title: Cough sound discrimination in noisy and reverberant environments using microphone arrays

abstract: Cough sound discriminator algorithms are capable of distinguishing between dry and wet cough types. The performance of such algorithms, however, is affected by noise and reverberation which might exist in patients' environments. In this thesis, the performance of the previously developed cough sound discriminator in a noisy and reverberant room is quantitatively measured using Linear Separation Score. Experiments revealed a significant decrease in the performance of the cough sound discriminator in the presence of noise and reverberation using a single microphone for the cough sound acquisition. In order to improve this performance, a microphone array structure which included a maximum of 7 microphones was designed with a delay-and-sum beamformer. Experiments showed a significant improvement in the performance of the cough sound discriminator using a microphone array in noisy and reverberant environments. Finally, a Graphical User Interface was developed in order to visualize the beampattem emitted by the microphone array structure.


title: Feature extraction for the differentiation of dry and wet cough sounds

abstract: Cough is one of the most common symptoms in all respiratory diseases. It is important to provide the healthcare professionals with useful clinical information such as frequency, severity and nature of cough to have a better diagnosis and hence better treatment. The main objective of this thesis is to analyze cough sounds and extract features that can differentiate dry and wet cough sounds. This thesis proposes two features to achieve this goal. The first feature is the number of peaks of the energy envelope of the cough signal. The second feature is the power ratio of two frequency bands of the second phase of the cough signal. A set of nine highly dry and eight highly wet cough recordings were used in this thesis. Using these two features, a clear separation was observed among the dry and wet cough recordings. Furthermore, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) was designed in this thesis as a tool to analyze the cough signals in both time and frequency domain.


Comparison of APD macromodels for accuracy, speed and implementation issues


Effects of landscape structure and agricultural practices on farmland birds in Ontario


A graphical password scheme for mobile devices


Scenaric architecture : the project for a national cabinet of curiosity


From philanthropy to business models : a case study of tourism and horticultural supply linkages in Serengeti National Park Region, Tanzania


Heideggerian existentialism : Ereignis and the experience of Eros


On the energy minimization of large molecules


Electrophysiological evidence for concurrent appetitive and defensive motivational system activation in cue-induced tobacco cravings


Toward inclusive affordable housing : Toronto's Large Sites Policy - just a formality?


Effect of glycosylation on the strcture and dynamics of interferon alpha-2a by NMR studies


Metaphysical lens for architecture


Right to the city - right through the city : preemptive strategies to preserve urban public space


Customer values of communication enabled application mashup types


Human rights and Islam : discursive traditions in dialogue


Application of a high Q, low cost hemispherical cavity resonator to microwave oscillators


Dextral strike-slip faulting history of the mid-cretaceous d'abbadie fault zone, Pelly mountains, South-Central Yukon, Canada


Control-centric modelling and nonlinear control of the blade sailing phenomenon


Multi-spectral imaging system calibration and data fusion for applications in the assessment of rheumatoid Arthritis


Using scale to bridge the local and the global : an exploratory case study of English in the lives of five Okinawan women


Cronaca Noir : the circulation and production of Italian crime films in Quebec in the 1970s


"In, but not of, Europe" : discussions of British national identity in post-war Europe


Robust estimation of variance components in small area estimation


Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Pliocene aged Beaver Pond site (Ellesmere Island, NU)


Neuro-structural analysis of the fast, seizure-prone rat strain vs. the slow, seizure-resistant rat strain using magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI) and stereology


Role of transthoracic impedance on the success of electrical synchronized cardioversion


The music criticism of Jacob Siskind : a case study of corpus linguistic analysis


Intervening in the language of security : emotion, appraisal and securitization theory


Domain independent context awareness framework


Spline-based motion vector encoding scheme


Development of trace analysis methods by spectroflurimetry


Investigating the lexical bundle use of novice and upper-level writers within a university discipline


Effects of moisture, salinity and temperature on mode I fracture toughness of adhesively-bonded composites


En(gulf)ed : frame analysis of New York Times online news coverage following the 2010 BP oil spill


