Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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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 ... -
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE, REVERE: A STUDY OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN NOVA SCOTIA ACTING ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
(2010-05-03)Awareness and concern about the environment have been growing in recent years, and this fact has not been lost on churches. Though arguments have been made that Christianity is a cause of the world’s current ecological ... -
Reducibility results on operator semigroups.
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Reducing cannibalism among larval striped bass (Morone saxatilis): effect of rearing density and Artemia prey abundance
(2020-08-28)Striped bass larvae (range 16 to 38 days post-hatch, dph), in a series of trials (Trial 1 to 3) of 14 days duration in recirculation systems (tank volume 100 to 200L), exhibited survival and growth that was positively ... -
Reducing CO2 Emissions Through Natural Fibre: How Hemp can Offset the Carbon Contribution from the Built Environment
(2020-04-30)Industrial hemp is grown from the plant Cannabis Sativa and is used in a variety of industrial and consumer products worldwide. It can grow very tall, very fast, with little to no fertilizers or pesticides. The design goal ... -
Reducing Inpatient Congestion Through Surgical Scheduling in a Multi-site Network of Hospitals: A case Study that Applies Pooling Principles Through Mixed Integer Programming and Simulation Modelling
(2019-12-17)Canadian hospitals experience downstream capacity resources, which reduces the total quality of care. The Master Surgical Schedule (MSS) is a primary driver of these downstream resources, including inpatients beds. This ... -
REDUCING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF OYSTER CULTURE BY SELECTING FOR SPAT THAT MOST EFFICIENTLY USES NATURAL RESOURCES
(2017-04-06)The main objective of this study, was to discover SNPs associated with absorption efficiency in the Eastern oyster, which is a component of feed efficiency, and to use marker-assisted selective breeding to improve growth ... -
Reduction In Inter-Symbol Interference Using Linear Prolate Functions
(2015-03-31)In a baseband system, the digital information signal required to be transmitted over a channel, has a wide frequency spectrum. This wide frequency spectrum gets attenuated due to the band limited response of the filters ... -
THE REDUCTION KINETICS OF IRON OXIDE ORE BY METHANE FOR CHEMICAL-LOOPING COMBUSTION
(2012-08-30)Due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration, energy sources that release to the atmosphere smaller amounts of CO2 are of interest. Initially, all the efforts were focused on increasing the system ... -
Reduction of the Organic Load of Industrial Wood Preserving Wastewater via Chemical Oxidation
(2016-11-21)The efficacy of chemical oxidation as a wastewater treatment method for Stella Jones Inc. (Atlantic Canada) was evaluated using 3 chemical oxidants; Fenton’s Reagent, Modified Fenton’s and potassium permanganate. Reduction ... -
REEFS, POINTS AND PERCEPTIONS: AN ARCHITECTURAL CATALOGUE OF COASTAL STRATEGIES AND A DESIGN PROPOSAL FOR LAWRENCETOWN BEACH, NOVA SCOTIA
(2015)This thesis proposes coastal architecture interventions in Nova Scotia by focussing on the forces and elements that exist in unique combinations at the coast. Using surfing as a source of inspiration, these interventions ... -
Refiguring the Sage: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Pluralistic Vision in Aurora Leigh
(2015-06-15)Through her engagement with the philosophical, religious, and political debates of the nineteenth century, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB) participates in the sage’s work of writing to create a more thoughtful and ethical ... -
REFINEMENTS TO THE CURRENT UNDERSTANDING OF FUNCTIONAL MRI ACTIVATION IN WHITE MATTER
(2012-06-13)Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a widely used, noninvasive technique to map brain activation, and has provided considerable insight into human brain function over the past two decades. Until recently, fMRI ... -
“REFORM IS BECOME OUR ENEMY:” ANGLO-JAMAICAN PLANTERS AND BRITISH IDENTITIES, 1765-1786
(2014-12-16)This is a case study of the imperial identity an elite resident planter in late-eighteenth century Jamaica named Simon Taylor from 1765 to 1786. By analyzing sections of Simon Taylor’s correspondence with his business ... -
Reforming Refuse: Designing a Community Recycling Centre for Halifax's North End
(2014-08-19)Set in Halifax, Nova Scotia, this thesis proposes a design for a new kind of urban recycling facility—one that integrates the processes of recycling with a program of public education and recreation. Using a centrally ...
