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Adaptive engagement of older adults’ fitness through gamification
(2017-07-01)
Older adults are often not physically active because they lack motivation, time, and/or physical ability. Not only does this impact the life of older adults, but it also affects society as a whole, because the cost of ...
Examining swim bladder inflation failure as a toxicological endpoint in Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes)
(2017-11-01)
Inadequate swim bladder inflation, while not being lethal itself, can have serious long-term effects on fish populations. Many environmental contaminants can inhibit swim bladder inflation of larval fish. Understanding how ...
Exploring game analytics solutions for data-driven user research in indie studios
(2017-08-01)
User research methodologies can be applied to games for the purposes of evaluating and improving them. Performing user testing during game development can highlight issues in gameplay early on, generally improving the end ...
Assessing the use of DNA expert evidence, by justice system participants, in Ontario criminal courts
(2017-08-01)
What happens to forensic DNA opinion evidence when the expert witness is not present in the courtroom? Research addressing this issue has largely been focused on polling lawyers regarding their perceptions of DNA evidence, ...
Towards secure and privacy preserving e-health data exchanges through consent based access control
(2017-09-01)
How we administer healthcare continues to evolve alongside the advancement of information technology. As we become more connected, the Internet of Things and our want to share information in a timely manner encourage us ...
Component-based modeling for Android application testing
(2017-04-01)
The rising popularity of Android and the component-based structure of its apps have
motivated the need for automated model-based testing techniques on Android plat-
form. Prior researches have primarily focused on the ...
An adaptive crowdsourced investigation of word abbreviation techniques for text visualizations
(2017-04-01)
A known problem in information visualization labeling is when the text is too long to fit
in the label space. There are some common known techniques used in order to solve this
problem like setting a very small font size. ...
Modeling mobility patterns
(2017-11-01)
This work focuses on analysis and model generation for user mobility patterns given a sequence of observed WiFi signals. Built on the Android platform, the data collection mobile application gathers WiFi sensor readings ...
Polymer translocation: a nonequilibrium process
(2017-04-07)
3D Langevin dynamics simulations of the capture and translocation of polymers
through a nanopore are conducted for several polymer lengths and two
different Péclet values (that quantify the drift-diffusion balance of the ...
The transcription factor, fixK, plays a central role in carbon source metabolism and cellulose synthesis in Komagataeibacter species
(2017-07-01)
Komagataeibacter xylinus ATCC 53582 and K. hansenii ATCC 23769 are model bacterial cellulose producers. This thesis investigated both carbon source utilization and the role that a Crp/Fnr transcription factor, FixK, plays ...