Electronic Theses and Dissertations from 2009: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
A data warehouse-oriented methodology for qualitative semi-structured web information and social networking sites' user status search
(2019)Finding most desired and useful information from the diverse information and content embedded on webpages has become more challenging due to the rapid growth of websites and webpages, dynamic changes and updates of ... -
User-centric clustering and pilot assignment in cell-free networks : a stochastic optimization approach
(2023)Current 5G networks, primarily built on the cellular massive MIMO physical layer technology, achieved significant improvement in spectral efficiency as compared to previous generations. Nevertheless, there is always an ... -
Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension in neural networks
(2023)This thesis aims to explore the potential of statistical concepts, specifically the Vapnik-Chervonenkis Dimension (VCD)[33], in optimizing neural networks. With the increasing use of neural networks in replacing human ... -
Towards a blockchain-based trustful mechanism for IoT-enabled data trading systems
(2022)Internet of Things (IoT) devices generate and collect massive amounts of IoT data. Monetizing the flood of data generated by the IoT devices has enabled the creation of IoT data trading systems where individuals and ...
