Electronic Theses and Dissertations from 2009: Recent submissions
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Quantifying the impact of Twitter activity in political battlegrounds
(2022)It may be challenging to determine the reach of the information, how well it corresponds with the domain design, and how to utilize it as a communication medium when utilizing social media platforms, notably Twitter, to ... -
Relating and learning with other beings, materials, and weather: multispecies assemblages at a Canadian forest school
(2022)In Canada, there has been a surge in outdoor and nature-based programming for young children, such as forest schools, with interest heightening over the COVID-19 pandemic. While there are many physical, cognitive, and ... -
Attitude control of a quadrotor UAV: experimental implementation
(2022)Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming ubiquitous due to their potential benefits in many civilian and military applications. UAVs are designed to accomplish complex tasks safely and effectively, such as search and ... -
Identification of cracks in pipelines based on machine learning and deep learning
(2022)Pipelines are important long-distance transportation structures in modern industry, and because many are buried deep underground, pipeline health monitoring is critical to industry; however, inspecting underground pipelines ... -
Improving cataract surgery procedure using machine learning and thick data analysis
(2023)Cataract surgery is one of the most frequent and safe Surgical operations are done globally, with approximately 16 million surgeries conducted each year. The entire operation is carried out under microscopical ... -
Floristic composition and functional stability of black spruce-Kalmia shrub savannah
(2023)Scope: In eastern Canada, black spruce (Picea mariana)-Kalmia angustifolia forest revert into forest, or become Kalmia heath, or Kalmia-spruce shrub savannah (SS) depending on fire severity. My main research objective ... -
Identifying mental health indices among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Treaty three police service officers
(2023)Background: Police officers are essential frontline workers tasked with protecting our communities. They are susceptible to adverse mental health exposures, outcomes, and barriers to accessing supports, which may increase ... -
Growing garden-based educators
(2023)Garden-based learning (GBL) is resurging in popularity in reaction to a confluence of crises. These crises, involving social inequity, vast economic disparity, ecocide, and mass extinction, threaten human well-being and ... -
Brook Trout abundance and distribution at multiple spatial scales in Lake Superior tributaries
(2023)Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) populations and habitat conditions are adversely affected by anthropogenic impacts that could impact abundance and distribution of Brook Trout at different spatial scales. My goal was ... -
Fire performance of timer-concrete composite floor systems utilizing cross-laminated timber panels with self-tapping screws as shear connectors
(2023)One of the main reasons that hinder more utilization of combustible material, such as wood, as the primary construction material in tall buildings is the required duration a structure must withstand applied loads under ... -
Plant mixture effects on fine-root biomass and its functional traits
(2023)Fine roots play a critical role in the uptake of soil water and nutrients and make a crucial contribution to the carbon pool through their fast turnover rate and subsequent decay. Plant traitbased approach enables us to ... -
Coping motives associated with affect, anxiety, and depression after cannabis use in young adults: an ecological momentary assessment study
(2023)Background: Many young adults report engaging in cannabis use to manage their mood, or affect, and psychiatric symptoms of anxiety and depression. Previous research indicates that individuals may experience positive acute ... -
18F Radiolabeling of epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitor anti-cancer drugs for therapeutic outcome studies
(2023)Epidermal growth factor receptor is a transmembrane protein with tyrosine kinase activity that plays a vital role in the proliferation, differentiation, and survival of normal cells. When mutations in this protein occur, ... -
Autonomous surface vehicle for mechanized bathymetric surveys
(2022)This study evaluates the efficacy of an Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) constructed from inexpensive consumer off the shelf components for suitability in surface-based bathymetry of large-scale tailing impounds found ... -
Computational efficiency maximization for UAV-assisted MEC network with energy harvesting in disaster scenarios
(2023)Wireless networks are expected to provide unlimited connectivity to an increasing number of heterogeneous devices. Future wireless networks (sixth-generation (6G)) will accomplish this in three-dimensional (3D) space by ... -
Mineralogy and petrology of the Good Hope carbonatite complex, Marathon, Ontario
(2023)The Good Hope carbonatite is located northwest of Marathon, Ontario (49° 02’ N, 86° 43’ W). It occurs along the northwest margin of the Prairie Lake complex. The objectives of this research are to characterize the carbonate ... -
Detecting Crohn’s disease from high resolution endoscopy videos: the thick data approach
(2023)Detecting diseases in high resolution endoscopy videos can be done in several ways depending on the methodology for detection. One such method that has been a hot topic in the field of medical technology research is the ... -
Federated learning framework and energy disaggregation techniques for residential energy management
(2023)Residential energy use is a significant part of total power usage in developed countries. To reduce overall energy use and save funds, these countries need solutions that help them keep track of how different appliances ... -
Exploration of contrastive learning strategies toward more robust stance detection systems
(2023)Stance Detection, in general, is the task of identifying the author’s position on controversial topics. In Natural Language Processing, Stance Detection extracts the author’s attitude from the text written toward an issue ... -
Advances in operations research models used in the gold mining industry
(2023)The topic addressed in this dissertation is a set of economically important operational problems in the gold mining industry that are solved using mathematical models of operations research. More specifically, the main ...