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Get PDF1 online resource (194 pages) : colour illustrationsIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-189).This thesis recounts the exploration of transmuting a mental health crisis into a potentially transformative experience that relies on multispecies relationships including the pedagogy of an agave. It uses the example of an orca's grieving vigil to explore the role community contributes to healing and manifests in a poem that disrupts a normalized and habituated narrative to reclaim its wildness at the edge of knowing and syntax. In other words, this work endeavours to capture the operational aspect of a transformative and embodied praxis in motion. It records the experience of the public launching of this poem via an online platform during COVID and how community, engaging with that platform, adapts and participates. It also addresses the culmination and impact of studying the systems of oppression without a trauma-informed pedagogy in place for how this singular and micro experience can potentially serve a more macro understanding of crisis and trauma
Toponomy and cultural landscape in central Cape Breton, Unama’kik, and Cheap Breattain
Get PDF1 online resource (iii, 72 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (chiefly colour)Includes abstract and appendices.Includes bibliographical references (pages 68-70).This thesis examines the relationship between toponomy and cultural landscape of Mi'kmaw and non-Indigenous populations in historical Cape Breton. The goal is to demonstrate the ways in which place names are indicative of identity, social relationships, and power dynamics. This paper engages in analyses involving cultural landscape anthropology, examining the various theoretical approaches involved in assessing the ways Mi'kmaw and settler groups associated and named the landscape. A historiographical analysis of prolific record-keepers and maps that contain toponymic information for this region was completed. This thesis explores the processes in which bias and cultural power is expressed through the ways maps, dictionaries, and place name records are kept. An intensive analysis of Baptist missionary Silas Rand as well as an examination of his records and other maps demonstrates the validity and applicability of certain records to the study of toponomy and cultural landscape. Further, the theory and historiographical components of this thesis will serve to demonstrate the interconnected nature of place names and culture within Central Cape Breton through several case studies. Through this information, an in-depth place name analysis of the toponyms of Cape Breton, Unama'kik, and Cheap Breattain has been completed. The various omissions, replacements, and retention of place names are demonstrative of the fluidity of culture landscape and the ways in which power is exerted between and within populations
Africville : a municipal exercise in managing the built environment
Get PDF1 online resource (47 pages) : illustrationsIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-47).This thesis examines the relationship between the historic community of Africville and the city of Halifax through the exercise of land and property management. Through changes in early twentieth century municipal policy Africville became an increasingly imposed on by neighboring industry and city infrastructure. Many residents within the community insist that building permits were difficult to obtain and most had significant trouble obtaining legal title to their land. This thesis will also show how land value in Africville changed through the twentieth century leading to the community's displacement starting in 1964. Through evaluating Halifax's management of Africville's built environment, a greater understanding of Africville's predisplacement history can be ascertained, alongside a fuller picture of the discrimination which the community experienced
Purpose-grown biomass crops : efficient production and real-world verification
Get PDF1 online resource (vii, 407, 6 unnumbered pages) : colour illustrations, charts (chiefly colour), graphsIncludes abstract and appendix.Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-205).For Nova Scotia, the adoption of green fuels represents an opportunity to transition away
from its high emission, coal-based energy system. Namely, a NS bioindustry could be
facilitated by its agricultural expertise and abundant marginal land. The objective of this
research was to determine whether bioenergy crops could be established on Nova Scotian
marginal land. Two sites were created in East Gore, Hants County and Skye Glen, Inverness
County. At these sites, four biomass crops (Miscanthus, switchgrass, poplar, willow) were
planted and treated with one of three soil amendments (Ascophyllum nodosum seaweed
extract, paper mill sludge, anaerobic digestate) or a no-additives control. Growth
parameters were measured in the following fall/spring. After analyzing these data through
ANOVA, it was found that poplar and Miscanthus treated with paper mill sludge possessed
higher growth parameters (relative to other tested crops) consistently across sites.
Conversely, switchgrass generally had lower yields in comparison
Reduce racial bias on interview
Get PDF1 online resource (101 pages) : chartsIncludes abstract and appendices.Includes bibliographical reference (pages 73-81).This research examines the effect of applicant races and interview modality on
interviewers' evaluations in asynchronous video interviews (AVIs). The outcome of interview
evaluations, individual-level racial attitudes are examined using a 3 (applicant races: White,
Black, Asian) x 3 (interview modality: video, audio-only, partially blind modes) design. Prolific
users from the United States (N = 319) participated in one of nine AVI conditions and rated the
applicant's interview performance based on the materials they received. Analyses of variance
revealed that in AVIs, the interview modality did not affect interviewers' evaluation. The effect
of applicant races showed that two minority applicants received equal or higher scores than the
White applicant. However, there was no effect of applicant races in the audio-only and partially
blind modes as the visual cues are mainly resources that cause interviewers' racial bias. The
interviewers' racial bias moderates interview evaluations of the Black applicant in the partially
blind mode as interviewers who hold a higher level of racial bias rate the Black applicant lower.
Several limitations of this study and practical implications for both interviewees of AVIs and
employers using AVIs are discussed
New fabrication routes for SERS subtrates : from electrodes to bioscaffolds
No full text1 online resource (xv, 125 pages) : illustrations (some colour), charts (some colour), graphs (some colour)Includes abstract and appendix.Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-110).Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a powerful analytical technique that allows for the detection of analytes at extremely low concentrations in a variety of complex chemical environments. The ideal SERS sensor would be simple, inexpensive and rapid to prepare, and yield strong, reproducible SERS signals from anywhere across the surface of the sensor. Furthermore, the SERS substrate would be sensitive for trace concentrations of a target analyte relevant to real-world applications whether that be on-site detection of contaminants or medical diagnosis in the clinical setting. This thesis research was focused on the fabrication and characterization of new classes of SERS substrates. A novel SERS sensor made by thermally evaporated silver on a screen-printed electrode is presented in this work with an emphasis on simple preparation, high reproducibility, and low signal variability. A novel blue mussel shell substrate that meets the same goals with added focus on the use of sustainable materials and detection of a medically-relevant biomarker will also be discussed. Finally, sustainable SERS substrates, specifically bioscaffolds, will be reviewed with attention given to the aforementioned characteristics of an ideal SERS sensor
2021-04-16 Senate Minutes and Agenda
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2021-03-02 Senate Minutes and Agenda
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2021-03-19 Senate Minutes and Agenda
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Queer memory, identity and place in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Get PDF1 online resource (iii, 117 pages) : colour graphsIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-115).Personal narratives of queer community members of Halifax were collected.
Using a dual theoretical lens from Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology and Edward Soja’s
Thirdspace, a narrative analysis of these personal narratives explores how these individuals and
communities situate themselves and create inclusion, belonging, and community in spite of
erasure from the normative cultural narratives of Halifax. Queer communities of Halifax
articulate the tensions, conflicts, compromises, and labour it takes to create and occupy queer
spaces in Halifax