Graduate Theses, Dissertations and Projects: Recent submissions
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Driving Market Change: A Multi-Level Perspective on Institutional Disruption and Defense
In recent years, many industries – from transportation and accommodation to finance and automobiles – have been disrupted by platform businesses that ostensibly remove middlemen from market transactions. Much of this work ... -
Vibroacoustic Analysis and Optimization of an Aft-Fuselage Mounted Twin-Engine Aircraft
Aft-fuselage mounted twin-engine style aircraft dominate the business jet industry. This aircraft provides a decreased transmission path for structure-borne engine vibrations when compared to wing-mounted aircraft found ... -
Model-driven Abusive Language Detection
Abusive user-posted content has become a serious issue for many different forms of online communication, especially communication on social media platforms. While the effects of abusive content on society and governments ... -
Bi-Directional AC-DC Converters for Electric Vehicles
Transportation industry typically rely on conventional fossil energy resources such as petroleum. This source of energy, however, is neither renewable nor emission-free. Nowadays transportation sectors are replacing their ... -
Distributed Sensing to Assess the Behaviour of Dynamically Loaded Reinforced Concrete Beams
The assessment of reinforced concrete (RC) structures has been inherently limited by the lack of adequate sensing technologies, which can capture both the global and localized behaviour of these complex composite systems. ... -
Multi-Sensor 3D Model Reconstruction in Unknown Environments
Safe exploration and remote visualization for dangerous and unknown environments have been of a growing demand for several applications. Exploration of dangerous environments can be life threating if it directly involves ... -
Development of Large-Scale Particle Tracking Velocimetry: A Comparison Between 2D and 3D Techniques
This study compares the three-dimensional version of a previously proposed large-scale particle tracking velocimetry (LS-PTV) measurement system with a simpler, less computationally expensive, two-dimensional version for ... -
The bio-political governance of pregnancy in Turkey through the current Family Medicine Model’s pregnancy-monitoring mandate
This dissertation examines the bio-political governance of pregnancy in Turkey with a focus on the current Family Medicine Model (FMM), which has a specific mandate to monitor pregnant women to increase their access to ... -
Inclusive Autonomy: A Theory of Freedom for Everyone
Persons with cognitive disabilities and nonhuman animals are denied the right to make personal choices because it is claimed that they are not autonomous, for autonomy requires the capacity to revise one’s preferences and ... -
A Prospective Non-Inferiority Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness of a Five-Layer Polyurethane Foam Dressing for Wound Healing
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine wound healing of acute and chronic wounds by comparing two five-layer polyurethane foam dressings. Objectives: 1) Compare the changes in surface area for wounds treated ... -
Developing a Framework for the Reliability Analysis of Water Distribution Systems
Being able to quantify the reliability of a water distribution system (WDS) is particularly important for decision makers as it allows to take objective decisions for the benefit of the population served by the system. The ... -
Getting One's Ducks in a Row: Conservation Units of Common Eiders (Somateria mollissima) Throughout North America
Anthropogenic climate change is resulting in a variety of consequences for ecosystems and biodiversity. Collectively these changes are negatively impacting species survival and are increasing rates of extinction. Species ... -
Impact of aerosols on surface solar radiation and gross primary productivity over cropland and grassland ecosystems in North China
The increasing atmospheric aerosols from anthropogenic activities in North China are anticipated to change the proportion of direct and diffuse solar radiation in global solar radiation. These solar radiation variations ... -
Culture War Commonalities: Personal Appearance in Commonwealth England
The swift social, political, and religious changes that encompassed England’s Civil Wars, and later the Puritan-dominated Commonwealth, during the seventeenth-century led to a surge of moralist literature, published during ... -
The Role of Recombinant Oviduct-Specific Glycoprotein (OVGP1) During Early Events of Fertilization
The mammalian oviductal secretory cells synthesize and secrete a major glycoprotein known as the oviduct-specific glycoprotein (OVGP1) which is in abundance around the time of fertilization. In vitro studies carried out ... -
Engaged Teachers Engaging Students: Elementary Pre-Service Teachers’ Social Constructivist Classrooms During Mathematical Problem Solving
The Ontario Ministry of Education has implemented numerous changes to elementary mathematics programs over the last four years. These modifications called for mathematics lead teachers in every elementary school, curricular ... -
A Genealogy of Contemporary Indianness: A Foucauldian Analysis of Identity and Society in Anti-Colonization Politics
This dissertation examines the discursive construction of Indigenous identity under the conditions of colonization on Turtle Island. I investigate how the colonial discourse on Indianness discursively produced Indigenous ... -
One Bad Board Away from Bankruptcy: Housing Co-operatives, Self-Management, and the Landlord–Tenant Relationship
This thesis explores the development of the natural condition of co-operation into a large, apolitical movement and the effects of reshaping working-class people into co-operators. Semi- structured interviews, content ... -
Adam Smith as a Critic of Commercial Society
Popular contemporary views of Adam Smith paint the eighteenth-century intellectual as a staunch proponent of commercial society. However, an examination of Smith’s lesser-known works, and his cultural and intellectual ... -
Quality of Experience from Cache Hierarchies: Caching for Adaptive Streaming over Information-Centric Networks
Video traffic is growing in dominance in today’s Internet, prompting new challenges in timely delivery of video content. This demand motivates the development of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), as a de facto ...