Graduate Theses, Dissertations and Projects: Recent submissions
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The Role of Sociability in Political Philosophy
This dissertation identifies, and argues in support of, the fundamentally important role that accounts of sociability play in the project of political philosophy. I will show that assumptions about the nature of human ... -
A Deep Learning Network for Validation of 3D Point Cloud Surface Registration
This thesis proposes a novel deep learning architecture called ValidNet to automatically validate the correctness of a 3D surface registration outcome. The performance of many tasks such as object detection mainly depends ... -
Repeats-In-Toxin Adhesion Proteins: What Makes Them Stick?
Bacteria use adhesion proteins (adhesins) to bind substrates on biotic and abiotic surfaces to initiate biofilm formation. These bacterial communities can be detrimental to a host when, for example, they cause teeth plaques, ... -
Changes in climate and catchment processes over the middle and late Holocene in the boreal region of northeastern Ontario, Canada
The climate of North America has varied substantially over the Holocene. Holocene Thermal Maximum (HTM) warmth occurred earlier in the west with associated aridity, compared to the east which was humid. Specific regions ... -
Direct and indirect effects of host food quality on host life history, host susceptibility to parasitism, and parasitoid life history
Ecological communities are complex, comprising species and environmental factors that are so entangled in their effects on one another that ecologists and evolutionary biologists will forever be mystified by how they are ... -
The Role of Muscarinic M2 and M3 Receptor Subtypes in Cardiopulmonary Responsiveness: Insights from In Vivo Murine Models
Muscarinic receptors play an important role in cholinergic transmission and physiologic events. However, the study of the mechanisms by which muscarinic receptors mediate cardiopulmonary responses have been hampered by the ... -
Exploring the Role Transition from Registered Nurse to Clinical Instructor: A Narrative Inquiry
Administrators of nursing undergraduate degree programs are hiring adjunct faculty into clinical instructor roles to sustain clinical education in the midst of persistent nursing faculty shortages. Despite being paramount ... -
A PILOT STUDY: AN OPEN-LABEL BIOMARKER DEVELOPMENT OF KETAMINE FOR UNIPOLAR REFRACTORY DEPRESSION
Objective: The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the antidepressant efficacy of an acute intravenous subanesthetic ketamine treatment (0.5 mg/kg) for patients with unipolar treatment-resistant depression (TRD). ... -
Force-Based Control of UGVs by Using Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Humans apply directional forces to move wheeled objects in various everyday applications such as maneuvering a loaded cart, a lawnmower, or moving a stretcher. The heavier the object, the higher the magnitude of force ... -
A Bootstrapped Approach for Abusive Intent Detection in Social Media Content
The proliferation of Internet connected devices continues to result in the creation of massive collections of human generated content from websites such as social media. Unfortunately, some of these sites are used by ... -
Phase Shift, Duty Cycle and variable Frequency Control of a Full-Bridge DC-DC Converter for Two Solar PV Panels
Renewable energy resources are becoming the future of power generation with a particular focus on harvesting the solar energy found in abundance on earth’s surface. Different power converter topologies are used for energy ... -
Robotic Assessment to Detect Neurological Impairments Associated with Transient Ischemic Attack
Transient ischemic attacks (TIA) are a substantial risk factor for ischemic stroke, but have been widely regarded as minor perturbations to the function of the central nervous system that leave little to no lasting impact ... -
Challenges of Black and Other Minority Students Around Equity and Inclusion in a Postsecondary Institution in Ontario, Canada
In Canada statistics show that visible minorities represent 23.3% of the total Canadian population. The vast majority (94.8%) of the foreign-born population lives in Ontario (53.3%), British Columbia, Quebec, and Alberta. ... -
Rethinking Extraction: A Lefebvrian Critique of Sustainable Mining Discourse
The idea of Sustainable Mining (SM) has gained increasing traction in the past two decades as an industry-based response to concerns over operational pollution, the (mis)treatment of local/Indigenous communities, and a ... -
Multitaper Statistical Tests for the Detection of Frequency-Modulated Signals
Detection of periodic signals in noise is an important problem in many scientific fields and there exist tools in the multitaper spectrum estimation and harmonic analysis framework for doing so, for example, the Harmonic ... -
A Story of Storytelling: Listening to Narratives of Belonging within the Indigenous Art Centre
The Indigenous Art Centre (IAC) is an Indigenous-led federal program that supports “the creation, preservation and promotion of contemporary art produced by Indigenous peoples in Canada.” Presently, the Indigenous Art ... -
Examinations of the Labour Market Outcomes and Housing of Ontario Social Assistance Recipients
This thesis showcases a series of research examining various aspects of social assistance programs and their recipients using a set of administrative microdata following beneficiaries of the social assistance programs in ... -
Mean Squared Error For Optimal Designs in the Polynomial and Spline Regression
This thesis aims to further expand the existing optimal design theory for polynomial and spline regression models. We will show that the classical minimax design in polynomial regression models leads to the recently ... -
Force-free Plasma Equilibria and Differential Operators Connecting Certain Equations
Differential operators connecting a linear case of the Grad--Shafranov equation and the axisymmetric Klein--Gordon equation are found. Differential operators linking another linear case of the Grad--Shafranov equation and ... -
Prison and its Afterlives: Haunting and the Emotional Geographies of Formerly Incarcerated People’s Reintegration Experiences in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Kingston is undeniably a prison town. As the venue for Canada’s first prison and current home to nearly twenty percent of the nation’s federally incarcerated people in seven penitentiaries around the city, prisons undoubtedly ...