-income communities. MFMs enhance food security by increasing access to healthy food by alleviating travel costs in areas ... -
The Power of Sound: Tuning into the Rising Volume in the Gulf of Maine.
(2022-08-17)Marine species that function acoustically rely on sounds contained by the dynamic composition and material properties of the ocean’s reflective surface. Ocean soundscapes are being impacted by anthropogenic disturbances ...