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Spring 2011

Moosavi Nanehkaran, Seyed Abdol Hadi

This study presents the nonlinear design of a state space controller to control hydraulic actuators under displacement control, specifically for real-time pseudo-dynamic testing applications. The proposed control design process uses the nonlinear state space model of the dynamics of the system to...

Fall 2010

Soco-Kinsella, Karyna

This correlational study examined parent-feeding practices, children’s negative affect towards food, and parental psychological and behavioural control, and parenting styles relating to parental behavioural and psychological control. Parents and their children aged 9-13 years completed...

Spring 2024

Braun, Bennett L.

Lithium is crucial for battery production and is utilized in electric vehicles and portable electronics. Among alternative sources of lithium is flowback and produced water (FPW) brines, which can be recovered utilizing ion-exchange with sorbents such as lithium manganese oxide spinels. Among...

Spring 2016

Low, Ryan Harvey

Glyphosate resistant Kochia scoparia is a growing concern in Canada, and is increasing in incidence. Trials were conducted in naturally occurring glyphosate susceptible kochia populations or in areas seeded with glyphosate susceptible kochia seed. By looking at herbicides with different modes of...

Fall 2010

Rajani, Vishaal

Single-particle tracking (SPT) is a method used to study the diffusion of various molecules within the cell. SPT involves tagging proteins with optical labels and observing their individual two-dimensional trajectories with a microscope. The analysis of this data provides important information...

Fall 2014

Lefebvre, Megan, Elizabeth

Adherence to antiretroviral therapy is critical to treatment success. Using an epidemiological and community-based participatory research approach, my thesis reports on two papers related to antiretroviral therapy success (and subsequent failure). My thesis also includes a third paper which...

Spring 2013

Holinski, Bradley J

The overall goal of this thesis was to develop a proof-of-principle for a device that might eventually restore walking in people with paraplegia. The thesis consisted of three component technologies each working in conjunction with one another in adult cats. The first component was the...

Spring 2010

Dechaine, Greg Paul

Most crude oils contain traces of vanadyl porphyrins within their asphaltene fraction. Although these metals are only present in trace quantities, they have a significant detrimental impact on crude oil processing units; therefore, their selective removal is highly desirable. The current work...

Spring 2016

Pant, Lalit M

Heterogeneous materials are omnipresent in several critical engineering applications such as polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs), coal bio-conversion process, geological storage of CO2 and membrane water filtration. These applications rely on physical processes such as transport (e.g., mass,...

Spring 2014

Ito, Eiji

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine: (a) similarities and differences in conceptualizations of leisure between Japan and Canada and between two Japanese leisure-like terms: yoka and rejā (Study 1); (b) the effects of leisure participation on Japanese and Canadian undergraduate...