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EXPLORING PAIN AND CLINICAL COMMUNICATION
The overarching aim of this dissertation is to explore and better understand how clinical contextual factors and patient education (e.g., delivery of pain-related explanations and diagnoses) shape meaning and the experience ... -
Network Reliability, Simplicial Complexes, and Polynomial Roots
Assume that the vertices of a graph G are always operational, but the edges of G fail independently with probability q ∈ [0, 1]. The all-terminal reliability of G is the probability that the resulting subgraph is connected. ... -
Estimating the Impact of Staffing and Clinical Decisions on Wait Times for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Background: The Choice and Partnership Approach was recently implemented at the three IWK Community Mental Health and Addictions outpatient community clinics in part to manage increasing demand on services. Positive results ... -
Design of initial shotcrete lining for a mine shaft using two-dimensional finite and hybrid finite-discrete element methods
Shotcrete is widely used as a temporary support element in the construction of underground mines and tunnels. It is sprayed on the excavation walls close to the face to provide a safe working condition for mine personnel ... -
The Lived Experience of Occupational Therapists Who Supervise Students With Disabilities
Occupational therapy in Canada has affirmed that people with disabilities have the right to equitable participation in occupational therapy education. Yet students with disabilities have difficulties as they progress through ... -
Stock Movement Prediction with Deep Learning, Finance Tweets Sentiment, Technical Indicators, and Candlestick Charting
Stock prediction has been a popular research topic. Due to its stochastic nature, predicting the future stock market remains a difficult problem. This thesis studies the application of Deep Neural Networks (DNNS) in ... -
The Autonomous Landing of Rotary-Wing UAVs on Underway Ships in a Sea State
There is a desire among researchers, governments, corporations and the public to learn more about our environment. To learn how it is changing, how it can be more efficiently used, interacted with, protected and understood. ... -
Narratives of Nature and Culture: The Cultural Ecology of Elisabeth Mann Borgese
Elisabeth Mann Borgese, born in Munich in 1918, the youngest daughter of German novelist, Thomas Mann, and Katia Pringsheim, made it her moral duty to consider the future of humanity. For her, the ocean, with its densely ... -
Applying Speech Recognition and Language Processing Methods to Transcribe and Structure Physicians’ Audio Notes to a Standardized Clinical Report Format
Clinical documentation is an audio recording of the clinical encounter by the specialist which is subsequently manually transcribed to be added to the patient’s medical record. The current clinical documentation process ... -
Reconnaissance of the upper continental slope off Sable Island Bank, Nova Scotia
A bathymetric chart or the . continental. slope off Sable Island - . Bank was compiled from soundings released by the Canadian Hydrographic Service. The slope in this area is dissected by numerous valleys in the region ... -
School culture: deciphering some basic cultural assumptions operating in a school in Zimbabwe
Culture, defined as basic assumptions, undergirds values and governs behaviour. This study deciphered some basic assumptions operating in a school in Zimbabwe using Schein"s method of observation, interviews and "joint ... -
WIDE-BAND CHANNEL MODEL FOR UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION AND ITS APPLICATION TO KALMAN FILTER BASED CHANNEL ESTIMATOR
Underwater acoustics communication system design is a challenging endeavor due to several technical as well as environmental parameters such as salinity of water, temperature, frequency and time selectivity of the channel, ... -
AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT, HIGH SPEED CLASS-E TRANSMITTER FOR BATTERY-FREE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Energy efficiency and power consumption are increasingly important in wireless communications and especially for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The limited energy budget in a WSN imposes many constraints on the transmitter ... -
Yin, Yang and Coca Cola: Changing and Enduring Concepts of Health and Balance among Zhong Yi 中醫 in Southern China
While modern dentistry views mouth and teeth as significant parts of the oral system, Chinese medicine does not justapose a concept of the ‘oral system” in its epistemological system. Some Zhong Yi consider the mouth, ... -
OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES OF A DIRECT FILTRATION WATER TREATMENT PLANT IN LIGHT OF LAKE RECOVERY
There are many direct filtration plants across North America and around the world that continue to provide safe drinking water. One of the biggest challenge they have faced in recent times is changing water quality due to ... -
THE PROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF PERIOPERATIVE STEROID DOSING ON POSTSURGICAL EDEMA IN ORTHOGNATHIC SURGERY
Problem: While there exists good evidence to support steroid use, there is no consensus on the optimal dose of methylprednisolone to be used in orthognathic surgery. The purpose of this study is to investigate the ... -
STUDIES OF Ni-RICH POSITIVE ELECTRODE MATERIALS FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERIES
Ni-rich layered Li transition metal oxides are some of the most promising positive electrode materials for Li-ion batteries due to low cost and high energy density. Increasing the Ni content is one important approach to ... -
CONTRIBUTIONS OF GENETICALLY DEFINED INTERNEURON SUBTYPES TO CONTRAST CODING IN MOUSE PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX
In the past decade the mouse primary visual cortex (V1) has become a popular brain region for investigating how neural circuits process information, largely because of the genetic tools available in this animal model. One ... -
Central Amazon fish populations: biomass, production and some dynamic characteristics
A 2.5 year field study designed to estimate production of fish in the Amazon river provides a basis for understanding the fishery and certain features of floodplain ecology. Intensive sampling with a fine-mesh seine ... -
Interactions of Native and Modified Clupeine with Escherichia coli K-12 and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium 14028 Cells and Model Biomembranes
Clupeine, a cationic antimicrobial peptide found in the sperm cells of fish, is of interest as a food additive because of its antimicrobial activity against several foodborne pathogens. But, non-specific binding of clupeine ...
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