Constraint-based fracture mechanics analysis of cylinders with circumferential cracks


A frame-based arbitration and scheduling technique for multiprocessor video-on-demand systems


Politeness in conversation between native and non-native Japanese speakers in a first-meeting context


Small business ethics : an exploratory study examining the ethical issues of Canadian women involved in international trade


Multi-parameter fiber optic sensors for structural health monitoring


A CMOS low noise amplifier for impulse radio ultra-wideband applications


"Il n'y a pas de 'potentially hot issues'?" paradoxes of desplaying Arab-Canadian lands within the Canadian museum of civilization


The role of Will Die Slowly 1 (WDS1) gene in the development and defense response of Arabidopsis thaliana


A comparison of students' perception of criminal justice-related risks with other societal risks


Contextualizing writing centres: theory vs. practice


title: Commercialization strategy and performance of technology startups

abstract: This research examines how the capability platform of a technology startup affects performance. The capability platform includes privileged assets, capital availability, and special relationships. Five hypotheses were tested using data drawn from 93 startups in North America. A startup’s performance was measured in two ways: number of new products introduced in the market and the amount of venture capital raised by the startup during the first three years of operations. The results suggest that: (i) the number of partners established by a startup is positively associated with the number of new products introduced, (ii) the level of market related experience of the top management team is positively associated with the amount of venture capital raised by the startup, and (iii) the shorter the time to first round of venture capital financing increases the number of new products introduced and the amount of venture capital raised in the first three years.


CIDA's policies and programming in the area of mental health, 1995 - 2007


Liminal becoming: studies within movement


Does discipline matter? Pedagogical approaches to critical thinking in English for academic purposes (EAP) and economics


Reframing development? Human trafficking prevention in Thailand and Cambodia


Soot emissions from turbulent diffusion flames burning simple alkane fuels


Development of performance estimation tool for gas turbine engine centrifugal compressors


Jordan-Arens irregularity


The relation between social support flexibility and psychological well-being


No girls allowed? Recruitment and gender in Colombian armed groups


Development of a ridership forecasting tool for small public transit systems using GIS


Measured steady and unsteady aerodynamic performance of a family of three highly-loaded low-pressure turbine cascades


Architectural transformation of heritage buildings case study: Folk Art Museum building Sonargaon, Bangladesh


Boundary explorations : the redefinition of an arts precinct in the urban fabric of Ottawa


Cinemimesis: realism, representation, and form in David Bordwell's theory of film


Sex, sexuality, youth, and meaning: redefining the sexual citizenship of youth in the sex education genre


Infinite regress: the blurring of an architectural game-space


The ephemeral architecture of mas(k) National Centre for Carnival and Culture Trinidad & Tobago


"Those flaming lips: exploring the sexual subjectivity of a woman experiencing chronic vulvar pain"


The importance of graphical representation for reaching agreement using the interNeg negotiation support system


Quantization noise reduction in PLLs using multiphase VCOs


'So, where are you from?' glimpsing the history of Ottawa-Gatineau's urban Indian communities


Making people good, down to the last drop: toward a genealogy of the government of water


An exploratory study of the idea of an auxiliary universal language


Reiki therapy in social work practice


Development of a vertical TDR probe to measure the water content profile with depth in peat columns


The discourse and ideology of localized commercial websites: an analysis from a social semiotic perspective


Adoption of embedded open source software: the case of Linux in mobile devices


The architecture of hysteria: speculative and analytic representations through the anamorphic lens


Evaluating streamflow runoff processes in a subarctic alpine catchment, Yukon Territory


CMOS implementation of active and passive LC-VCO


Full responsible reason and good development


A search for periodic time variations in the solar neutrino data from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory


Automatic generation of core scenario models from execution traces


Application of simulated anealing algorithm to wireless sensor networks


Design of an active fibre composite geometric modal sensor for use in a helicopter rotor blade


Diversity combining of signals with different modulation levels and constellation rearrangement in cooperative relay networks


Enablers, disablers and drivers: understanding incentives and disincentives to use force facing United Nations commanders


Escaping to the present nostalgia and the uncanny pleasures of reinventing childhood


Alienation and marginalisation: a case study of the social experiences of men in the Lifehouse Program, Ottawa, Ontario


If it ain't broken, stop trying to fix it: why the doctrine of ministerial accountability still works


Neuroendocrine and behavioural alterations elicited by chronic unpredictable stressor challenges in stressor-susceptible and resilient mouse strains


Establishing an ecological understanding to urbanism: healing the Don through education and diversity


Homeless men seeking safety from trauma and substance use: findings from a pilot study


Balancing capital needs and economic stability. An examination of challenges in the governance of increasing short-term international private capital flows in poor countries: the case of east Africa


Joint priority-based congestion control in multi-path and multi-hop wireless sensor networks


Making ends meet: the widening gap between authorized FDI and realized FDI in the Turkish economy, 1980-2003


Transforming the environment of the aged: a journey towards inner growth


A dual channel RF front end receiver with RF Q-enhanced LC filters


A behaviour-based hierarchical communication strategy for multi-robot systems


Geospatial web services: an evolution of geospatial data infrastructure


New insights on the chemical speciation of nickel and copper in a naturally metal-rich soil from the Thetford mines area, Quebec


A dimensional category-based email management system


Light - therapy in space


Investigation and modelling of the heat transfer process in carbon fibre/epoxy composite tools


Iterative co-channel interference suppression


Thou shalt not kill: the impact of the Jedwabne affair on Polish perceptions of history and concepts of responsibility and redemption


Proposing a renewed regionalism: an analytic mapping of Le Breton Flats


Vegetation mapping and estimation of the extent of near-surface permafrost in Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories


From waste to product: developing pulp and paper mill biosolids into a marketable resource


Exploration of linkages between nickel speciation and toxicity to aquatic biota in mining and municipal aqueous effluents


Judicial review, rights and national security: the balancing act


On the search for the neural correlates of unified consciousness


An automatic verification tool for firewall configurations


Architecture and well-being: against doctors' orders


Effect of enzyme additions, microaeration and grinding on septic tank performance and sludge accumulation rates


Seismic stability analysis of liquefiable earthdams


Examining the effectiveness of psychological debriefing following a critical incident: a meta-analysis


Standing in humility


Modelling and mapping snake distributions in Spain under a climate change scenario


Performance of gypsum board exposed to fire


Performance measurements and modeling of a Java-based session initiation protocol implementation


Efficient inductor layout geometries for radio frequency integrated circuits


Dopamine receptor (DRD2) genotype-dependent effects of nicotine on event-related potential indices of attention during rapid visual information processing


Thick present as spatial quality: journey through time and architecture


A proportional congestion control solution for real-time traffic


Plato's prescription medicine and rhetoric in Plato's Phaedrus and the possibilities for political philosophy in an enchanted age


Measurement of xenon diffusing capacity by hyperpolarized 129Xe MR imaging and dynamic spectroscopy in rats with stachybotrys chartarum spore induced pneumonitis


Latch-based decimation FIR  filters


Localized square test graph with applications to wireless ad hoc networks


Architecture of an advanced synthesized receiver for remote control applications


Practical and theoretical issues in randomization


Understanding sexist joke-telling in the intergroup context


Low bit-rate video transmission over wireless Zigbee networks


Social behaviour in adolescence: exploring the relations between aggression, physical activity and gender


Hearing in the speckled wood butterfly, Pararge aegeria (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)


Fitting the linear-quadratic model to detailed data sets for different dose ranges


Displacing identity politics relocating sites of representation in the work of Jin-me Yoon


Measurement and prediction of the hemodynamic effects of passive leg elevation


The physiology, behaviour, and fate of up-river migrating sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in relation to environmental conditions in the Fraser River, British Columbia


Evaluating Russian forestry sector: market orientation and its characteristics


The Public Service Commission oral language proficiency test: strategy use, proficiency, and anxiety in test performance


Advanced macomodeling algorithm for sampled time/frequency domain measured/tabulated data


Unifying the resonant solutions of a broad class of Korteweg-de Vries equations


"Learning from the past:  black history and its meaning for black males in the Toronto district school board"


Assessing the release of proprietary code as open source: large company case


Model to ensure clean intellectual property in software development projects


Formation of identities of Bangladeshi immigrants in Ottawa


Using machine learning to support software debugging


Variation of mean annual ground temperature in spruce forests of the  Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territores


There is no sex in the champagne room(?): critically reconsidering Canada's de facto prostitution prohibition after R. v. Labaye


RF mixed signal design and layout synthesis with object-oriented C++ for nanometre SOI CMOS


