Browsing Master Theses & Projects by Title
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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 ... -
Kill switch design pattern for microservice architectures on internet of things devices
(2020-12-01)Containers and virtual machines are being adopted to develop embedded Linux Internet-of-Things applications. Consumer Internet-of-Things devices have been notoriously insecure due to loss of continued software support. To ... -
A location privacy model and framework for mobile toy computing
(2015-08-01)Many toys on the market are becoming integrated with the sensory and networking capabilities of mobile technology. Toy computing is an emerging area of research with the characteristics of physical computing, services ... -
A low-fidelity serious game authoring tool and educational network to facilitate medical-based cultural competence education
(2015-12-01)Here I present Fydlyty, a web-based, low-fidelity serious game for medical-based cultural competence education and training. Fydlyty includes a scenario editor and dialogue editor which has the ability to build conversations, ... -
Magic Pen: automatic pen-mode switching for document annotation
(2022-08-01)Traditional digital pen interfaces use menu buttons to change pen modes, resulting in time and cognitive load spent on round-trips and potential errors from tapping small mode selection buttons. This thesis presents Magic ... -
Managing developer interruption
(2018-12-01)The high frequency of interruptions during cognitively-intense activities can be annoying and detrimental to deadline-driven work, such as software development. When developers are interrupted they not only lose productivity ... -
Mass transport in the cathode electrode of a molten carbonate fuel cell
(2009-04-01)A molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC) is an electro-chemical energy conversion technology that runs on natural gas and employs a molten salt electrolyte. In order to keep the electrolyte in this state, the cell must be kept ... -
Material properties and mechanical behaviour of large-scale additively manufactured multi-layered steels
(2020-03-01)Metal Big Area Additive Manufacturing is an additive manufacturing technique based on gas metal arc welding. The systems’ dual nozzle design prints two steels simultaneously; in this study, the test samples are made from ... -
Mathematical methods for 2D-3D cardiac image registration
(2016-12-01)We propose a mathematical formulation aimed at intensity-based slice-to-volume registration, aligning a cross-sectional slice of a 3D volume to a 2D image. The approach is flexible and can accommodate various regularization ... -
Mathematical modelling of the plunger pump operation with numerical methods for simulating the flow across the valve
(2011-12-01)Plunger pumps are needed for heavy duty sludge pumping at wastewater treatment facilities. America's leading pump manufacturer Wastecorp Inc. brought their plunger pump problem to us in late 2009. It was found that when ... -
A matrix-free numerical bifurcation method applied to sheared annular electroconvection
(2015-08-01)We investigate the flow transitions in sheared annular electroconvection using matrix-free numerical bifurcation methods. In particular, we study a model that simulates a liquid crystal film in the Smectic A phase suspended ... -
MAVIDS: an intelligent intrusion detection system for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles
(2021-07-01)Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) face a large threat landscape, being used in numerous industries in hostile environments while relying on wireless communication. As attacks against UAVs increase, an intelligent Intrusion ... -
Metabifurcation analysis of a phenomenological ventricular cell model
(2018-08-01)Heart disease is the leading cause of death in America, and arrhythmia is considered one of the most important precursors of heart attacks. We cannot predict arrhythmia directly; however, it has been shown that cardiac ... -
Metabolic, neurotoxic and immunotoxic effects of PFAAs and their mixtures on the proteome of plasma and head kidney from rainbow trout
(2023-03-01)PFAAs (Perfluoroalkyl acids) are a class of bioaccumulative, persistent and ubiquitous aquatic contaminants. A paucity of toxicological information exists for short chain PFAAs and PFAA mixtures. In order to address these ...