Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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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 ... -
The Power of Water: Using a Thermal Bathing Resort to Maximize the Potential of Geothermal Power Production
(2012-08-08)In 2011, Calgary, Alberta based Borealis Geopower bought the geothermal rights to the Canoe Reach arm of Kinbasket Lake, near Valemount, British Columbia. New to Canada, a pilot project of a 2 megawatt geothermal power ... -
Power vs. Precision: How Have the Determinants of PGA TOUR Golfers' Performance-Based Earnings Evolved Since the 1990's?
(2012-08-30)This paper improves upon the methods for modelling the determinants of PGA TOUR golfers’ performance-based earnings by incorporating the most recent and accurate PGA TOUR statistics while controlling for year and individual ... -
A Practical and Reliable Method for Volumetric Assessment of Adult Diffuse Glioma Features on MRI
(2021-12-17)Background: The purpose of this study was to develop a reliable volumetric assessment of MRI-based tumour features, using available clinical software, to track tumour features longitudinally in patients with adult diffuse ... -
Practice and Enlightenment: Aristotle and Kant on Moral Education
(2014-09-03)Aristotle argues that moral virtue is a kind of habit, and that learning virtue involves a kind of practice and habituation. Some, like Kant, have worried whether this sort of account is really not more than mechanistic ... -
A pre-colonial history of the Idoma of central Nigeria.
(Dalhousie University, 1977) -
A PRE-OPERATIVE PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF NEWLY DIAGNOSED RENAL MASSES LESS THAN 5 CM IN DIAMETER AS BENIGN OR MALIGNANT
(2012-08-23)Objective: To develop a predictive model for preoperative differentiation between benign (B) and malignant (M) histology in patients with renal masses (RM) using recursive partitioning. Methods: We analyzed preoperative ... -
Pre-spawning factors and recruitment variation in Atlantic herring (Clupeidae; Clupea harengus, L.): A comparative approach.
(Dalhousie University, 2005)