Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Violating the phonotactic properties of American Sign Language to create illegal pseudosigns
(2016-09-01)This study aimed to develop a set of visual-manual stimuli that varied in structure, phonotactic permissibility, and lexicality, to be used in future brain imaging studies of sign language learning. By developing a set of ... -
Violence Against Refugee Women and Mitigation Programs: Highlighting the Perspectives of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
(2018-08-28)Refugee women and girls are among those most vulnerable to violence. This thesis examines how Syrian refugees view efforts to prevent and address such violence in their host community. Through interviews with both NGO staff ... -
VIOLENCE DETECTION IN CROWD FOOTAGE: ENGINEERING STATISTICAL FEATURES USING TRANSFORMED OPTICAL FLOW
(2020-12-17)Video surveillance technology is becoming increasingly common and is often used to increase safety in public spaces. However, the effectiveness of the video information on its own is questionable as it relies on someone ... -
Violence, Illicit Crops and Development in the Colombian Pacific Region
(2023-12-14)The Colombian Pacific region is a strategic hub for the illicit drug trade, due to its geographical suitability for cultivation and access to the Pacific Ocean. This study focuses on the relationship between the rise in ... -
Violent Femininity: Exploring Representations of Women’s Violence in Global Politics
(2023-12-15)Women are becoming increasingly visible as violent perpetrators in global politics, yet the gendered language used to describe them betrays a collective uneasiness with their wilful participation. The inability, or ... -
The Virginia Height Increase: The Effects of Climate, Diet, and Labour on the Health of Enslaved Men in the Cold South, 1815-1835
(2022-08-24)From 1815 to 1835, the height average of enslaved Virginian men increased while the average of European and North American men decreased. This thesis argues that climate should be considered a major influence on the skeletal ... -
A VIRTUAL INEVITABILITY?: RECONCEPTUALISING THE INTERNET VOTING DEBATE WITH EVIDENCE FROM CANADA AND ABROAD
(2019-08-28)The Internet is changing democracy in many important ways. Though governments have proven willing to leverage technology for service delivery in many instances, perhaps the most important democratic act – the casting of ... -
VIRTUALEYEZ: DEVELOPING NFC TECHNOLOGY TO ENABLE THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED TO SHOP INDEPENDENTLY
(2014-07-11)A large number of people throughout the world have visual impairments that make everyday tasks difficult, ultimately reducing independence and quality of life. VirtualEyez is a low cost system that uses a mobile phone ... -
The Virtue of Process: Finding the Legitimacy of Judicial Fact-Finding in Personal Injury Litigation
(2017-06-02)This thesis is an inquiry into the legitimacy of judicial fact-finding in civil litigation. Judges make authoritative factual findings in conditions of uncertainty and the decision-making process cannot, and does not, ... -
The Virtuous Citizen: Rawls and Cohen on the Scope of Egalitarian Justice
(2014-12-17)My thesis responds to G. A. Cohen’s criticism that Rawls’ theory of justice arbitrarily limits its scope to political and social institutions. On Cohen’s view, there is no reason why we should not demand the same principles ... -
Visees, modalites et portees de la poesie francaise contemporaine: Bancquart, Commere, Leclair, Pinson et Tellermann.
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Visible Light Communication
(2012-09-07)White LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) in Visible Light Communication (VLC) is an emerging technology that is being researched so it can eventually be used for common communications systems. LEDs have a number of advantages, ... -
Vision-aided obstacle avoidance for the formation of multi-agent vehicles
(2023-12-15)This thesis presents an in-depth study of vision-aided obstacle avoidance for multiagent formation control, integrating formation control, path planning, and the use of vision sensors. The paper thoroughly reviews the ... -
VISION-BASED GRASP PLANNING OF 3D OBJECTS USING GENETIC ALGORITHM
(2012-08-09)Vision-based grasp planning can be approached as an optimization problem, where a hand configuration that indicates a stable grasp needs to be located in a large search space. In this thesis, we proposed applying genetic ... -
VISION-BASED ROBOTIC PICK-AND-HANDOVER MANEUVERS USING VARIABLE IMPEDANCE CONTROL
(2023-06-23)The adoption of advanced intelligent manipulator systems to carry out pick-and-handover tasks has seen a rise in both the manufacturing and healthcare sectors, thanks to their impressive precision, adaptability, and ... -
'Visionary dreariness': Readings in Romanticism's quotidian sublime.
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Visual Acuity Prediction Based on Transient Sweep Visual Evoked Potentials and the Effect of Image Degradation
(2017-05-11)Purpose: To investigate the accuracy of a new transient sweep visual evoked potential (SVEP) technology to estimate optotype visual acuity (VA) under various viewing conditions and to compare the standard model for SVEP ... -
Visual Adaptation in Mouse Primary Visual Cortex
(2014-12-11)Studying vision in mice is a relatively recent endeavor, with most research dating within the last 10 years. One goal of this research is to examine similarities and differences between the mouse visual system and more ...