Real-time autonomous obstacle avoidance for low-altitude fixed-wing aircraft


An urban Architecture to nuture people affected by Alzheimer's disease


Learning in pursuit-evasion differential games using reinforcement fuzzy learning


"I can't get no ... social satisfaction" : exploring, the roles of shyness, sociability and social support in the transition to university


The whispering of the framing square


Essays on pollution, scarcity and endogenous technological change


Novel membrane-backed defected ground plane transmission line phase shifter


Multi-antenna and relaying techniques in wireless communication networks


Erotic civility: normative monogamy as a technology of governance and self-governance in North America, 1850s to the present


Source-sink dynamics, dispersal, and landscape effects on North American songbirds


Molecular and biochemical analysis of calreticulin in Solanun lycopersicum


Assessing parenting from an ecological perspective in a Canadian city


Localization and object detection for outdoor mobile robots with 2-D laser sensor


Thor-Odin dome: constraints on paleocene-eocene anatexis and deformation, leucogranite generation and the tectonic evolution of the southern Omineca Belt, Canadian Cordillera


The desire to gamble


Crown ether modified magnetic nanoparticles for the selective determination of 226Ra from aqueous samples


A comparative analysis of tourism destination image and product-country image


Caesarism, Fujimori and the transformation of Peru into a neoliberal order


Canada, the United States and Mexico: asymetrical integration in North America


Transition in separation bubbles: physical mechanisms and passive control techniques


Corrosion of candidate high temperature alloys in supercritical carbon dioxide


Chemical modification of multi-walled  carbon nanotubes and their potential applications as new adsorbents for solid phase extraction from aqueous solutions


The impact of threat environments on western patterns of civil-military relations (September 11, 2001-September 11, 2006)


Accounting for globalization: national statistics, international comparisons and the emergence of the global economy


Theoretical, experimental and numerical investigation of flow and solute transport in saturated porous media subjected to violation to the continuum hypothesis


Warning signal evolution in natural and virtual populations


Gambling as a means of relieving distress : understanding the connections among interpersonal trauma, perceived social support and unsupport, and problem gambling


Bus real-time arrival prediction using statistical pattern recognition technique


All-silicon CMOS pulse-compression nonlinear transmission lines


Probabilistic assessments of soil liquefaction hazard


Procurement policy in Canada evolution and impacts - domestic policy, trade, and information technology


Innocent bystanders to a dangerous situation : the Christian churches and human rights organizing in Ahmedabad, India, and Latin America


Ungovernable subjects: a radical genealogy of moral insanity


Marked by association: stigma, marginalisation, gender and the families of male prisoners in Canada


The development of personal friendship networks


Dynamics of elastic nonlinear rotating composite beams with embedded actuators


Design and evaluation of a  low NOx natural gas-fired conical wire-mesh duct burner for a micro-cogeneration unit


Real-time control and optimization of traffic signal timing transition for emergency vehicle preemption


2-D triangular lattice photonic crystal low loss waveguide bends and Y splitter at microwave frequencies


Transforming gender policy in Germany?  European gender directives and challenges to the male breadwinner policy path


Experimental and numerical investigations for the development of safe transportation of hazardous materials


Analysis of water diffusion in white matter using a hydration layer model


Development of polypyrrole films by electrochemical imprinting for molecular recognition of ochratoxin A - applications in surface plasmon resonace sensor and micro solid phase extraction


Characterization and analysis of secondary metabolites from foliar fungal endophytes of spruce trees


A theory of policymaking in the case of rights exercised about actions


Waveform relaxation and transverse partitioning algorithms for simulation of massively coupled interconnects


Tries in data retrieval and syntactic pattern recognition


Appraisal and coping processes : relation to symptoms of depression


Discriminating anaphoric and non-anaphoric definite nouns: a unified memory-based model


Meditations on the human condition in an imperial age


The responsible investment practices of the world's largest government sponsored investment funds


Complanar technology for the design of a 39.25GHz active mixer


Simulation on the welding process of low-alloy steel by finite element method


Adaptive urban bimodal (car and transit) transportation system management in saturated and oversaturated conditions


