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Study of fuzzy logic in safety and control systems in nuclear power plants
(2016-03-01)
Safety and control systems in Nuclear Power Plants are essentially run without intelligent systems. As nuclear industry starts to become more advanced and vendors are starting to manufacture more advance products, old ...
Specifics of forced-convection heat transfer to supercritical water flowing upward in annular and bundle flow geometries
(2016-08-01)
Since annulus- and bundle-flow geometries impede coolant flow, heat transfer to the coolant would occur differently than in bare tubes. The main objective of this work is to propose and verity a universal method to accurately ...
Design of a fault tolerant control scheme based on sliding mode for Canadian supercritical water reactor
(2016-08-01)
Canadian Super Critical Water Reactor (SCWR) is one of the Generation IV reactor types and possible heat source for co-hydrogen production through copper chlorine thermochemical cycle. To maintain the balance between the ...
An investigation of adolescent girls’ critical media health literacy in a body-positive program
(2016-01-01)
This Master’s thesis describes a research study that examines media artifacts created by 26 adolescent girls participating in a four-week body-positive program. Employing a qualitative case study method, this study explores ...
Virtual communities of practice in simulation-based healthcare education: participation factors and content value assessment
(2016-01-01)
This study is the first known formative analysis of simulation-based healthcare education virtual communities of practice (VCoPs). The goal of this study was to analyse the frequency of participation, factors that influence ...
GURB : the game user research blueprint
(2016-08-01)
With the rise of new platforms, distribution and crowdfunding services, the game
industry is facing fast changes and advances in technology. Game development
studios are under more pressure to create successful games due ...
Understanding and predicting method-level source code changes using commit history data
(2016-10-01)
Software development and software maintenance require a large amount of source
code changes to be made to a software repositories. Any change to a repository can
introduce new resource needs which will cost more time and ...
Ethylene response and phytohormone-mediated regulation of gene expression in Komagataeibacter xylinus ATCC 53582
(2016-04-01)
Komagataeibacter xylinus ATCC 53582 is a fruit-associated, cellulose-producing bacterium that responds to and synthesizes phytohormones. This thesis elaborates on the ecophysiology of K. xylinus. Responses to indole-3-acetic ...
Direct Brønsted acid-catalyzed functionalization of benzhydryl alcohols and 2-ethoxytetrahydrofuran using potassium trifluoroborate salts
(2016-06-01)
Metal-free transformations of organotrifluoroborates are advantageous since they avoid using frequently expensive and sensitive transition metals. Lewis acid-catalyzed reactions involving organotrifluoroborates have emerged ...
Trust-based framework for information sharing in health care
(2016-10-01)
The use of information systems in the health care area specifically in Mobile health
care, can result in delivering high quality and efficient patient care. At the same
time, using electronic systems for sharing information ...