Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Human Health Risks Associated With Wastewater Treatment in Arctic Canada
(2020-08-27)This dissertation provides the first estimates of microbial health risks attributable to wastewater treatment systems in Arctic Canada. A participatory quantitative microbial risk assessment was designed to model a range ... -
HUMAN MAST CELL RESPONSES TO RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS
(2012-11-20)Mast cells reside at tissue sites closely interfacing the environment and play a role in host defense against pathogens. Mast cell responses to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a major cause of severe respiratory tract ... -
Human Sensitivity to Minimal Auditory Temporal Irregularities
(2014-07-23)The objective of the present study was to characterize the temporal processing abilities of healthy adults using a modified jitter paradigm in which only a single click in 25-click train stimuli had been displaced. It was ... -
Human Systems Integration and Situation Awareness in Microworlds: An Examination of Emergency Response within the Offshore Command and Control Training System
(2010-12-21)Existing guidelines detail assessment criteria that should be used to evaluate offshore emergency response (ER) team members’ performance; however, minimal research has investigated this testing. Therefore, using a Human ... -
Human-in-the-loop Classification for Multi-page Administrative Documents
(2022-12-14)Real estate administrative documents present a unique challenge where each condo corporation's documents come from multiple sources and in varying formats. Moreover, each record has varying sizes, making it very time-consuming ... -
Humanitarian Military Interventions in the Decade 1990-2000: Remodelling the Concepts of Impartiality and Political Independence.
(2012-08-29)The concept of Humanitarian Military Interventions has become a core issue within the international community since the 1990s. Human rights violations carried out on a massive scale are no longer perceived as purely domestic ... -
The Humanitarians: Understanding the Crisis of the Humanitarian Field
(2018-06-14)Faced with increasingly protracted armed conflicts, multiplying natural disasters, and new risks posed by climate change, rapid urbanization, and international migration, many observers believe that the international ... -
HUMPBACK WHALE SINGING BEHAVIOUR IN THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC: FROM METHODS FOR ANALYSING PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING DATA TO UNDERSTANDING HUMPBACK WHALE SONG ONTOGENY
(2020-12-23)Marine passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is a valuable tool to assess the distribution, habitat use, and behaviour of marine mammals including the acoustically prolific humpback whale. With increasing amounts of data ... -
A Hunhu-Ubuntu Informed Critique of Patriotic History Discourse and Chimurenga Nationalism
(2016-04-08)This thesis critiques the political discursive hegemony of Patriotic History and Chimurenga Nationalism from the year 2000 from the perspective of the ethics of Hunhu-Ubuntu philosophy. I ask, while claiming to offer ... -
THE HURDLES OF MEDIATING WITH HUMANITARIAN LENS: AN EXPLORATION OF THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY AND DEVELOPMENT’S FAILED SOUTH SUDAN 2015 PEACE AGREEMENT
(2019-05-03)This thesis examines IGAD humanitarian focused mediation in the South Sudanese conflict that blames the warring parties entirely for failing to end the war. It particularly looks at mediation strategies deployed by IGAD ... -
A HYBRID FUZZY/GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR INTRUSION DETECTION IN RFID SYSTEMS
(2012-01-04)Various established and emerging applications of RFID technology have been and are being implemented by companies in different parts of the world. However, RFID technology is susceptible to a variety of security and privacy ... -
Hybrid Landscapes: Nature, Architectural Form, and Cultural Programming for Resiliency in the Mekong Delta
(2020-08-18)The Vietnamese Mekong Delta is a region characterized by the entwined natural and human landscapes that are perpetually being redefined. From the colonial periods to postwar nation-building, homogeneous modernization ... -
A Hybrid Machine Learning Intrusion Detection System Framework with Integrated Server and Client Models for Wireless Sensor Networks
(2024-04-15)Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a novel distributed Machine Learning (ML) approach to tackle the challenges associated with data privacy and overload in ML-based intrusion detection systems (IDSs). Drawing inspiration ... -
Hybrid Query Expansion assisted Adaptive Visual Interface for Exploratory Information Retrieval
(2021-04-29)Query Expansion is an effective approach for improving the information retrieval (IR) system's performance as it addresses the vocabulary mismatch and distinct terminology issues. Traditional pseudo relevance feedback (PRF) ... -
Hybrid Retail: Rethinking the Urban Public by Embracing the Digital Experience
(2022-08-26)Commerce has been regarded as the engine of urbanity, and shopping is said to be arguably the last remaining form of public activity. If this is so, the added phenomenon of increased traction of retail in the digital space ... -
HYBRID SPACE: DESIGNING THE INTERFACE OF PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL PUBLICS
(2019-04-04)The term “mixed reality” (MR) describes an environment comprised of real-time, spatially-linked physical and digital content connected through the interface of digital technologies. While social and technological trends ... -
Hybrid Tag Recommendation in Collaborative Tagging Systems
(2012-04-20)The simplicity and flexibility of tagging allows users to collaboratively create large, loosely structured repositories of Web resources. One of its main drawbacks is the need for manual formulation of tags for each posted ... -
Hydraulic Fracturing and Induced Seismicity: A Semi-Analytical Approach
(2017-12-11)The injection of fluids into the ground is undertaken in a number of engineering practices including hydraulic fracturing, liquid waste disposal, CO2 sequestration and extraction of geothermal heat (EGS). Study of ... -
The Hydrochar Physiochemical Properties Following Different Aging Methods, and Its Impact on Kale Seed Germination, Plant Growth and Nutrient Elements Accumulation
(2023-11-10)Hydrochar, a product from hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) of biomass waste, has gained considerable attention in agriculture as a potential soil amendment. However, it has been found to exhibit phytotoxicity, which could ...