The effect of 3D interactive models on conceptual learning


Optimal simple money rules in a small open economy with information uncertainty and measurement error


Come out and play: shyness in childhood and the benefits of sports participation


Micromachined hemispheroidal cavity resonators


Gray codes, universal cycles and confguration orderings for block designs


Regulation of metabolism in estivating land snails: role of reversible protein phosphorylation


Tutor training in a Canadian university's Academic Writing Centre : an ethnographic study of the pre-service training and socialization of junior tutors


A study of uranium speciation in surface freshwaters using diffusive gradients in thin films


Theatre-outside-of-theatres : spaces of digital performance


On the development of the concept of desire in the theory-theory of mind framework


Sponsorship evaluation


Boundary layer transition in attached and separated flows at low Reynolds numbers


The impact of restorative justice practices on participants


#globalcitizen : power, publics and popular culture in the design of humanitarian engagement


Improving access in next-generation broadband wireless networks


Foucault and the battle for politics itself: an aleatory materialist intervention


The truthiness factor : blurring boundaries and the shifting status of objectivity and emotion in television news


Epistemic structure: an inquiry into how agents change the world for cognitive congeniality


Effect of fermentation rate of dietary fibre on short-term satiety, long-term food intake and gut hormone responses in male rats


Use of vibration data for structural health monitoring of bridges


Restor(y)ing our place in the more-than-human world: a narrative approach to an everyday ethics of the self in relationship to earth others and to place


The Leviathan and the contours of conservative imagination: the role of Thomas Hobbes in the works of Schmitt, Strauss and Oakeshott


Evaluating data interoperability : a policy-driven ontological analysis model


Traffic-aware stress testing of distributed real-time systems based on UML models using genetic algorithms


Lady Gaga, Little Monsters and the Yoü and I/Haus of Ü communications : mobilizing new media to transgress hegemonic identities


The progressive potential of municipal social policy: a case study of the struggle over welfare reform in Ottawa during the common sense revolution


Between a rock and hard place: (re)viewing environmental conflicts over aggregate extraction in exurbia


Analysis and performance improvement of serial modulation systems with frequency domain equalization including effects of hardware impairments


Majority-based and hybrid iterative decoding of low-density parity-check codes


Neuro-space mapping technique for microwave device modeling and its use in circuit simulation and statistical design


A differential gene expression algorithm for comparative microarray analysis


Punching shear strength of interior and edge column-slab connections in CFRP reinforced flat plate structures transferring shear and moment


Multi-site network hybrid testing of a multi-span bridge system


Frequency domain channel estimation and equalization for broadband wireless generalized multicarrier systems


John Thompson, Phyllis Webb, and the roots of the free-verse ghazal in Canada


Making a claim on the state: the experiential accounts of repetitive strain injury sufferers in different policy regimes


Causes and consequences of variation in immunity within insect populations


Quantitative analysis of the performance of center-of-pressure measures in static posturography


Extraction of active and sterile neutrino mixing parameters with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory


Models for optimization of network topology and peformance in wireless mesh networks


Pylon-lite: an architectural model for cross-domain QoS


The war for the mind of the west: rationality, culture, geography, history, and the German problem


Forests for the people : resisting neoliberalism through permaculture design


PIPE : a protein-protein interaction prediction engine based on the re-occurring short polypeptide sequences between known interacting protein pairs


Value creation and leveraged buyouts (LBOs)


Unpopular guardian : the politics of central banking in Thailand, 1942-1977


The performative power of naming : the use of "gay-straight alliance" in debate over Ontario's Accepting School Act (Bill 13)


Measurement of the survival probability and determination of the three-flavor neutrino oscillation parameters at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory


Intelligent tracking control of fixed-based and free-flying flexible space robots


Memory, identity, and the challenge of community among Ukrainians in the Sudbury region, 1901-1939


