Browsing Graduate Theses, Dissertations and Projects by Title
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Controlled Radical Polymerization: Towards Industrially Relevant Conditions
(2015-10-03)Reversible deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP), also known as controlled radical polymerization (CRP), has been a significant area of polymer research for more than 20 years, allowing the facile synthesis of complex ... -
Controlled Synthesis of Stimuli-Responsive Network Alginate
(2009-07-20)Stimuli-responsive hydrogels swell or contract in response to external pH, ionic strength or temperature, and are of considerable interest as pharmaceutical controlled release devices. Alginate, a linear polysaccharide ... -
Controls on lithofacies variability in Late Devonian, Cynthia Basin reefs, Nisku Formation, Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
(2012-05-11)The Late Devonian (Frasnian) Nisku Formation in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin is a homoclinal ramp composed of four stacked carbonate cycles with reefs in both shallow-ramp and downslope settings. Nisku Formation ... -
Controls on Seasonal Nitrogen Cycling in Canadian Low Arctic Tundra Ecosystems
(2009-09-27)Soil nitrogen availability to plants is a fundamental control on the structure and functioning of arctic tundra ecosystems. Despite recent evidence that biogeochemical and microbial dynamics during the non-growing season ... -
Convective Heat Transfer from a Recessed Window Covered By a Top Down – Bottom Up Single-Layer Honeycomb Blind
(2015-06-22)Honeycomb (or cellular) Top Down–Bottom Up blinds are quite widely available. When this type of blind is closed there are two or more vertical blind portions and a series of horizontal or near-horizontal blind portions ... -
A Convenient Synthesis of Pyrrolnitrin and Related Halogenated Phenylpyrroles
(2009-10-07)This thesis details a straightforward synthetic route to the antifungal compound pyrrolnitrin 1.2, along with several analogous halogenated phenylpyrroles. The proposed synthetic protocol involved the Suzuki-Miyaura ... -
Convicts and Human Rights: A Comparative Study on Prison Treatment in Europe and Canada
(2011-09-01)Prisoners are among the most vulnerable categories of citizens in every country, due to the large amount of control the state has over them. Enforcing Human Rights Law is a challenge in all areas that it covers. However, ... -
Cool by my Own Standards: the Essence of the Expansion of the Standard of Humanness Through the Reinterpretation of Normativity
(2016-01-11)In 1993, Maxine Greene issued a call to expand the standard of humanness and to look beyond normative culture in the hopes of moving toward a greater inclusivity of diversity in schools. Current Canadian curriculum theory ... -
Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks: Spectrum Acquisition and Co-Channel Interference Effect
(2013-02-05)Cooperative Spectrum Sensing (CSS) allows Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) to locate vacant spectrum channels and to protect active Primary Users (PUs). However, the achieved detection accuracy is proportional to the duration ... -
Cooperative Diversity in Wireless Transmission: Multi-hop Amplify-and-Forward Relay Systems
(2009-08-14)A multi-hop, amplify-and-forward (AF), cooperative diversity system with K relays is studied. An accurate approximate expression for the symbol-error-rate (SER) is derived for the multi-hop system. Also, a lower bound ... -
Cooperative DVB-H: Raptor-Network Coding Protocols for Reliable and Energy Efficient Multimedia Communications
(2010-08-05)Reliable and energy-efficient delivery of multimedia to mobile terminals in dynamic networks is a very challenging problem. In this thesis, we focus on a cooperative extension to the Digital Video Broadcasting – Handheld ... -
Coordinating the eyes and hand in goal-directed movement sequences
(2009-11-13)Coordinated gaze and hand movements predominate a number of our interactions in reachable space and yet few studies examine the potential contribution of tactile feedback in planning these actions. This thesis was designed ... -
The Coordination of Multi-Joint Reaching Movements: A Developmental Profile
(2009-11-30)The study of visually-guided reaching has been a meaningful tool to investigate sensory-motor coordination in typical development and different clinical paediatric populations. The aim of this study was to characterize the ... -
Coping Strategies and Psychological Well-Being Among Bhutanese Refugees Resettled in Ottawa, Canada
(2016-09-12)Since 2008, more than 6000 Bhutanese refugees have been resettled in over 21 communities across Canada, with nearly 300 individuals residing in Ottawa. This resettling process is associated with physical and psychological ... -
Coping with Thermal Challenges: Reaction Norms of Life History Traits of a Burying Beetles with Biparental Care
To succeed and thrive in different environments, individuals can express plastic phenotypes, including life history traits, to ensure some level of fitness across conditions. As such, the plasticity of traits is central ... -
Copolymerization studies of ethylene and trimethylsilyl protected 1-alkenols using a Brookhart-type alpha-diimine nickel(II) dibromide precatalyst
(2009-02-02)There has been considerable interest over the past decade in the preparation and applications of copolymers of ethylene with functionalized polar olefins. Such copolymers are expected to exhibit a variety of potentially ... -
Core French in Eastern Ontario: a language-minority student's experience
(2007-08-29)This qualitative case study was conducted to learn about the experiences of one language-minority student learning French in a core French class in Eastern Ontario. In-class observations and interviews with the language-minority ... -
Coronary Angiography and Neurologically Intact Survival in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients with Return of Spontaneous Circulation
(2015-10-03)Introduction: Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is prevalent in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients but only a minority receives coronary angiography. Also, evidence for the effectiveness of coronary angiography in ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Community Development. A Case Study of AngloGold Ashanti, Adieyie and Teberebie, Ghana
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives have become widespread in the extractive industry, including in Africa. CSR opponents and proponents hold conflicting positions on the conceptualisation, importance and ... -
Corporatizing Dhaka Water Supply And Sewerage Authority, Bangladesh
(2009-01-06)Efforts to commercialize water supply and sanitation in Dhaka, Bangladesh, have been pushed vigorously by internal and external proponents of neo-liberalism. The thesis takes a critical look at these developments and ...