Covert underwater communication methods are constantly evolving, and there is a need for more robust techniques. In this thesis, the benefits and detriments of a number of currently in-use single-carrier covert underwater ...

During shared reading, pre-school aged children are frequently exposed to novel, low-frequency words. Abundant empirical evidence demonstrates that children can learn the meanings of such words during shared reading, ...

From 1900 to 1925, amateur hockey in Maritime communities filled local newspapers and drew thousands of fans to the stadiums. The Acadian, The Union Advocate, The Advertiser, The Weekly Report and Western Annapolis Sentinel, ...

The decentralization and sanitization of industrial processes essential to the operation of our cities has contributed to the creation of sprawling waste-landscapes and a diminished connection, and perception of accountability, ...

It has been shown in previous studies that masonry infills with rigid supports through boundary frames display greater out-of-plane strength than their flexural wall counterparts. This increase in strength is due to a ...

Defining health and economic burden of Invasive Meningococcal Disease (IMD) in Canada is critical to inform Public Health Policy around immunization programs. A comprehensive literature review was conducted to assess ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) is caused by expression of the huntingtin gene containing an expanded CAG repeat. N-terminal mutant huntingtin protein (N-mHtt) accumulates in the nucleus and impairs transcription of a subset of ...

Applied statisticians are often faced with the problem of dealing with high dimensional data sets when attempting to describe the variability of a single set of variables, or trying to predict the variation of one set of ...