Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Student-teacher relationships and their perceived impact on learning and motivation
(2021)The purpose of this study was to explore student perceptions specifically connected to student views of their relationships with teachers and the impact these relationships have on student learning and motivation. There ... -
Ku band rotary traveling-wave voltage controlled oscillator
(2021)Voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) plays a key role in determination of the link budget of wireless communication, and consequently the performance of the transceiver. Lowering the noise contribution from the VCO to the ... -
Seismic performance evaluation of reinforced concrete bridge piers considering postearthquake capacity degradation
(2021)Bridges play a key role in the transportation sector while serving as lifelines for the economy and safety of communities. The need for resilient bridges is especially important following natural disasters, where they ... -
An enhanced Teager Huang transform technique for bearing fault detection
(2021)Rolling element bearings are widely used in rotating machinery. Bearing health condition monitoring plays a vital role in predictive maintenance to recognize bearing faults at an early stage to prevent machinery performance ... -
Macrobotanical and zooarchaeological examination of the macgillivray site (DbJm-3): a woodland period habitation in Northwestern Ontario
(2021)The Macgillivray site (DbJm-3) is located on an island in Whitefish Lake, approximately 50 km southwest of Thunder Bay, Ontario in the central Canadian Boreal Forest ecozone. Indigenous people have lived in this area for ... -
Recovering the proteome of archived biomedical specimens
(2021)While several proteomic studies have undertaken the challenge of analyzing formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue, few have developed optimized protocols for studying FFPE human brain tissue. This study will ... -
Optimization of the process for sol-gel derived ZnO:Al thin films for transparent conducting oxide applications
(2021)Transparent and conducting Al-doped ZnO thin films with c-axis-preferred orientation were prepared on glass substrate via sol-gel route. The physical, optical and electrical properties were investigated to determine an ... -
Understanding the extent of polypharmacy and its impact on outcomes among persons with cancer and multimorbidity
(2021)Cancer often co-occurs with other chronic conditions, and despite the high prevalence of multimorbidity (MMB) in this group, conditions are often treated individually, resulting in multiple prescriptions. Polypharmacy ... -
Enhanced hydrolysis of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics by ozone and ultrasound pretreatment
(2021)The rapidly accumulating post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics pose a great threat to our environment as they constitute one of the most used products in our day-to-day life. As a result, degradation ... -
Medical workflow design and planning using Node-Red data fusion
(2021)The space of clinical planning requires a complex arrangement of information, often not capable of being captured in a singular dataset. As a result, data fusion techniques can be used to combine multiple data sources ... -
Multi-advisor deep reinforcement learning for smart home energy control
(2021)Effective automated smart home control is essential for smart-grid enabled approaches to demand response, named in the literature as automated demand response. At it’s heart, this is a multi-objective adaptive control ... -
Microbial production of value-added products from wood hemicellulose prehydrolysate
(2020)Hemicellulose, the second most abundant polymer in nature, has the great potential to be used for the production of biochemicals under the concept of biorefining. As hemicellulose is watersoluble, it can also be easily ... -
The witch : a pedagogy of immanence
(2021)This thesis examines three key texts which serve as a means of exploring the process of reclamation, of delving into a process of reconstruction of Indigenous identity but also of social identity within a philosophical ... -
Design, development and usability evaluation of social system interface and development of computational model
(2021)In recent times, methods of computational intelligence (CI) that aim to solve real-life problems are developed by computer science researchers in collaboration with domain experts. There has also been an increased emphasis ... -
Design of a beam-steerable microstrip line based leaky wave antenna using uniaxial field programmable microwave substrate (FPMS)
(2021)The ever-growing wireless technologies of today are pushing the limits of the state-of-the-art radio frequency (RF) components design. One special requirement which is widely needed in modern applications is for the RF ... -
Adaptive steady-state analysis of circuits using wavelets
(2021)This thesis presents research into utilizing the sparse representations of waveforms that are possible in the wavelet domain to increase the computational efficiency of the steady-state analysis of electric circuits. The ... -
Toward lightweight fusion of AI logic and EEG sensors to enable ultra edge-based EEG analytics on IoT devices
(2021)Electroencephalogram (EEG) analysis has garnered attention in the research domain due to its ability to detect various neural activities starting from brain seizures to a person’s concentration level. To make it more ... -
Reconciliation through metissage in higher education
(2021)As a result of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015) and its Calls to Action for education, many universities are working to design culturally appropriate curricula and to “Indigenize” their ... -
Multi-NFP utilization in the fifth generation and beyond systems
Over the past few years, wireless communication needs have experienced continuous growth. There is now a great demand for more sophisticated infrastructure to cope with the fifth generation and beyond (5G+) systems. 5G+ ... -
Studies on cultivation, cell wall development, and gene analysis of marine microalgae pleurochrysis carterae and isochrysis zhanjiangensis
(2021)In last decade, the mankind has been intensively facing the climate changes in the whole world, because the demand for fuel and greenhouse gas emissions isincreasing dramatically, especially the amount of carbon dioxide. ...