Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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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 ... -
Automatically Generating Robust Signatures Using a Machine Learning Approach to Unveil Encrypted VoIP Traffic Without Using Port Numbers, IP Addresses and Payload Inspection
(2012-05-25)The identification of encrypted network traffic represents an important issue for network management tasks including quality of service, firewall enforcement and security. Traffic identification becomes more and more ... -
Autonomic innervation and control of chronotropy in the zebrafish heart
(2017-09-15)In the vertebrate heart the intracardiac nervous system is a common pathway for autonomic control of cardiac output, comprising a population of intracardiac neurons in ganglia embedded within nerve plexi. These neural ... -
Autonomous Cars: An Adaptable Feedback Mechanism For Customised Ethics
(2017-08-22)Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are the next breakthrough in the automobile industry and will pave the way to the public market in the near future. Apart from traffic efficiency, increased mobility and a hope for sustainable ... -
The Autonomous Landing of Rotary-Wing UAVs on Underway Ships in a Sea State
(2020-03-27)There is a desire among researchers, governments, corporations and the public to learn more about our environment. To learn how it is changing, how it can be more efficiently used, interacted with, protected and understood. ... -
AUTONOMOUS MEASUREMENT OF PHYSICALLY AND BIOLOGICALLY DRIVEN CHANGES IN DISSOLVED OXYGEN IN THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO
(2019-12-17)Oceanic primary production is an important quantity that has both oceanographic and societal impacts. It forms the basis of the marine food web, and provides a pathway for carbon to be sequestered in the ocean’s interior. ... -
AUTONOMOUS MISSION-PLANNING AND COLLABORATION BETWEEN MULTI-DOMAIN ROBOTS
(2020-12-15)Autonomous multi-robot path-planning and task-allocation to address unresponsive or even evasive targets on or under the water is studied. Challenges in robot localization and navigation in GPS-denied and communication ... -
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Altitude Keeping to Variable Seabed with a Coupled Variable Ballast and Hydroplane Control System
(2016-08-26)The thesis objective is to develop a control approach that enables variable ballast systems (VBS) to be used in tandem with hydroplanes (HP) on an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). Methods to reduce power consumption ... -
AUTOTAXIN IS NUTRITIONALLY REGULATED AND ALTERS MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION IN OBESITY-INDUCED INSULIN RESISTANCE
(2019-08-28)The skeletal muscle is a major site of insulin stimulated glucose disposal. Skeletal muscle insulin sensitivity can be influenced by multiple circulating nutritional, hormonal, neuronal and bioactive factors, including ...
