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Understanding Physician Health Approaches in Canada
(2022-04-13)
In Canada, Medical Regulatory Authorities (MRAs) and provincial/territorial Medical Associations (MAs) have developed approaches to support, manage or regulate physician health. These approaches have proliferated despite ...
Evaluating bio indicator response to recovery from anthropogenic acid deposition in a drinking water source in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2022-04-13)
Little is known about the biological response to anthropogenic acidification in Atlantic Canada. A multi-proxy paleolimnological investigation of Pockwock Lake, the main drinking water supply for the City of Halifax, was ...
OCEAN SOUND FIELD CHARACTERIZATION USING PROCESSING TECHNIQUES BASED ON NOISE SPATIAL COHERENCE
(2022-04-12)
The spatial coherence of ambient noise can be used for noise-based inversion studies using appropriate coherence models. The main findings of this thesis are presented in four chapters. In chapter 2, using a two-component ...
Evaluation of Simplified Methods of Analysis for Timber Bridges
(2022-03-31)
The design of timber bridges in Canada is carried out in conjunction with the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code. A key feature of this code is the ability to employ a Simplified Method of Analysis (SMA) to determine the ...
DETECTING NO-OPINION RESPONSES IN THE CANADIAN LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGING (CLSA) DATASET USING UNSUPERVISED METHODS AND ACTIVE LEARNING
(2022-03-30)
In open-ended surveys, participant answers that do not give any legitimate answer or opinion to the question being asked are called no-opinion responses. We consider the problem of detection of no-opinion answers in the ...
Misdirecting Modernisms: The Gulf Between Rhetoric and Practice in Raymond Souster's Direction
(2022-04-18)
By using Raymond Souster’s little magazine, Direction (1943-46), as a case study, this thesis addresses the gulf between rhetoric and practice in the development of Canadian modernism. In the Forties, Canadian modernists ...
Capital Structure and Macroeconomic Conditions: Evidence from Canada
(2022-04-14)
This paper examines the impact of macroeconomic conditions on the capital structure adjustment speed. Using a sample of Canadian firms listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange between 1981 and 2020, I document that firms adjust ...
Building Community in Sacred Space: A Method for Adaptive Reuse of Deconsecrated Catholic Churches in Millbank, New Brunswick
(2022-04-11)
In an increasingly changeable and defamiliarized society, where attendance at religious services has decreased, many religious buildings are falling into disuse and disrepair. By using sacred qualities of architecture to ...
LA TRADUCTION EN MILIEU SOCIAL : EXAMEN ET PROPOSITION DE MODÈLES POUR LA FORMATION AU CANADA
(2022-04-12)
This thesis examines the situation of community translation (CT) in Canada and aims at proposing a training model to better address the Canadian society’s needs.
The research is rooted in the fields of translation studies ...
Advancing baleen whale acoustic and habitat monitoring in the Northwest Atlantic
(2022-04-13)
Baleen whales of the Northwest Atlantic live in an urbanized ocean. They attempt a slow recovery from commercial whaling amid threats from the infrastructure, pollution, and shifting environmental baseline associated with ...