Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF INTERFACIAL GAPS ON THE IN-PLANE BEHAVIOUR OF MASONRY INFILLED RC FRAMES
(2015)Previous studies on masonry infilled frames have shown that gaps between the infill and the bounding frame can significantly affect the stiffness and strength of the infilled system. However, the relationship between the ... -
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF PRESSURE ON THE FORMATION OF CHROMITE DEPOSITS
(2022-06-13)Despite extensive research on the Bushveld Complex chromitites, the mechanism(s) that form such anomalous chromite segregations remains uncertain. Recent work applying the MELTS thermodynamic model proposed that reduction ... -
Experimental Study of the In-Plane Behaviour of All-Masonry Infilled Frame Systems under Lateral Loading
(2020-12-08)This study is part of on-going experimental research, aiming to further investigate the in-plane behaviour of concrete masonry infills bounded by reinforced masonry frames (all-masonry infilled frames). A total of six ... -
An experimental study of the role of contamination in the formation of chromitites in the Ring of Fire Intrusive Suite
(2018-12-14)The Ring of Fire Intrusive Suite (ROFIS) in the James Bay lowlands, Ontario, is emplaced into the 2.734 Ga McFaulds Lake greenstone belt, and hosts five chromite deposits, together comprising ~201.3 million tonnes of ... -
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON COMPRESSED REPRESENTATIONS OF WEB GRAPHS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS BASED ON DENSE SUBGRAPH EXTRACTION
(2016-04-29)The compressed web graph and social networks structures proposed by Hernandez and Navarro (Compressed representations for web and social graphs. Knowl. Inf. Syst. 40(2): 279-313 (2014)) support more queries than alternative ... -
EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF A NOVEL STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING STRATEGY FOR BOLTED PIPELINE JOINTS
(2010-09-02)The early detection of damage of in-service structural or mechanical systems is of vital importance. With early detection, the damage may be repaired before the integrity of the system is jeopardized, avoiding possible ... -
Experimental, numerical and analytical studies of smart composite materials and their applications.
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EXPERTS WEIGH IN: EXAMINING THE DEBATE ABOUT MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING (MAID) FOR MENTAL ILLNESS IN CANADA
(2023-08-31)The prospect of implementing Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) for persons with mental illness as their sole underlying medical condition (MI-SUMC) has generated a polarizing discussion among experts, whose discourses ... -
Explaining Changes in Fish Community Biomass Using Pressure Indicators: Comparison of Data Analysis Methods and Regional Results
(2019-03-28)This thesis focuses on assessing relationships among ecological indicators, including identifying pressures that best explain changes in the fish community of two Northwest Atlantic ecosystems. The Grand Bank experienced ... -
Explaining the New Influence of Ukrainian Civil Society
(2016-08-31)Ukrainian pro-democracy activism since Euromaidan has been called a “civic awakening,” and civic coalitions have been credited with new strength and influence over the process of democratic reform. However, neither history ... -
EXPLAINING VARIATION IN AMERICAN LOBSTER (HOMARUS AMERICANUS) AND SNOW CRAB (CHIONOECETES OPILIO) ABUNDANCE IN THE NORTHWEST ATLANTIC OCEAN
(2012-04-05)In this thesis I assessed the causes of long-term changes in two large, commercially important decapod crustacean populations, American lobster (Homarus americanus) and snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio), in the northwest ... -
Explicit vs. Implicit Acquisition of Grammatical Gender in an Artificial Language by Monolingual Native English Speakers: an ERP Study
(2017-08-31)Many adults wish to learn a second language to improve their employability, cognitive function, or social connections. However, learning a second language as an adult can seem very daunting. One particularly difficult ... -
Exploiting Semantics and Syntax for Service Specification and Signature Matching: The S5 Web Service Matchmaker
(2011-12-13)In this thesis, we present a hybrid semantic web service discovery framework that exploits both the signatures and specifications of a web service, whilst adopting logical and non-logical service matching methods. For ... -
An Exploration of African American Trump Voters
(2023-04-12)This thesis explores the motivations of African American Trump voters to identify how ideologies, beliefs, interests and Donald Trump’s political strategies and discourses contributed to their voting choices in 2016 and ... -
AN EXPLORATION OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION EXPECTATIONS AMONG STUDENTS ENTERING UNIVERSITY RESIDENCES: A HEALTH PROMOTION APPROACH TO DEVELOPING SOLUTIONS
(2019-08-21)Introduction: University students living in residence consume alcohol in a harmful way. Often this behaviour starts immediately. Little is known about the expectations of students moving into residence. Methods: ... -
Exploration of Care Farming and Older Adults: The Potential of Care Farming Approaches to Improve the Health and Well-being of Older Adults
(2023-12-14)Decline in the health of older adults has been identified throughout literature; research has brought necessary attention to the health concerns and inequities older adults face with regard to the lack of access to holistic ... -
AN EXPLORATION OF CRITICAL CARE NURSES’ EXPERIENCE OF NIGHT SHIFT FATIGUE AND WORKPLACE NAPPING: BRINGING IT OUT FROM UNDER THE COVERS
(2013-07-22)Recently, there has been increasing recognition of the threat of fatigue on safety. Nursing has been slow to recognize this threat. Workplace napping is a fatigue management strategy that is used in some nursing workplaces, ... -
The Exploration of Effect of Model Misspecification and Development of an Adequacy-Test for Substitution Model in Phylogenetics
(2012-11-16)It is possible that the maximum likelihood method can give an inconsistent result when the DNA sequences are generated under a tree topology which is in the Felsentein Zone and analyzed with a misspeci ed model. Therefore, ... -
EXPLORATION OF MULTIVARIATE CHEMICAL DATA IN NOISY ENVIRONMENTS: NEW ALGORITHMS AND SIMULATION METHOD
(2019-12-13)With high-dimensional measurements becoming increasingly common in chemistry, the efficient extraction of meaningful information from chemical data has never been more important. Chemometrics, a sub-discipline of analytical ... -
Exploration of NLP-Based Feature Extraction Techniques for Security Analysis and Anomaly Detection of Service Logs
(2023-04-28)The goal of this research is to provide security and machine learning (ML) practitioners with deeper insight when selecting features and algorithms for unsupervised log analysis. This thesis explores the effect of traditional ...