Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Interactions of Native and Modified Clupeine with Escherichia coli K-12 and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium 14028 Cells and Model Biomembranes
(2020-01-22)Clupeine, a cationic antimicrobial peptide found in the sperm cells of fish, is of interest as a food additive because of its antimicrobial activity against several foodborne pathogens. But, non-specific binding of clupeine ... -
Interactive Effects of Main Climate Change Components on Growth and Development of Arabidopsis Thaliana
(2018-12-17)Higher temperature and elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration are expected to cause changes in global precipitation patterns and thus increased water stress events in soils. Few studies have reported the interaction ... -
Interactive Learning To Rank And Visual Rank Interpretation
(2020-04-08)Many algorithms in the Information Retrieval domain have been developed considering training models using vast amounts of data. The acquisition of this data, however, is time-consuming and requires lots of human effort. ... -
Interactive Navigation and Control of Neurosurgical Robotic Systems
(2017-08-29)Trauma and head injury are an important cause of overall mortality and morbidity. Millions of people around the world suffer from neurological and functional disorders, but there are only a limited number of neurosurgeons ... -
INTERACTIVE TERM SUPERVISED TEXT DOCUMENT CLUSTERING
(2014-11-19)Text document clustering has broad applications in practice. For instance, a conference chair should place accepted papers into meaningful sessions. Students writing a thesis, or professors writing a proposal or planning ... -
Interactive text analytics for document clustering
(2018-12-12)Clustering has been widely used to efficiently get insight into text collections containing more documents than a human can effectively read. Although there exist several different document clustering algorithms, most of ... -
INTERACTIVE TEXT ANALYTICS FOR USER-GENERATED CONTENT
(2017-04-27)The rapid growth of social media platforms, weblogs and online forums has made the volume of user-generated content increase exponentially in recent years. User-generated content is different from traditional documents in ... -
Interchange Intervention: Inhabiting Urban Highway Infrastructure
(2013-12-12)Urban highway infrastructure in North America has been singularly designed for the automobile, severing parts of the urban fabric, blighting our once-thriving city centres and resulting in spaces that are void of the human ... -
INTERCOMPARISON OF METHODS TO APPLY SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS FOR INVERSE MODELLING OF NOx SURFACE EMISSIONS
(2013-10-03)Knowledge of NOx (NO2 + NO) emissions is useful to understand processes affecting air quality and climate change. Emission inventories of surface NOx have high uncertainties. Satellite remote sensing has enabled measurements ... -
INTERCONNECTED ENERGY FLOW ANALYSIS AND HEAT RECOVERY STRATEGY OF THE MICHELIN BRIDGEWATER MANUFACTURING FACILITY
(2014-04-15)This study presents the analysis of the heating and cooling systems in the Michelin Bridgewater production facility and the investigation of the interconnected effects of the heating systems. The Michelin facility has been ... -
Intercultural Mediations: Cross-Cultural Collaborations in Early Twentieth-Century First Nations Literature
(2013-08-23)This thesis examines the implications of three early twentieth-century First Nations collaborations that were produced in the context of salvage ethnography and attributed mainly to their non-aboriginal collaborators: ... -
An Interest-Based Account of Police Service Dog Labour Rights
(2018-12-13)Police Service Dogs play a valuable role in promoting important public interests. However, rarely do we consider our moral obligations to them, and whether or not they are owed certain goods and protections in virtue of ... -
Interfaces: Re-Asserting the Riverine Ecosystem as a Central Part of Burnaby
(2022-05-02)This thesis is situated on the green corridor of parks and lakes in Burnaby, BC. The system follows the Brunette River, one of three watersheds in Burnaby. This watershed comprises two parks: Deer Lake and Burnaby Lake ... -
Interference in sequential grasping: effects of action and perception
(2014-08-22)Past research has shown strong evidence supporting the notion that the visual control of action and the visual perception of objects are mediated by two functionally and anatomically distinct visual systems (Milner & ... -
Interferon linked depression of hepatic cytochrome P-450.
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Intergenerational Effects of Maternal Health on Pregnancy and Neonatal Outcomes in Nova Scotian Children
(2022-08-31)Maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) is associated with first-generation health outcomes. The literature suggests an increased risk of low birthweight in infants born to mothers who are underweight, while infants ... -
The Intergenerational Transmission of the “Healthy Immigrant Effect:” Examining Health Outcomes of Immigrants’ Children Through Social Capital
(2012-09-06)The health of children and immigrants has been paramount to the economics literature in recent years. A strong relationship between parents’ socioeconomic status and children’s health has been well established. The vast ... -
Interhemispheric communication and binocular vision.
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Intermolecular interactions in a series of organoammonium tetraphenylborates.
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Internal Resistance as Termination Indicator during Lead-acid Battery Formation
(2015)Lead-acid batteries are a reliable, inexpensive energy storage technology used extensively in a wide range of applications. Before selling this technology to customers however, manufacturers must subject the batteries to ...