Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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RECONCILING ECOLOGICAL RISK FRAMEWORKS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS AT MULTIPLE SCALES
(2020-12-16)Maintaining biodiversity, ecosystem stability, and avoiding functional boundaries are essential for maintaining a functioning biosphere. In this thesis, I analyse the effectiveness of two recent biodiversity policy and ... -
A Reconfigurable Context-Aware Security Framework For Mobile Cloud Computing
(2018-08-20)Cloud computing has become an important solution to today's data processing problems due to its significant advantages in terms of storage, scalability, and cost. Inclusion of mobile devices in a cloud computing environment ... -
A RECONFIGURABLE INTEGRATED RECEIVER FRONT-END FOR HETEROGENEOUS UNDERWATER SENSOR NETWORKS
(2021-06-15)With the increased interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), more and more sensors are implemented to satisfy the demand of various applications. In this project, a low power, controllable, high-resolution sensor node ... -
Reconnaissance of the upper continental slope off Sable Island Bank, Nova Scotia
(1965)A bathymetric chart or the . continental. slope off Sable Island - . Bank was compiled from soundings released by the Canadian Hydrographic Service. The slope in this area is dissected by numerous valleys in the region ... -
Reconnecting in the Third Place: Social Catalysts to Counter Loneliness and Social Isolation in Urban Environments
(2021-04-08)As contemporary pathologies of urban environments, loneliness and social isolation are consequences of increasingly fragile social networks caused by atomized and mobile customs and the erosion of social infrastructures ... -
Reconnecting the Working Waterfront
(2016-08-02)This thesis addresses the disconnect between the coastal city and it’s waterfront. After decades of industrial development roads, railways, buildings and barriers have severed this connection leaving the coastal city with ... -
Reconnecting with the Red: Restoring the City of Winnipeg's Relationship with its Rivers
(2018-04-06)The thesis addresses the current disconnection between the city of Winnipeg and its rivers. Despite their historic significance to the city and their current potential to increase the public’s quality of life, the city’s ... -
Reconnecting with the Sky: A Journey Through Nova Scotia's Cultural Landscape
(2019-08-13)This thesis challenges our Western understanding of the sky by exploring the ethnoastronomy of the Mi’kmaq, Acadian, and Black Loyalist people of Nova Scotia, located along Canada’s Atlantic coast. It proposes four ... -
Reconstructing Dust Fluxes and Sediment Focusing in the Equatorial Pacific Over Glacial and Interglacial Time-scales Using Grain Size Analysis
(2015)Understanding paleo-dust fluxes can provide insights into the dust cycle and its interaction with other components of the Earth’s system. In high nutrient low chlorophyll regions like the equatorial Pacific, dust mediates ... -
RECONSTRUCTION AND ANALYSIS OF OCEAN BIOGEOCHEMICAL AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY AT OCEAN STATION PAPA
(2020-08-27)Few ocean stations have been in place long enough to observe decadal ocean cycles, but Ocean Station Papa (OSP) is one of those few. With a time series that spans over 60 years, OSP is an ideal data set for linking decadal ... -
RECONSTRUCTION OF HIGH ARCTIC WINTER SURFACE ENERGY FLUXES
(2011-09-06)Throughout the late 20th and early 21st century, the global temperature has been on the rise, a process that has been accelerated in the Arctic. The Arctic surface temperatures have risen at a factor of 3 greater rate than ... -
Recontextualizing a 'Sense of Place': Georges Island as Palimpsest.
(2021-04-07)Built Heritage sites, through their presence, location, and commemoration provide evidence and contextual understanding of a place’s past. Creating urban landscapes that are rich and accumulated with remnants that provide ... -
Recovery and persistence of late-successional vascular plants in managed coastal Acadian forests.
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RECOVERY CONCEPTUALIZATIONS IN YOUTH WITH MENTAL HEALTH CONCERNS UNDERGOING COMMUNITY REINTEGRATION FOLLOWING HOSPITALIZATION
(2018-08-30)Introduction: Recovery conceptualizations, or how one approaches recovery, have important implications for treatment and recovery trajectories after a person develops a mental health concern. If psychiatric hospitalization ... -
A Recycling Centre in Halifax: Integrating Waste and Community
(2011-08-03)The primary area of study for this thesis is waste management infrastructure. Through the study and critique of current waste management practices and facilities in Halifax, Canada, a new concept is developed. Removed ... -
Redefining Urban Water: Land Art Pavilions Along Vancouver’s Abandoned Olympic Line
(2024-04-15)In urban areas like Vancouver, high precipitation levels are often viewed as both excess and disposable. North American city infrastructures prioritize diverting water away from sight, presenting ongoing challenges for ... -
Redesigning Panel Configurations: A Case Study in Primary Care
(2019-12-18)It is proposed that an integer non-linear programming formulation can establish guidelines and benchmarks for the redesign of patient panels for providers in primary care. The objective is to minimize the maximum overflow ... -
Redox Active and Lewis Acidic Pincer Complexes of Bismuth
(2020-08-28)Interest in exploiting unusual reactivity from main group elements akin to that of transition metals is an increasingly popular area of chemistry. In particular, utilizing the heaviest main group elements (5th and 6th row) ... -
Redrawing Democracy: Exploring the Modern Landscape of the Electoral Boundaries Revolution in the Maritimes
(2023-08-21)In R.K Carty’s 1985 study of Canada’s “Electoral Boundaries Revolution,” he explored the advances in electoral redistribution by both federal and provincial governments since the 1960s in their pursuit to adopt independent ... -
Redressing the Past to Repair the Present: The Role of Property Law in Creating and Exacerbating Racial Disparities in Wealth and Poverty in Nova Scotia
(2021-12-02)For over 200 years African Nova Scotians have been fighting to confirm legal title to the land on which their ancestors were settled. In 2020, the Nova Scotia Supreme Court remarked “the lack of clear title and the segregated ...
