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USING LANDSCAPE GENETICS TO FORM A PORTRAIT OF A SUCKER: AN ARGUMENT FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF MULTIPLE FACTORS TO CAPTURE THE WHOLE PICTURE OF A SUBARCTIC DENDRITIC METAPOPULATION
(2015)
I tested the relative importance of life history, environmental barriers, dendritic structure, and historical colonization on the neutral genetic structure of a longnose sucker (Catostomus catostomus) metapopulation in the ...
An Artificial Neural Network as a Simulation Metamodel to Determine Production Parameters in a Specialized Manufacturing Setting
(2015)
The material handling system of a specialized production line is evaluated using a discrete-event simulation model. The object-oriented simulation model is built to allow changes to machine programmable logic, machine ...
STATISTICAL APPROACHES TO DE-ALIASING WITH APPLICATION TO EARTH SYSTEM MONITORING
(2015)
Space-borne altimeters typically have a repeat time of order 10 days and so alias high frequency sea level variability. State-of-the-art de-aliasing methods are presently based on tidal and atmospheric corrections from ...
SOFT ERROR TOLERANT DESIGN OF STATIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY BITCELL
(2015)
Static Random Access Memories (SRAMs) are commonly used in most of electronics. Due to the scaling of silicon technologies, the soft errors induced by energetic particles are becoming a significant reliability concern. ...
Seafloor Elevation Trends as Environmental Features for Data Association in Underwater Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
(2015)
While critical to the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), process data association is often unreliable, especially so in a noisy, dynamic, underwater environment. This thesis presents a novel approach for data ...
TRACKINDOORS: REAL-TIME INFRASTRUCTURE-LESS INDOOR TRACKING USING HYBRID APPROACH
(2015)
The ability to locate and track humans or objects indoors and outdoors is becoming increasingly important in today’s world of applications. The positioning accuracy and reliability outdoors is well handled by the Global ...
Development of a Lab-Scale, Rechargeable, Aqueous Coin Cell and Methods for Measuring the Self-Discharge Rate of Zinc Electrodes
(2015)
Zinc-air cells are promising as a cheap, safe and sustainable energy storage technology, but few publicly funded institutions currently research them. One reason for this is a lack of a simple, standardized cell design to ...
Numerical modeling of a laterally heterogeneous lithosphere under extension: Strength contrasts and rifting of a metasomatized craton
(2015)
The heterogeneous composition of the lithosphere affects the way it deforms under extension. This thesis investigates the effects of heterogeneities that introduce compositional, thermal, and thickness contrasts within an ...
A general model to compute waste disposal costs for health care products
(2015)
Hospitals are large producers of solid waste. The cost of segregating and discarding products in these waste streams is high. Studies have shown there is a considerable potential to reduce these costs while simultaneously ...
Risk factors for surgical site infection following Caesarean section in Nova Scotian women
(2015)
Surgical site infections (SSIs) can be serious complications after Caesarean section. Therefore, we determined among women undergoing a Caesarean section in Nova Scotia: 1) the incidence of SSI to hospital discharge, 2) ...