Performance-based seismic design of building structures


Cooperative diversity relaying techniques in wireless communication networks


Tradition and dialogue in hermeneutical political philosophy: three accounts of modernity and human existance in Gadamer, Heidegger and Habermas


Optimizing vacuum assisted resin transfer moulding (VARTM) processing parameters to improve part quality


El cine sobre el desarrollo : the representation of development in the 1960s in popular Spanish films


Crowds are made of people: human factors in microscopic crowd models


Pressure-temperature-time-deformation paths of former mid-crustal rocks, Northern Monashee complex of the Southern Canadian Cordillera : a model of synconvergent exhumation by sequential ductile extrusion


Challenging the Argentine conservative gender regime : the multi-scalar politics of biological reproduction after democratization


title: Segmentation and extraction of regions of interest for automated detection of anomalies in clinical thermal infrared images

abstract: This doctoral thesis presents a complete framework for automated detection of anomalies in clinical thermal IR images. Within that framework, it addresses two fundamental problems: the automated segmentation of a main object from the background; and the automated extraction of relevant, potentially abnormal Regions of Interest. A first segmentation approach called cued morphological processing of edge maps (CMpEm) is introduced, that uses a minimum amount of a priori information about a region to constrain the morphological processing of edge components. It is shown to outperform existing segmentation methods, especially when dealing with faint regions in challenging conditions. A second segmentation approach based on the classification of edge components is presented that is able to recover missing contours when other methods fail. A third segmentation strategy based on a rule-based fusion and morphological post-processing of segmented contours from different techniques is proposed and shown to improve significantly the performance of the global segmentation task. Furthermore, a new approach for automated extraction of anatomical Regions of Interest in clinical IR images is introduced. It is based on a robust landmark identification algorithm that produces more accurate landmark locations on smooth contours than state-of-the-art algorithms. Various aspects of the anomaly detection framework, including blind extraction of potentially abnormal Regions of Interest, are tested on a collection of thermal IR databases acquired in the course of this thesis, in order to demonstrate the key advantages of the framework.


Advanced neural network modeling techniques for efficient CAD of microwave filters


Compliance verification of a design model with respect to its specification model in the context of software defined radios : a model transformation approach


Mefloquine dreams: exploring the subjective experience of risk and safety and its role in the regulation of pharmaceutical drugs in Canada


The effect of low-energy electrons on the response of ion chambers to ionizing photon beams


Evaluation of a candidate classical biological control agent and critical assessment of suggested host specificity testing guidelines


title: Single-ended non-intrusive speech quality monitoring in VoIP

abstract:
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a promising technology and it is expected to replace the traditional telephone networks in the next few years. However, speech quality in VoIP is not guaranteed, due to various new impairments introduced by Internet and Internet Protocol (IP) terminals. Evaluating VoIP speech quality in a non-intrusive fashion is challenging, as a reference signal is not accessible.
The thesis develops a single-ended, non-intrusive speech quality classification and assessment algorithm in VoIP, which reflects end-users’ true quality of experience. A novel assessment structure is proposed, which utilizes a three-step strategy: impairment detection, individual effect modeling and an overall assessment model. The algorithm combines the merits of voice payload and IP header analysis approaches, and several major impairments in VoIP, including temporal clipping, echo, packet loss and noise, are investigated in the thesis.
To model the effects of temporal clipping on speech quality, an algorithm based on the clipping statistics is developed, with different weighting factors assigned to different clipping locations. For the effects of packet loss, a scheme is proposed to first classify the lost packet into three types: silence, unvoiced and voiced, then an algorithm is developed by using loss localization information. To reflect the effects of loss burstiness, a new codec-dependent parameter is introduced. Two prevailing VoIP codecs, ITU-T Rec. G.711 and G.729A, are examined. Echo detection is achieved by measuring its echo path delay and echo path loss. Two algorithms suitable for VoIP scenarios where echo delay is excessive and echo path is nonlinear are developed. For the overall model, the individual models for temporal clipping and packet loss are first combined, with the noise and echo perception models in the E-model, an overall assessment model is developed. Particularly, a two-step noise power estimation method is adopted. The noise additivity assumption in the E-model is examined and a correction curve is suggested.
In the thesis, ITU-T Ree. P.862.1 is used to objectively measure the speech quality. The simulation results show the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. The correlation between prediction and measurement is 0.90, and standard error is 0.27 Mean Opinion Score (MOS). A subjective MOS test covering some key scenarios is also conducted; the ratings are analyzed to verify the novel concepts and to calibrate the proposed models. Moreover, the performance limitations of several leading objective measures are pointed out.


