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PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF THE UTILITY OF THE N400 FOR PASSIVELY ESTIMATING SPEECH HEARING ABILITY IN NOISE
(2015-04-01)
Recommended procedures for hearing assessment include the evaluation of speech hearing in background noise. Speech in noise assessments rely heavily on behaviour and attention, making them unsuitable for many patient ...
Between Inside and Outside: Expanding Environmental Context Through Building Systems
(2015-04-06)
This thesis explores how architecture can expand the conceived notion of enclosure to a greater environmental context, and how a building may become an instrument for experience and engagement across the interior/exterior ...
Civilized Music: Postsecularism and the Humoured Body in Don DeLillo’s Underworld, Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
(2015-04-02)
This thesis examines the way in which the representation of laughter, or the represented experience of humour, is postsecular in the contemporary American fiction of Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, and Don DeLillo. ...
MODELLING AND BENCHMARK DEVELOPMENT FOR ELECTRICAL ENERGY USE AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY ON NOVA SCOTIA DAIRY FARMS
(2015-04-02)
The analysis of energy use on dairy farms faces a number of challenges, based partly on
benchmark parameter currently used as a means to quantify energy consumption. This
research addresses this issue, using energy audit ...
Genetic and Phenotypic Analysis of Genes Involved in Bacitracin Resistance in Streptococcus mutans
(2015-01-30)
Streptococcus mutans is considered to be the primary causative agent of dental
caries in humans. In the oral cavity, S. mutans frequently exposed to antimicrobial
compounds secreted from competing species and from the ...
Effects of Insulin on synapse formation and function; A possible role for insulin resistance
(2015-04-16)
Insulin resistance is a major risk factor for metabolic syndrome, including Type II diabetes (T2D) and obesity. Most studies on insulin resistance focus on peripheral tissues, but little is known about insulin resistance ...
THE ROLE OF TYRAMINE IN MODULATION OF SPIDER, CUPIENNIUS SALEI, MECHANORECEPTORS
(2015-04-29)
Efferent neurons containing GABA, glutamate, acetylcholine and octopamine (OA)
innervate spider, Cupiennius salei, mechanosensory neurons. The spider leg transcriptome
library contains several putative transmitter receptors ...
TECTONO-MAGMATIC AND METALLOGENIC EVOLUTION OF THE LATE TRIASSIC TO MIDDLE JURASSIC HAZELTON GROUP IN NORTHWEST BRITISH COLUMBIA
(2015-03-31)
The Hazelton Group (Stikine terrane) in NW British Columbia represents a regionally extensive, Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic successor arc. It records two economically important metallogenic episodes associated with ...
A Generic Framework for Providing Psychosocial Support to Patients through an Online Virtual World
(2015-02-13)
Virtual worlds have been used in the medical domain for providing social, psychological, educational support to patients with chronic and serious diseases. Semantic Web features including structured type systems (i.e. ...
Late Cenozoic upper-crustal cooling history of the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex, southern Canadian Cordillera, British Columbia: new insights from low-temperature multi-thermochronometry and inverse thermal modeling
(2015-04-30)
The Shuswap Metamorphic Complex (SMC), located in the southern Canadian Cordillera, transitioned from a contractional orogen in the Early Jurassic to Late Cretaceous to an extensional tectonic province in the Eocene. ...