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Development of thermodynamic cycles for sodium-cooled-fast reactors.
(2013-12-01)
Currently, one engineering challenge is designing Generation IV (GEN-IV) Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) with significantly higher thermal efficiencies compared to current NPPs, and to match, or at least to be close to, the ...
Petri net modeling of fault analysis for probabilistic risk assessment
(2013-04-01)
Fault trees and event trees have been widely accepted as the modeling strategy to perform Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA). However, there are several limitations associated with fault tree/event tree modeling. These ...
Development of energy compensated Geiger Muller detector based on the T2416A Canberra Co. GM detector
(2013-07-08)
Geiger Muller counters have been a fundamental device in radiation detection for decades due to their simplicity and low cost. Canberra Company has been designing and manufacturing Geiger Muller detectors in various designs ...
Simulation of dynamic response of Self-Powered-Inconel-Neutron-Detector lead cables using a semi-empirical model
(2013-11-01)
The work presented here was devoted to the modelling and simulation of the dynamic response of lead cables of Inconel self-powered neutron detectors in a CANDUpower reactor. The main goal was to develop a semi-empirical ...
Experimental and theoretical investigations of a new integrated solar tower system for photocatalytic hydrogen and power production
(2013-08-01)
Solar energy conversion via photocatalytic hydrogen production from water is an attractive route for the propagation of a hydrogen economy. Increasing the efficiency of such systems to meet the target of 10% is essential ...
An interactive and context-driven approach to mobile decision support services
(2013-08-01)
This thesis introduces a new approach to service sophistication where the users with no
prior knowledge about a public domain's list of services can conveniently and e ectively
use those services in companion with complementary ...
Development, analysis and life cycle assessment of integrated systems for hydrogen production based on the copper-chlorine (Cu-Cl) cycle
(2013-08-01)
The energy carrier hydrogen is expected to help solve many energy challenges we are facing today. Thermochemical water splitting using a Cu-Cl cycle, linked with renewable energy sources and/or the Generation IV nuclear ...
Compressive sensing based non-destructive testing using ultrasonic arrays.
(2013-08-01)
In this thesis, we apply compressive sensing approach and the notion of sparse signal
recovery to the non-destructive testing application, using ultrasonic arrays. In many
signal processing applications including array ...
Data mining occurrences of infectious diseases with SNOMED CT
(2013-05-01)
Synonyms within SNOMED CT’s structure give meaning to the clinical terminology.
The hypothesis in this thesis is that the number of synonyms of a disease within SNOMED
CT can be used to predict the number of occurrences ...
A pre-post study of patient journey modeling as a change management tool to increase clinician acceptance of EHRs.
(2013-12-01)
The purpose of this research was to determine if patient journey process modeling could
act as a change management tool to support electronic health record (EHR) adoption, at a
tertiary-care mental health centre. This ...