Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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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 ... -
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 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 of Emergency Vehicle Demand using Poisson Hurdle Regression Model
(2016-12-16)This research presents a Poisson Hurdle Regression Model to explore the factors influencing emergency vehicle demand. The modelling approach built on recent work on spatial modelling field that deals with an excess count ... -
Modelling of spatial infection spread through heterogeneous population: from lattice to PDE models
(2021-12-20)We derive a PDE model of the infection spread, which takes population density into account. This model is a continuum limit of agent-based model of human movement. Numerical simulations of the model show that dense population ... -
Modelling of transmission range in vehicular ad hoc networks.
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Modelling tectonic, climatic and eustatic effects on orogen/foreland basin systems.
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Modelling the coastal ambient noise field in time, frequency, and space
(2020-12-18)Natural ambient noise levels in time, frequency, and space, in coastal regions are modeled based on local environmental forcing and propagation conditions. Continuous audio recordings were taken between April 18th and May ... -
Modelling the Movement of Marine Particles in Discrete Time and Space with Application to Scotian Shelf Connectivity
(2015)The complexity of ocean circulation makes it difficult to predict both the origin and destination of objects transported by ocean currents. Many practical applications (e.g., planning marine search and rescue operations, ... -
MODELLING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIQUID WATER CONTENT AND CLOUD DROPLET NUMBER CONCENTRATION OBSERVED IN SOME LOW CLOUDS IN THE SUMMER ARCTIC AND ITS RADIATIVE EFFECTS
(2019-11-28)We investigated the microphysical properties of some low Arctic clouds and attempted to simulate the observed linear relationship between liquid water content and cloud droplet number concentration. The low clouds were ... -
Modelling the spatial effects of the signal transduction process
(2015-04-17)In this thesis we construct and analyze a cell signal transduction model for a biological cell which takes into account three dimensional geometry, diffusion, and spatial separation and localization of activating and ... -
The Moderate Approach to Advance Requests for Medical Assistance in Dying in Advanced Dementia
(2022-12-01)The purpose of this thesis is to provide an approach to advance requests for MAiD in the setting of advanced dementia. Development of such an approach will require facing important ethical questions and metaphysical ... -
A Modern Barn Raising
(2004-04)How can untrained and trained labour forces work together on the construction of a project? The pursuit of this question involves: Investigating construction methods which allow for a high tolerance of error. Grouping ...