Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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ADAPTIVE LONG TERM TRACKING AND AUTONOMOUS FOLLOWING USING STEREO-CAMERA OF AN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE WITH COLLISION AVOIDANCE
(2015)Unmanned aerial vehicles commercially called quadcopters or drones have become increasingly popular over recent years, delving into wide range of fields from medicine for providing immediate health care or in agriculture ... -
Adaptive Observer-based Super Twisting Sliding Mode Control of Quadcopters for Trajectory Tracking and Low Altitude Grasping
(2023-08-24)Aerial grasping is revolutionizing Industry 4.0 through robotics. However, achieving stable flight and precise grasping in the face of disturbances, especially during complex trajectory tracking and low altitude flights, ... -
Adaptive Path Planning for an Autonomous Marine Vehicle Performing Cooperative Navigation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
(2012-04-24)Adaptive path planning of an autonomous marine vehicle (surface or subsurface) in the role of a communication and navigation aid (CNA) for multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for survey missions is studied. This ... -
Adaptive Robust Impedance Control and Neural Network Based Control for Telerehabilitation with Upper-Limb Robotic Exoskeletons
(2021-06-08)With the unprecedented increase in global senior population and the accompanying debilitating neurological diseases, there is a growing and unmet demand for physical rehabilitation. Additionally, the drastic reduction of ... -
Adaptive Scheduling of Non-Emergency Patient Transfers with Workload Balancing Constraints: A Mixed Integer Programming Approach
(2019-08-30)Emergency Medical Services organizations are responsible for providing paramedic crews, vehicles and equipment to transfer patients from one location to another in emergency and non-emergency settings. In the non-emergency ... -
ADAPTIVE SCHOOLS: EXPLORING HOW DESIGNING FOR DISASSEMBLY CAN EXTEND THE LIFESPAN OF MATERIALS AND BE APPLIED TO THE FLUCTUATING REQUIREMENTS OF TEACHING FACILITIES
(2018-04-06)This thesis investigates how designing with disassembly in mind will extend the lifespan of materials and decrease the environmental impact of construction. The most suitable programs to test this concept involve projects ... -
Adaptive Sequential Optimization Decision Making Approach to Procurement, Storage and Distribution of Perishable Food Items to Fast-Food Chain Restaurants at Regional Level
(2019-08-29)The fast-food restaurant chain industry currently relies on frozen ingredients to reduce the cost of procurement of raw-material. In recent years, consumers are shifting their habit of eating out from fast-food chain ... -
THE ADAPTIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF EGG-SIZE VARIATION WITHIN AND AMONG POPULATIONS OF ATLANTIC SALMON
(2013-08-02)This thesis focuses on the classic problem of investment per offspring. It is an attempt to (i) reconcile theoretical research with empirical methods that can be used to test theory, (ii) test a fundamental prediction that ... -
Added Value: Pursuing Architecture that Promotes Social Prosperity & Encourages Economic Interest
(2014-08-21)Architects are arguably the most qualified to shape our cities and communities since they study and design our built environments. However, many of their ideas will never be proposed because clients, who are the real drivers ... -
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF AISI D2 TOOL STEEL USING DIRECTED ENERGY DEPOSITION
(2023-04-23)The main objective of the current thesis is to optimise direct energy deposition (DED) process parameters to fabricate parts with good mechanical and geometrical properties and to determine the best of postprocessing heat ... -
Addressing Barriers to Gene Therapy: Safety and Efficacy
(2022-08-29)The development of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system has driven renewed interest in the field of gene therapy. However, despite recent advancements, barriers to clinical gene therapies remain. My research aims to address ... -
ADDRESSING CHALLENGES OF TWITTER FEATURE ENGINEERING FOR MACHINE LEARNING IN DIFFERENT DOMAINS
(2023-08-08)Feature engineering is one of the essential steps in machine learning. It helps to create a better data model and provides reasonable learning results. In natural language processing, feature engineering becomes even more ... -
Addressing Crowded Loneliness: A Recomposed Residential High-Rise Typology
(2024-04-09)The demand for density in today’s urban environment has created the ideal condition for the residential high-rise typology as it increases land density and prevents urban sprawl. However, the rapid implementation of the ... -
Addressing key conservation priorities in a data poor species
(2012-08-23)Conserving biodiversity is suggested to be one of the most important challenges being faced by the global community. The field of conservation biology has been developed to examine the threats that drive species to low ... -
ADDRESSING SUBJECTIVITY IN CODE SMELL DETECTION BY LEVERAGING HUMAN FEEDBACK IN A DEEP-LEARNING-BASED SOLUTION
(2023-12-15)Code smells, being inherently subjective, can vary based on individual software developers' opinions and perspectives. Though many deep-learning-based models have been proposed for code smell detection, they often overlook ... -
Addressing the Demand for Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(2010-12-15)The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been characterized by armed violence carried out against civilian populations. Despite a formal end to hostilities with outside states, numerous cease fire agreements ... -
ADENOSINE AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSOR AFFECTING HSP27 AND CXCR4 IN EPITHELIAL CELLS
(2013-03-20)Solid tumours are a hostile tissue environment in which the cells are exposed to many stresses including hypoxia. One consequence of hypoxic conditions is an increase in extracellular levels of the purine nucleoside ... -
Adenosine regulation of dipeptidyl peptidase IV expression and function in human colorectal carcinoma cells.
(Dalhousie University, 2005) -
Adipocyte enhancer binding protein (AEBP1), a multifunctional protein involved in adipogenesis.
(Dalhousie University, 1997)