Graduate Theses, Dissertations and Projects: Recent submissions
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The Application of Structure from Motion Photogrammetry to the Ontario Rockfall Hazard Rating System (RHRON)
Roadways are considered critical infrastructure in North America, however, many pass-through hazardous terrains, such as rock slopes. To better manage and prioritize rockfall mitigation measures on rock slopes, the Ontario ... -
CURATORIAL CONTESTATIONS: CHALLENGING INSTITUTIONAL MODES OF INCLUSION IN THE ARTS THROUGH CURATORIAL POSITION(S) AND PRACTICE(S)
In today’s climate of political unrest, art institutions and curators play increasingly important roles, serving (their) varied constituencies and cultural communities by creating meaningful points of contact with diverse ... -
Response of cladocerans to native and invasive invertebrate predators in Lake Simcoe, Canada
How populations respond to changing environmental conditions is critical to their survival. Organisms can respond adaptively to new environmental conditions, for example an invasive predator, by the expression of phenotypic ... -
The Application of Distributed Optical Sensing to Measure the Full-Field Strain Response of Uniaxial Compression Test Specimens
The uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) test is crucial in determining the strength and stiffness behaviour of intact rock and is frequently utilized by industry to determine project site characteristics. A fundamental ... -
FACTORS AFFECTING GCL SELF-HEALING AND ITS SUBSEQUENT HYDRAULIC PERFORMANCE
A number of researchers have studied GCLs’ self-healing capacity, however, most examined either regular holes or relatively benign hydrating/permeating fluids not representative of typical field applications. This thesis ... -
A Made-in-Muskoka Approach
(2021)The District of Muskoka is well known for being a part of Ontario's cottage country with over 650 freshwater lakes found within the upper-tier municipal boundaries. As shoreline development pressures increase, so does the ... -
Exploring Irish Women's Experiences of Social Climate Around Abortion After the Repeal of the Eighth Amendment
This study explores abortion activists’ experience of the shift in social climate around abortion in the context of the campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, which previously prohibited abortion in Ireland. Abortion was ... -
Using fluorescence spectroscopy to measure the biodegradation of naphtha in Athabasca oil sands tailings ponds
This study used fluorescence spectroscopy and solid phase microextraction (SPME) to develop a time-efficient and cost-effective method to measure naphtha biodegradation in Athabasca Oil Sands Region mature fine tailings ... -
TRANSITION METAL CATALYZED CROSS-COUPLINGS OF ALKYL SULFONE ELECTROPHILES
Sulfones are an important class of organic molecules that can participate in a wide variety of synthetic transformations. For this reason, they have been described as chemical chameleons. While their use as Csp2 electrophiles ... -
On the extraction of path-dependent dynamics from recirculating pulsatile flows using optical and ultrasound imaging
Recirculation is present in nearly every fluid system, and often jeopardizes the system's primary function. This thesis is motivated by recirculation in the cardiovascular system and how it impacts disease. Developing ... -
On the Transient Response of Rotors and Autorotating Seeds in Gusty Flows
Low-inertia rotors are present in quadrotors, micro aerial vehicles, and small wind and tidal turbines, to name but a few examples. The common practice of modelling the unsteady behaviour of low-inertia rotors using ... -
Behavioral Modelling of the Transient and CdV/dt Induced Turn-on of a Hybrid High Power Switch Unit
The use of hybrid power switches is a practical and effective method of improving the performance of high power switching devices. An emerging strategy is to combine high power Si IGBTs with SiC MOSFETs to take advantage ... -
The New Moon in Black Space: The Poetics of Ummah
This work examines how diasporic Black and South Asian Muslims in Toronto and New York practice ummah (Muslim brotherhood and sisterhood, global Muslim unity). Through online surveys, in-person interviews, and ethnographies ... -
Characterization of arsenic and antimony minerals in Yellowknife Bay sediments
Yellowknife Bay, Northwest Territories, Canada, is a waterbody valued by surrounding communities for its subsistence, recreational, and cultural use. Located adjacent to the former Giant and Con Mines, Yellowknife Bay has ... -
Control and Learning for Robotic Excavation
Despite a large body of research and engineering work in robotic excavation, spanning decades, commercially viable systems for fully autonomous excavation are still in their infancy. The challenge is that performance is ... -
Subversive Intimacies: Resisting Settler Colonialism's Shallow Attachments
Gathering texts by Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists and authors, this dissertation asks, how does settler colonialism depend on disjointed and shallow attachments, and how do Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists ... -
Investigating Long-term Environmental Trends in Central Ontario Lakes Impacted by Cyanobacterial Blooms
Cyanobacterial blooms degrade water quality by increasing turbidity, causing taste and odour problems, depleting deep-water oxygen concentrations, and producing toxins – all of which can alter aquatic food webs, and ... -
The Clarity of Understanding
A platitude about understanding is that it involves grasping. But what is grasping? In this thesis, I develop a novel account of grasping that is rooted in phenomenal consciousness. According to this account, grasping is ... -
Institutional Feedback and Coalition Politics: The Case of School Choice Policies in Advanced Democracies
This dissertation seeks to identify the political forces that have driven the shift towards school choice in advanced democracies and to explain the variation in policy outcomes observable in these countries. To do so, it ... -
Time-Dependency and Long-Term Strength of Rocks - Limitations, Interpretation, and Application in Finite Difference Continuum Models
Many constitutive models have been developed to aid the engineer or scientist in the analysis of material yielding and deformations in the field of rock mechanics. Many of the classical constitutive formulations used are ...