Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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DUAL SEGMENTED AND RECONFIGURABLE APPROXIMATE MULTIPLIERS FOR ERROR-TOLERANT APPLICATIONS
(2021-07-06)Approximate multiplier circuit designs have shown substantial advantages in improving many operational features, such as power, area and delay, in many error-resilient applications such as image processing and deep learning ... -
Dual-energy Stereoscopic X-ray Imaging to Enhance Soft-tissue Contrast in Lung Imaging
(2016-08-11)In this thesis, dual-energy x-ray technique is developed and discussed for a stereoscopic imaging system to enhance soft tissue contrast in lung imaging. The thesis starts with an introduction chapter on general physics ... -
Dub City: Sample, Remix, and the Techno-Urban Graft
(2012-08-13)This thesis looks to techno music, and subsequently to the DJ, as models for a way of understanding urban spatial ecology. In its compositional use of rhythm to create a sense of musical space punctuated by time, the DJ’s ... -
DURABILITY OF PERFORATED GFRP UNDER VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS WITH EMPHASIS ON ITS APPLICATION AS A LINER FOR DIRECTIONAL OIL WELLS
(2013-09-03)Directional oil wells provide larger pay-zone (extraction zone) than the conventional vertical wells; they are therefore considered to be more economical means for oil extraction. Customarily, perforated steel pipes, ... -
Duties of a Free Person
(2012-08-29)The following is an attempt to ground personal duty – duty which is both believed and felt by all agents. To do this, I look at two contrasting attempts. The first is a rationalist attempt, which tries to ground it in ... -
A Duty To Serve, A Duty To Provide: A Comparative Analysis Of Mental Health Delivery In The Armed Forces Of Canada, U.K. and U.S.
(2017-08-28)The issue of mental trauma suffered during combat is one that has plagued militaries for as long as wars have been waged. Caring for those who have served their nations should be a top priority for the health sector of any ... -
Dwelling in Harmony: Mitigating Biodiversity Loss through Ecological Cohabitation
(2023-07-12)Though ecological destruction is not an inherent requirement for human habitation, we often design our homes to the detriment of native species. As the human population continuously increases, as does our need for new ... -
A Dynamic Approach for Visualizing Local and Global Information in Geo-spatial Network Visualizations
(2016-04-29)Geo-spatial network visualization is a fusion of visualization techniques and geographic information science, and has progressed rapidly in recent years. However, challenges still remain regarding the clarity of high density ... -
Dynamic Architecture in the Canadian Arctic
(2019-04-05)This thesis investigates changing conditions in the Canadian Arctic. Reduced yearly sea ice extent due to anthropogenic global climate change has spurred a significant increase in marine traffic within the Canadian Arctic ... -
A Dynamic Asset Allocation Strategy with Macroeconomic Indicators
(2023-04-12)This thesis proposes a novel approach to strategic asset allocation (SAA) that uses macro-econometric factors and a regime-switching regression model to capture systemic risk, which is crucial in setting target allocations ... -
Dynamic Characterization of Tire Derived Aggregates (TDA) and its Application in Civil Engineering
(2024-01-06)The substantial increase of scrap tires worldwide has resulted in the disposal of millions of scrap tires to stockpiles or landfills annually. These stockpiles raise a significant risk to the environment and human ... -
Dynamic Compact Planar Embeddings
(2023-04-28)This thesis presents a way to compactly represent dynamic connected planar embeddings, which may contain self loops and multi-edges, in 4m + o(m) bits, to support basic navigation in O(lg n) time and edge and vertex ... -
The Dynamic Imbrication Of The Rhizome And The State Apparatus In The Development Of Transnational Subjectivities In Leila Aboulela’s The Translator And Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
(2011-09-06)Abstract Oscar, in The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Sammar, in The Translator, move within and against multiple state spaces. They represent two different ways of understanding the dialogic interaction between ... -
Dynamic interactions of money, interest rate, prices, and real aggregate economic activity in selected SAARC countries.
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Dynamic Interplay Between Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Latent Proteins in the Control of Oncogene-Induced Senescence
(2012-04-30)Acute oncogenic stress can activate autophagy and facilitate permanent arrest of the cell cycle through a failsafe mechanism known as oncogene-induced senescence (OIS). Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is the ... -
Dynamic pulse buckling of slender beams with geometric imperfections subjected to an axial impact.
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A DYNAMIC SELECT SECTOR SPDRS ETFS PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION MODEL WITH REGIME-SWITCHING ECONOMIC INDICATORS
(2013-12-16)This thesis studies a dynamic Select Sector SPDRs ETFs portfolio optimization problem. The objective of the optimization model is to maximize the risk-adjusted expected return of a portfolio similar to a logarithmic utility ... -
Dynamic Stress Wave Propagation
(2016-08-31)In an effort to provide an analyst with the fundamental knowledge required to successfully predict dynamic structural response, a detailed summary of dynamic stresses, review of dynamic pulse buckling and verified numerical ... -
DYNAMIC TERRAMECHANIC MODEL FOR LIGHTWEIGHT WHEELED MOBILE ROBOTS
(2011-09-06)This doctoral thesis extends analytical terramechanic modelling for small lightweight mobile robots operating on sandy soil. Previous terramechanic models were designed to capture and predict the mean values of the ... -
Dynamic Trajectory-Based Couch Motion for Improvement of Radiation Therapy Trajectories
(2014-08-27)This work investigates potential improvement in external beam radiation therapy plan quality using an optimized dynamic gantry and patient support couch motion trajectory, which could minimize exposure to sensitive healthy ...