Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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RWA: A Regression-based Scheme for Flight Price Prediction
(2020-05-07)Flying has become the primary transportation method for long-distance travel. Most of the travelers are intend to purchase the tickets with lowest cost. In practice, many travelers tend to purchase flight tickets as early ... -
S100A10 FACILITATES THE TUMOR PROMOTING ASSOCIATION OF MACROPHAGES WITH TUMOR CELLS
(2012-11-20)Hematopoietic cells are recruited to and co-opted by the growing tumor making expansive tumor growth possible. Although several cell types become associated with the growing tumor, macrophages play a fundamental role. The ... -
Sable Island National Park: Design with a Dynamic Ecosystem
(2014-04-04)To design with a changing ecosystem requires examining and understanding site dynamics, extracting guidelines for making architectural decisions and defi ning processes that allow for change. Sable Island National Park is ... -
Sacred Landscape: Division and Convergence Between Past and Progress
(2013-08-13)This thesis proposes a design for the Rossdale Flats that pays homage to its various pasts and usages. It does so in a manner that offers pertinent interpretations to current issues facing the site and region that can also ... -
SAFE GAME OF COMPETITIVE DIFFUSION
(2014-04-03)Competitive Diffusion is a recently introduced game-theoretic model for the spread of information through social networks. The model is a game on a graph with external players trying to reach the most vertices. In this ... -
Safety, Efficacy And Satisfaction Among Surgeons And Patients Of Propofol Only For Procedural Sedation During The Extraction Of Third Molars
(2014-04-01)Propofol has been gaining increased attention as a sole agent in providing procedural sedation due to its predictable pharmacokinetics and favorable amnestic properties. Oral and maxillofacial surgical procedures are unique ... -
SafetyNET-Rx: Insights and Lessons Learned From a Pilot Project
(2012-12-11)Medication errors are under-reported in community pharmacies, thereby reducing the opportunities for creating solutions and jeopardizing patient safety. This research identified challenges and facilitators of medication ... -
Sailing Towards Sustainable Supply Chains: A Multi-Objective Optimization Model for Green Ship Recycling in a Circular Economy
(2023-12-15)In contemporary global trade, the shipping industry is the cornerstone that facilitates the movement of approximately 90% of international commercial goods. However, environmental challenges, particularly in ship recycling, ... -
Salinity Tolerance of the Endangered Atlantic Whitefish (Coregonus huntsmani): Unravelling the Conservation Physiology of an Enigmatic Fish
(2024-04-26)Amidst the ongoing global decline in biodiversity, the preservation of at risk, endemic species is increasingly important. The Atlantic Whitefish (Coregonus huntsmani) is an endangered, anadromous fish endemic to Nova ... -
Salt of the Earth: Redeveloping Saskatoon’s Waterfront to Promote Heritage and Community
(2021-04-08)Saskatoon’s development over the 20th century has severed the urban core from its river and potash mining has left a legacy of environmental degradation caused by salt waste. This thesis draws from Saskatoon’s origins as ... -
Salt tectonics of the Abenaki Graben and central Sable Subbasin: insights from regional seismic interpretation and 4D scaled physical experiments
(2015-04-13)The tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Abenaki graben and central Sable Subbasin of the north-central Scotian margin has been highly influenced by salt deformation. Shimeld (2004) has identified five salt subprovinces ... -
Sampling Discrete Combinatorial Spaces in Phylogenetics
(2015-04-28)Phylogenetics is the study and identification of evolutionary structure, and phylogeneticists often present evolutionary inferences as leaf-labelled trees. We investigate the combinatorial nature of phylogenetic tree ... -
SAMUEL RINGGOLD WARD’S EXAMINATION DAY: THE EDUCATION OF A BLACK ABOLITIONIST
(2021-04-09)This thesis examines the life of Samuel Ringgold Ward, one of the greatest orators and spokesmen for abolition in the nineteenth century. This work specifically examines how Ward’s early life and education at the New York ... -
Sappho's Aesthetics
(2020-08-31)The lyric poet Sappho wrote her poems in the service of Aphrodite, favouring themes of love and beauty. While scholars have frequently discussed the priority of desire (eros) within her poetry, analysis of beauty qua beauty ... -
Satellite Retrievals of Total Column Water Vapour and Surface Emissivity During Arctic Winter
(2017-10-02)A new water vapour column retrieval using passive microwave satellite measurements is presented for use during the Arctic winter. The retrieval, named PLDC16 (Perro Lesins Duck Cadeddu 2016), uses measurements at the strong ... -
A SCALABLE FRAMEWORK FOR AIS DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALISATION
(2016-08-04)Maritime traffic data is an important resource to understand vessel activities. Several topics, such as maritime traffic anomaly detection, have been widely studied. With the increase in the number of vessels, location, ... -
Scalable QoS and QoS management models for IP networks.
(Dalhousie University, 2006)