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- 43Xu, Zhenghe (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 35Kumar, Amit (Mechanical Engineering)
- 33Huang, Biao (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 31Liu, Qingxia (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 30Stroulia, Eleni (Computing Science)
- 27Al-Hussein, Mohamed (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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Spring 2021
The purpose of this dissertation was to empirically explain the role of mobile device use in hiking activity and its impact on hikers’ leisure constraints and negotiation behaviors. To achieve this, one research project was designed and executed; its results are presented here in three separate...
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“The West Knows Best”: Unintended Consequences of Western Aid During the West African and Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola Epidemics
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The two largest Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemics on record occurred from 2013-16 in West Africa (Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea) and 2018-20 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), claiming 11 325 and 2 299 lives, respectively. The Western aid responses that followed centered on...
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Spring 2021
Alarm systems are considered to be essential components of industrial control systems, and are used to communicate the indication of alarm states to operators, ensuring the safe and efficient operation of modern industrial plants. Ideally, alarms should only appear when there are abnormal...
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Spring 2021
In batch policy evaluation the goal is to predict the value of a policy given some historical data. A specific example, which motivated the approach pursued in this thesis, is to predict the probability of putting a natural wildfire out given some specific configuration of dispatched resources,...
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Burst Pressure of Pipeline with Longitudinal Crack in Dent Defects Using Extended Finite Element Method
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Pipelines are exposed to mechanical damage due to external interference while in service. The damages can be in form of dents, wrinkles, gouges, or cracks. In some instances, two or more of the damages may occur at the same location on the pipe and act as one defect. One of the combined defects...
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Fluorescence-based methods of virus estimation in wastewater: Current challenges and future perspectives
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Increasing freshwater scarcity drives humankind to look for alternative sources of potable water as well as water for agricultural and industrial applications. It is estimated that by 2025 half of the world population will be living in water-scarce regions. This pressure has forced governments to...
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Exploring the Nature and Impact of a Compassionate Community Initiative in an Inner-City Community: A Case Study and Participatory Journey
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This participatory thesis began as an exploration into the nature and impact of compassionate community approaches to health promoting palliative care using the Creating Caring Communities (CCC) initiative in St. James Town, Toronto as a case study. In the early phases of focusing my thesis, I...
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Repeatability of anogenital distance in Holstein cattle and its association with embryo yield and quality
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Reproductive phenotypes that are easy to measure, have high genetic variation and heritability along with good repeatability are being explored for genetic selection of cows for improved fertility. In this regard, anogenital distance (AGD; the distance from the center of the anus to the base of...
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Spring 2021
The dairy industry in Canada has undergone huge changes in the last few decades. While the average annual milk production per cow grew over three times by 2015 (average rose to 8.65 Hectolitres per and reached 9.5 Hectolitres in 2018) from 1995 levels (2.5 Hectolitres a year per cow on average),...
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Forecasting of Dynamic Thermal Line Rating Under the Conditions of Temporal Discretization and Correlation
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Dynamic Thermal Line Rating (DTLR) is a technology that optimizes the utility of overhead power transmission lines by dynamically adjusting the rating according to current ambient conditions. To be truly useful, forecasting of DTLR must be applied within processes governing the function of the...