4Gbps CMOS backplane receiver with adaptive blind DFE


The paleolimnology of Haynes Lake, and Teapot Lake, Ontario: documenting anthropogenic disturbances within Canada's largest city


Cloud-point extraction of phenols from aqueous solution with a nonionic surfactant


Building upon weakness: exploring the productivity of weak architecture


The potential role of bacteria as a bioremediation technique at the Sydney Coke Ovens site


Regulation of erythroid-specific 5-aminolevulinate synthase (ALAS2) by hypoxia


Walk this way: the urban interventions of Francis Alÿs and Diane Borsato


From pond to pro: hockey as a symbol of Canadian national identity


Isometries and CAT (0) metric spaces


You traitor: forgiveness when an ingroup member forges an alliance with the outgroup


Investigation of the effects of fuel injection nozzle parameters on ignition delay and cetane number


'Men not allowed': the social construction and rewards of the work of domestic maids of Kolkata


Injecting freedom? Examining Depo-Provera's  discourse of 'freeing' women form menstruation and women's perceptions of it


The guiding brain and directing hand: human interest reporting and the power of the press in W. T. Stead's Pall Mall Gazette


Policy space in small states: hydropower and road development in Laos


On the numerical solution of Laplace's equation with nonlinear boundary conditions for corrosion of steel in concrete


Propagation measurement based estimation and comparison of DSSS microcellular mobile link performance at 2.25 and 5.8 GHz


An evaluation of environmental impact assessment in Barbados


The grrrls are all write: the role of zines in third-wave feminism


Cinema novo Português / the new Portuguese cinema 1963-1967


The body of the prison


Experimental results for output feedback adaptive robot control


The greater half of the continent: continentalism and the Canadian state in Ontario, 1878-1896


A 0.18 um CMOS half-rate clock and data recovery circuit with reference-less dual loop


Enabling QoS in Web Service composition in a P2P environment


Complementary metal oxide semiconductor compatible silicon-on-insulator optical rib waveguides with local oxidation of silicon isolation


The relation between personality traits and coping endorsement: relevance to psychological well being


Privacy-preseving classification methods


LAMPREYS UNDER A SHARK embedded news reporters and the military in the 21st century


Housing memory


Clicking caterpillars: acoustic aposematism in Antheraea polyphemus and other Bombycoidea


title: Commercial alignment of firms and government agencies advancing climate change technologies

abstract: This research investigated the commercialization of emerging climate change technologies by building upon an existing framework for explaining the proportion of profits that accrue to firms from the commercialization o f a technical innovation. The first stage of the research developed the operational definitions and a method to clarify the relationships between (i) firms’ commercialization strategies for advancing climate change technologies, and (ii) government agencies’ criteria for investing in the advancement of climate change technology. The second stage applied the definitions and method to examine the commercialization strategy of 16 firms in the Canadian fuel cell industry and investment criteria of two government agencies. Results suggest: (i) there was diversity in firms’ commercialization strategies, while there was uniformity in the agencies’ investment criteria, and (ii) the commercialization strategies of 12 o f the 16 firms were misaligned with the two agencies’ investment criteria.


Authorial turns: Sophie Calle, Paul Auster and the quest for identity


"Freaking out: " an examination of freakazoid! and children's culture


Direct elemental analysis of solid materials by inductively coupled plasma emission and mass spectrometry (ICP-ES/MS) using slurry nebulization and direct powder introduction


Fault detection and diagnosis on the rolling element bearing


An aperture-coupled stacked microstrip antenna for GPS frequency bands L1, L2, and L5


A comparison of mortality prediction models for neonatal intensive care patients using artificial neural networks and case-based reasoning


The role of ethos in the sceptical discourse on climate change: an investigation of authorial stance in the Drudge report


The trend in youth non-voting: redefining youth citizenship in a neo-liberal Canada


Reinventing the wheel or fixing it? A case study of radical feminism in contemporary Montreal


A CMOS imaging device for visual prosthetics using on-pixel gray-scale erosion for edge detection


Sensor data fusion using Kalman filters on an evidence grid map


The impact of UML documentation on software maintenance; an experimental evaluation


A women's work: exploring gender roles and agriculture in Charikar, Afghanistan


Manufacturing and experimental investigation of copper heat pipes


title: Erotic body horror: dangerous female corporealities in contemporary French cinema

abstract: Current trends in popular visual culture are oppressively restrictive in their representations of female corporeality and expressions of sexuality. This thesis looks at a number of contemporary French films that rupture the typically clean and glossy veneer that women's bodies have traditionally had in the cinema. Anatomy of Hell (2004), In My Skin (2002) and Trouble Every Day (2001) all showcase unruly carnalities that encourage a feminist re-thinking of the female grotesque as a potential site of protest and empowerment. Through a close analysis of the films and their reception, I argue that they have significant political implications, especially with regards to the relationships women have with their bodies. By disrupting ideals of femininity and bodily containment, and encouraging the expression of desire that exists outside the dominant (male) visual economy, erotic body horror creates a radical space that prompts new ways of thinking about female corporeality


The additive or synergistic actions of social stressors and endotoxin challenge: behavioural and neurochemical effects


Using annealed pyrolytic graphite in conduction cooled electronics cooling applications


Factors that contribute to open source software project success


Mark Neocleous: all roads lead to class


A 2D transverse vortex wind tunnel for PIV invertigation of airfoil vortex interaction


In defiance of childhood? an exploration of children's activism


Behavioral, immunological and central monoaminergic alterations induced by the viral imitator, poly I:C: augmentation by a psychosocial stressor


Maximizing the performance of semi-closed O2/CO2 turbine combined cycles for power generation


title: The impact of non-ideal analog factors on OFDM signaling

abstract:
In any communication system, such as in OFDM signaling systems, interfacing between digital and analog domain is a required function within the system. This thesis focuses on such analog interfacing factors, specifically the impact it has on the OFDM baseband signal in typical hardware systems. To investigate these factors, hardware experiments are performed then emulated in an elaborate software model to verify contribution from DC offset error, gain error, I/Q amplitude imbalance, and fixed DAC /ADC resolution. To perform the hardware experiments in this study, a Texas Instruments (TI) TMS320C6711 DSK development kit, equipped with a C6711 floating point processor was studied, programmed, and configured to perform OFDM modulation needed. Further investigations use software simulations to isolate each analog factor and combine them to characterize its effect on performance. In addition, the simulations also examine, ADC saturation, and relative I/Q delay. The performance of received signal at the demodulator is measured by MSE of the waveform (M SEwaVe), M SE of the constellation (MSEcst), signal to noise ratio normalized to a bit (SIRbit).
The results of the experiments and simulations reveal the sensitivity of demodulation performance and magnitude of impact each case has on OFDM signaling. In simulations, the maximum DC offset distortion permitted in the most sensitive modulation scheme probed is 0.15% for the case of 256 QAM, and ADC saturation due to DC offset has no obvious impacts for the values probed. Uncompensated gain error from 0.5% to 1% in received samples for 256QAM, results in SIRbit decrease 6dB. Similar to the effect of gain error, SIRbit degrades in the same manner for I/Q amplitude imbalances. In situations where resolution is less in the receiver relative to the transmitter, the SIRbit performance degrades by 6dB for every bit decremented. Up to 10% I/Q delay caused by filtering results in approximately 0.5dB of variance in SIRbit for all constellation sizes investigated. However, all these numerical figures are for ‘isolated’ cases, when factors are combined the results cannot be predicted by superposition of the ‘isolation’ data cases.


Data reduction algorithm for on-line ECG applications


Academic discourse of online civic networking: moving towards a more critical perspective of technology


Application of artificial intelligence in gas turbine control and modelling.


Development of a cloth-based hybridization array system for the detection and identification of ruminant species in animal feed.


Ways that visible and ethnic minority women in Ottawa think about the quality of their lives and social programs: developing grassroots indicators of quality of life


Monitoring environmental change using Inuit Qaujimajatuqanjit in Cape Dorset, Nunavut


Personality and motives in the pathogenesis of substance abuse in offenders


A Neural network approach to the virtual dressing room


Feasibility of providing ubiquitous high data rate coverage in cellular fixed relay networks


A micro-simulation approach to the analysis of priority crossing programs at land border crossings


Joyce's Ulysses, a Freudian and Schopenhauerian reading


Design automation and layout optimization of analog decoders


A generic attack on hashing-based software tamper resistance


title: A scene learning and recognition framework for RoboCup clients

abstract:
As multi-agent systems grow in complexity and diversity, they become increasingly difficult to design. Agents are described in terms of their behaviour, typically trained by an expert who prepares knowledge representations or training data for supervised machine learning.
To reduce development time, agents could learn by observing the behaviour of other agents. This thesis describes an effort to train a RoboCup soccer agent by capturing data from existing players, generating a knowledge representation, and using a real-time scene recognition system. The trained agent later exhibits behaviour traits similar to the observed agent and can appear to completely imitate the behaviour of the original; the process requires little human intervention.
Experiments are performed using three agents of varying complexity. The “scene” knowledge description format, and simple scene matching algorithm, are limited to imitation of stateless and deterministic agent behaviours. Future work includes improving the matching algorithm and developing higher-level behaviour models.


