Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses: Recent submissions
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DISTINCT REQUIREMENTS AMONG MEMBERS OF THE LY49 RECEPTOR FAMILY IN ADAPTIVE NK CELL RESPONSES
(2024-08-14)Immunological memory is a hallmark of the adaptive immune system. However, mounting evidence over the last decade has revealed that Natural Killer (NK) cells, a subset of innate lymphoid cells, can also mediate antigen-specific ... -
The Domestic Public: Territoriality in Shared Space
(2024-08-14)Shared housing in North America is largely inadequate, because ideas of collective ownership are incompatible with contemporary views on private property. The thrust of the thesis is to investigate more fundamentally what ... -
MACHINE UNLEARNING AND LOW-COST MODEL EDITING FOR MATRIX FACTORIZATION-BASED RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS
(2024-08-14)Collaborative filtering (CF) models typically undertake various tasks in large-scale recommender systems (RecSys), such as providing low-rank embedding features or generating candidate lists, making them an indispensable ... -
Advanced Strategies for Modeling Low-intensity Signals from Multi-omics Data
(2024-08-15)Since the turn of the 21st century, research in the biomedical sciences has dramatically shifted and become reliant on high throughput bioanalytical measurements for investigating bio-molecular events that are presumed to ... -
Characterization of memory Natural Killer cell responses and their application in a cell-targeted cancer immunotherapy
(2024-08-14)Numerous research studies have underscored the adaptive immune characteristics exhibited by NK cells in response to various stimuli, ranging from cytokines to viral ligands and haptens. This has fueled considerable interest ... -
Mechanical Wild Blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium Ait.) Harvester Tote Volume Estimation Using Time-of-Flight Imagery for Automated Yield Monitoring
(2024-08-14)This study investigates the development of a novel real-time volume estimation and yield monitoring system for deployment on a mechanical wild blueberry harvester. Specifically, the focus is to develop an automated solution ... -
Design and Evaluation of Sex-Educated: A Persuasive Application for Promoting Sexual Health Awareness among Indians
(2024-08-13)Sex education plays a crucial part in fostering individuals' understanding of sexual health, promoting healthy sexual behaviour, and enabling informed decision-making. In countries such as India, however, sex education is ... -
Strengthening Financial Consumer Protection in Canada: The Evolutionary Path Towards a National Consumer Credit Code
(2024-08-13)With the exponential growth and greater accessibility of consumer credit, households in Canada are experiencing increasing levels of indebtedness and financial distress. Despite the permeation of credit in our everyday ... -
Transformative Urbanity: Inciting Gisenyi to Socio-Economic Development Through Cultural Landmarks
(2024-08-10)Gisenyi is the 5th largest city in Rwanda and suffers from a genocidal trauma that has rendered it incapable of urbanizing and developing. Despite its unique ecological advantages, the lack of social and cultural activities ... -
Urban Catalyst: Halifax's Waterfront Transit Hub
(2024-07-31)Transportation systems are the central nervous systems of cities and afford transit the opportunity to impact and energize cities. Harnessing architecture’s role in infrastructure design, my thesis explores the design of ... -
Defending an Ethic of Care: An Autoethnography Reflecting on Emotional Health in Critical Care Medicine
(2024-08-09)Occupational stress is widely experienced. Receiving adequate support for occupational stress is not. While a healthy recovery from occupational stress is possible, developing maladaptive coping strategies to mitigate ... -
Bridging Tangible and Intangible Legacies Through Public Architecture in Gouyave, Grenada
(2024-08-13)This thesis explores the relationship between the tangible and intangible cultural legacies particular to the Caribbean region. It explores the vast history and various cultural expressions specific to the Caribbean country ... -
Design Thickness Requirements for Hollow Structural Sections
(2024-08-13)The Canadian design wall thickness requirements, t, for ASTM A500 hollow structural section (HSS) members is set at 0.90 times the nominal thickness, tnom. The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) specifies the ... -
Insight, Thinking, and the Nature of Self: On the Methods of Philosophy and what "I" Refers to
(2024-08-13)My thesis is on the methods of philosophy and the nature of the self. I look at both Eastern and Western philosophy to show the core methods of philosophy within each branch and how they apply their philosophical methods ... -
A New Measure of Mnemonic Discrimination Applicable to Recognition Memory Tests with Continuous Variation in Novel Stimulus Interference
(2024-08-12)Background: Mnemonic discrimination (MD) involves distinguishing new stimuli from memories of highly similar “lure” items or events, and is a putative indirect probe of dentate gyrus functioning. MD is impaired in the ... -
THE EFFECTS OF CANNABIDIOL (CBD) EXPECTANCY ON SUBJECTIVE STRESS, ANXIETY, AND RELATED NEURAL RESPONSES IN HEALTHY ADULTS
(2024-08-12)Cannabidiol (CBD) may be a promising treatment candidate for psychiatric disorders. Our group has previously shown that CBD expectancy alone impacts subjective, physiological, and endocrine markers of stress and anxiety. ... -
Romantic conflict, coping motives, and addictive behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic
(2024-08-06)The COVID-19 pandemic and public health measures resulted in enormous disruption. Substantial evidence has found that this period was associated with worsened anxiety and depression symptoms, exacerbation of addictive ... -
Transcriptional Regulation Paradigms of the Dual Host-Aquatic Lifestyle of Vibrio parahaemolyticus
(2024-08-09)Increased incidence of disease by marine pathogens correlates with rising sea surface temperatures. These changing marine conditions have resulted in the geographic expansion of pathogenic Vibrio spp. like Vibrio ... -
Designing Learning Environments for Children : An Affordance-based Approach to Providing Developmentally Appropriate Settings
(2004-08)This thesis explores the potential of a developmental-affordance framework for designing learning environments for children that are more congruent with their environmental perception and behaviour, and which can more ... -
Reinforcement: A test of Premack's differential probability rules
(1972)According to Premack's (1959) basic assumptions, reinforcement will occur only in a contingency relationship where the independent probability of the contingent response is higher than the independent probability of the ...