Doctoral Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Towards measuring privacy
(2015-04-01)The acceptable threshold for privacy is an individual choice, informed by culture, tradition and experience. That it is important, conversely, is self-evident. We use it to moderate personal information disclosure, how ... -
On the potential of intent-based access control (IBAC) in preventing insider threats
(2015-11-01)Existing access control mechanisms are based on the concepts of identity enrollment and recognition, and assume that recognized identity is synonymous with ethical actions. However, statistics over the years show that the ... -
Dynamic square patterns in two dimensional neural fields
(2015-07-29)The goal of this thesis is to study the emergence of spatiotemporal waves in neural field models. Neural field models aim to describe the activity of populations of neurons at a mesoscopic scale, considering averaged ... -
Effects of dietary fermentable material on innate and adaptive immune measures in male and female rats under resting and immunized conditions
(2015-02-01)Sex-based differences in immune parameters are well recognized, and recent evidence suggests differences in microbiota composition between sexes, necessitating assessment of effects of dietary fermentable material (DFM) ... -
Dynamic probabilistic network protection in large-scale failure scenarios
(2015-01-01)Large-scale failure resulting from natural disasters or intentional attacks is now considered a serious risk for communication network infrastructure. In these events, simultaneous damages in several links and nodes may ... -
CORE: a framework for the automatic repair of concurrency bugs
(2015-01-01)Desktop computers now contain 2, 4 or even 8 processors. To benefit from them programs must be written to work in parallel. If writing good code is hard, writing good parallel code is much harder. Parallelization adds ... -
Forward genetic analysis of cellulose biosynthesis inhibitor resistance and wall hydrolysis sensitivity.
(2014-09-01)The functional analysis of components involved in cellulose biosynthesis is central in understanding cell wall assembly and structure in plants. We conducted screens using the herbicides, isoxaben and flupoxam which inhibit ... -
Elucidation of the lipid degradation process in soft tissue and fluid during decomposition, in the presence and absence of insects.
(2014-08-01)Decomposition has been extensively studied in the presence of insects, however the process in the absence of insects has been considerably less documented. In this study, the decomposition process was compared between ... -
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 ... -
The synthesis and in vitro evaluation of siRNAs modified at the backbone with a novel triazole-based internucleotide linkage and abasic alkyl-chain linkages of varying length
(2013-04-01)For over a decade, the use of double-stranded short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) to silence the expression of genes associated with disease at the translational level has gained much attention. Using a highly conserved ... -
Analysis of the volatile organic compounds produced by the decomposition of pig carcasses and human remains
(2013-03-01)Complex processes of decomposition produce a variety of chemicals as soft tissues and their component parts are degraded. Among others, these decomposition by-products include volatile organic compounds (VOCs) responsible ...