Browsing Queen's Graduate Theses and Dissertations by Subject "Validation"
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Clinical validation of the Walking Impairment Questionnaire in patients with peripheral arterial disease: defining high and low walking performance values
(2011-08-25)Objective: The validity of the Walking Impairment Questionnaire (WIQ) as a clinical tool for use by clinicians in the conservative management of patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) has not been well established. ... -
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 ... -
Impact of Depression on Co-morbid Diabetes in Primary Care
This thesis was based on three interrelated studies and offers the following contributions to the epidemiology of depression and diabetes in Canada: 1. The first study centres around a validation study to determine the ... -
A Multi-Site Evaluation of Contact-Based Anti-Stigma Programs For High School Youth
Adolescents have become an important target for contact based anti-stigma programs. Research on mental health stigma reduction in adolescents has been hindered by lack of validated measures to evaluate interventions. To ... -
Simulations and validation of an axial-flow pit turbine
The geometric design of an axial-flow pit-turbine is essential as flow separation will decrease turbine efficiency. In this thesis, steady Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) simulations were conducted with a two-equation ...