An introduction into citizen culture: searching for citizens in the twenty-first century


Social perceptions of homicides: the effect of the age of the victim, the relationship between the offender and the victim, the sex of the offender and the intent


Experiences of displacement, migration, and settlement among Afghans in Ottawa


Where Flitcraft lives: an examination of chance, choice and fate in Paul Auster's fiction


A nation in distress: the political economy of urban aboriginal poverty


Suspending the mundane: an architectural treshold


A light railway station for the city of Ottawa an urban gateway


A qualitative study on the factors influencing the cultural, economic and social integration of Afghan women in Canada


Risk assessment of necrotizing enterocolitis in NICU


Development of a new FRP anchor for externally bonded CFRP sheet/laminate to beams


Empowering Bosnian women: role of social capital in women's NGOs


Not my fault: ministerial responsibility and the sponsorship scandal


Predictors of behavioural treatment outcome for young children with Autism /Alberta Girardi.


A law-of-the-wall shift correlation for deterministically and stochastically rough surfaces


"Context counts: towards a poverty-focused approach to HIV/AIDS prevention in Canada"


Fate, survival and growth of fecal coliforms through centrifuge dewatering


Inevitable asymmetries: presenting an ethical imperative to transcend the language of rights


Family mediation: the impact of the feminist critique on its practice


Land cover change mapping of eastern Ontario, 1995 to 2005 using object-based classification


Development of a design tool for modern gas turbine combustors and commissioning of a gas turbine combustion research laboratory


Close-form macromodels for analysis of high-speed interconnects in the presence of electromagnetic fields


Auto theft and youth culture: a nexus of masculinities, femininities and car culture


The role of prison chaplains in restorative justice


Factors influencing parole decision making: demographic characteristics, cognitive style, and offender type


A homeless perspective


Managing 'risk' in Ontario social services: cases, causes and consequences


title: Migrating from proprietary to open source learning content management systems

abstract:
This exploratory research examines projects that colleges and universities undertake to migrate from proprietary to open source learning content management systems. Responses to questionnaires from eleven individuals involved in nine open source migration projects were used to identify the: (i) main reasons for migrating to open source software, (ii) obstacles encountered during the migration, (iii) key factors that contribute to the success of open source migration projects, and (iv) main organizational changes that result from migrating to an open source learning content management system. Based on research results, propositions are developed and recommendations are made to chief information officers (CIOs) and presidents of colleges as well as senior managers of suppliers of proprietary learning content management systems. Propositions are developed anchored around four models: (i) decision to migrate, (ii) LCMS selection, (iii) success of migration project, and (iv) outcomes from migrating to an open source learning content management system.

Suggested key words: Learning content management system, open source, migration projects, and managing migration projects.


Psychotherapeutic drug use and technologies of the self : a study of the intersection of bio-power and nihilism


Particle image velocimentry measurements of an airfoil-vortex interaction event in a two-dimensional wind tunnel


Law is not enough: a Forstian approach to military humanitarian intervention


Between time and Timbuktu: the subversion of meaning in architecture


Gendered geographies and participatory processes - mapping natural resource use with Wapichan women in Southern Guyana


Cracking and fracture analysis of HVOF coatings under Vickers indentation


Involvement of FOXO  transcription factors and glycogen synthase kinase 3 in the freeze tolerance capability of the wood frog, Rana sylvatica


The enduring effects of earlier trauma on seniors' well-being


How one makes two: epistemological crises and ontological intensities in the experimental travelogue film


Autonomous robot navigation based on simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), and particle filtering


Uncertainty simulation using domain decomposition and stratified sampling


Liquefaction and post-liquefaction behaviour of gold mine tailings under simple shear loading


Experimental investigation of secondary flows in a family of three highly loaded low-pressure turbine cascades


Technique and automation for testing of commercial-off-the-shelf components


Development of polypyrrole encapsulated nanomaterials in a syringe needle for automated molecularly imprinted solid phase extraction of Ochratoxin A


The new governing dynamics: regulating Islamic banks in the global political economy


title: Early stage resource allocation in specialized supplier firms

abstract: This research examines: (i) change in the budget allocations to research and development, and sales and marketing and (ii) the importance of founders’ ability to change internal processes and company values during the earliest stage of development of specialized supplier firms. Results of interviews with 10 managers of specialized supplier firms suggest that a high proportion of the company’s budget is allocated to R&D initially, that this proportion decreases with time as a result of carrying out activities to prepare for initial sales, and that senior management’s ability to transition the company from one that is learning to master a technology to one that can sell product is a highly valuable resource. These results can be used by start-ups to allocate budgets during the early stages of development and to recruit the right top management team.


Sequential Monte Carlo particle filtering for state estimation


Symbols of e-commerce trust: do third-party seals of approval increase reported trust toward an e-commerce website?


GaN HFET modeling and model validation through high efficiency power amplifier design


Sonic architecture: a modulator of sound and space - National Gallery of Sound Art


Making films sound better: the transition to Dolby sound in Hollywood cinema


Examining open source telecommunications companies


Transformation of UML 2.0 models with performance annotations to core scenario models


Analysis of collision trends and safety engineering countermeasures on Canadian roads


Mobility support in mesh networks


Holocene fire history of the southeast Yukon Territory


Regulating music for a change: lessons learned from history using an analytic framework


Of pioneers, Victorians, and "Indians": rethinking aboriginal representation in Ontario's community history museums


Managing dependencies and constraints in assembled software systems


Optical motion capture for performance-based facial animation


A study on slotted square and rectangular hollow structural section connections


Adaptive token bank fair queuing scheduling in the downlink of 4G wireless networks


Feature interaction in web services


Automating software evolution: towards using constraints with action for model evolution


Framing the scene: a cinematic approach to a redevelopment at the Halifax waterfront


The qualitative experiences of queer women accessing mental health services in Ottawa


Queer eye for the private eye investigating normative and counter-discursive representations in Anthony Bidulka's Russell Quant mystery series


The media, politics and the public in Serbia: transformation of the mass media and harmonization with European Union standards


The influence of public participation on freshwater management: an examination of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Canada's Water Efficiency Master Plan Update


Aerosol deposition measurements as a function Reynolds number for turbulent flow in a ninety-degree pipe bend


Dielectric resonator antenna arrays in the EHF band


Vegetation, snow cover, and air and near-surface ground temperature across treeline in the uplands east of the Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories


Perforated Mach-Zehnder interferometer evanescent field sensor in silicon-on-insulator


Advanced aeroelastic simulations for practical fixed-wing and rotary-wing applications


MIMO structures for multicarrier CDMA systems


Performance evaluation and correction for scatter and attenuation on the LabPET4™ positron emission tomography system


The space of inversion


On the prospect of a new theoretical framework: reading Marx and Foucault together to re-examine capital exploitation


A 24GHz fully differential transmit PLL in a 0.13ųm process


A field, geochemical and geochronological perspective on the origin of granitoids and mafic volcanic rocks in the Wecho River area and the nature of ancient crust in the southwestern Slave Province, NWT


Influence of perinatal environment on impulsivity and seizure susceptibility differences in seizure-prone (fast) and seizure-resistant (slow) rodents


Practices of the event


Explaining the differential distribution of school engagement among 10 to 15-year old Canadian students: do ethnicity and parental immigration status make a difference?


