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AN INDOOR GEO-FENCING BASED ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS
(2013-08-07)
Use of wireless network information for indoor positioning has been an area of interest since wireless networks became very popular.
On the other hand, the market started to grow in variety and production volumes leading ...
Sonic Awareness, Alienation, and Liberation Through Soundscape Rhythmanalysis
(2013-08-23)
In the following thesis I investigate aspects of soundscape research and study practices through the gaze of certain methodologies presented in Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis. I argue that elements of the practice Lefebvre ...
Giving a Voice to Adolescents Living with a Sibling with Chronic Illness
(2013-12-19)
The purpose of this phenomenological enquiry was to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be an adolescent living with a sibling who has a chronic illness. Children’s chronic illness has an impact on well siblings ...
Fine-scale distribution, habitat use, and movements of sperm whales
(2013-09-04)
Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are nomadic species typically studied across broad (>100km) spatial scales. In this study, I model fine-scale (or submesocale) habitat preferences, determine how organization into ...
Separation and purification of antidiabetic bioactive peptide from salmon and cod waste
(2013-10-28)
Dietary proteins from Atlantic salmon and cod have previously been shown to have antidiabetic effects. Since dietary proteins are digested into small peptides before being absorbed through the intestinal mucosa, it is ...
Nova Scotia Layer Industry: Energy Use and Innovation Through LED Lighting
(2013-08-26)
This thesis aimed to identify the energy use within the Nova Scotia Layer Industry, through auditing and evaluating layer farms. Using the data collected, energy benchmarks were determined; providing a guide for achieving ...
The Influence of Social Media on E-Commerce Sties
(2013-12-16)
This thesis addresses the influence that social media sites have on the behavior of online customers (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, etc.). The thesis combines information from three different approaches that study how social ...
A Children's Library: Designing Spaces for Play and Imagination
(2013-12-10)
Children’s understanding of space is a fusion of reality and fantasy, in which the physical environment, play, and imagination assume important roles. The boundary between the imaginative realm of the child and the physical ...
State Estimation in Electrical Networks
(2013-02-06)
The continuous growth in power system electric grid by adding new substations lead to construct many new transmission lines, transformers, control devices, and circuit breakers to connect the capacity (generators) to the ...
KSHV vGPCR: A VIRAL ONCOPROTEIN THAT TRIGGERS AUTOPHAGY AND CELLULAR SENESCENCE
(2013-09-09)
Autophagy (literally to ‘self-eat’) is an intracellular, catabolic mechanism to
degrade and recycle cytoplasmic contents in response to metabolic, oxidative, and
genotoxic stresses. Autophagy plays an important role in ...