Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Challenged by compassion: an exploration of the lived experience of compassion fatigue among Canadian nurses who worked during COVID-19
(2023)The experience of compassion fatigue is a serious challenge within caregiving professions. Scholars agree that although the symptoms of compassion fatigue are similar to burnout and secondary stress disorder, there is ... -
Enhancing biomolecule production from Bacillus velezensis PhCL using low-cost agricultural residues as feedstock and improving biomass hydrolysis through enzyme mutagenesis
(2023)Bioproduction have been considered an alternative option for obtaining useful and eco-friendly chemicals for industrial applications. Bacillus velezensis, a trending bacterium first isolated in 2005, is well-known for ... -
Fairness, engagement, and discourse analysis in AI-driven social media and healthcare
(2023)This thesis addresses the critical concerns of fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics (FATE) within the context of artificial intelligence (AI) systems applied to social media and healthcare domains. First, a ... -
Racialized Bachelor of Education students' perspectives of performative allyship in the Black Lives Matter movement
(2023)Performative allyship, also referred to as performative activism, is a non-genuine form of allyship or activism rooted in growing one’s social capital rather than raising awareness for the stated human rights issue. ... -
Multi-objective resource optimization in space-aerial-ground-sea integrated networks
(2023)Space-air-ground-sea integrated (SAGSI) networks are envisioned to connect satellite, aerial, ground, and sea networks to provide connectivity everywhere and all the time in sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, the ... -
UAVs employment in the next generation wireless communication systems
(2023)New network architectures of communication systems are required to support and connect the next generation of wireless networks. This thesis focuses on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as integral components of future ... -
Historical comparison of tea culture in China, Britain, and Japan between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries: a performative approach to ritual theory
(2023)Tea culture was transmitted from China, the country of origin, first to Japan and then to Britain. The former is a tradition steeped in Japanese history, while the latter is more recent and a function of colonialism and ... -
Structural and metamorphic control on the Borden gold deposit, Chapleau, Ontario
(2016)The Borden gold property is a multi-million-ounce deposit that is located 10 km east of Chapleau and 160 km southwest of Timmins. It occurs within the Wawa Subprovince of the Archean Superior Province. What is atypical ... -
Black girls and school disciplinary mechanisms
(2023)This study explores the disproportionate discipline of Black Girls in Ontario’s K-12 publicly funded schools. The current literature exploring racially disproportionate discipline and the school-to-prison pipeline obscures ... -
Experimental investigations on the effects of grid-screen, sand bed, and nozzle orientation on the dynamics of bubble plumes
(2023)A bubble plume is defined as a column of air that flows through a liquid ambient due to the density difference between air and the ambient liquid. Bubble plumes have been utilized in wastewater treatment and oxygen transfer ... -
PGE–Cu–Ni sulfide mineralization of the mesoproterozoic Escape intrusion, northwestern Ontario
(2023)The Escape intrusion is a tabular to bladed, mafic–ultramafic chonolith that hosts economic concentrations of PGE–Cu–Ni magmatic sulfide mineralization. The Mesoproterozoic intrusion is located about 50 km northeast of ... -
System identification and optimization of fuzzy relation matrix models based on semi-tensor product
(2021)Generally, in real-world engineering disciplines a dynamical system is nonlinear, having multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) variables, and high level parameter uncertainties. Although there are many approaches proposed ... -
Dynamic stability of an axially loaded elastically restrained column
(2023)The dynamic stability of axially loaded columns is a key problem in structural analysis, and in earthquake engineering particularly. Experience has shown that columns occasionally buckle when subject to dynamic axial ... -
Adding time-series data to enhance performance of naural language processing tasks
(2023)In the past few decades, with the explosion of information, a large number of computer scientists have devoted themselves to analyzing collected data and applying these findings to many disciplines. Natural language ... -
Indirect effects of climate change and forest fragmentation on breeding bird abundance in Ontario
(2022)From data on forest breeding bird species in the Atlas of Breeding Birds of Ontario, this thesis summarizes population changes from 1981 to 2005 and all the direct and indirect reasons that may lead to the decline of these ... -
Reference and repetition in Jeanette Winterson's novels
(2016)Jeanette Winterson’s infamous use of intertextuality and self-quotation, often dismissed as arrogance, compels her readers to locate her works within an interconnected cycle. This thesis argues that Winterson’s reference ... -
Predicting cognitive and bhavioural responses to social situations: exploring the roles of anxiety sensitivity and perfectionism
(2019)Despite their relevance to social anxiety (SA), few studies have examined the influence of perfectionism and anxiety sensitivity on SA-maintaining factors such as anticipatory and post- event processing (i.e., repetitive ... -
Characterization of CdZnTe semiconductor for applications in advanced computed tomography
(2017)Cadmium zinc telluride (CdZnTe) is currently the only single crystalline semiconductor used in direct conversion gamma-cameras since CdZnTe can operate at room temperature, unlike other materials (e.g., germanium) that ... -
Short circuit: Ontario's electrical utilities, Northern Ontario, and the metabolic rift, 1906-1998
(2017)The theory of the metabolic rift offers historians and ecologists alike a new means of exploring the relationship between humans, nature, and capital. Based on the works of Karl Marx, the theory of the metabolic rift argues ... -
Magmatic minerals of the eastern Sunda arc, Indonesia
(2023)The eastern Sunda arc is one of the most prospective Cu-Au magmatic belts in the world with four world class copper-gold porphyry deposits: Batu Hijau (1.64 Gt at 0.44% Cu, 0.35 g/t Au), Elang (2.42 Gt at 0.31% Cu, 0.33 ...