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Informal STEM Education for Underrepresented Racial Minorities: Students’ Perceptions of the Imhotep’s Legacy Academy After-school Programme
(2016-01-05)
This study explores students' perceptions of the Imhotep's Legacy Academy After-School
Project (ILASP), an after-school STEM programme offered to Nova Scotian students of African descent. A sequential explanatory mixed-methods ...
A Novel DTFC Based Efficiency and Dynamic Performance Improvement of IPMSM Drive
(2016)
With the advancements in magnetic materials and semiconductor technology, permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) is becoming more and more popular in high power industrial applications due to its high energy density, ...
Low Temperature Epitaxial Growths of III-Nitride Semiconductors on ITO Glass Substrates
(2016)
Chapter 1 serves as an introduction to the electronic, optical and physical properties of the nitride material system that have made it a heavily researched group of semiconductors. The need for heteroepitaxy and various ...
Examining the Role of Ascorbic Acid in Prevention of Heterotopic Ossification
(2016)
Heterotopic ossification (HO) is a condition in which mature bone forms in a non-osseous tissue
following extreme trauma such as injury or surgery (1]. It is thought that a particular cell type
known as mesenchymal ...
Improved Sentiment Classification by Multi-model Fusion
(2016)
Sentiment Analysis (SA), also Opinion Mining, is a sub-field of Data Mining. It aims at studying and analyzing human’s sentiments, opinions, emotions or attitudes through their written text. Since all sentiment information ...
Bioremediation of contaminated soils from mine sites using native plants in Northwestern Ontario
(2016)
Practical and scientific importance can be found in this research topic since the results directly apply to remediation of industrial and mined lands in the boreal forest region. Plants suitable for phytostabilization of ...
Managing Canada's Park Systems: Exploring Aboriginal Involvement in Canadian National Parks
(2016-01-05)
In recent years attempts have been made to bridge Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal interests in the management of Canadian federal parks. In part this reflects increasing recognition of Aboriginal rights to lands and resources, ...
Comparing the spatial pattern of fire and harvest disturbance in boreal Ontario watersheds
(2016)
Fire and harvest are both major sources of disturbance in Ontario’s boreal forest.
They are largely responsible for successional patterns in forest vegetation, and influence
regimes of hydrologic change in boreal streams, ...
A mechanism for simplified scanner control with application to MRI-guided interventions
(2016)
Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI)-guided interventions involving percutaneous biopsies of
lesions, or trajectory alignment with prospective stereotaxy are conducted in real time using rapid
image acquisition. A mechanism ...
An exploration of university students' experiences with depression
(2016)
This thesis explores how university students have experienced depression during their life in an attempt to develop a greater understanding of current mental health issues. Links between depression and schooling were also ...