The sustainable development of urban 'scrap sites'


Evaluation of atrium smoke exhaust make-up air velocity


An architectural prognosis: Greek medicine & architecture


Are we all on the same page? An exploratory study of OPI ratings across NATO countries using the NATO STANAG 6001 scale


The relationship between coping strategies and psychological adjustment in an adolescent clinical sample


Feeling threatened: affective influence on intergroup threat perception


"Nearby and natural": towards a differential geography of organic farming in South-Eastern Ontario


Fuzzy-logic based QoS and fault diagnosis mechanisms for broadband statellite networks under dynamic weather conditions


The United Nations and international terrorism


Criticality in phenomenal memory: architectural mnemonics for the Chaudiere


Fungal generation of organic acids for removal of lead from contaminated soils


Reversible flight control identification


Exhibiting France in America: the French pavilion at the New York World's Fair of 1939


Lahr, Germany, as a microcosm of urban change examined through the retail sector


Kinetics of tap water dechlorination and aquatic health impacts of selected dechlorination chemicals


Personalized news agent


"Not just about the vegetables": community supported agriculture and discourses of the local and nature in the Ottawa area


Development and validation of a tire model for a real time simulation of a helicopter tranversing and manoeuvring on a ship flight deck


Evaluation of certain infinite series using theorems of John, Rademacher and Kronecker


Intrusion detection system for wireless networks based on user mobility profiling


Effect of single versus multiple hydrogen bonding on the morphology of self-assembling systems: the case of alkyl carbamates


An investigation to discern organizational subultures: the case of a hospital setting


Casting a shadow from the shadows: an examination of the power & authority of rating agencies in an era of neoliberal globalization


Dynamic frequency hopping in cellular fixed relay networks


Adaptive admission control policy for web caching


Architecture's role in nation-building: the Palestinian National Library


title: Characteristics and performance of various VDSL RFI suppression techniques

abstract:
The past few years have seen ADSL widely deployed as the telephone companies attempted to grow their market share in the consumer service industry of high speed internet access. Bundling a digital video service offering together with data and phone services is seen by many telephone companies as the next step for protecting, if not growing, their market share. VDSL is one technology that promises to provide the required rates over existing twisted pairs for supporting these services.
VDSL employs the frequency band spanning from 25 kHz to 12 MHz, a significantly larger band than used by ADSL. As a consequence, the VDSL band is adjacent to or overlaps with other radio signalling bands such as Amateur Radio (HAM) and AM broadcasts. These signals may introduce radio frequency interference (RFT) in VDSL signals, which will degrade VDSL performance.
Many approaches can be found in the literature for reducing the impact of RFI on VDSL communication. These methods however may not always be as practical or efficient as predicted when applied to real systems adhering to a common standard. This thesis attempts to quantify the impact of RFI on typical multi-carrier modulation (MCM) basedVDSL systems, also known as discrete multi-tone (DMT) VDSL, and researches some of the most promising suppression techniques for mitigating the effect of RFI in such systems. Elaborate end-to-end simulations are carried out to investigate the effect of these suppression techniques on system performance, both with and without RFI present. The thesis concludes by highlighting the performance and complexity characteristics of the various RFI suppression techniques considered.


Permanently precarious? Collective bargaining and health benefits for permanent part-time public sector workers


Design and construction of a variable stiffness prosthetic arm prototype


The uncertainty of certainty in aboriginal land rights: is there an alternative?


Numerical modelling of heat and mass transfer in a loop heat pipe evaporator


Wither biodiversity, whither food security? Participatory analyses of mixed cropping systems with Adivasi communities in India


The return of the native (veteran): Six Nations troops and political change at the Grand River Reserve, 1917-1924


The Canadian approach to the protection of victims of human trafficking


From a bookshop in Riga: Edward Hallett Carr's debt to Fyodor Dostoevsky


Thermal stability of pre-annealed hydrogen-loaded fiber bragg gratings as a function of the fiber-phase mask distance


Performance optimization of the ORION peer-to-peer file sharing protocol for mobile Ad Hoc networks using unicast messaging


title: Unsupervised segmentation of heart sounds

abstract:
Digitized and recorded heart sounds contain significant diagnostic information, and are easily acquired in clinical practice. Part of a hypothetical diagnostic system is the segmentation subsystem which locates the boundaries between heartbeats. This thesis examines the design and performance of two approaches to segmentation: peak energy detection and sliding window autocorrelation. Emphasis is placed on synchronous detection of the heartbeats, so that subsequent subsystems can superimpose the heartbeats.
An experimental database of heart sounds was compiled to assess the performance of the proposed algorithms. 206 sound files were gathered from 4 sources; the database includes 2709 heartbeats and covers a range of sound quality and complexity. A heart rate estimator is presented and tested, yielding a meaningful beat period in 90- 96% of typical heart sounds.
The peak energy segmentation algorithm compares the signal energy against a threshold proportional to the signal's local average energy. It correctly segments 64% of the heartbeats from the experimental database, indicating the difficulty of segmentation in general.
The novel sliding window autocorrelation segmenter is designed to take advantage of the self consistency of heart sounds. The algorithm operates by calculating multiple local autocorrelations in order to estimate the time offset to the next heart beat. A change in the time offset marks the boundary between heartbeats. It correctly segmented 83% of the heartbeats


Multiscale modeling of the indentation of nickel-aluminum nano-layers


Somali single mothers in Ottawa: challenges and opportunities of resettlement and implications for health and well-being


An integrative study of PCI and TDI from a psychological perspective


The implications of working memory on symbolic comparison


Quantifying the effects of transmitter-receiver geometry variations on the capabilities of airborne electromagnetic survey systems to detect targets of high conductance


The grotesque in the garden: fear, anxiety and delight in the Italian Renaissance villa landscape


The effect of road density on white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) relative abundance in rural and urban landscapes in eastern Ontario


The Atkins diet and the Internet: exploring lay challenges to contested medical expertise


Design in nature and architecture


French immersion and core French graduates in post-secondary French: how does their past education affect their current experiences?


The legal geography of urban squatting: the case of Ottawa's Gilmour street squatters


Resonant solutions of the periodically forced KdV equation


Map-based cloning of a regulator of the vascular cambium in Arabidopsis thaliana


Development of poly(dimethylsiloxane)-co-diphenylsiloxane(5%)-coated and poly(ethylene glycol)-coated stir bars for use in stir bar sorptive extraction


Changing technology and the rise of the Canadian rock recording industry


Technology and elderly people: design methodology for interactive communication in later life


Voltage controlled oscillator phase noise reduction technique


Bioaccumulation and toxicokinetics of brominated and chlorinated contaminants in East Greenland polar bears (Ursus maritimus)


'Prey to thievery' the Canadian Recording Industry Association and the Canadian copyright lobby, 1997 to 2005


The temporal stability and cross-situational consistency of behavioural themes in serial homicide


Intelligent agent control of an unmanned aerial vehicle


Factors affecting the adjudication of historic child sexual abuse cases involving continuous memories


Toronto public policing for hire: the effects of commodification of policing services in the Downtown Yonge Business Improvement Area


Parallel lossless data compression based on the Burrows-Wheeler Transform


Tilted fiber grating refractive index sensor and interrogation device


Pointing out the moon: new media in the museum


Kurt Lewin's wartime work: a re-examination of a classic study in the context of morale, culture, and national character


Stem-explosion pretreatment of municipal sludge to enhance anaerobic digestion


Theatricality and inhabitation: the typical apartment building as domestic theatre


Consecrated and desecrated bodies: the polemical image of the fetus in the work of Gustav Mossa


Investigation of injector system and gas generator propellant for aft-injected hybrid propulsion


Axially grooved and arterial heat pipe testing and numerical analysis


New techniques for parallel simulation of DEVS and cell-DEVS models in CD++


An enhanced measurement of the angular response of photomultiplier tubes at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory


Spatial analysis of criminal incidents: implementation of GIS and spatial statistics


The structure of the Banach algebra LUC(G)


Dynamic imaging and modelling of gold paste tailings flows


Do utopias require fire exits?


Sugar and HD2 expression: new insights into HD2 plant-specific class of histone deacetylases


The otherings of Miss Chief: Kent Monkman's Portrait of the artist as hunter


title: Differences in competitive aggressiveness between growth and meltdown periods

abstract: The objective of this research is to identify similarities and differences in the relationship between firm-level factors and competitive aggressiveness and the relationship between competitive aggressiveness and company performance during periods of market growth and market meltdown. Using 142 company years drawn from 33 suppliers of telecommunications equipment from 1998 to 2003, a set of seven hypotheses was examined. Results suggest that: the relationship between firm-level factors and action volume during market growth is similar to that during market meltdown; action diversity is negatively related to performance during market meltdown but not related during market growth; there is a negative relationship between action volume and action diversity; and action diversity during market meltdown is greater than action diversity during market growth.


