Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Improving Modern Code Review Leveraging Contextual and Structural Information from Source Code
(2023-08-28)Review comments are a major building block of modern code reviews. Ensuring the quality of code review comments is essential, but manually writing high-quality review comments is technically challenging and time-consuming. ... -
Improving Performance for Multi-Agent Systems using Mixed-Type Feedback and Fuzzy Logic Tuning
(2021-08-17)The synchronization of multi-robot systems has numerous applications, including search and rescue missions and collaborative manufacturing. In multi-agent systems, information transmission delays in the communication network ... -
Improving Precision and Accuracy in Coulombic Efficiency Measurements of Lithium Ion Batteries
(2013-01-04)Lithium-ion batteries have been used extensively over the past two decades in the portable consumer electronics industry. More recently, Li-ion batteries have become candidates for much larger-scale applications such as ... -
Improving Quality Control in Oscillometry: Repeatability, Efficiency, Feasibility and Accuracy
(2024-01-07)RATIONALE: The current oscillometry acceptance criteria for measurement of respiratory impedance (Zrs) requires a minimum of three repeated measurements with a coefficient of variation (CV) of ≤ 10% in adults or ≤ 15% in ... -
IMPROVING SECRECY CAPACITY IN SUCCESSIVE RELAYING WIRELESS NETWORKS WITH SINGLE AND MULTI-LAYER TRANSMISSIONS
(2021-04-27)This thesis considers using physical layer security (PLS) in successive relaying networks (SRN) where capacity of wireless channels are enhanced through simultaneous spectrum utilization by a source and two half-duplex ... -
Improving Shipping Governance in the Canadian Arctic by Integrating Inuit Perspectives and Area-Based Management: A Case Study of the Northern Low-Impact Shipping Corridors Initiative
(2023-04-04)Deepening impacts of climate change and biophysical changes in the Canadian Arctic have triggered interests in developing the maritime transportation section as well as concerns about shipping risks. This thesis explores ... -
Improving Statistical Downscaling of General Circulation Models
(2010-08-25)Credible projections of future local climate change are in demand. One way to accomplish this is to statistically downscale General Circulation Models (GCM’s). A new method for statistical downscaling is proposed in which ... -
Improving the corrosion resistance of stainless steel
(2018-08-24)Stainless steels are widely used in the food and medical industries. Despite their good corrosion resistance, highly corrosive environments can still lead to material failure. This work investigated the effectiveness of ... -
IMPROVING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN NIGERIA THROUGH RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: LESSONS FROM CANADA AND NEW ZEALAND
(2018-09-04)This thesis argues the need for Nigeria to incorporate restorative justice within its criminal justice system. Its prevailing adversarial system is bedevilled with various challenges such as over- incarceration, recidivism, ... -
Improving the Durability of Nanostructured Thin Film Supported Platinum Fuel Cell Catalysts with the Addition of Iridium and Ruthenium
(2017-09-07)One of the remaining challenges driving polymer electrolyte membrane hydrogen fuel cell research is the durability of the Pt oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalyst. Pt is inherently unstable; minute amounts (in the order ... -
IMPROVING THE MECHANICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF AN ALUMINUM POWDER METALLURGY METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE VIA HOT UPSET FORGING
(2019-03-11)Aluminum powder metallurgy (APM) represents an advanced metal forming technology premised on a three-stage production sequence of die compaction, liquid phase sintering, and post-sinter sizing. It is principally utilized ... -
Improving the performance of profiled grinding wheels with a novel surface texturing robot
(2017-08-21)This work explores the improvement of a profile grinding process by creating grooves on the surface of a grinding wheel. Grooved grinding wheels have been shown by many authors to reduce the process forces, process ... -
IMPROVING THE UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC CHANNEL QUALITY VIA BEAMFORMING
(2018-08-22)Underwater acoustic communication operates in one of the most complex wireless communica- tion environments. Therefore, sophisticated signal processing techniques are required to make high-throughput communications ... -
In A Class of Their Own: International Students, Class Identity and Education Migration in Atlantic Canada
(2016-08-31)This thesis explores the migration pathways and transnational class projects of international students studying in Atlantic Canada. Bourdieu's concepts of class and capital guide my analysis of the complex relationship ... -
In an Endeavour for a New Vision for Personal Task Management: Exploring User Preferences in Personal Task Management Tools
(2019-07-30)There are many computerized tools for personal task management (PTM) with many tools on smart devices and personal computers; its research domain includes some related work that focused on different aspects. In this research, ... -
In Between Urbanism in Montréal: Encounters Between Communities Across a Transport Corridor
(2011-04-08)This thesis aims to develop an architectural zone for contact between two boroughs in Montreal: Mont-Royal and Rosemont-la-Petite-Patrie; these boroughs are divided by the Canadian Pacific Railway as well as the Van Horne ... -
In defence of doctrine: The judicial review of Canadian federalism in comparative perspective.
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In Defence of Home Places: Environmental Activism in Nova Scotia, 1970-1985
(2014-09-10)This dissertation traces the origins and development of environmental activism in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, from the late 1950s to 1990, with a central focus on the period from 1970 to 1985, during which the ... -
In defense of gradient theories of illusory line motion.
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In Defense of Sass: On Approaching Schizophrenia Through the Lens of Wittgensteinian Solipsism
(2024-04-12)In this work, I defend Louis Sass’s use of Wittgensteinian treatments of solipsism as the basis for an interpretive framework for schizophrenia. I first offer further evidence in support of Sass’s project from the writings ...