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USING TOUCH GESTURES TO RECORD AND RECOGNIZE EMOTIONS

BinHannan, Nabil (2017-04-05)

In this thesis, we explore how people use touchscreens to express emotional intensity, and whether these intensities can be understood by oneself later or by others. We conducted a four-week participatory-design activity ...

Using Visual Analytics and Interpretability Strategies to Understand the Impact of Input Variables on Indexes derived from Municipality (Urban) Data Sets

Dhakshinamoorthy, Balaji (2020-04-29)

Composite indices have been widely used in several domains as a measure to describe abstract concepts through the combination of variables. The current approaches for index creation and analysis do not have a comprehensive ...

Using Vocal Behaviour to Reform the Conservation of Canada Warblers (Wilsonia canadensis)

Cummings, Gregory (2011-03)

The Canada Warbler (Wilsonia canadensis) is a declining neotropical migratory songbird that breeds in Canada and the USA and winters in South America. Between 1968 and 2007, its abundance declined an estimated 4.5% per ...

Using yeast genetics to understand the roles of phosphatidylcholine synthesis in the regulation of cell growth and death.

Howe, Alicia G. (Dalhousie University, 2005)

Using Zebrafish Xenotransplantation To Study Ewing's Sarcoma And Investigate The Role Of Y-Box Binding Protein 1 In Metastasis

Veinotte, Chansey (2015-05-05)

The most unfavourable prognostic factor for Ewing’s sarcoma (ES) is the presence of metastases. To date, a viable cancer model for ES metastasis has not been developed. Models for ES are crucial to uncovering the key ...

Usnic acid and copper toxicity in aposymbiotically grown lichen photobiont Trebouxia erici

Bud'ova, J.; Backor, M.; Backorova, M.; Zidzik, J. (Balaban Publishers, 2006)

Utilising Bioportal to map terms in the Canada Vigilance Adverse Reaction Online Database to various terminologies and to identify the ideal terminology to supplement MedDRA to aid in Pharmacovigilance activities.

Thandavan, Rahul (2017-08-18)

The Canada Vigilance Program is Health Canada’s post marketing surveillance program that collects and analyzes data related to the adverse events of health products that are marketed in Canada. Health Canada periodically ...

Utility of Synoptic Reporting to Improve Operative Reports for Spinal Cord Injury Patients

Swain, Deepak (2012-05-04)

The author did his internship in the Division of Neurosurgery of Capital District Health Authority (CDHA) in Halifax. This organization is one of the acute care and rehabilitation hospitals across the country, which is ...

Utilization of Cell-Wall Related Carbohydrates by Ericoid Mycorrhizal Endophytes

VARMA, AJIT; BONFANT, PAOLA (Balaban Publishers, 1994)

UTILIZATION OF RECYCLED PLASTICS AS BINDER MODIFIERS FOR USE IN HOT-MIX ASPHALT PAVEMENT

Varamini, Sina (2013-12-11)

Atlantic Canadian highways are vulnerable to impacts of climate change, including more frequent cycles of both wetting and drying, and freezing and thawing. These climate impacts coupled with continued increases in truck ...

UTILIZING BIOLOGGERS TO INFER BEHAVIOUR AND PHYSIOLOGY OF COMMERCIAL ATLANTIC SALMON (SALMO SALAR)

Korus, Jennie M. (2024-04-15)

There is a growing global market for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Stakeholders have a vested interest in the future of commercial operations considering the ongoing and future impacts of ocean warming as it relates to ...

Utilizing Photoelectron Spectroscopy to Influence the Design of Earth-abundant Solution-Processed Chalcogenide Thin-film Photovoltaics

Bergmann, Eric (2020-12-17)

Solution processing offers many key advantages to the manufacturing of photovoltaic cells. This includes lower costs, higher throughput and lower temperature conditions resulting in shorter energy payback times and better ...

UTILIZING ZEBRAFISH TO MODEL THE CHILDHOOD BLINDING DISORDER, FAMILIAL EXUDATIVE VITREORETINOPATHY (FEVR), AND DISCOVER NOVEL THERAPEUTICS

Fleischhacker, Tenille (2017-09-15)

Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) is a blinding disorder that results in incomplete peripheral retinal vascularization at birth and there is currently no treatment. Zebrafish were used as a model to mimic a ...