Neuroinflammation potentates the degenerative effects of environmental toxins upon the substantia nigra pars compacta: a role for pro-inflammatory cytokines


African art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario: the aesthetic legacy of Justin and Elisabeth Lang


An investigation of reading and bimanual tapping ability in adults


Modeling and design of a frequency-controlled class-E transcutaneous energy transfer system


Disability, theatre and power: an analysis of a one-person play


Identifying and modeling Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus breeding habitat in the outer Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories


Infiltrating Montreal through the apartment-hotel: the anticipated mystery and strange familiarity of inhabiting the visited city


Characterizing of gamaH2AX response of human lymphocytes to ionizing radiation


Complicated entanglements Henry Tsang and cultural race politics, 1988-1995


Evolution not revolution: how the Guangdong experiment changed China's newspaper industry


Emotional responses to ethnolinguistic identity threat


Block splitting of exponential operators via Padé approximation and BSPTS schemes


The complex link between gendered violence and HIV/AIDS: black women in South Africa


Women war correspondents: three generations on the frontlines or the sidelines? A content analyisis of the newspaper coverage written by leading American women corrspondents in Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, and Iraq wars


Design and validation of an experiment for the detection and prediction of stall and surge in a PT6/T400 turboshaft engine


"Gendering" the transitions: women's movements in the Spanish and Portuguese transitions to democracy


Cultivating gendered 'underdeveloped' subjectivities: tracing the constitution of 'girlhoods' within mainstream development discourse


East Germans, refugees, and new Canadians - a family migration


Facing the mirror: the European Union as a postmodern actor in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Central and Eastern Europe


Traveling third class: regulating the transport of farm animals in Canada


Monoid pictures and finite derivation type


Composition of aspects represented as UML activity diagrams


Dynamic matching of independent jobs on a computing grid


Impacts of radiometric corrections on empirical modelling of biophysical variables with airborne multispectral digital camera imagery


A robust fit for generalized additive models


What once was sick is now bad: the shift from pathologized victim to deviant identity for those diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder


Runtime detection of active scanning worms


"A shot in the arm: a qualitative study of needle sharing in Ottawa"


Making the EGSnrc/BEAMnrc system more efficient, accurate and realistic in simulating kilovoltage x-ray systems


Development and characterization of braze repair technology for gas turbine hot section components


Optimal user authentication schemes in mobile ad hoc networks


"Undocumented convention refugee in Canada:" the implications of & rationale behind Canada's identity document requirement from convention refugees within its borders


Distributed optimistic simulation of DEVS and CELL-DEVS models with PCD++


Modification of a human DNA extraction protocol to mitigate operator risk when analyzing human DNA evidence contaminated with risk group 3 bacteria


Experimental and numerical study of a hydrogen peroxide / hydroxyl terminated polybutadiene hybrid rocket


Simulation of thin film titanium dye sensitized photovoltaic devices


Examining open source investment aggressiveness of large computer and telecommunication firms


The in/visable: "common senses" architecture


WZ scattering at the LHC in the Littlest Higgs model


An efficient hardware implementaiton of a reconfigurable turbo encoder/decoder emulator


Operation Murambatsvina:  urban governance in post-colonial Zimbabwe


The effects of historical land use on woodlot vegetation in Eastern Ontario, Canada


Gender equality in post-conflict Sierra Leone


Algorithms for static and dynamic path problems in trees


CFD study of balcony spill plumes: focused on the balcony area


A linear algebra approach to synchronizing automata


MIMO transceiver architectures for coded  communication with limited CSI feedback


The female manuscript-owner portrait in late medieval Books of Hours: time, narrative, and the performance of self


E-CD++: an engine for executing DEVS models in embedded environments


The impact of type II diabetes on behavioral and cellular aspects of neuroplasticity


Threatening the preservation of a cultural legacy: the fate of the Barnes Foundation


Using R-ACM method in QoS-based routing


Fully-integrated fully-differential silicon RF CMOS distributed amplifier based on multi-Tanh linearization principle


Modular Java web applications


Five elements towards a healthy architecture


An environment for development and benchmarking DEVS applications


Freeze tolerant frogs: expression and regulation of transcription factors of the unfolded protein response and the ER-associated degradation


Monstrous remediation


"How to use sport as a tool to promote gender equity in Botswana"


A statistical test for a parameter describing the association in correlated binary data


Welding and repair of single crystal Ni-based superalloys


The role of contextual factors in mediating the washback of high-stakes language assessments on learners


Noise annoys: pirate radio and the distribution of music in the digital age


Studies on human antigens of Aspergillus versicolor


Managing license incompatibilities distributing eclipse application stacks


The preliminary design of the SHARCS rotor blade


An exploration of emotional intelligence in virtual teams


"Not everyone who wanders is lost" exploring street youths' decision making processes in relation to the problematic use of substances and its possible solutions


Application and evaluation of hierarchical agglomerative clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks


A stranger in a strange land: magical thinking in the fiction of Alistair MacLeod


Behavioural limits of auditory temporal resolution in the rat: duration discrimination and the role of the ventral nucleus of the lateral lemniscus


Transformation of UML 2.0 models extended with MARTE to core scenario models


Consideration of the effect of vehicle stability augmentation algorithm failure modes on vehicle behaviour


Design and simulation of a microturbine trigeneration system incorporating hydraulic storage and an inverse Brayton cycle


Clamshell casting!


Taking care of business: the genesis and historical evolution of The Business Council on National Issues, 1976-1988


Confidence processing in comparative judgements: speed versus accuracy stress


Modelling and mapping potential hooded warbler (Wilsonia citrina) habitat using remote sensing


Catching the breeze: Ventilation studies as the generator of form


The dinner address


Challenging pedagogy: an exploratory study of the work of community educators who seek to challenge oppressive relations


A comparison of rateless codes for wireless communication systems


ESL students' language learning strategy repertoires in EAP and ESP contexts: perceived success and pedagogical mediation


Examining the fourth dimension: using compression as a tool to view higher dimensions


Post-war identity re-construction in Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka: negotiation of gendered identity between the local and dispora community


A partial sequence of the 34 kDa antigen from Stachybotrys chartarum and studies of the recovery of fungal antigens from particulate samples


Hydrodynamic pathways in a mature constructed wetland


Synthetic doppler for precise indoor geolocation


Instruments of influence Canada and arms exports to South Asia, 1947-1971


Surface plasmon resonance sensor based on the tilted fiber bragg grating


Beyond gender? : Women in the cultural economy of electronic music


A recipe for celebrity: policy and an English Canadian star system


Quantitative metrics for network security evaluation


Political opposition in Ukraine and its effectiveness


The politics of culture in Ottawa: the origins and development of a municipal cultural policy 1939-1988


The social world reversed: towards a sociology of activist community arts practices


Aeroelastic analysis of a turbine blade using a reduced-order model


Coffee shop dialogics: Sex and the City and third wave feminism


Making meatballs: Canadian film and television comedy


6 GHz inductor-less tuned low noise amplifier incorporating an artificial tank circuit


Compressing data cube in parallel OLAP systems


Data gathering and communication for wireless sensor networks using ant colony optimization


Surgical robotics - visual autonomous cauterization system (VACS) conceptual design


Use of fluorine-tagged thia fatty acids as mechanistic probes for desaturase-mediated sulfoxidation


A simplified method for nonlinear cyclic analysis of reinforced concrete structures: direct and energy based formulations


The architecture(s) of nation-building


Software product architectural integrity during organizational distress


Investigation of the determinants of reaction specificity in the pyridoxal 5' -phosphate dependent enzymes cystathionine ß-lyase and cystathionine gamma-lyase


Russian  social model: is there room for regional disparities?


Dispositions toward forgiveness and revenge in relation to coping styles and psychological well-being


Riparian marshland composition and productivity mapping using IKONOS imagery


Improved frequency domain flutter analysis using computational fluid dynamics


Open source software projects, market offers, and competitive advantage


The object-oriented approach to geographic data modeling for spatial data integration


A cinematic intifada Palestinian cinema and the challenge to the dominant Zionist narrative


The Americans are coming! The Americans are coming!  Framing the Great Lakes water debate in the North American Press


Computer modeling of weld joint microstructure and residual stresses


Real-time computer platform for vibration-based structural health monitoring of the Confederation Bridge


Investigation of shape memory alloy wire for closed loop angular position control of a shaft under random excitation


Seismic velocity analysis to determine moisture distribution in a bioreactor landfill


Cannabis and the courts: an examination of judicial responses to cannabis


"The Apologetics of the accused: fascism, communism and the Catholic Church of Hungary, 1945-1949


Cognitive dificits in Multiple Sclerosis as measured with the Computerized Tests of Information Processing and Adjusting-Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test


An investigation of adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control for robotic manipulators


Building political capital: the politics of 'need' in the federal government's municipal infrastructure programs, 1993-2006


Supplying the material battle: combined logistics in the Canadian corps, 1915-1918


title: Manet reference configurations and evaluation of service location protocol for manet

abstract: Service Discovery Protocols (SDPs) allow users and applications to automatically locate services without prior configuration. Since Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) constitute an essential part of the ubiquitous computing scenario, increasing efforts are geared toward providing service discovery in such environments. In this thesis, we implement Service Location Protocol for MANET (SLPManet), based on the widely employed Service Location Protocol (SLP) Version 2. We recognize the need for a legitimate framework for the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of SDPs. We hence develop BENCHManet, a benchmark composed of reference tests, each of which reflects the configuration found in various MANET applications. We examine the performance of SLPManet using BENCHManet, and highlight the protocol's strengths and weaknesses. We propose a caching modification that increases the discovery success by 38% for poorly performing scenarios. Moreover, the aggregate bandwidth consumption and average lookup latency decreased by up to 98%.