Design and implementation of shortest path bridging for network simulator 3


Constructed narratives : the EU as a foreign policy actor in its relations with China


Regulation of enzyme function in freeze-tolerance


CUWoodFrame : a heat and mass transfer model for light-frame wood floors exposed to fire


Public health care : essays on wait times, home care, and the public-private mix


Aerodynamic, aeroacoustic, and aeroelastic investigations of airfoil-vortex interaction using large-eddy simulation


The use of maps and map metaphors for integration in geography: a case study in mapping indicators of sustainability and wellbeing


Positive and negative congruency effects in masked and unmasked priming: match of representation strength, attention and consciousness


Hoping for the best while preparing for the worst: constructive realism, personal projects and the transition to motherhood


Design and co-simulation of a seasonal solar thermal system for a Canadian single-family detached house


Experimental investigation and conceptual model development for multiphase flow in a water-wet porous medium with napl-wet soil lenses


Bordering on fear : a comparative literary study of horror fiction


Synthesis, characterization and application of ruthenium-containing polymers


Political liberalization in post-communist states: a comparative analysis of church-state relations in Croatia and Slovenia


Analyzing the effect of an externally applied force on the electrode-skin impedance


Isolator-free DFB laser for analog CATV applications


title: Dynamic system reconfiguration

creator:
Walsh, D&#039
Arcy


Halogenated (phenolic) contaminants and complex mixtures in model gull species and competitive binding interactions with major thyroid hormone transport proteins


The key drivers of organizational culture change in the public sector: an analysis of the Canadian federal government


Negotiating without nature: multilateral negotiation of genetic engineering biotechnology via the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety


Moral realism and evolution


Using mobile agents for black hole search with tokens in multi networks


Three essays on the labour market for registered nurses in Canada


Behavioural and neuroendocrine impacts of abuse in dating relationships


Understanding the mechanical properties of nanotwinned copper using molecular dynamics simulation


Essays in dividends-Canadian experience


Bodies without borders : body horror as political resistance in classical Hollywood cinema


Differentiation and predictive factors in adolescent sexual offending


Product market competition and unemployment


Sub-solidus and super-solidus heat treatments of a single crystal superalloy


Neuropathology and behavior after short-term and long-term pinealectomy in the rat


Innovation and performance : the case of the upstream petroleum sector


Ethics of the Foucauldian body


From traditional to third way social democracy: The emergence and evolution of social democratic ideas and policies in Saskatchewan and Quebec in the 20th century


A framework for quality of service aware resource management in multi-Institutional grids


Evolution and maintenance of Batesian mimicry, with particular reference to hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae)


Washed up? : an analysis of water access, sanitation and hygiene programmes


The Impact of the use of internet-based technologies on new product development performance


Labour market performance of foreign-born workers in Canada, evidence for landed immigrants and temporary  foreign workers


Subitizing, finger gnosis, and finger agility as precursors to the representation of number


Potential nonlinear behaviour with VAD use in humans


A web-based perinatal decision support system framework using a knowledge-based-approach to estimate clinical outcomes : neonatal mortality and preterm birth in twins pregnancies


Stochastic finite-fault modeling of the September 26, 2003 M 8.1 Tokachi-Oki earthquake.  Implications for expected ground motions for megathrust events in the Cascadia subduction zone


Application of artificial neural networks in vibration-based damage identification


The relationships among morphology, physiology, performance and individual fitness in two species of teleost fish


Total marrow irradiation using helical tomotherapy


Recovering Borealia: the social-nature of Canada's boreal forest


Constraints on reproductive success of northern fulmars in the Canadian High Arctic


