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“…I don’t forget my traditions…” Exploring barriers and facilitators of food security among low income newcomer Latin American families in Edmonton, Alberta
DownloadFall 2012
Food insecurity is an important public health concern as 2.7 million Canadians live in food insecure households (CCHS, 2004). My research aimed to explore facilitators and barriers to food security among Latino mothers in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, as research in this realm is limited. My study...
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Spring 2024
Since the advent of distributed ledger technologies, they have provided diverse opportunities in a wide range of application domains. With the transition towards a more decentralized and dynamic system, the significance of blockchain-enabled smart contracts has grown in prominence. Despite their...
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Fall 2019
This thesis, broadly speaking, deals with ontological security and the ways it is managed through multiple local Ukrainian enchantments with the “Western” and the “normal.” Starting with an analysis of media representations of police reform in Ukraine, I then follow hegemonic discourses on their...
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Fall 2014
By eavesdropping on a user's query in a sensor network, an adversary can deduce both the user's current location and his/her location of interest. Issuing k queries instead of one (our "k-query" scheme) protects the privacy of the user's location of interest, but facilitates the adversary...
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Fall 2020
Most modern smartphones are equipped with barometer sensors. Accessing barometers does not require any permission or user notification, as it is deemed to be harmless. We show, however, that by simply reading low-rate barometer's samples, any background application can detect user's finger taps...
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Intermediation and Governance of Digital Flows: Canadian Internet Service Providers as Instruments of Public Policy
DownloadSpring 2018
The internet has often had a disintermediating effect, 'disrupting' and circumventing traditional middlemen and gatekeepers. This dissertation examines the related trend of intermediation, or the ascendance of new internet intermediaries and their growing significance in our lives. Among these...
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Fall 2014
Web security has become a critical issue due to the rising reliance of people on diverse types of online transactions. A CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a security mechanism that is widely used to maintain the security of web services by...
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Spring 2011
The Olympic Games are now characterized by overt displays of military personnel and hardware, the deployment of new surveillance technologies and policing techniques, and rapidly escalating budgets. Yet, most research on security at these urban events has been confined to the sociology of sport...
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Stochastic Energy Management and Cyber-Physical Security of Battery Energy Storage Systems in Smart Distribution Systems
DownloadFall 2020
Battery energy storage systems (BESSs) are vital for improving the sustainability, efficiency, and resiliency of smart distribution systems (SDSs). With the proper energy management, BESSs can provide a wide range of applications for both demand-side and grid-scale services in SDSs. However,...
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Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Methodological Reorientation to Studying Right-wing Nationalism and the Far-right Movement in Canada
DownloadSpring 2021
Right-wing nationalist movements have gained traction in Westernized countries such as France, Greece, Hungary, Austria, the United States, and Germany, where political figures or groups have mobilized nationalist ideas and right-wing populist sentiment to gain governmental power and/or influence...