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Time-Dependent Reliability Based Design of GFRP-Reinforced Bridge Decks in Nova Scotia
(2022-04-13)
The use of glass-fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) reinforcement in bridge decks has gained popularity due to its corrosion resistance. However, review of design practice of bridge decks in Nova Scotia (NS) indicates that ...
Framing the Forest: Restoring Nova Scotia's Hidden Landscapes of Extraction
(2022-04-12)
Nova Scotia is home to vast areas of ecologically unique and sensitive Acadian forest, almost all of which has been cut down and regrown several times, damaging its integrity as habitat for wildlife and as economic and ...
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 ...
Labour, Enslavement, and Indigenous Space: Liverpool, Nova Scotia in the Atlantic World, 1759-1812
(2022-08-30)
This thesis reconceptualizes the Planter and Loyalist periods around Liverpool, Nova Scotia, from 1759 to 1812. Rather than privileging the American Revolutionary War, it emphasises Indigenous space and Black people to ...
DEO, LEGI, REGI, GREGI: UNIVERSITY OF KING'S COLLEGE, 1920-1945
(2022-08-31)
The period from 1920 to 1945 was critical in the University of King’s College’s history. During this quarter century, the university was destroyed by fire, moved from Windsor to Halifax, federated with Dalhousie University, ...
Midwives working in Nova Scotia: An exploratory qualitative study of their experiences of work and perceptions of their profession
(2023-04-06)
Midwives support the health of women and their families, and midwifery is associated with numerous benefits such as high maternal satisfaction, low birth complications, and relatively few interventions. Midwifery has existed ...
Barn Raising and the Imagination: Experiencing Life through the Reimagined Barn
(2023-07-17)
The mythical historic landscape of Kingsburg, Nova Scotia, Canada becomes a time and place to daydream, as long days spent in the sun end with red skies of sunset. This dream finds an end through a temporal shift to the ...
Narrative City: Latin American Home-City Landscapes in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2023-08-22)
Storytelling lies at the center of cultural production and exchange. In smaller immigrant
communities without dedicated cultural infrastructure and established networks of
gathering spaces, oral storytelling functions ...
Biofibrous Potentialities: A Scalar Approach to Biogenic Futures
(2023-08-24)
Our current extractive practices with architectural materials are unsustainable and biogenic options must be explored. Much of the current discourse and use of biogenic materials in architecture operates as a one-to-one ...
Toward a Mi'kma'ki Art Music: Implications of the Peace and Friendship Treaties for Western Art Music in Nova Scotia
(2023-08-30)
This paper explores the implications of the Treaties of Peace and Friendship for Western art music in Nova Scotia. By examining the Treaties not only as historic documents but, from Mi’kmaw perspectives, as living ...