Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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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 ... -
AVERAGE RISK COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING: UNDERSTANDING THE CONSEQUENCES OF INTRODUCING COMPETING DEMANDS FOR LIMITED COLONOSCOPY RESOURCES
(2014-08-25)Population-level average risk screening is becoming an important strategy for the control of colorectal cancer. When implementing a population-level colorectal cancer screening program, it is essential to consider how to ... -
THE AVIAN REOVIRUS TRICISTRONIC S1 mRNA: NEW INSIGHTS INTO CONTROL OF TRANSLATION INITIATION
(2010-06-28)The S1 genome segment of avian reovirus is functionally tricistronic, encoding three independent protein products (named p10, p17 and ?C) from three sequential, partially overlapping open reading frames (ORFs). The dogma ... -
Aviation and Empire : The British African Experience, 1919-1939
(1974-08)The period 1919-1939 was the pioneer age of air transport, the newest and most promising of man's efforts to improve and accelerate his means of transport and communications. The agent of that purpose was the aeroplane, ... -
Awareness of Prosodic Cues in Text: The Missing Link Between Prosodic Sensitivity and Reading Comprehension in Young Readers?
(2019-08-22)This thesis investigated whether and how prosodic sensitivity and reading comprehension are related in the mid-elementary grades. A total of 151 students in Grades 3 to 5 were tested. Prosodic sensitivity was found to be ... -
AZ-NUGGETS: AN IDE FOR PROGRAMMING BY CONCEPT
(2013-08-21)Contemporary Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) offer minimal or no fea-tures that allow programmers to explore details of a programming language or interact with the program elements at a conceptual level. Programmers ... -
À la recherche de la variabilité en français langue seconde : Une enquête sur le subjonctif dans le contexte éducatif de la Nouvelle-Écosse
(2024-08-31)The use of the subjunctive mood, especially in subordinate clauses, has sparked disagreements among grammarians, linguists, and sociolinguists. Traditionally used to express notions such as doubt and uncertainty, this mood ... -
B cells and antibody in the development of long-term cardiac graft rejection
(2014-03-10)The long-term survival of heart transplants is limited by the development of allograft vasculopathy (AV), a vascular pathology that develops in spite of the use of modern immunosuppressive therapies. Although it is widely ... -
Back to the Future: New Metabolisms for Declining Urban Towers
(2016-08-26)As the number of residential towers increases with the growth of modern cities, we are faced with the question of how to handle the older towers that, little by little, no longer attract renters for their apartments. Is ... -
BACKSTEPPING-ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF MOBILE MANIPULATORS FOR TRAJECTORY TRACKING
(2016-12-06)A mobile manipulator is a manipulator arm mounted on the mobile platform to offer more flexibilities to reach to the target position in the space. In recent years, research activities in this area have expanded because of ... -
Backyard Densification: Resectioning Urban Residential Lots
(2017-08-09)City densification techniques have become stagnant. Suburban land use needed to be revisited and a resectioning of lots implemented. This thesis investigates the typical characteristics of the suburban city lands, ... -
The Bad and the Beautiful: Public Persona and Genre in Three Film Adaptations of William Faulkner
(2011-12-15)Direct study of the film adaptations of the works of William Faulkner’s is relatively rare, and many of the few examples are still based entirely on the notion of textual fidelity as opposed to the more modern approach of ...