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Modeling, Structuring, Storing, Querying and Appraising the Process of User Knowledge Generation in Visual Analytics
(2024-03-27)
Visual Analytics (VA) enable users to gain new knowledge through an iterative process of visualizing and interacting with data. VA's intrinsic complexity and flexibility can be used with many different goals in mind, such ...
Aristotle on Phantasia
(2005-10)
This text will argue that Aristotelian phantasia does not form a full capacity in the psyche and, instead, by drawing on its causal origins in perception, acts as an activity serving in the role of helpmate to capacities ...
Hydrogeological Investigation of a Passive Wastewater Treatment System in a Thawing Permafrost Landscape
(2024-04-04)
The future performance of passive wastewater treatment systems, ubiquitous throughout arctic and sub-arctic communities, raises concerns due to permafrost thaw and increased groundwater activity. In turn, these communities ...
Naples’ Refuge Duality: Volcanic Evacuation and Aid Through Superstition and Pragmatics
(2024-04-03)
Naples, the third largest city in Italy is known for its rich history, its interplay with volcanic activity, and its sense of superstition. Built on Neopolitan yellow tuff pyroclastic rock, the region’s geology has fostered ...
Porous Public Space: An Integrated Typology for Urban Housing
(2024-04-05)
In response to the erosion of public space in North American cities, this thesis provides a method of integrating public space in urban housing through typology. Arising from a culture of privatism and a planning strategy ...
Ka Cokere (The Meeting Place): Apac’s future rooted in tekwaro (cultural norms and beliefs)
(2024-04-05)
In Uganda, Lango culture is endangered owing to its limited study, and reliance on oral traditions, under threat from declining older populations. Preserving and incorporating local knowledge is necessary to provide direction ...
Representations of drug-related harms in sentencing: Towards evidence-informed, non-stigmatizing approaches
(2024-04-08)
This thesis explores how the concept of harm is constituted in case law pertaining to the importation, production, possession, and trafficking of drugs in Canada. A specific focus of analysis is whether judges accurately ...
JADOMYCIN B AFFECTS CYCLOOXYGENASE-2 RELATED SIGNALLING AND ACTS SYNERGISTICALLY WITH CELECOXIB TO KILL HUMAN BREAST CANCER CELLS
(2024-04-08)
Breast cancer affects 1 in 8 Canadian women and 10-20% of advanced breast cancers are triple negative. Triple negative breast cancers (TNBC) lack receptors required for hormone and targeted therapy and, thus, require ...
Origin of Diamonds in Chromitites of the Luobusa Ophiolite, Southern Tibet, China
(1999-01)
Diamonds and an extensive assemblage of associated minerals were discovered in podiform chromitites of the Luobusa ophiolite, southern Tibet, China. Thus far, 25 diamonds have been recovered from the mineral separates of ...
CHARACTERIZING PRESENT AND FUTURE NITRATE LOADING IN A GROUNDWATER-DOMINATED AGRICULTURAL WATERSHED OF A COASTAL LAGOON
(2024-04-05)
Basin Head is a coastal lagoon in northeastern PEI, where Nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N) is conveyed from the agricultural watershed to the eutrophic lagoon via intertidal groundwater springs and groundwater-dominated tributaries. ...