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- 50Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 19Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- 18Department of Computing Science
- 17Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 13Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 4Department of Physics
- 5AbouRizk, Simaan (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 5Al-Hussein, Mohamed (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 3Dinavahi, Venkata (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 3Huang, Biao (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 3Mohamed, Yasser (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 3Nikolaidis, Ioanis (Computing Science)
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2018
Saborido, R., Khomh, F., Hindle, Abram, Alba, E.
On mobile phones, users and developers use apps official marketplaces serving as repositories of apps. The Google Play Store and Apple Store are the official marketplaces of Android and Apple products which offer more than a million apps. Although both repositories offer description of apps,...
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An Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change on Freight Delivery Schedule Strategies on the Mackenzie River
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The Mackenzie River is a major freight transportation route serving many remote northern Canadian communities and mining sites. The river is only navigable during the summer and early fall months, when it is clear of ice. However, the water conditions of this river have changed significantly in...
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An experimental investigation of the impact of fat taxes: Price effects, food stigma, and information effects on economic instruments to improve dietary health
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This thesis investigates how a tax and warning label on less healthy snack food products may affect consumer behaviour when the imposition of the tax is a source of consumer information. A survey that included choice experiments was implemented in supermarkets. Participants were asked to choose...
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An Improved Approach to Production Planning in Oil Sands Mining Through Detailed Analysis and Simulation of Cycle Times
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The objective of this thesis is to develop, implement and verify a theoretical framework based on detailed analyses and simulation of truck and shovel cycle times in open pit mining, placing an emphasis on the hauling component of the cycle. The goal is to improve the generation of accurate and...
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An open-source two-phase non-isothermal mathematical model of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell
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A comprehensive open-source two-phase non-isothermal MEA model including the microporous layer and accounting for multi-step reaction kinetics for the ORR and HOR is developed for the first time. The model is integrated into openFCST, an open-source FEM based fuel cell simulation framework. All...
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Fall 2021
The warm vaporized solvent injection process has been proposed as a more environmentally friendly alternative to steam-based technologies for bitumen recovery. The process typically involves injecting heated solvent vapor into a horizontal injector; the solvent condenses and dissolves into...
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Spring 2022
Artificial Neural Network (ANN) has gained great interest in industrial applications due to their supremacy in modelling complex process behaviour. Applications of ANN include process modelling, optimization and fault diagnosis. However, pure data-driven approaches that use only observations to...
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Fall 2015
In this thesis, we consider two closely related clustering problems, Min Sum k-Clustering (MSkC) and Balanced k-Median (BkM). In Min Sum k-clustering, one is given a graph and a parameter k, and has to partition the vertices in the graph into k clusters to minimize the sum of pairwise distances...
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Area Yield Crop Insurance and Diversification in Ghana: An Agricultural Household Programming Model
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Although diversification and insurance are acknowledged as important in ameliorating risk, to our knowledge, no empirical study has investigated how the two approaches work in concert in developing countries. Given increasing climate variability and the risks it poses to rain-fed agriculture,...