Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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An Unsupervised Learning Approach for Network and System Analysis
(2017-04-03)This thesis investigates the capability of employing the SOM, an unsupervised learning technique as a network data analytics system. In doing so, the aim is to understand how far such an approach could be pushed to analyze ... -
UNSUPERVISED PARAPHRASE GENERATION FROM HIERARCHICAL LANGUAGE MODELS
(2018-12-14)Paraphrase generation is a challenging problem that requires a semantic representation of language. Language models implemented with deep neural networks (DNN) have the ability to transform text to a real valued vector ... -
Updating Library, Architectural Adaptation in Response to the Virtual Space of the Internet
(2013-12-13)The explosion of new technologies, predominantly the increased inhabitation of the virtual space of the Internet, implies an emergent organization that challenges the existing structures of our established institutions. ... -
Upstream Neighbourhoods: Preventative Architecture to Resist Social Decay
(2017-04-07)Health disparities and social inequities exist in every society, and architecture is well positioned to impact these issues for improved population health. Using the social determinants of health as a framework for ... -
The uptake and mode of cytotoxic action of methotrexate-immunoglobulin conjugates.
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The Uptake of Laparoscopic Rectal Cancer Surgery: 2004-2014
(2019-11-28)Background: Colorectal cancer is the second most common malignancy in Canadian males, and third most common malignancy in Canadian females; approximately thirty percent of colorectal cancers are tumors of the rectum (rectal ... -
UPWELLING INTO THE LOWER STRATOSPHERE & TROPICAL WAVE BREAKING: EVIDENCE FROM CHEMICAL TRACERS
(2012-08-30)We use 2005 - 2010 measurements from the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) instrument to calculate the deseasonalized anomalies of tropical mean water vapor (H2O), carbon monoxide (CO), and nitrous oxide (N2O) on the 68 hPa ... -
Upwelling on the Scotian Shelf inferred from satellite and coastal measurements.
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Urban Development in Eastern Nigeria -- to 1952
(1975-06)This thesis examines the problem of modernisation in a colonial context. It is not a critique of colonialism as such. It seeks rather to analyse the irony of a colonial situation in which change and modernisation were ... -
Urban Indigenous Mental Wellness: Cities, cultures, and belonging
(2019-04-04)There are deep disparities between the mental health outcomes of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. Rates of depression and distress are considerably higher among Indigenous peoples than in the general Canadian ... -
Urban Interactions: Integration and Revitalization through Architectural intervention in deteriorated Urban Communities
(2017-08-28)The thesis is an investigation of deteriorating neighbourhoods within North America and the issue of integration within revitalization plans. Looking at how these neighbourhoods establish their identity, what can be done ... -
Urban Intercurrence: The Struggle to Build Walkable Downtowns in Car-Dependent Suburbia
(2023-04-28)An increasing number of cities in Canada and the United States hope to retrofit car- dependent suburban areas into walkable, transit-oriented communities to achieve goals related to health, sustainability, and economic ... -
Urban Resilience: Re-Designing Existing Architecture for the Community of Maynard Lake
(2012-08-10)This thesis proposes the renovation of existing rental units in ten low-rise apartment buildings in order to foster urban and ecological resilience. Existing ex-military apartments on the north shore of Maynard Lake in ... -
Urban Waterscapes: Water as Social Infrastructure in Vancouver, BC
(2014-08-22)Vancouver, BC is a rainy city surrounded by water. Climate change analysis predicts the city will begin to experience more frequent and intense rain as well as rising sea levels. If intensities increase, existing systems ... -
UrbViz: Visual Analysis of Urban Indices and Geographically Aware Causality
(2022-12-16)Municipalities and government entities collect massive amounts of daily data from urban activities and events for multiple purposes. Part of this information is used to base their decisions on geographically-targeted ... -
Urine Proteomics for the Purpose of Biomarker Discovery
(2010-08-24)Body fluids have gained widespread importance for proteomics based biomarker discovery as they have proved to reveal many candidate biomarkers for a variety of physiological diseases. Urine is a particularly favourable ... -
Urschleim in Silicon: Return-Oriented Program Evolution with ROPER
(2018-04-20)Return-orientated programming (ROP) identifies pieces of a process’s executable memory ending in a return instruction (gadgets), and enlists them as an instruction set in which a new, “parasitic” program can be written, ... -
Usability and User Expectations for Online Map-Based Data Visualization Tools: The Ocean Navigator Case
(2020-11-17)In the past, mapping applications and programs were primarily used by professionals in the geographical information world to assist in the type of geospatial analytics research they would be performing. However, mapping ... -
A Usable Past: The Alberta Government's Use of Heritage During Times of Celebration
(2012-08-24)The creation of a founding myth during times of celebration enabled the Alberta government to use heritage for its contemporary agenda. Although the myth was intended to be unifying, various divisions emerged such as a ... -
The Use of Alloy Anodes and Conventional Electrolytes in Magnesium Batteries
(2015-04-16)Magnesium-based batteries are promising for use in future electrified vehicles and electrical power grids due to their high theoretical volumetric energy. However, there exist many challenges in the development of electrode ...