Parallel implementation of bisector epsilon-approximation shortest path algorithm for concurrent queries


Assessment of two AI approaches to predict mortality in adult intensive care units


Analysis of Ontario fires and reliability of active fire protection systems


Turbo codes a VLSI implementation


Acting in solidarity with the natural world: conscious living and the case of vegetarianism


Digital fabrication in the production of affordable housing


A late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) marine vertebrate-rich bioclastic horizon from the northeastern margin of the western interior seaway, Canada


Late holocene climate change of Frederick Sound, British Colombia, Canada


Securing communications in an anonymous overlay network


The role of social support in the well-being of First Nations and Inuit youth following treatment for volatile solvent abuse


Development of a multi-disciplinary design tool for axial flow turbines


L'information continue : dans l'intérêt de qui?


The public interest and cable regulation in Canada: the application of public interest concepts in the regulation of television distribution by the CRTC


title: Evaluation of speech enhancement techniques for speaker recognition in noisy environments

abstract: In automatic speaker recognition (ASR) applications, the presence of background noise severely degrades recognition performance. There is a strong demand for speech enhancement algorithms capable of removing background noise. In this thesis, a Gaussian mixture model based automatic speaker recognition system is used for evaluating the performance of five different speech enhancement techniques. Previously, it was shown that these techniques improved the SNR of the speech signals corrupted by noise but their effect on the speaker recognition performance was not fully investigated. In this work, we implement these enhancement techniques and evaluate their performance as preprocessing blocks to the ASR engine. We evaluate the performance based on speaker recognition accuracy, average segmental signal-to-noise ratio and perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) scores. We combine clean speech from the TIMIT database with eight different types of noise from the NOISEX-92 database representing synthetic and natural background noise samples and analyze the overall system performance. Simulation results show that the system is capable of reducing noise with little speech degradation and the overall recognition performance can be improved at a range of different signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) with different noise types. Furthermore, results show that different enhancement techniques have different strengths and weaknesses, depending on their application and the background noise type.


Public archaeology and the cultural resource management industry in Southern Ontario


title: Speaker recognition in reverberant environments

abstract:
This thesis compares several speaker recognition algorithms in reverberant environments. The Gaussian Mixture Model, Auto-regressive vector model, covariance based models and Multi layer perceptron are compared.
The methods are compared when there is a mismatch between the training and test speech due to the non-reverberant nature of the training speech and the reverberant nature of the test speech.
In order to counteract the effects of reverberation, training was performed using reverberant speech. Average recognition accuracy improved by 9.8% for the GMM, 53% for AR-Itakura, 18.8% for sphericity measure, 18.1% for the divergence shape measure and 15.9% for AR-AGS.
A method was proposed to create a set of reverberant models for each speaker using speech reverberated to different degrees. A novel technique was proposed to determine which reverberant model for each speaker best matches the reverberant test speech. 98.7% classification accuracy was obtained using an Autoregressive vector model adapted for this purpose.


Residential care workers' experiences with senior trauma survivors


Modeling of the surface marks formation in an immovable mold during continuous casting of steel


Liberalism, Quebec's political culture, and George-Étienne Cartier, 1864-1871


Persistent or temporary offending? The differential contributions of antisocial attitudes, associates, and personality to adult criminality


Using object-oriented modeling for specifying and designing a network-context sensitive intrusion detection system


title: Adoption of voice over internet protocol by North American service operators

abstract: This research examines the adoption of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) technology by North American service operators. Data on 203 service operators, 108 partnerships of four major service operators, and 85 network standards approved during the study period of 1995 to 2004 were used to: (i) examine how company size and product type vary across adoption stages, (ii) identify temporal patterns, (iii) examine the attributes of partnerships formed by service operators and (iv) examine the association of network standards to adoption stages. The results are relevant to executives responsible for VoIP businesses, researchers interested in temporal patterns, market analysts and VoIP equipment suppliers.


title: Autonomous patient monitoring with a pressure sensor array

abstract:
Unobtrusively monitoring older adults in their homes could reduce the physical and cognitive impacts of aging. The problem of autonomous extraction of nocturnal movement times and respiratory rates using a pressure sensor array in bed was investigated.
Four segmentation methods were assessed for movement localization. A new movement detection segmentation algorithm accurately identified over 85% of movements. Six methods were evaluated for the extraction of breathing signals, including a recommended cascade that increased signal to noise ratio by 4.45 decibels. A proposed weighted voting algorithm was compared to two existing methods of data fusion. Finally, a reliability metric for validity evaluation was also presented.
Through use of the proposed methods, respiratory rates and movement times were reliably estimated from participants who slept with a pressure sensor array below their mattress. With these parameters available, decision algorithms could be developed to alert a caregiver when intervention is necessary.


Flame stability of an ultra-lean premixed low-swirl burner


Communication & advocacy: defining the 'New' midwifery in Ontario, 1979-1989


Composting possibilities for sanitation provision ciudadela of Pachacutec


Wavelet-based denoising of cardiac PET data


Evaluating the mutagenic activities of complex PAH mixtures in soil


Multi-threshold asynchronous pipeline circuits


"Built for mind and spirit": the socialization of race through higher education at Fisk University and Spelman College, 1881-1930


The Big-box in the small town


Protecting non-target plant species; suggested improvements to current pesticide registration guidelines


Regulating activism an institutional ethnography of public participation in Ottawa's municipal government


Evaluation of phytotoxicity testing: assessing the effects of herbicides on non-target plants using microcosm tests


The introduction of English in grade 6 in Tunisia: a case-study at the classroom level


Risks to birds from pesticide-treated seed and the possible role of ultraviolet reflection in seed colour preferences and repellent strategies


title: Distributed new product development structures and schedule overrun

abstract:
The objective of this research is to examine the relationship between attributes of new product distributed structures and schedule overrun. Data on 75 projects undertaken by Cisco Systems using distributed structures to develop new products were used to test four hypotheses. The hypotheses examined how (i) the proportion of the product design produced at project headquarters, (ii) the development load carried out at remote sites, (iii) the number of platform dependent components used in the product, and (iv) the number of components reused are related to schedule overrun. Results suggest that a high level of design carried out at project headquarters and development loads carried out at remote sites shorten schedule overrun.

Keywords: Distributed development structure, product development performance, product modularity, schedule overrun.


Modifying HMA stone aggregates prone to stripping with lime-based additives under controlled curing conditions


Effects of particles and bioflocculation on ultraviolet disinfection


The role of the patch/striosome component of the dorsal striatum in spatial learning


Albian-Cenomanian foraminifera in northeastern British Columbia and western Alberta: paleoecology and integration of biostratigraphy with allostratigraphy


Cinema is a haunted house


T-stress solutions for cracks at notches and in cylinders


The effect of over expression of human Cystathionine Beta Synthase (hCBS) on the level of glutathione in mammalian cells: a model system for the study of the effect of naturally occurring missense mutations of hCBS on glutathione


Organized labour and the Laurier administration; the fortunes of a pressure group.


