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The meaning of murder: newspaper framing of hate crimes against lesbians.
(2014-08-01)
The overall purpose of this study is to assess the representations of lesbians within United States news print media to examine the effect these representations can have on societal level ideologies. Using two separate ...
Characterization of two component systems of Acinetobacter baumannii.
(2014-10-01)
Acinetobacter baumannii is an important opportunistic pathogen of hospital acquired infection, particularly in intensive care units. The emergence and rapid spread of multidrug-resistant A. baumannii strains has become a ...
An applied comparison of eyewitness lineup procedures: New Jersey v. England and Wales' PACE v. New York.
(2014-07-01)
In response to the growing recognition of wrongful conviction and the role that mistaken identification (ID) plays in these miscarriages of justice, some countries, states, and police departments have developed new guidelines ...
Teenage serial homicide offenders: a typology.
(2014-12-01)
Although serial homicide literature covers a variety of serial homicide offender classifications, to date, there has been a limited amount of research conducted on teenage serial homicide. Only two studies have attempted ...
A negotiation protocol with conditional offers for camera handoffs.
(2014-10-01)
This thesis explores the idea of conditional offers during camera handoff negotiations. In a
departure from contract-net inspired negotiation models that have been proposed for camera
handoffs, the current scheme assumes ...
Milking anomie: experiencing food safety on Canadian dairy farms
(2014-04-01)
The developing discipline of Food Crime requires the analysis of food safety responsibility from a critical structural perspective. Analyzing the Canadian dairy industry, this project seeks to answer how the legal definition ...
A framework for video-driven crowd synthesis.
(2014-09-01)
We present a framework for video-driven crowd synthesis. The proposed framework
employs motion analysis techniques to extract inter-frame motion vectors from the exemplar
crowd videos. Motion vectors collected over the ...
Examing the effects of apology and compensation on participants' perceptions of exonerees.
(2014-08-01)
Research suggests that exonerees experience stigma post-incarceration that causes reintegration
difficulties (Westervelt & Cook, 2010). Using Weiner’s (1993) theory of social motivation, we
investigated whether apology or ...
Behavioural and neurophysiological measures of haptic feedback during a drilling simulation
(2019-08-01)
Virtual environments (VEs) and computer-generated simulations are becoming more prevalent as tools for education, rehabilitation, and training purposes. As technology enhances the quality and quantity of human-machine ...
Enhancement of lateral stability of car-trailer systems using model-reference adaptive control
(2019-12-01)
Car-Trailer (CT) systems exhibit reduced maneuverability in curved-path negotiations and display low lateral stability under high-speed evasive maneuvers. Therefore, the objective of this thesis is to design a Lyapunov-S ...