Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Non-Cooperative Vessel Detection Using Multispectral Satellite Imaging and Machine Learning Applied Towards Onboard Satellite Dark Vessel Detection
(2024-04-30)Dark vessels are a major source of economic and environmental damage, estimated to cost the global economy tens of billions (USD) a year. These vessels hide or obscure their presence on the ocean to conduct unlawful ... -
Non-Coplanar Arc Optimization for Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy Treatment Planning
(2023-08-29)Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) is a technique that delivers a high dose of radiation in a single or small number of fractions and requires rapid fall off outside the target. In current clinical practice it is ... -
Non-Destructive Characterization of Degradation and Drug Release Processes in Calcium Polyphosphate Bioceramics Using MRI
(2010-12-21)A modern approach to the treatment of localized disease involves the use of advanced polymeric or ceramic implant materials for controlled-rate drug delivery. These implants are dynamic systems that maintain drug concentrations ... -
NON-DIRECTIONAL, SYMBOLIC CUES IN A GO BEFORE YOU KNOW TASK
(2020-04-13)Inhibition of Return (IOR) has been observed in reaching movements to a known target location following predictive symbolic cues. Facilitatory like effects, as they appear in traditional cue-target paradigms, have not yet ... -
NON-EFFECTIVE ORBIFOLDS AND DOUBLE CATEGORIES
(2017-08-31)Satake introduced Orbifolds in terms of an underlying space with an atlas of charts consisting of an open subset of Euclidean space with an action of a finite group. The representation of orbifolds by topological groupoids ... -
Non-Euclidean Eye Problems in the Geometry Lesson of Finnegans Wake
(2015)I demonstrate the existence of a correlation between references to physicists and references to eye problems in the geometry lesson in Book II, Chapter 2 of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Specifically, the sequence of ... -
Non-Linear Coupling of Scales of Ocean Variability and Implications for Downscaling
(2015)The objectives of this study are to develop better methods for dynamically downscaling ocean conditions, and to improve understanding of the physical processes controlling variations on regional scales. Motivated by the ... -
Non-Medical Prescription Opioid Use among High-School Adolescents in Atlantic Canada
(2016-08-08)Non-Medical Prescription Opioid (NMPO) use is one of the most prevalent forms of substance use among Canadian adolescents. Despite the evidence of NMPO use as a major public health concern, we have major gaps in our ... -
Non-Parametric Statistical Tests for Differences in Fatty Acid Composition of Greenland Sharks
(2013-12-13)Variations in predator diets is important in ecology to help us understand their top-down effects on the ecosystem. In predator diets, their fatty acid signatures reflect the proportions of prey consumed. Since fatty acid ... -
Non-uniform Language Detection in Technical Writing
(2016-04-21)Technical writing in professional environments, such as user manual authoring, requires uniform language. Non-uniform language detection is a novel task, which aims to guarantee the consistency for technical writing by ... -
Nonbreeding distributions and potential carryover effects in a sentinel north pacific seabird, the Cassin's auklet
(2018-04-30)Factors influencing animal fitness during the nonbreeding period are critically important but remain largely unknown for many species. Here, I employed tracking and physiological sampling to gain insight into nonbreeding ... -
Noninvasive imaging of epicardial potentials: Regional constraints and clinical applications.
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NONLINEAR ADAPTIVE ROBUST CONTROL FOR BILATERAL TELEOPERATED ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS WITH ARBITRARY TIME DELAYS
(2017-04-25)Bilateral teleoperation systems have been extensively developed over decades. The communication delay can cause instability and is one of the most challenging control design problems. Additionally, nonlinearity, parameter ... -
Nonlinear mixed effects models for meta-analysis.
(Dalhousie University, 2000) -
NONLINEAR PLASMONICS WITH APPLICATIONS TO SENSING
(2017-09-29)Recent progress in laser science has led to the development of ultrashort pulses, which have a broad spectral bandwidth and high peak intensities. When these pulses interact with nonlinear plasmonic materials, the ... -
Nonlinear Signal Processing Techniques for UWB Impulse Radios
(2017-09-05)Impulse Radio (IR) Ultra-wideband (UWB) communication is an attractive potential technology for low-power, low-complexity, and high-speed communications in short range links. One of the main challenges it faces is the ... -
A NONPARAMETRIC BOOTSTRAP LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST FOR QUANTILE REGRESSION
(2022-08-31)Likelihood ratio based confidence intervals often better accommodate asymmetric un- certainty about parameter estimates compared to other likelihood-based approaches. In practice, likelihood ratio tests (LRT) are mostly ... -
A Nonparametric Framework for Time-dependent SIR Models with Application to COVID Data
(2023-07-17)Compartmental models, especially the Susceptible-Infected-Removed (SIR) model, have long been used to understand the behaviour of various diseases. Within this context, it can be beneficial to let parameters such as the ... -
Nonstationary Productivity in Global Fish Stocks
(2014-12-22)Environmental change in the ocean has raised significant concern over the continued productivity of global fisheries resources. In this thesis, I investigate time-varying rates of population growth and biomass production ...