Compositional effects of microsegregation behaviour in single crystal superalloy systems


The role of rivet installaton on the fatigue performance of riveted lap joints


Regulation of metabolic enzymes during hibernation in ground squirrels


Stress engineering for polarization control in silicon-on-insulator waveguides and its applications in novel passive polarization splitters/filters


Contributions to level set estimation, nonparametric regression, confidence intervals from imputed data and marginal logistic regression models for longitudinal survey data


The impact of absorptive capacity on the innovation performance of pharmaceutical firms


Propaganda and persuasion in the Cold war: the Canadian Soviet Friendship Society, 1949-1960


Mineralogy, petrology, and isotope geochemistry of magmatic rocks from the Western Alps, Ernici and Roccamonfina, Italy: constraints on mantle enrichment processes


Efficient live wide area VM migration with IP adddress change using type II hypervisor


Durability of green concrete as a structural material


From dispossession to decolonization: towards a critical indigenous geography of Hul'qumi"num territory


title: Multimodal talker localization in video conferencing systems

abstract: In a video conferencing environment, it is desirable to isolate the active talker. Traditionally, talker localization is performed acoustically using a beamforming microphone array or videographically using image processing techniques. Since these approaches rely only on the audio or the video data for performing the localization, they are often prone to errors. In this thesis, a new modular multimodal architecture is designed. Data from each localization modality are separated in the beginning, and localizations are performed using each data stream independently. In order to study the effectiveness of this modular multimodal architecture, this thesis combines audio, visual and infrared cues to locate talkers in the video conferencing environment. Special purpose acoustic, video and thermo localizers are developed to perform the localization. Individual results from the localizers are then combined using data fusion techniques to give the final estimation of the talker’s location. Two common fusion methods, the summing voter and the Bayesian network, are studied in this thesis. The effectiveness of another two novel fusion methods, the talker occupancy grid assisted summing voter and the talker occupancy grid assisted Bayesian network, are also investigated. A unique algorithm that uses the correlation lags to detect acoustic reflections is also developed in the process of this thesis. Based on the results from experiments and computer simulations, the proposed multimodal localization method outperforms localization methods, in terms of accuracy and robustness, when compared with other single modal methods that rely only on audio, video, or infrared data.


A 2-D hybrid euler-compressible vortex particle method for transonic rotorcraft flows


Paradoxes of power: the Lands for Life public consultations


If we are attacked, let us be prepared : Canada and the failure of civil defence, 1945-1963


Becoming a "Place of Origin": the conceptual and political conundrums of in situ conservation


Wyndham Lewis's kulturkampf


Measurement of percieived organizational readiness for change and employees' attitudes toward change in the public sector


Experimental investigation and analytical modeling of solid-particle erosion behavior of stellite alloys


India's competition regimes and informal business institutions: interaction, conflict and accommodation


Time-domain simulation of electromagnetic band-gap structures using the TLM method


Design fires for commercial premises


Investigation of analytical techniques for determination of metal speciation in natural waters


The consequences of retained lures on free swimming fish : physiological, behavioural and fitness perspectives


Thermal, density, seismological, and rheological structure of the lithospheric-sublithospheric mantle from combined petrological-geophysical modeling: insights on lithospheric stability and the initiation of subduction


Structural performance of steel reinforced recycled concrete members


Using S. cerevisiae genetic array technologies to understand mode of action of ethobotanical mycotics


Orchestrating communities : an investigation of El Sistema and its global influences


Effect of salinity on biodegradation of MSW in bioreactor landfills


On the control of a control process: speed-accuracy trade-offs and task-switching costs


An ontological exploration of Antarctic environmental governance: towards a model for geographic information mediation


"Are you the right friend for me?" the effects of friendships on shy children's adjustment in middle childhood


Charting from past to tuture: frames, graphs and forecasts


Network time synchronization and code-based scheduling for wireless Ad Hoc network


From the Medical Research Council to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research: understanding transformational institutional change /Joan Murphy.


