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L'Acadie Trouvée: Mapping, Geographic Knowledge, and Imagining Northeastern North America, 1710-1763
(2010-08-30)
From the British capture of Port Royal in 1710 to the end of the Seven Years’ War, imperial borders in northeastern North America were highly uncertain and vigorously contested. The British “conquest” of Acadia was not ...
MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF SANDWICH PIPES SUBJECT TO HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE AND BENDING
(2010-12-20)
The recent substantial increase in world demand for energy and raw material resources has accelerated oil and gas exploration and production. At the same time, the depletion of onshore and shallow water oil resources ...
Dynamics of Species Extinction and Recovery in Multi-Trophic Aquatic Systems
(2010-10-06)
The current rate of species extinction is higher than at any other time in Earth’s history. Despite our understanding of the causes and consequences of extinction and the development of numerous species conservation plans, ...
A Knowledge Management Framework to Develop, Model, ALign and Operationalize Clinical Pathways to Provide Decision Support for Comorbid Diseases
(2010-08-19)
The objective of this thesis is to formalize, model, align and operationalize the evidence-based clinical algorithms of co-morbid chronic heart failure (CHF) and atrial fibrillation (AF) in order to provide clinical ...
Large-Scale Web Page Classification
(2010-12-09)
Web page classification is the process of assigning predefined categories to web pages.
Empirical evaluations of classifiers such as Support Vector Machines (SVMs), k-Nearest
Neighbor (k-NN), and Naïve Bayes (NB), have ...
ISTAMBAY: A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF YOUTH INACTIVITY IN THE PHILIPPINES
(2010-04-16)
This dissertation explores the life experiences of a particular group of young people in the Philippines known as the “istambay”, a Filipino term derived from the English phrase “on standby”. The study examines the concept ...
A BITTER PILL TO SWALLOW: CANADIAN DRUG REGULATION
(2010-09-16)
This thesis assesses the current status of Canadian prescription drug regulation and the policy drivers that guide this process. This analysis is accomplished by first providing a general survey of the steps, law, and ...
Derived from the Interstitial: An Architectural Investigation into Laneway Development
(2010-12-17)
This thesis addresses the decaying and under-utilized space found within the laneways of downtown Brampton, Ontario. Through studies that examine the role and idea of the laneway an architectural language is derived that ...
Livable City: Filling in the Gaps of Instant Urbanism
(2010-12-17)
A living city must exist at every scale - from the urban to the pedestrian; the development of the 21st century Instant City, however, does not allow for this multiplicity of scales. These cities emerge instead in a type ...
Blind Sight
(2010-12-20)
This thesis focuses on the exploration of the sense of smell, touch, taste, and hearing as main design guidelines. In doing so, an architecture was developed which moves beyond the visual reliance of spatial understanding. ...