Graduate Theses, Dissertations and Projects: Recent submissions
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Simultaneous Topology and Build Orientation Optimization for Minimization of Additive Manufacturing Cost and Time
The ever-present demand for increased performance in mechanical systems, with reduced cost and manufacturing time, has led to the adoption of computational design tools and innovative manufacturing methods. Among these ... -
Learning with psychosis: A narrative inquiry exploring the lived experiences of secondary students living with early psychosis
Those who experience psychosis struggle to find inclusion within educational institutions (Goulding, Chien, & Compton, 2010; Laurence, Rosseau, Foriter, & Mottard, 2016; Morgan et al., 2012) despite a growing recognition ... -
Towards Improved Process Development for Biolubricant Production from Vegetable Oils
Biolubricants are lubricants with a base oil produced from biological feedstock. Ester-based biolubricants enjoy the most widespread commercial use, even though complex chemical modifications are required to improve their ... -
The Role of Napping in the Consolidation of Clinically-Relevant Information in Non-Depressed and Depressed Participants
The hypothesis that sleep may have beneficial effects on memory consolidation has been widely reported for many years (Jenkins & Dallenbach, 1924; Van Ormer, 1933; Fowler, Sullivan, & Ekstrand, 1973). Since then, these ... -
Imperceptible Structured Light Projection Mapping for Augmented Reality
A novel method is proposed to imperceptibly embed structured light patterns in projected content and decode them to extract a real time range image stream suitable for dynamic projection mapping applications. A commercially ... -
Examining Nurses’ Perceptions of Hospital Orientations and Their Transition to Practice
Background: Annually, new nurses transition from the role of student to registered nurse as they enter the workforce. These nurses have described feelings of stress and anxiety about ‘absolutely everything’. To identify ... -
The Integration of Virtual Simulation Gaming into Nursing Resuscitation Education: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial
Background The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC) reports that up to 40,000 Canadians experience cardiac arrest per year (HSFC, 2016). Of these 40,000, 13.7 to 22.3 per cent achieve return of spontaneous circulation ... -
The influence of institution accrual on patient survival in Canadian cancer clinical trials
Purpose: To determine whether participating centre annual accrual and centre-size corrected (“proportional”) accrual are associated with overall survival in Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG) clinical trials. Methods: ... -
The Impact of Acute Social Stress on Approach and Avoidance Motivation in Individuals with Depression: An Examination of Behavioural and Neurophysiological Indices of Motivation
Stress is considered proximal to the maintenance of depression. However, precise mechanisms linking stress to depression maintenance are largely unknown. Depression is characterized by decreased motivation for, and response ... -
An Investigation of Antimicrobial Properties of Grafoid Inc. Graphene Coatings
Graphene materials have been the center of attention due to their physicochemical properties. Moreover, in the past decade, these materials have attracted increasing attention because of their antimicrobial properties. A ... -
Three Essays on Organizational Economics
In the first essay, we build a model investigating how the nature of managerial human capital affects firms' choices of growth strategies. The model shows that when firms are cash constrained, managers with more general ... -
Advanced Characterization of Hydrides in Zirconium
Zirconium and its alloys are of great importance to the nuclear power industry due to their unique combination of mechanical properties, low neutron-capture cross-section, and sufficient corrosion resistance under reducing ... -
Natural Convective Heat Transfer From Horizontal and Inclined Two-Sided Bodies of Finite Thickness
Natural convective heat transfer from two-sided flat plates that are horizontal or inclined to the horizontal has been numerically and experimentally investigated. The objective of the study was to investigate the influence ... -
Neural correlates and effects of increased cognitive load on performance during the n-back task in major depressive disorder
Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a heterogenous disease that includes debilitating cognitive deficits, including working memory (WM). The n-back task used to examine WM as it requires continuous updating and ... -
Heat Migration and Solute Transport in a Discrete Fracture
The study of heat and solute transport in fractured rock can provide complementary information in aid of understanding the interaction between surface and groundwater, the long-term isolation of energy by products, the ... -
Building Better Together: Understanding Interprofessional Collaboration and Student Perceptions in a Classroom Case Study
The disciplines of rehabilitation sciences and engineering are known work extensively in teams and require the competencies for effective collaboration as outlined by each discipline’s regulatory body. To make a positive ... -
"Transient Beauties": Early Nineteenth-Century British Women and the Construction of a Global Imperial Science Culture
Botanical collecting and illustrating had been a key part of an Enlightened education for elite women during the eighteenth century, and botanical practices were an established part of many women’s activities. As British ... -
Towards a Theory for Supporting Creativity in Schools
Education recognizes that creativity is important for students and society. However, teachers have scant direction about how to support it, in part because current understanding of what works is piecemeal, as is the empirical ... -
Probabilistic Analysis of Unreinforced Slopes and Reinforced Footings Using the Random Finite Element Method
The focus of this thesis was on probabilistic analysis of unreinforced cohesive soil slopes and geosynthetic reinforced and unreinforced footings over cohesive foundations. Two open-source random finite element method ... -
The Law of Constitutional Amendment and the Entrenchment and Reform of Canada’s Federal Institutional Architecture: the Purposes, Principles, Procedure and Practice governing the Operation of Part V of the Constitution Act, 1982
This doctoral dissertation examines the central institutional architecture of the Constitution of Canada through the lens of the Constitution’s written amending procedures. The thesis proposes that the legal procedures ...