Success in ice hockey depends on an individual’s ability to accelerate from a standing start or change direction and continue skating quickly and efficiently. Previous research to determine those factors which had the ...

The sequential simplex method (SSM) was blended with the Nelder and Mead method to create two separate simplex methods. The first method is the Equilateral Optimum Following Simplex (EOFS). In this method, the simplex ...

This study examines the factors that influence Ontario teachers’ decisions to teach outside Canada. Deciding factors were derived from previous studies related to career choice and career change and involved concepts ...

This thesis addresses the issue of Web Service search. This thesis focuses on solving the problem of searching for Web Services which are associated with relatively similar datasources. It attempts to overcome the search ...

The photovoltage produced by a Schottky barrier photocell shows a strong temperature dependence if the barrier is not too large. We have used this temperature dependence to obtain the barrier height for several ...

An efficient method for calculation of the exciton states in type-I superlattices is developed and demonstrated. The model, based on the work of Dignam & Sipe [Phys. Rev. B 43,4097 (1991)], includes bound and quasi-continuous ...

The molecular diagnosis of genetic disease is of great importance to the field of medicine and medical research. Though many rare inherited diseases have been described in the medical literature, the inheritance pattern ...

The primary objective o f this thesis is to examine the ways in which the ordinary lives that Carol Shields describes in her fiction are transformed into extraordinary narratives. I will use three of Shields’ novels as ...

It has been shown that there is a dyadic effect in regard to self-disclosure. This dyadic effect refers to the fact that the more one says about one's self the more another person is likely to say about their self. Two ...