Graduate Theses, Dissertations and Projects: Recent submissions
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Investigating Chronic Pain Management Among Emerging Adults
Background: Emerging adulthood is the age between late teens into mid to late 20s. This transition is characterized by a lack of role permanence, where self-reliance and independence are sought. During this period, emerging ... -
A Stepwise Approach to Verification of the Combined Finite-Discrete Element Method for Modelling Instability Around Tunnels in Brittle Rock
Numerical modelling of excavations in rock has advanced considerably in recent decades. While continuum numerical models form their basis in methods which can be verified by analytical solutions, discontinuum and hybrid ... -
Household Return Heterogeneity in the United States
This thesis provides empirical evidence on heterogeneity in returns on wealth among U.S. households. Chapter 1 provides a summary of how return heterogeneity has been theoretically and quantitatively shown to be necessary ... -
The Role of Municipal Level Government in Accelerating 100% Renewable Energy Use: a Case Study of Oxford County, Ontario
Climate change will have severe impacts on the biosphere that human society depends on, with repercussions increasing in step with the quantity of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere. These impacts can be avoided ... -
Driver Behavior Modelling and Risk Profiling Using Large-Scale Naturalistic Driving Data
Driver risk profiling is an emerging scheme in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Conventionally, a risk score of a driver is calculated on a per-trip basis according to the number of harsh braking, ... -
Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Post-Secondary Student Stressors Index
Background: Over the past several years, reports of excessive stress and symptoms of languishing mental health have been increasingly reported among samples of Canadian post-secondary students. Chronic stress is highly ... -
Scalar Quantization Algorithms for the Robust Transmission of Correlated Sources Over One- and Two-Way Channels
The problem of lossy transmission of correlated sources over discrete two-way channels (TWCs) is considered. The objective is to develop a robust low delay and low complexity source-channel coding scheme without using error ... -
Mobilization of Non-aqueous Phase Liquid by Flowing Gas Bubbles in Porous Media
Gas bubbles can significantly affect contaminant transport in both sediments and groundwater systems. In some circumstances, gas bubble mobilization can result in the transport of non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) as ... -
Characterizing Statistical Learning of Music
Understanding how we gain representations of music is crucial for a comprehensive understanding of music perception. Several studies suggest that listeners extract statistical regularities in music via passive exposure, ... -
Childhood Maltreatment and Adulthood Depression Severity: Using Structural Equation Modelling to Uncover Maltreatment-Symptom Specificity
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is highly heterogeneous in its etiology, symptom presentation, course, and treatment response. Despite knowing this for decades, however, clinicians and researchers have generally treated ... -
Teachers in the Trenches: Exploring Canadian-Certified Early-Career Teachers' Experiences of Turnover and Retention in International Schools in China
Teacher turnover, often referred to as teacher attrition or migration, has been a growing worldwide concern for many years, particularly for teachers within their first five years of the teaching profession. Multiple studies ... -
A Three-Dimensional Experimental and Numerical Study of Nearshore Hydrodynamics and Morphology Change on a Steep Sand Beach
Storm waves breaking on steeply-sloping sand beaches can generate strong currents across a narrow surf zone, and experience different rates of sediment transport and morphodynamic change compared to beaches with milder ... -
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: ...