Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Attention mediates the relation between catastrophizing and pain.
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THE ATTENTION NETWORK TEST (ANT): INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES? AND ?COMPONENTS OF ATTENTION ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN
(2011-04-04)Using orthogonal subtractions of performance in selected conditions the attentional network test (ANT) measures the efficacy of three isolable components of attention: alerting, orienting, and executive control. This ... -
Attitudes Towards Influenza Vaccination During "Wait Times" in the Emergency Department
(2019-04-05)Influenza is a burdensome and preventable infectious disease. Lack of time was the reported reason 15% of Canadians did not receive their influenza vaccine in 2016/2017. Meanwhile, emergency department (ED) wait times are ... -
Au-delà des murs: Bridging the Edge between the Living City and the Preserved City
(2018-04-06)This thesis investigates how the bureaucracies of heritage designation such as UNESCO create havens for tourists rather than encourage the continuous inhabitation of historic cities. With the mission of preserving culture, ... -
Augmented and exact Lagrangian approaches to continuous constrained optimization with evolution strategies
(2022-08-31)We consider variations on Lagrangian approaches to constraint-handling in the context of stochastic black-box optimization. The well-known augmented Lagrangian function transforms a constrained problem into a sequence of ... -
Augmented Knowledge Graphs for Literature-Based Discovery (AKG-LBD): A Novel Framework to Enhance Semantics-Based LBD For Biomedical Knowledge Discovery
(2023-08-28)The biomedical literature is expanding exponentially, generating a vast amount of knowledge that frequently goes unnoticed. Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop methods to mine knowledge from published literature ... -
Augmented Reality in Coastal Water Navigation
(2021-08-20)When conducting Coastal Water Navigation, a ship’s Navigating Officer (NavO) has multiple sources of data to consider. In order to obtain the information required to safely manoeuvre the ship, they make use of specialized ... -
Australian, Canadian, and Swedish policies toward Southern Africa: A comparative study of "middle power internationalism".
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AUTHENTICATING FAMILY: RE/CLAIMING LEGITIMACY BY THE LESBIAN HEADED STEPFAMILY
(2013-08-23)Family is an integral part of the fabric of society with diverse configurations of people living together, related through blood or kinship. Changes to the Canadian political and legal structures granting access to marriage ... -
Author and Language Profiling of Short Texts
(2020-04-07)Over the past couple of decades, the advancement and growth of digital information and communication technologies have resulted in information explosion and these technologies are profoundly changing all aspects of modern ... -
Author Style Analysis in Text Documents Based on Character and Word N-Grams
(2017-04-27)We describe our research on text analytics methods for detecting differences and similarities in the style of authors of text documents. Automatic methods for analyzing the written style of authors have applications in ... -
Authorship Attribution using Written and Read Documents
(2019-08-07)In Authorship Attribution (AA), a task of identifying the author on an unseen document, it is often hard to obtain large amounts of training text written by an author. In our research, we analyze the influence of the size ... -
An Automated and High-Throughput (HTP) Method for Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) Quantification
(2021-05-05)Exposure to microbial contamination through drinking water is a major global health concern, therefore, it requires rapid detection equipment to maintain microbial stability at the tap. Currently, microbial quality is ... -
AUTOMATED BALLAST TANK CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES
(2012-04-05)Underwater autonomous vehicles are frequently used for deep-water ocean applications such as surveying and cable-laying, where accurate control of vehicle depth and attitude is needed. The water level in the on-board ballast ... -
Automated Baseline Estimation for Analytical Signals
(2013-10-08)During the last decade, many baseline estimation methods have been proposed, but many of these approaches are either only useful for specific kinds of analytical signals or require the adjustment of many parameters. This ... -
Automated Labour Detection Framework to Monitor Pregnant Women with a High Risk of Premature Labour
(2022-02-22)It is estimated that more than 1 in 10 babies are born prematurely worldwide. Babies that survive premature birth are more likely to face lifelong health-related disabilities. By monitoring uterine contractions, labour can ... -
AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF USER INTEREST FROM SOCIAL MEDIA
(2015-04-01)Automatic identification of user interest from social media has gained much attention in the recent years. In Twitter, users could post tweets about a wide range of topics. These tweets could be analyzed to identify the ... -
AUTOMATIC TERM EXTRACTION IN TECHNICAL DOMAIN USING PART-OF-SPEECH AND COMMON-WORD FEATURES
(2018-08-07)Extracting key terms from technical documents allows us to write effective documentation that is specific and clear, with minimum ambiguity and confusion caused by nearly synonymous but different terms. For instance, in ...