Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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KINETICS OF FIELD EVAPORATION, A STUDY OF MOLECULES IN HIGH ELECTRIC FIELDS
(2015)Field Evaporation, the physical phenomenon harnessed in the atom probe microscope, describes the breaking apart of molecules in an electric field. Interest has shifted away from the well understood field evaporation of ... -
The kinetics of the reactions of hydrogen atoms with ethylene, vinyl fluoride and 1,1-difluoroethylene.
(Dalhousie University, 1972) -
Kinks in general relativity.
(Dalhousie University, 1991) -
Kinship in Sperm Whale Society: Effects on Association, Alloparental Care and Vocalizations
(2017-12-14)The overarching goal of my thesis is to characterize the relationship between kinship and social behaviour in a species with a cooperative, multilevel social structure – the sperm whale. To do so, I use a combination of ... -
KNEE MECHANICS OF HEALTHY AND OSTEOARTHRITIC JOINTS
(2019-12-17)Objective: Knee Osteoarthritis (OA) can be the result of both mechanical and biological events that interfere with normal joint function. The aims of this thesis were to (1) quantify the biomechanical factors that ... -
Knowing sex: Formal and informal sex education.
(Dalhousie University, 1994) -
Knowledge and Attitudes of Postpartum Hospital and Public Health Nurses Regarding Postpartum Depression: An Exploratory Study
(2013-04-03)The purpose of this study was to explore the knowledge and attitudes of hospital postpartum and public health nurses towards postpartum depression (PPD) using interpretive description. Postpartum depression is the leading ... -
A Knowledge Management Framework to Develop, Model, ALign and Operationalize Clinical Pathways to Provide Decision Support for Comorbid Diseases
(2010-08-19)The objective of this thesis is to formalize, model, align and operationalize the evidence-based clinical algorithms of co-morbid chronic heart failure (CHF) and atrial fibrillation (AF) in order to provide clinical ... -
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE ORGANIZATIONS: AN INVESTIGATION OF FACTORS INFLUENCING CHOICES OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
(2012-07-17)In today’s economy the importance of knowledge in organizations is well underscored. The management of an organization’s knowledge has become one of the most important strategic vehicles to an organization's sustainable ... -
KNOWLEDGE OF THE GOOD: VIRTUE IN THE MENO AND PROTAGORAS
(2013-12-13)In both the Meno and the Protagoras, Plato investigates the unity, acquisition and nature of virtue (ἀρετή). Although these dialogues appear to reach opposing conclusions—the Protagoras that virtue is knowledge and the ... -
Knowledge-assisted stochastic evaluation of sampling errors in mineral processing streams.
(Dalhousie University, 1998) -
"Komm Hoffnung!": Hope, Opera and Diplomacy at the Congress of Vienna
(2019-09-03)Abstract The Congress of Vienna in 1814-1815 was a negotiation among European powers to establish peace after the Napoleonic Wars. The Viennese provided abundant entertainment for diplomats attending the conference. Among ... -
Kootenay Muster: Regenerating a Memory of Production in the Precarious Landscape of Nelson, British Columbia
(2021-07-09)Interior British Columbian communities exist in precarious conditions considering their landscape and formalizing industries. Community abandonment is common with the instability of resource extraction leaving industrial ... -
Kosovo: The Building of a European State or Just Another State in Europe?
(2010-09-21)On its own, Kosovo has neither come to where it is today nor could it move any forward in the near future. The role of the international community and especially that of the EU is crucial in helping Kosovo overpass some ... -
A Kraken-like tool with k given at query time and an index for finding approximately longest common substrings
(2023-08-23)For highly repetitive texts such as pangenomic databases, indexes based on grammars (or Lempel-Ziv parses, string attractors, etc.) are usually significantly smaller than indexes based on the Burrows-Wheeler Transform. ... -
KSHV vGPCR: A VIRAL ONCOPROTEIN THAT TRIGGERS AUTOPHAGY AND CELLULAR SENESCENCE
(2013-09-09)Autophagy (literally to ‘self-eat’) is an intracellular, catabolic mechanism to degrade and recycle cytoplasmic contents in response to metabolic, oxidative, and genotoxic stresses. Autophagy plays an important role in ... -
KUWAITI MODERNITY REVISITED: A CONTEMPORARY MIXED-USE PROJECT IN OLD KUWAIT CITY
(2011-08-03)Caught between a cultural scene nostalgic to historic architecture and economic growth manifesting its volume in tall skyscrapers, the overlooked modern heritage of Kuwait City is increasingly vanishing. This thesis tests ... -
The Kype: An Assessment of Presence and Absence, Composition, Structure, and Evolution of a Spawning-related Lower Jaw Modification in Living and Fossil Salmonids
(2016-04-29)When in their spawn-run, several salmonids (salmon, graylings, etc.) develop a kype. The kype is a spawning-related lower jaw modification composed of a connective tissue mass supported by a framework of chondroid and ... -
L'Acadie Trouvée: Mapping, Geographic Knowledge, and Imagining Northeastern North America, 1710-1763
(2010-08-30)From the British capture of Port Royal in 1710 to the end of the Seven Years’ War, imperial borders in northeastern North America were highly uncertain and vigorously contested. The British “conquest” of Acadia was not ...