Anti-epileptic effect of low frequency stimulation using the kindling model


Border crossings: the cultural brokerage and artistic practice of David Ruben Piqtoukun


State reorientation and discursive strategies of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives


Tests of hypotheses concerning early male arrival based on studies of two species of passerines: Ruby-crowned Kinglets (Regulus calendula) and Song Sparrows (Melospiza m. melodia)


Driver speed and acceleration behaviour on Canadian roads


'This painted child of dirt': dissident aristocratic masculinities in early eighteenth-century British Portraiture, 1717-1745


Langford sequences and their variants: partitions of {1, . . . , 2m + 2} \ {k, 2m + 1}, {1, . . . , 2m—1, L} and {1, . . . , 2m, L} \ {2} into differences in {d, . . . , d + m —1}


Reduction in fire resistance of steel beams caused by partial fire protection loss


The development of a soil quality monitoring kit


Fair trade mainstreaming: an innovative response to the challenges of hegemonic neoliberalism


Anti-apoptotic and antioxidant defenses in the freeze tolerant wood frog, Rana sylvatica


The cinema of the victim: gender and collective trauma in the postwar Japanese women's film


Seeking unanimous consent: consensus government in the Northwest Territories


Design and manufacturing of loop heat pipes for electronics cooling


Competitive intelligence information and innovation performance of IRAP funded companies


Direct and inverse kinematics of a new class of serial-parallel hybrid manipulator


Predicting effects of pesticides in freshwater aquatic ecosystems - using field data validation


Urban fabric in transition: thresholds and transitions in the urban context in relation to time


SDP based simulated annealing on bandwidth reservation with multi-path routing


Season's greetings in Canada,  gender and nationalism in Rous and Mann, Limited's,  Canadian artists series Christmas cards, 1923-1929


Web service-based distributed simulation of discrete event models


Development of a dynamic, feedback-based and self-calibrating tolling algorithm for a high occupancy/toll lane


Towards solving the game of Go in One dimension


(In)security : political identity and the cycle of violence


La traduction des représentations du conflit nord-irlandais dans la paralittérature contemporaine: le cas particulier de The watchman de Chris Ryan et de sa traduction française


Images of uncertainty: war, cinema and visual culture


An examination of pattern matching algorithms for intrusion detection systems


The design, implementation, and validation of a 3D laser light-sectioning scanner for biomedical purposes


Driver speed behaviour on freeway deceleration speed-change lanes


Charles Templeton and the performances of unbelief


Practice makes permanent: a longitudinal study of fossilization and fluency in an ESL learner


How does access to public transit affect the quality of life of seniors over 75 in Ottawa? A qualitative analysis


Grid-enabled software conferencing for the SIP-RTI runtime infrastructure


Morality in architecture: details as virtue


title: Parametric mixing for centralized VoIP conferencing using ITU-T recommendation G.722.2

abstract:
Excessive end to end delay or latency in a VoIP network is one of the major drawbacks of packetized voice communication. The two main components of end to end delay are codec processing and propagation delay. Codec processing delay becomes a significant factor in centralized VoIP conferencing where voice packets, originating from the participants, are sent to a central unit or bridge to be combined using tandem mixing.
This thesis investigates a novel way based on the G.722.2 codec of mixing the packets at the central unit that reduces algorithmic complexity and therefore delay. The parameters used to represent the speech, LPCs, pitch lags, fixed codebook, and gains, are extracted from the encoded bit stream, mixed, and re-encoded instead of full decoding, mixing, and then re-encoding of the speech signals.
This parametric mixing reduces the bridge complexity by up to 85 % while still retaining acceptable speech quality, 3.7 MOS on average, as shown by simulations.


Monte Carlo investigation of the influence of ion chamber response on in-air measurements in megavoltage photon beams


Development of lead-free PTFE based sliding bearing materials


Thermophysical property and phase transformation determination of gamma-TiAl intermetallics


Illusions of gardens, conformity and beauty: performing normality in three Italian Holocaust films


Variable feedback latency compensation for the LMS-based smart antenna receiver


Goal-oriented business process monitoring: an approach based on user requirement notation combined with business intelligence and Web services


A neoliberal assault through employment relations: Turkish labour market flexibilization


Salon Ottawa & the Diagram explorations of participation generated, generation participated


"Eine politikerin von top to bottom"?: rethinking the life and legacy of Eleanor Marx


Temporal translation: exploring the perspectives of East and West


A parallel external memory system


Mathematical investigaiton of heat transfer in industrial crude oil tank during a fire


Comparison of three field methods for forest canopy closure modelling with Landsat imagery


New algorithms for the parallel CD++ simulation environment


A study on the unsteady aerodynamic forces around an Ahmed reference model


Region-based three-dimensional wavelet transform coding


Transcription factor regulation in mammalian hibernation: the thirteen-lined ground squirrel as a model


Prairie pots and beyond: an examination of Saskatchewan ceramics from the 1960s to present


Architecture, discourse and the environment: architectural conversations


Reflective item types in a high stakes assessment of English for academic purposes: an examination of the method effect


Tunable filter and receive signal strength indicator for detecting whitespace in the frequency spectrum


"Subjective quality of life of persons with spinal cord injury, ages fifty and over: views of persons with short and long durations of injury"


Multiple constraint based routing and probing in data networks


A 5.8mW fully integrated multi-gigahertz frequency synthesizer in 0.13-um CMOS


The role of plants in the removal of nutrients at a constructed wetland treating agricultural (dairy) wastewater


An experimental characterisation of the velocities of the spray issued from a pressurised metered-dose inhaler


Fair trade and global justice: the radical possibilities of reform


The human-nature connection: increasing nature relatedness, environmental concern, and well-being through education


Examination of municipal elected officials' consideration of the spatial aspect of Ottawa's proposed light rail expansion program


Automated time domain modeling of linear and nonlinear microwave circuits using recurrent neural networks


Burrow morphology, burrow preservation, and evidence of digging behaviour in ground-dwelling squirrels (Sciuridae)


Emergent architecture: a resurgence of natural 'beauty'


Attachment styles and psychological separation in relation to procrastination: a psychodynamic perspective on the breakdown in volitional action


Functional and dysfunctional retention: the impact of trust and cynicism


English learners' sense of progress in EFL and ESL settings: a qualitative inquiry


An empirical study of the regression testing of an industrial software product


The detection and direction finding of multiple weak sinusoidal signals with a circular antenna array


Theoretical and experimental investigations of ligand exchange in amidinate and guanidinate ligand systems and the atomic layer deposition of aluminum oxide


Removing redundancy in interconnect simulation using domain decomposition techniques


Tajikistan unravelled: the state resettlement of citizens


Resisting the reign of technocracy the [re]turn towards civic space


What does our country mean to us? Gender justice and the Greek nation-state


The social dynamics of Canadian protest participation


Modeling for haptics-based surgical simulation


The impact of positive moods on situational preferences and feeling sociable


Evolution and adoption of UML-based development tools


Incorporating mobility


Covariant-FGJ and its type-safety proof


"How far out of your way will you go? Variations in self-offering and positive affect in helping behaviour"


Perceptions of parent-child relationship quality in parents of children with and without autism


The hollowing-out of corporate Canada: quantitative vs.qualitative analysis


Not a defender of herself, but a defenceless victim without a self: the need for sociological expertise in battered women's self-defence trials


Linear dynamic space mapping approach for large-signal statistical modeling of microwave devices


Suburban > (spec . u . la . tion)


Justice at 24 frames per second: law and spectacle in the revenge film


A higher amorality: Niklas Luhmann and his critics


Analytical algorithms for macromodeling and sensitivity analysis of high-speed interconnects


Identification of secondary metabolites from some Eurotium species, Aspergillus insuetus and A. calidoustus from Canadian homes


Surface wear


Oil for Food Program: implications of the UN sanctions regime for human rights in Iraq


Passive, not active: the response of Prince Edward Island to the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989-1991


Transport layer fairness and congestion control in wireless ad hoc access networks


From a small centre: Joe Friday's contemporary art collection


Fast algorithm for transient analysis of distributed interconnects including driver and load circuits


Experimental and numerical investigation of centrifugal compressors for use with alternative working fluids


Depression and diurnal cortisol variations associated with psychological abuse: moderation by appraisals and coping strategies


Fortress North America: a cosmopolitan perspective on Safe Third Country Agreements


Evolutionary city and the new media: an exploration of the city of Delhi


Displacement-based seismic design of reinforced concrete shear wall buildings


Effect of a psychopathy diagnosis, offender gender, and offender age on juror decision making


The lived experience of HIV/AIDS: a poststructural analysis of the impact of stigmatization on the identity constructions and the experiences of grief for persons living with HIV


Experimental and theoretical investigation of a sliding vane compressor-expander unit for an R-134a automotive vapour compression refrigeration system


Interrupting the artefact: the reorientation of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club


Parallel computation of data cubes


CMOS analog cubing circuits for radio-over-fiber predistortion


A study of smoke movement in multi-storey buildings using experiments and computer modelling


Between agency and structure: situating Canadian war reportage in Afghanistan, 2001-2002


Ukrainian labourers in Nazi Germany, 1939-45


Gender inequality, legal pluralism & land reform in South Africa


Snow-pack development and ground-frost penetration in the Blackstone Uplands, Yukon Territory, Canada


