Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations from 2009 by Title
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Efficient path planning and battery management for electric vehicles
(2023)The rapid advancement in battery technology has brought electric vehicles (EVs) into reality, and the increasing adoption of autonomous electric vehicles (AEVs) has presented significant challenges. Existing research in ... -
Efficient routing algorithms in vehicular ad hoc networks
(2021)During the last decade, the research on Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) has improved exponentially in real-life scenarios to provide optimized transport network performance. It is a matter of importance that the ... -
Elastic-based multi-scale graph drawing
(2012-11-10)Graph drawing is an important information visualization technique with applications in a variety of disciplines, including VLSI design, bioinformatics, geography, and social network analysis. We present a new force-directed, ... -
Electrochemical methods and membrane bioreactor approach for wastewater treatment and water quality assessment
(2014-01-22)Severe water scarcity, high health standards, and strict disposal limits have necessitated the development of novel and robust strategies for wastewater remediation and water quality analysis at lower cost with reduced ... -
Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide on nanostructured catalysts
(2018)There is great interest in the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) to useful chemicals and fuels toward addressing the increasingly serious impacts of global climate change. The electrochemical reduction of CO2 has garnered ... -
Electroencephalographic response to a body image exposure
(2013-02-01)Body and appearance dissatisfaction have been common topics of study in psychological research. Another area of research that may have implications for these topics is that of frontal asymmetry; the greater relative activity ... -
Electrokinetic barrier and remediation with solar energy
(2012-11-10)Electrokinetics is a promising technique to prevent / minimize the migration of pollutants to the soil and/or groundwater and to remediate contaminated slurries. Electrokinetics requires a low-level direct current (dc) ... -
Electrokinetic-assisted membrane photobioreactor (EK-MPBR) for municipal wastewater treatment
(2023)Membrane technology and phycoremediation, which utilizes algae for nutrient removal, are two major emerging technologies for wastewater treatment. Membrane photobioreactors (MPBRs) integrate these technologies and provide ... -
Embodied energy assessment of building structural systems using building information modeling
(2017)As the population of the world increases, the need to develop sustainable housing has gained worldwide attention. Although buildings contribute to socio-economic development, they are also among the biggest consumers of ... -
Embodied Transformation: Tapping into the Nature of Emergent Learning
(2016)This dissertation describes a basic qualitative inquiry research study, regarding participant experiences of an emergent approach to teaching in higher education. Patterns in transformative meaning-making were a particular ... -
Emerging adults’ perceptions of their family systems: resilience and connections after the COVID-19 pandemic
(2023)Family systems can be conceptualized as complex adaptive systems consisting of intricate interconnections among family members that adapt dynamically to the environment. The COVID-19 pandemic was a chronic and persistent ... -
Emotion regulation mediates the association between HRV reactivity and relationship success
(2017)Two hundred single post-secondary students participated in a longitudinal study including online, laboratory, and speed dating components. This methodology was used to examine the link between romantic relationship ... -
Emotion regulation strategies, cognitive personality styles, and context as predictors of psychological outcomes
(2014-01-22)Emotion regulation (ER) plays a central role in the development and maintenance of a number of clinical disorders including depression. Research shows maladaptive ER strategies to be more strongly associated with symptoms ... -
Empirical recovery performance of fourier-based deterministic compressed sensing
(2014-01-22)Compressed sensing is a novel technique where one can recover sparse signals from the undersampled measurements. Mathematically, measuring an N-dimensional signal... -
Employee health and wellness : it's everyone's business / by Kelly McNabb.
(2009)The Thunder Bay District Health Unit promotes the concept of comprehensive workplace health promotion to workplaces of varying sizes throughout the district. This project contains two documents for the employer. The first ... -
Enabling community forestry in Northern Ontario
(2018)The forestry crisis that crippled the forest industry in northern Ontario in the new millennium led to a province wide forest tenure reform that created new forest governance institutions and a resurgence of a long-standing ... -
Enabling the Wild Child: Measuring Child Sense of Place and Connectivity to Nature in Relation to a Park Experience
(2016)Nature-deficit disorder is a condition termed by Richard Louv in 2005 to account for the disconnect from nature experienced by individuals, families, and communities in the developed world (particularly in a North American ... -
Energy-efficient electronic health monitoring system with wireless body area networks
(2022)Recent evolution and technological advancement in wireless communications and micro electronics have enabled enhanced research trends toward wireless body area networks (WBANs). This emerging new field of research ... -
Engaging multiple representations in grade eight: exploring mathematics teachers' perspectives and instructional practices in Canada and Nigeria
(2020)This study was inspired by and utilises representations, one of the mathematical learning processes (NCTM, 2000), which is currently acclaimed as one of the reform-based instructional approaches to teaching and learning ... -
Engineering fungi for boosting cellulase production and its potential industrial application
(2013-02-03)Bioconversion of lignocellulosic residues is initiated primarily by microorganisms such as fungi and bacteria which are capable of degrading lignocellulolytic materials. Fungi produce large amounts of extracellular ...