Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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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) -
Precious Metal-free Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
(2013-12-16)Exploring new technologies that can meet the world’s energy demands in an efficient and clean manner is critically important due to the depletion of natural resources and environmental concerns. Dye-sensitized solar cells ... -
Preconcentration and Instrumental Methods for Trace Elements in Marine Samples by Neutron Activation
(1988-09)Neutron activation analysis (NAA) methods have been developed in this study for the determination of trace elements in marine samples. An instrumental NAA (INAA) method has been used for measuring concentrations of up to ... -
Precursor Events in Cardiac Surgery: Are they Associated with Post-operative Outcomes?
(2013-04-26)Background: The purpose of this study is to determine whether precursor events are associated with a post-operative composite outcome in a low-medium risk cardiac surgical population. These precursor events may be promising ... -
Precursor-Directed Biosynthesis of Novel Jadomycins and Expansion of the Jadomycin Library
(2010-09-09)Jadomycins are secondary metabolites produced by Streptomyces venezuelae ISP5230 VS1099 in response to conditions of stress such as heat or ethanol shock. They have been shown to exhibit antibiotic and anticancer activity. ... -
Predator Effects of the Invasive Green Crab (Carcinus maenas) and the Native Rock Crab (Cancer irroratus) on Soft-Sediment Macrofauna
(2012-12-14)When multiple predators foraging together have different individual consumption rates than predators foraging in isolation, they exhibit non-independent multiple predator effects on prey. I examined multiple predator ... -
Predictability and pain prediction, perception and behaviour in chronic low back pain patients.
(Dalhousie University, 1995) -
Predicting Catch-Per-Unit-Effort Using Semantic Trajectories and Machine Learning
(2020-04-20)This work presents a framework for the prediction of catch-per-unit-effort (CPUE)—an important index in the assessment of fisheries resource exploitation—using three data sources from the North Adriatic region: fishing ... -
PREDICTING CLINICAL SYMPTOMS OF DEPRESSION FROM ACOUSTIC SPEECH SIGNALS USING NEURAL NETWORKS
(2021-12-10)Approximately 280 million people suffer from depression, a disabling illness. Early diagnosis and effective monitoring are known to reduce adverse effects. Still, they require extensive clinical resources, thus motivating ... -
Predicting Frontal Lobe H-MRS Metabolite Levels Using Obesity and Metabolic Markers in Individuals with Bipolar Disorder: A Meta-Analysis and Cross-Sectional Study
(2022-07-29)Obesity and related metabolic disorders, such as metabolic syndrome (MetS) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) impact the brain, particularly in the frontal lobe. Individuals with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI), ... -
Predicting Hypertension by Twenty Years Postpartum Using Perinatal Data
(2020-05-07)Study Design For a population-based cohort of 90,316 women with deliveries recorded in the Nova Scotia Atlee Perinatal Database between 1988 and 2009, pregnancy-related data were linked with provincial administrative ... -
Predicting Political Donations Using Data Driven Lifestyle Profiles Generated from Character N-Gram Analysis of Heterogeneous Online Sources
(2015)This paper describes an approach for generating multi-dimensional Activities, Interests, and Opinions (AIO) insights from disparate web sources. The method involves identifying psychographic profiles using text analysis ...