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Interfaces for alternatives, difference visualizations and collaborative authoring of behavior trees
(2020-12-01)A visual behavior authoring framework for exploring and comparing multiple game AI behavior alternatives is presented. A mixed method study revealed participants rated it higher compared to the control framework. Mostly ... -
Investigating proteomic profiles of rainbow trout (oncorhynchus mykiss) kidney and liver tissues exposed to low concentrations of waterborne nickel
(2023-08-01)Nickel has become a component of natural freshwater that may pose serious ecological risks to aquatic wildlife. Due to Canada’s significant presence in producing and exporting nickel, the country has the opportunity to ... -
Investigating proteomic profiles of skin mucus and blood plasma of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) exposed to low concentrations of waterborne nickel
(2022-08-01)The Ontario Ring of Fire located in the James Bay Lowlands is a nickel rich ore with ongoing mining proposals. This raises the possibility of nickel contamination in one of Ontario’s most precious freshwater regions and ... -
Investigating the distribution of Nitellopsis obtusa in Ontario Lakes and its role as an ecosystem engineer
(2021-08-01)Nitellopsis obtusa is a non-native macrophyte introduced into the Laurentian Great Lakes in 1974. Over the last decade, increasing reports emerged for N. obtusa within lakes in the Great Lakes Basin. Despite N. obtusa being ... -
Investigation into potential Dirofilaria immitis drug targets through rational anthelmintic synthesis and design
(2022-04-01)Dirofilaria immitis is a mosquito-transmitted parasitic nematode that can cause debilitating disease in dogs. D. immitis is present in Canada and over the years has increased in prevalence due to several factors including ... -
Investigation into smoothed particle hydrodynamics for non-newtonian droplet modelling
(2011-08-01)Droplet splatter dynamics is an important study in the field of forensics since a crime event can produce many blood stains. Understanding the origins of the blood stains from pure observations is very difficult because ... -
Investigation into the role of binding loop E on the function of the nematode cys-loop GABA receptor.
(2014-12-01)Haemonchus contortus is a parasitic nematode that infects the abomasum of ruminants. While several classes of anthelmintic drugs exist to control nematode infections, H. contortus is resistant to all of them. Therefore, ... -
An investigation into the use of ConvNext within IICS/IIDS framework for person Re-ID
(2023-05-01)In this thesis, we explore the integration of ConvNeXt, a CNN-based network inspired by vision transformers, into the Intra and Inter Camera Similarity (IICS) and Intra and Inter Domain Similarity (IIDS) frameworks for ... -
Investigation of an alternative sulfonated silane in ceramic carbon electrodes for fuel cell applications
(2015-09-01)The fabrication of an ideal electrode material for fuel cell application that can maintain an optimal water content in both low and high relative humidity (RH) conditions has been studied by many research groups. Previous ... -
Investigation of dye-sensitized solar cell performance with single chirality semiconducting carbon nanotubes
(2015-03-01)In this work, the performance, electrical transport, and optical properties of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) assembled with single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) of a single chirality in the photoanode were ... -
Investigation of KimiaNet's and DenseNet's deep features in lung cancer subtypes
(2020-12-01)Deep neural networks (DNN) have extended applications in the _eld of digital pathology. One of which is to act as feature extractors for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate ... -
An investigation of land-use impacts on water quality and algal communities in the Nottawasaga River and low-order streams of the Nottawasaga Valley Watershed
(2016-07-01)The Nottawasaga Valley Watershed (NVW) is a large catchment south of Georgian Bay that drains a primarily agricultural region including one of the largest wetland complexes in Southern Ontario, the Minesing Wetlands (MW). ... -
An investigation of land-use impacts on water quality and phytoplankton communities of the Vermilion River and major tributaries, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
(2015-12-01)The Vermilion River and major tributaries (VRMT) receive numerous inputs from point and non-point sources along their continuum. In addition to these inputs from the surrounding landscape, a hydroelectric impoundment and ... -
An investigation of semantic patterns in passwords
(2013-08-01)The advent of large password leaks in recent years has exposed the security problems of passwords and enabled deeper empirical investigation of password patterns. Researchers have only touched the surface of patterns in ... -
Isolation and partial characterization of three acetylcholine-gated chloride channels in Haemonchus contortus
(2017-01-01)Haemonchus contortus is a parasitic nematode infecting ruminants causing anemia and poor health due to the parasite’s blood-feeding nature. The ability to manage infection has been confounded by the rapid development of ... -
Isolation and partial characterization of three members of the GGR-1 family in the parasitic nematode Haemonchus contortus
(2019-08-01)Haemonchus contortus is a blood sucking parasitic nematode that infects ruminant animals. These parasites are of significant economic importance as they are estimated to cost the agricultural industry billions of dollars ... -
Java lock contention antipatterns and their detection within Java code
(2023-04-01)Java Based Multithreaded programs are used in a wide variety of applications and consequently many developers are required to create code designed for synchronized environments. However, finding problems in synchronized ... -
Joint position estimation, packet routing and sleep scheduling in wireless sensor networks
(2017-08-01)Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is an important research field in Computer Science with applications that span multiple domains. Due to the limitation of sensor nodes, network lifetime is a critical issue that needs to be ... -
Joint spatial and layer attention for convolutional networks
(2019-05-01)In this work, we propose a novel approach that learns to sequentially attend to different Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) layers (i.e., “what” feature abstraction to attend to) and different spatial locations of the ... -
JoVA-hinge: joint variational autoencoders for personalized recommendation with implicit feedback
(2020-12-01)Recently, Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have shown remarkable performance in collaborative filtering (CF) with implicit feedback. These existing recommendation models learn user representations to reconstruct or predict ...