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Spring 2017
The purpose of this qualitative study is to gain a better understanding of the type of trust, and what factors influence the trust community members have in community health workers (CHWs) serving their communities in rural Western Uganda. Trust is a complex concept that has been widely...
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Reliability of a North American Freight Railcar Air Brake Inspection Method Using Wheel Temperature Detectors
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This research evaluates the current legally mandated train air brake test within Canada and provides further comparison with a technology driven approach used by Canadian Pacific known as Automated Train Brake Effectiveness (ATBE). The current No. 1 Air Brake Test mandated by Transport Canada is...
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Fall 2017
The adipocyte-derived lipokine, C16:1n7-palmitoleate, regulates a variety of functions such as systemic glucose and fatty acid metabolism. Under normal physiological conditions, palmitoleate levels are regulated by de novo lipogenesis. During pathological conditions where there are enhanced rates...
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Synchronisation and Wavelet Compression for Background Interference Classification in Wireless Environments
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Dense wireless deployment environments are increasingly facing Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum congestion and increased levels of interference. Addressing the interference will require a distributed decision-making application on wireless nodes, that characterize the state of the channel with...
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Spring 2018
This study mainly involved an experimental evaluation of transient heat transfer through thermal protective fabric systems, in particular the convection heat transfer between hot water and the fabric systems. The main objective of this thesis was to gain a fundamental understanding of the heat...
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Spring 2018
Grade 91 steel is one of the most important 9-12% Cr creep strength enhanced ferritic (CSEF) steels used in fossil-fuel fired power plants. A narrow heat-affected zone with heterogeneous structures is generated in the base metal, due to non-equilibrium phase transformations during the arc welding...
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Identifying Predictors of Acute Myocardial Infarction Care Improvement by Inter-Jurisdictional Comparison of Outcome, Cost, and Resource Use
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Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a global health concern. Despite of a reduction in incidence and mortality in the last several decades, AMI is still the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in many parts of the world, especially high income countries including Canada. Because of...
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Fall 2017
Cementitious binders have been widely used to improve the mechanical, hydraulic, and physical properties of soft soils by deep soil mixing and jet grouting in the past 50 years. However, the majority of previous investigations are limited to the stabilization of very soft clays in marine...
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Fall 2017
“Indigenous Relationality: Sex, Women, and The Animate” discusses Indigenous relationality from within the context of animacy, kinship, and sexualities through a decolonial approach of Two-Eyed Seeing. Using nehiyaw ways of knowing as the foundational theoretical framework through which the...
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Fall 2017
Massive amounts of user behavior logs and sensor data are generated on mobile devices, which can help to improve the usability of social media apps and other intelligent apps. However, collecting such personal data may spark privacy and legal concerns. Recently, many efforts in both academia and...