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Modeling the fate and behavior of oil spills in the Salish Sea
(2018-12-14)Growing transportation of diluted bitumen blends and vessel traffic in the Salish Sea, BC coast could increase the risk of marine oil spill. Understanding the fate and behavior of spilled oil are of importance to help with ... -
Modeling the Fluid Dynamics of a Commercial Ebullated Bed Hydroprocessor
(2017-10-10)Due to the nature of bitumen extracted from Canada’s Athabascan oil sands, upgrading of this heavy oil to lighter, more valuable, products is required. Ebullated bed hydroprocessors are used for the conversion of bitumen ... -
Modeling the Impact on Sediment Texture of Large-Scale Tidal Power in the Bay of Fundy
(2012-12-12)The output of a 3-D ocean circulation model and information on nearly 10,000 sediment samples are used to examine the extent to which a model of ocean currents can be used to predict seabed sediment texture in the Bay of ... -
MODELING THE INFLUENCE OF SURFACTANT ARCHITECTURE ON THE CRITICAL MICELLE CONCENTRATION OF DOUBLE-HEADED AND GEMINI SURFACTANTS
(2010-08-17)Monte Carlo simulations have been used in the past to investigate a variety of surfactant systems; however, there is little published literature for double-headed and gemini surfactants with asymmetric tails. We perform ... -
Modeling the Patient Variability and Hierarchy in Joint-Level Kinematic and Kinetic Function Before and After Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty Surgery
(2017-04-05)The purpose of this study was to comprehensively capture the variability of improvement in knee joint-level biomechanics during walking gait of participants immediately before to one year after TKA, measured objectively ... -
Modeling the prostate cancer tissue microenvironment using hyaluronan hydrogels
(2020-04-14)Prostate cancer cells exist in dynamic, evolving tissue environments and their behaviour is influenced by context-specific interactions with their surroundings. To better understand how and why prostate cancer cells behave ... -
Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Residential and Commercial Energy Systems
(2013-08-26)A Residential Energy Management System (REMS) in smart grid provides capability to manage a daily load curve in order to reduce power consumption and energy cost. Consequently, (REMS) offers significant benefits for both ... -
Modeling, Structuring, Storing, Querying and Appraising the Process of User Knowledge Generation in Visual Analytics
(2024-03-27)Visual Analytics (VA) enable users to gain new knowledge through an iterative process of visualizing and interacting with data. VA's intrinsic complexity and flexibility can be used with many different goals in mind, such ... -
MODELLING AND BENCHMARK DEVELOPMENT FOR ELECTRICAL ENERGY USE AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY ON NOVA SCOTIA DAIRY FARMS
(2015-04-02)The analysis of energy use on dairy farms faces a number of challenges, based partly on benchmark parameter currently used as a means to quantify energy consumption. This research addresses this issue, using energy audit ... -
Modelling and Microsimulation of Activity Generation, Activity Scheduling and Mobility Assignment
(2020-05-04)This thesis develops a novel framework for modelling and microsimulation of activity-based travel demand. It explores alternative micro-behavioural modelling methods for individuals’ activity participation, time allocation, ... -
MODELLING AND SOLVING THE MULTI-CALENDAR NAVAL SURFACE SHIP WORK PERIOD PROBLEM UNDER ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP CONSTRAINTS
(2022-04-14)This thesis deals with modelling and solving the multi-calendar extensions of the naval surface ship work period problem (NSWPP). NSWPP is a variant of the resource constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) with its ... -
Modelling Arctic Sea Ice and Ocean Processes in a Changing Climate
(2023-12-13)Warming four times faster than the rest of the globe, the Arctic region is experiencing rapid changes. At the heart of this amplification of anthropogenic climate change lies a strong coupling between the different components ... -
Modelling Biennial Bearing in Apple Trees
(2011-09-14)Many commercially grown apple cultivars have a biennial cropping habit, producing many small fruit in one year and few or none in the following year. The production of fruits is known to inhibit flower initiation for the ... -
Modelling collagen fibril structure using continuum theory
(2019-08-09)Collagen fibrils are microscopic, rope-like, biological structures that provide mechanical support to tissues within humans and other animals. It is still not fully understood how these fibrils self-assemble from their ... -
Modelling Energy Storage for Demand Charge Mitigation in Commercial Buildings to Develop Standardized Design Guidelines
(2021-09-13)In parallel to growing building electrification initiatives, the cost of lithium-ion batteries has fallen by over 85% since 2010. These factors have driven interest in using lithium-ion batteries to reduce demand charges ... -
Modelling fishing effort displacement in the Southern Gulf of St Lawrence snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) fishery: quantifying management measures for North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis) entanglement prevention
(2018-12)Anthropogenic mortality is the leading factor inhibiting the recovery of the endangered North Atlantic right whale (NARW), in which 85% of human-induced deaths are caused by entanglement in commercial fishing gear. In 2017, ... -
Modelling Fluid Dynamics and Mass Transfer in Bubble Plumes using Lagrangian Particle Tracking
(2019-08-27)A solver was developed in OpenFOAM to simulate fluid dynamics and gas dissolution in bubble plumes. The solver uses Lagrangian particle tracking (LPT) to resolve the motion of individual bubbles or bubbles grouped into ... -
Modelling Human Target Reaching using A novel predictive deep reinforcement learning technique
(2018-04-03)It is hypothesized that the brain builds an internal representation of the world and its body. Moreover, it is well established that human decision making and instrumental control uses multiple systems, some which are ... -
Modelling Non-linear Relationships in ERP Data Using Mixed-effects Regression with R Examples
(2013-05-29)The relationship between two variables is very often assumed to be a straight line. However, there are many problems for which this assumption does not hold. In this paper, we show that the assumption of linearity, an ...
