Browsing Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies by Title
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Design, performance, and economic evaluation of grid-connected renewable power generation system for Iqaluit community
(2022-08-01)The high demand for clean and green energy is due to the rise in global temperature as the climate is affected using fossil fuel for energy generation in the arctic region. Nunavut is rich in renewable resources like wind ... -
Designing a framework for an online collaborative grant writing course in international development: a review of the literature and grant writing resources
(2022-08-01)The purpose of this study was to review the literature and to develop a comprehensive framework for designing an online collaborative grant writing course for professionals in international development. A systematic approach ... -
Designing power aware wireless sensor networks leveraging software modeling techniques
(2014-03-01)Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are typically used to monitor specific phenomena and gather the data to a gateway node, where the data is further processed. WSNs nodes have limited power resources, which require developing ... -
Detecting and preventing the electronic transmission of illicit images
(2009-04-01)The sexual exploitation of children remains a very serious problem and is rapidly increasing globally through the use of the Internet. This work focuses on the current methods employed by criminals to generate and distribute ... -
Detecting deception in second-language speakers
(2011-04-01)It is currently unknown how lie detection accuracy is affected when someone is speaking in his or her second language. We examined whether language proficiency had an impact on lie detection. We hypothesized that when ... -
Detecting road boundaries and drivable regions in challenging weather conditions
(2022-02-01)Road detection is a core component of self-driving vehicle perception, where it covers detecting road boundaries and drivable road regions. It can also help human drivers to drive safely in lower visibility. The majority ... -
Detecting vulnerabilities of broadcast receivers in Android applications
(2016-01-01)As being a representative mobile operating system in the world, Android OS has been part of users' daily life. Unfortunately, the rapid expansion of Android third-markets introduces malware aiming at Android applications ... -
Detection of covert channel communications based on intentionally corrupted frame check sequences
(2011-07-01)This thesis presents the establishment of a covert-channel in wireless networks in the form of frames with intentionally corrupted Frame Check Sequences (FCSs). Previous works had alluded to the possibility of using this ... -
Detection of gasoline from internal tissues for use in determining victim status at the time of a fire
(2012-08-01)In Ontario, fire investigators from the Office of the Fire Marshal (OFM) are responsible for determining the origin and cause of suspicious fires. As part of the investigation, fire debris samples are collected from the ... -
Detection of side-channel communication in a mobile ad-hoc network environment using the Hamming distance metric
(2015-06-01)Side-Channel communication is a form of traffic in which malicious parties communicate secretly over a wireless network. This is often established through the modification of Ethernet frame header fields, such as the Frame ... -
Detector integration of severe accident management instrumentation for robotic applications at nuclear reactor facilities
(2021-08-01)In the aftermath of a nuclear accident, robots can be used to monitor and assess radiological contamination, preventing harmful exposure to plant personnel. In this work, several detectors were evaluated to be supplemented ... -
Detector positioning in a field-deployable limited-angle gamma ray emission tomography system
(2023-08-01)Imaging techniques have been part of the medical and industrial fields for more than a century due to their simple use in the inspection of internal parameters without sample damage. These methods take advantage of the ... -
Determinants of health care needs in relation to vision correction among adolescents in the United Arab Emirates: a cross-sectional study
(2023-05-01)Uncorrected refractive error (URE) has been suggested to affect children’s development, educational performance, and socialization. Sociodemographic and environmental differences among individuals may impact their accessibility ... -
Determining fuzzy link quality membership functions in wireless sensor networks
(2014-04-01)Wireless Sensor Network routing protocols rely on the estimation of the quality of the links between nodes to determine a suitable path from the data source nodes to a data-collecting node. Several link estimators have ... -
Determining optimal flight paths for cellular network connectivity for the transmission of real-time physiological data in support of big data analytics during airborne critical care transport
(2017-02-01)This thesis presents a methodology for determining the optimal flight paths between two geographical points based on distance and cellular reception over the path. This methodology consists of two main concepts: coverage ... -
Determining the differences in effect of chromate, chromite and chromium picolinate in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) at environmentally relevant concentrations
(2021-11-01)The Ring of Fire is a region in the James Bay Lowlands of northern Ontario that houses a rich deposit of chromite and is slated for mining development. The goals of this study were to better understand the relative effects ... -
Determining the effectiveness of nuclear security through computer simulation
(2015-09-01)There is a growing concern from both national regulators and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about the threat posed by attacks against iconic targets such as nuclear power plants. This has led to an increased ... -
Determining the effects of harmful algae blooms and their toxins on fish from both environment and laboratory-based studies through the use of proteomics
(2021-01-01)The effects of harmful algae blooms (HABs) on wild, freshwater, large-bodied fish have been under examined. Blood samples were collected from fish in Hamilton Harbor and Lake Erie to assess the effects of HABs on a molecular ... -
Determining the impact of carrion decomposition on soil microbial activity levels and community composition.
(2013-12-01)The ubiquitous nature of microorganisms and their specificity to certain locations make them potentially useful for forensic investigators. Advances in microbial profiling techniques have made it possible to compare microbial ... -
Developing 1-D heat transfer correlations for supercritical water and carbon dioxide in vertical tubes
(2014-03-01)Taking into account the expected increase in global energy demands and increasing climate change issues, there is a pressing need to develop new environmentally sustainable energy systems. Nuclear energy will play a major ...