Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Submit Date
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Paramedic Clinical Decision Making
(BMC Emergency Medicine, 2009-09-21)Paramedics are responsible for the care of patients requiring emergency assistance in the out of hospital setting. These health care providers need to make many decisions during the course of an emergency call. This thesis ... -
GROUP KEY SCHEMES FOR SECURITY IN MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS
(2010-04-20)In dynamic peer group communications, security has been in high demand by many applications in recent years. One of the more popular mechanisms to satisfy these security requirements is the group key scheme in which the ... -
Geotechnical Resistance Factors for Ultimate Limit State Design of Deep Foundations Under Axial Compression Loading
(2010-04-20)For many years, engineers have designed foundations, walls and culverts for highway and other geotechnical applications using allowable stress design (ASD) methods. In ASD, all uncertainties in the load and resistance ... -
Predictors of Better Health Outcomes of Mothers of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
(2010-04-23)Caring for children with autism place mothers at high risk for poor health outcomes and compromises the health of all family members (e.g., Bristol, 1987; Hastings et al., 2005a). Although poor outcomes prevail, some mothers ... -
Characterizing The Distinguishability Of Microbial Genomes
(2010-04-29)The field of metagenomics has shown great promise in the ability to recover microbial DNA from communities whose members resist traditional cultivation techniques, although in most instances the recovered material comprises ... -
Localization of Near-Surface Anomalies Using Seismic Rayleigh Waves
(2010-05-03)The presence of subsurface anomalies, such as cavities, faults, unknown tunnels, etc., either natural or man-made, can cause public safety hazards. The detection of these features requires the development of new methods. ... -
Trends, drivers, and ecosystem effects of expanding global invertebrate fisheries
(2010-05-03)Worldwide, finfish fisheries receive increasing assessment and regulation, slowly leading to more sustainable exploitation and rebuilding. In their wake, invertebrate fisheries are rapidly expanding with little scientific ... -
SHRACK: A SELF-ORGANIZING PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEM FOR DOCUMENT SHARING AND TRACKING
(2010-05-03)Given a set of peers with overlapping interests where each peer wishes to keep track of new documents that are relevant to their interests, we propose Shrack-a self-organizing peer-to-peer (P2P) system for document sharing ... -
Evaluation and Synthesis of Sugar 1-Phosphate Substrates for Nucleotidylyltransferases
(2010-05-03)The study of many of glycosyltransferases is limited due to an inadequate access to sugar nucleotides. Preparation of sugar nucleotides through the use of nucleotidylyltransferases with broad substrate specificities is ... -
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE, REVERE: A STUDY OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN NOVA SCOTIA ACTING ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
(2010-05-03)Awareness and concern about the environment have been growing in recent years, and this fact has not been lost on churches. Though arguments have been made that Christianity is a cause of the world’s current ecological ... -
Three new methods for color and texture based image matching in Content-Based Image Retrieval
(2010-05-03)Image matching is an important and necessary process in Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR). We propose three new methods for image matching: the first one is based on the Local Triplet Pattern (LTP) histograms; the second ... -
Investigation of the ACyl Carrier Protein Binding Partners SpoT and AidB
(2010-05-03)Acyl carrier protein plays an essential role in bacterial fatty acid synthesis and has been recognized as an attractive new antibiotic target. In a previous study using TAP tagged ACP, we identified two ACP binding partners ... -
WHAT’S AT STEAK? ECOLOGICAL ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY AND THE ETHICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION
(2010-05-14)Achieving environmental s¬ustainability in human organization is the defining challenge of the modern era. In light of the inability of the existing economic paradigm to provide for sustainability objectives, novel approaches ... -
INSTRUMENTAL AND REACTIVE VIOLENCE: THE ROLE OF MENTAL HEALTH FACTORS AND MALTREATMENT HISTORY IN THE MANIFESTATION OF VIOLENT OFFENDING
(2010-05-21)Researchers have consistently identified two distinct types of aggression: A “hot-blooded”, impulsive, reactive form of aggression, and a “cold-blooded”, premeditated, instrumental form of aggression. Despite the relevance ... -
THE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE ADAPTOR PROTEIN (NOS1AP) ASSOCIATES WITH SCRIBBLE AND REGULATES DENDRITIC SPINE DEVELOPMENT
(2010-05-25)In a targeted proteomic screen to identify polarity protein complexes, a number of Scribble (Scrib) -associating proteins were identified; of particular interest was the Nitric Oxide Synthase 1 Adaptor Protein (NOS1AP). ... -
Spatial Distribution of Neutral Genetic Variation in a Wide Ranging Anadromous Clupeid, the American Shad (Alosa sapidissima)
(2010-06-08)Species long-term persistence is to a great extent contingent on the ability of populations to mount variable responses to perturbations; the breadths of which are largely dependent on the amount of heritable variation ... -
The Behavioural Expression of Empathy to Others' Pain versus Others' Sadness in Young Children
(2010-06-11)Empathy for others’ pain is an important human capacity. Despite this, little is known about how children develop or express their empathy for another individual’s pain. Thus, this dissertation aimed to accomplish two ... -
Dispersive Effects of the Stress-optic Response in Oxide Glasses
(2010-06-22)Anisotropy in glass can lead to a transmitted double image due to birefringence. Stress-induced birefringence, the stress-optic effect, is undesirable for applications such as commercial imaging. The leading zero stress-optic ... -
Towards the Development of a Proteomics Workflow for High-throughput Protein Biomarker Discovery
(2010-06-22)Two popular workflows exist for quantitative proteome analysis: two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D-PAGE), with staining to visualize proteins, and multidimensional solution phase separations of isotopically ...
