Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Scientific Motherhood and "Gruesome Discoveries" in Halifax, 1910-1930
(1995)This thesis examines the Scientific Motherhood movement as part of the culture of the 1910's and 1920's with particular emphasis on the city of Halifax. This study tries to assess the movement's influence on the parenting ... -
Scope for the Imagination: Cultivating Craft in the Abandoned Farmscapes of Prince Edward Island
(2022-04-13)In the year 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery published the widely known novel, Anne of Green Gables. Taking place on Prince Edward Island, a major theme throughout the story is the act of establishing a meaningful connection to ... -
THE SCOPE OF PARTY AUTONOMY IN INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS: A NEW DAWN?
(2017-09-01)Transnational contracts are almost inevitable in the world today. It follows that a system of law must govern the resolution of disputes that arise from the contracts. The freedom of parties to choose a law that regulates ... -
A SCOPING REVIEW: ENABLING OLDER ADULTS TO MEET THEIR OCCUPATIONAL NEEDS THROUGH ‘STAYING CONNECTED’
(2014-11-17)Despite growing awareness in aging research of the importance of supporting older adults to remain ‘active and connected,’ this concept has not been translated into current occupational therapy practice. A scoping review ... -
Scottish Immigration to Cape Breton, 1758-1838
(1964)When one considers Scottish immigration into Cape Breton during the years 1758-1838, several questions seem to require an answer. Who were these people, why did they come, how did they travel, when did the come and what ... -
Screening for New Primary Cancers in Cancer Survivors: Systematic Review and Analysis of Nova Scotian Colorectal Cancer Survivors
(2011-09-06)Little is known about the receipt of cancer screening for new primary cancers among Canadian cancer survivors. The objectives of this thesis are to i) synthesize evidence comparing receipt cancer screening between cancer ... -
Scrolling is not Extended Mind-Wandering: How TikTok's 'For You,' Andrew Tate, and the Attention Economy are Jeopardizing User Autonomy Online
(2023-08-25)In the following thesis, I argue that passively scrolling through TikTok significantly interferes with an agent’s capacity to claim autonomous endorsement of repudiatory socio-political values consumed on their “For You ... -
A SCUBA-2 survey of high-redshift galaxy protoclusters & The calibration of the JCMT Transient regions
(2017-05-02)Part 1) The brightest high-redshift sub-millimetre galaxies (SMGs) represent the rarest and most extreme star-forming events in the Universe and are thought to be the progenitors to some of the most massive local galaxies. ... -
Se What You Mean
(2018-12-06)Propositional attitude ascriptions raise important questions about what constraints a semantic theory for natural languages must accommodate, but ascriptions of “what is said” are thought by some to be semantically ... -
"Sea roads": The Circulatory Poetics of The Song Fishermen's Song Sheet
(2022-08-25)This thesis responds to Peter Thompson’s call for fieldwork that considers the circulation of conceptions and artistic representations of the Folk at home and elsewhere in early twentieth-century Atlantic Canadian literature. ... -
Sea scallop larvae Placopecten magellanicus in the Georges Bank region: Distribution, abundance and condition.
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SEA: A Framework to ensure Security, Efficiency, Availability of Dynamic Wireless Sensor Network
(2020-04-15)Growing demand for the wireless sensor network has made it a hot research area and a new technology trend. Since sensor network technology can adapt to its environment, draw conclusions and learn from it, it makes more ... -
Seafloor Elevation Trends as Environmental Features for Data Association in Underwater Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
(2015)While critical to the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), process data association is often unreliable, especially so in a noisy, dynamic, underwater environment. This thesis presents a novel approach for data ... -
A Search for Memory: The Spirit of the Canadian Rural West Homestead
(2019-04-05)A Search for Memory: The Spirit of the Canadian Rural West Homestead questions the tension between memory and historical preservation within the discourse of architecture. This thesis looks at how the memory of the early ... -
Searching for Identity in Chinatown: An Architectural Response to Calgary’s Growing Chinese Population
(2013-08-12)This thesis proposes an architectural design for a public cultural centre for the diverse Chinese immigrant population in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It addresses the history of Chinatown’s formation and how this ethnic ... -
SEARCHING FOR SPIRITS: ASSESSING THE CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF BELIEFS WITHIN A SPIRITUALIST NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT
(2017-04-10)This study is an ethnographic account of belief creation and maintenance within a spiritualist new religious movement (specifically, the Spiritual Science Fellowship or SSF). The emphasis is placed on personal experiences ... -
Seasonal and interannual variability of sea temperature and surface heat fluxes in the northwest Atlantic.
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SEASONAL VARIABILITY OF TOTAL SUSPENDED MATTER IN MINAS BASIN, BAY OF FUNDY
(2013-08-22)Total suspended matter (TSM) concentrations were derived from ocean colour imagery (MERIS data) in Minas Basin. Analysis of time series of TSM in 1-km2 pixel boxes throughout the Basin revealed an annual cycle in TSM in ... -
Seasonal variation and biological effects on mudflat erodibility in the Minas Basin, Bay of Fundy
(2014-01-06)The goal of this study was to investigate the effects of intertidal mudflat biofilms on sediment erosion in the Minas Basin of the Bay of Fundy, Canada. From April through November 2012, sediment cores were collected ... -
SEASONAL VARIATION OF LIPID AND CAROTENOID CONTENT OF CUCUMARIA FRONDOSA VISCERA OIL AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS FOR ITS QUALITY CONTROL
(2017-07-07)Little is known about the lipids and carotenoids of the lipid extracted from sea cucumber viscera (SCV) of Cucumaria frondosa, the species harvested from Nova Scotia, Canada. Tons of SCV are discarded as a waste stream ...