Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Constrained cops and robber.
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Constrained Women in "Omkara": Marriage, Mythology, and Movies
(2017-09-01)Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara is an unconventional Bollywood film that draws on the story of Othello to explore themes of suppression and vengeance that can be traced back to Indian mythology. The film invokes the allure of ... -
CONSTRAINING THE DYNAMICAL MASSES OF SPT2349-56: A MASSIVE GALAXY PROTOCLUSTER AT Z ∼ 4.3
(2018-09-21)This study presents an analysis of SPT2349-56, the brightest unlensed source found by the South Pole Telescope during a 2500 deg^2 survey of the sky. Follow-up observations showed that SPT2349-56 is comprised of 14 ... -
Constructing and validating a frailty index as a novel health measure in systemic lupus erythematosus
(2019-11-28)For patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), clinical outcomes are highly variable and challenging to predict. Such differences in susceptibility to adverse health outcomes can be quantified using a frailty index ... -
Constructing New Narratives to Reveal Diverse Identities in Richmond, BC
(2022-07-07)With the capitalist expansion of urban cities today, different physical and social forces exist, collaborate and challenge each other on the land we call home. In Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, where multi-ideologies ... -
Construction and Characterization of a Single-Chain Variable Fragment Antibody Library against Fusobacterium nucleatum
(2012-08-09)Dental plaque forms sequentially, with Fusobacterium nucleatum facilitating the adhesion of pathogenic late colonizers. We hypothesize that a single-chain variable fragment (scFv) antibody library will enable the identification ... -
Construction and Validation of a Frailty Index for the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Population
(2024-08-21)Frailty can be defined as a state of vulnerability to adverse health events. In this project, a standardized method for constructing a frailty index was followed using data from the SPOR IMAGINE IBD cohort. We constructed ... -
Construction of amino acid rate matrices and extensions of the Barry and Hartigan model for phylogenetic inference
(2011-09-07)This thesis considers two distinct topics in phylogenetic analysis. The first is construction of empirical rate matrices for amino acid models. The second topic, which constitutes the majority of the thesis, involves ... -
CONSTRUCTIVE PROCEDURAL CONTENT GENERATION USING IMAGE DATABASES
(2019-04-01)Procedural Content Generation (PCG) attempts to define an automated process for designing game content. Angry Birds represents a physics based game in which interesting game play comes from the challenge and/or fun associated ... -
Consumer Self-development: Construct Validity and Nomological Network of a New Dimension of Consumer Well-being and the Consequences for Product Evaluations and Brand Judgments
(2020-09-09)This dissertation establishes the novel construct of Consumer Self-development (CSD). CSD captures the personal growth that people derive from consumption behavior and includes three dimensions: self-awareness, product ... -
CONSUMERS’ DECISIONS ON CALORIES, FAT, AND CARBOHYDRATES WITH RESPECT TO FOOD PRICES AND EXPENDITURES
(2011-12-21)Obesity is a big health issue in the developed world, especially in the US. This has led to a call to implement policies to control obesity. The major materials thought to contribute to obesity are calories, fat, and ... -
Contact Zones: Prefigurative Infrastructure for a Transformative Agenda
(2020-08-17)This thesis proposes strategies for architecture to respond to environmental racism by questioning how design can be used as a tool to communicate radical environmental awareness. The method applied seeks to aid designers ... -
Contaminant Migration Through Soil-Cement Materials
(2014-04-02)To assess the long-term performance of soil-cement materials used in source-control remediation methods (i.e. cement-based solidification/stabilization), procedures to measure or estimate contaminant migration parameters ... -
CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES OF CUSTOMARY LAND ADMINISTRATION IN ZAMBIA
(2014-12-17)Land is an integral part of Zambian identity, heritage, and rural livelihoods. Its importance is summed up by the expression ‘land is life’. Zambia’s dual land system, that of statutory and customary land, is at a critical ... -
A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF SUSTAINABILITY POLICIES AND PLANS FROM STARS-RATED CANADIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
(2014-08-25)Higher education institutions (HEIs) have a role to play in the transition to a more sustainable society through academics and managing their operations using sustainable practices. This study aims to deepen our understanding ... -
Contest for cultural authority: Hazlitt, Coleridge, and the "Distresses of the Country," 1816-1817.
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Contested future(s): The social opposition to the OECD-MAI.
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CONTEXT-AWARE SEMANTIC TEXT MINING AND REPRESENTATION LEARNING FOR TEXT DISAMBIGUATION AND ONLINE HARASSMENT CLASSIFICATION
(2023-12-15)This dissertation presents a new method for text representation learning and applies it to two Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems, namely, word sense disambiguation and text classification. Word Sense Disambiguation ... -
CONTEXTUALIZING THE IMPACT OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION ON VELIGER GROWTH FOR THREE COMMERCIALLY IMPORTANT BIVALVE MOLLUSCS
(2015-04-06)The impact of ocean acidification on the growth rate of bivalve veligers for three commercially important species (Crassostrea gigas, Crassostrea virginica and Mytilus edulis) has been assessed experimentally for the ...