In-between: phantom public and the suburban territory


Stimulus artifact reduction in somatosensory evoked potential measurements using velocity filters


Development of a dynamic modeling and control system design methodology for gas turbines


Totum ex parte


All the things you are: jazz music, pathways analysis, and a theory of cultural flows


Asymptotic efficiency of the blest type tests of independence


Boundary element analysis of a curved tubing with a semi-elliptical crack


Displacement-based seismic design of shear wall buildings


Management of aspect weaving


Gender and ICTS in Bhutan: a comparative case study of Tangmachu and Thimphu


Voice traffic protection in an IP network


A political perspective on product development schedules : evidence from software


Heat pipe performance enhancement through composite wick design


Information management with multiple-categorization hierarchical structure


Clinical engineering effectiveness in developing world hospitals


Inconification and the nationalized inukshuk


Well-separated pair decompositions for doubling metric spaces


Poly <subscript L>-lactic acid (PLLA) and poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA) blends and their interaction with CO2  at sub-critical conditions


Open source software foundation: company involvement, governance, and effectiveness


The relation between supportive work environments and work attitudes: an examination of the mediating role of psychological well-being and perceived stress


How companies use open source software in the voice over Internet Protocol market


I recognize you, I recognize you not: sanitary and phytosanitary agreement disputes and the application of the Precautionary Principle in WTO decisions


The integration experience of Somali refugee youth in Ottawa, Canada: "Failure is not an option for us"


Integrated network management system for MPLS-based networks


Enemy at the gates : an analysis of changes at the Globe and Mail after the launch of the National Post, 1998-2003


The relationship between capability platform and performance for software startups


Bad seed: the role of seed mass in dispersal and seedling success in the non-native, invasive perennial, Vincetoxicum rossicum


Metal speciation in model solutions and envirnmental aqueous samples by depletive stripping chronopotentiometry


Covering Katrina: rumours and accurate reporting in the disaster zone


Networks of power: a feminist political ecology analysis of the World Water Council


Biting the hand that feeds you: the political economy of Ontario's community laboratory services


Mediation


title: Speech accent identification and speech recognition enhancement by speaker accent adaptation

abstract: This thesis examines the impact of accent present in speech on the performance of speaker independent Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. The research is focused on validating the assumption that the presence of accent in speech can increase the error rate and that a speaker independent ASR engine, trained by a variety of accents, performs poorer than an engine that is trained for a particular accent, when tested by the same accent. It also proposes a method to lower the recognition error rate and measure the improvement by first determining the accent of the utterance and then applying the appropriate ASR engine from a bank of engines trained for different accents. The second part of this research work proposes a method for identifying accents by tracking the temporal evolution of speaker’s vocal tract. An LPC feature space is proposed to model the speaker’s vocal tract.


What's best for you isn't what's best for me: the effect of group membership, expectations, and value orientation on experimental dilemma game choice and behaviour


Channel assignment in multi-channel wireless ad hoc networks


Reflections on water: community productions in Cai Lay, Vietnam


Coherent scatter x-ray imaging of plastic and water phantoms


Evaluating the relationship between floristic quality and measures of plant biodiversity in riparian habitats


Binned duration flow tracking and symmetric connection detection


The role of immigrants' country of origin in reactions to their employment success and evalution of their job qualifications: do intergroup threat and intergroup emotions matter?


Hard rules or a handshake: the role of soft law in rules-based governance examining the governance structure of financial markets in East Asia


Building in flux


Tumor motion problem during radiotherapy treatment


title: Improvements to stochastic multiple model adaptive control: hypothesis test switching and a modified model arrangement

abstract:
This work demonstrates the fusion of two concepts in switching systems, namely, hypothesis testing and multiple model adaptive control. A hypothesis test switching method is defined to detect parameter jumps in a stochastic environment and perform model selection. The control of a discrete-time stochastic system with rapidly time-varying parameters is simulated. Hypothesis test switching is compared to performance index switching, the most researched and popular switching method. It is found that the hypothesis test method is unique because it operates optimally, without user adjustment or a priori knowledge of the time-varying conditions and model placement. Furthermore, it provides more accurate switching and lower control error.
In addition, a major modification to the way multiple models are arranged is proposed. The change decouples stability and performance. As a result, stability is proven more easily, previously required assumptions can be relaxed, new switching methods can be applied, and performance increases are simulated using current switching methods.


Investigation into lone language learning


Gas bubble generation at a micro-scale orifice


The Feminine value in Nietzsche: Echo, Baubo and Ariadne


Upstairs, downstairs: locating Gosford Park within the critical and cultural context of British (heritage) cinema


The Influence of the social interactional context on test performance : a sociocultural view


Sky-scattered solar radiation based plume transmissivity measurements


Guilt and self-forgiveness for smoking: emotional arousal and motivation for smoking cessation


Sam Peckinpah killed Randolph Scott (but somehow the Duke survived) regeneration and genre tradition in the final Westerns of John Wayne


Generating a contemporary sustainable landscape


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The use of head-up displays (HUDS) in motor vehicles


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Current and delay estimation in deep sub-micrometer CMOS logic circuits


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Trailing edge flap control of dynamic stall on helicopter rotor blades


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The making of the modern muslim women self in Iran and Egypt


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Seismic stability and deformation of Waba dam


Overlap-save receivers for advanced DS-CDMA wireless systems


Computational fatigue analysis of welded structures


Molecularly imprinted solid phase extraction - pulsed elution and capillary electrophoresis for rapid screening of metformin in human plasma


Persistent realtime building interior generation


Extending SNARC to age judgments


The role of ethnic identity and acculturation in the well-being of Somali immigrants


"Giving a voice to Scarborough's black community: an analysis of gun violence and its effects on individuals, families and Scarborough's black community


Behind the hurt: children's underlying emotions and desires and their reported use of relationally as compared to physically aggressive strategies


Offender desistance: an examination of creating choices as it is applied in community corrections


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Adverse medical event reduction technologies: identification of primary risk factors of adverse medical events using artificial neural networks


Parsing streaming network protocols


Accounting for young children's difficulty on the dimensional change card sort


Police perceptions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act and its implementation: Ontario case study


Men's attitudes toward gay men: minimizing the effects of a threatened identity


Defining Canadian identity in the National Cemetery of Canada


Buffer management for WiMax/802.16 subscriber stations


The architecture of archaeology


Stereochemical analysis of naturally occurring cyclopropyl fatty acids


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Dynamics of a passively mode-locked fiber laser containing a long-period fiber grating


Cutting a polygon with a line


Nucleation and short fatigue crack growth behaviour in the 2024-T3 aluminum alloy


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New Denmark, New Brunswick: new approaches in the study of Danish migration to Canada, 1872-1901


Modeling of needle insertion forces for haptics-bassed surgical simulation


Mechanisms of cytotoxicity of three new catechols and one naphthalenediol


Impact of aggregate quarry dewatering on groundwater management in Ontario


Sanctioning violence against female street level sex workers: the Canadian government's failure to take up the challenge of change


Landscape structure affects different Eastern Ontario anuran species at different spatial scales


Negotiating the balance reconciling individual privacy and public interest when addressing at-risk individuals, campus violence and Ontario Privacy Legislation


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Multi-resolution modeling for extremely high resolution 3D scanned faces


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title: Aspects of nonlinear dielectric spectroscopy in the noninvasive determination of glucose

abstract:
Diabetes is a chronic disease of the metabolic system with serious health and social implications. Research in noninvasive methods to measure blood glucose levels is ongoing as a means to improve the monitoring techniques necessary for the management of this disease.
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Numerical simulations of turbulent flows


An analysis of an online survey of risk factors and severe characteristics in Autism Spectrum Disorders


Stories I must tell: an architectural exploration


Solving the iterated prisoner's dilemma using learning automation


Experimental investigation of megavoltage electron beam scattering


Radicalizing "The responsibility to protect:" the problem of A(N) (unmediated moralization of politics in a post-9/11 world


Multi-stage polypeptides comparison improvements for a parallel protein interaction prediction engine


CASH2 - a multiple categorization file management tool for UNIX/LINUX file systems


The impact of narratives on update and change of an existing cognitive map


Not just the girl next door: feminist equality strategies in the face of the "Woman of legal discourse"


Development of an infrared absorption tomography instrument for temporally and spatially resolved fuel concentration measurements


title: Capturing value from early stage technology in open standard environments: the case of Wi-Fi

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Sanitizing or civilizing the airwaves? Towards a regulatory ethic for the moral regulation of expression in public affairs programming