Strategically natural: nature, social trust and risk regulation of genetically modified foods and natural health products in Canada


The role of Lycopersicon esculentum ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes LeUBC1 and S/UBC3 in the response to stress induced by fungal toxin fumonisin B1


Giving life to the labour process: transgenic biotechnology and the meaning of nature


Cellular adaptation to dehydration stress : molecular adaptations for dehydration tolerance in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis


title: Iterative decoding in analog VLSI

abstract:
This thesis explores theoretical and practical aspects of iterative decoding algorithms when they are implemented on analog continuous-time platforms. Analog continuous-time iterative decoding was proposed a few years ago to improve the power/speed ratio of decoder chips that decode capacity achieving codes. It was commonly believed that replacing discrete-time processing modules with analog circuits would not change the dynamics of the iterative decoder. On the contrary, we show that not only does continuous-time iterative decoding have different dynamics, but also its error correcting performance can surpass that of conventional iterative decoders. We also present a simple model for ideal continuous-time iterative decoding.
As a direct consequence of our study on the dynamics of analog decoders, we show that by looking at the decoding as a numerical problem and using advanced numerical techniques, we are able to improve the convergence rate and decoding performance of iterative decoding algorithms.
Furthermore, we devise novel processing modules for implementing affordable high-speed analog min-sum iterative decoders by using strongly inverted CMOS transistors. This is favorable because previously reported analog decoders were either BiCMOS or weakly inverted CMOS designs. The former could be fast but is rather expensive and the latter would be low-power but it is not fast enough for many applications. Our design is modular and the main blocks are constructed based on current mirrors and virtually any accurate current mirror can be used as the main block in our design. As an example, we show how the building modules can be designed in deep submicron CMOS technologies. We also present an appropriate design methodology for implementing high-degree blocks that can drastically reduce silicon area and power consumption.
To prove the functionality of the proposed circuits, an analog min-sum iterative decoder chip for a (32,8) regular LDPC code was designed and fabricated in 0.18pm CMOS technology. This chip is the first analog min-sum iterative decoder. Also, it is the first functional analog iterative decoder for an LDPC code and is the fastest reported analog CMOS iterative decoder. Measurement results not only show that the proposed circuits are functional but also confirm the validity of our proposed model for ideal analog decoding. In fact, when noise in the channel is dominant compared to the imperfections in the analog iterative decoder, the simulation results based on our proposed model are close to the measurement results.


Expanding SNARC for temperature, negative numbers and intelligence


The nature, function, and social context of advice: a cross-cultural study


Achieving food security through food system resilience: the case of Belize


Minimal intervention and decision making in conserving the built heritage


Effects of phonological, visual and spatial information processing on a simulated driving task


Using weather variability and sociopolitical instability to measure the responses of savings and labour supply


Data stream algorithms


Synthesis and characterization of calixarene-based supramolecular frameworks


Topology abstraction service for IP virtual private networks


Manufacturing descent? An analysis of the impact of labour law on union organizing activities in Ontario


Shaping American identity through music : nationality, taste, and power at the Cincinnati May Festival, 1873-1905


Civilization and genocide


Photonic quasicrystals: a case for crystal angular momentum


Targeting novel synthetic antioxidants towards reducing free radical - induced cell damage


An EGSnrc investigation of correction factors for ion chamber dosimetry


A DNS study on the forcing of 3D instability mechanisms of laminar planar free-shear layers


Changing actors, unchanging policies : a case study of Ghanian women's organizations and the state


Second-generation evaluation of a correctional community substance abuse program


VLSI architectures for mimo detection


Network scanning detection strategies for enterprise networks


Policy-enabled traffic engineering in maritime tactical networks


LTE traffic generation and evolved packet core (EPC) network planning


What is water? The history and crisis of a modern abstraction


Developing the border effects theory in international trade


Investigating geometric uncertainties in prostate cancer radiotherapy


Location tracking mitigation for honest nodes and location estimation of uncooperative devices in wireless mobile networks


Low complexity delay and phase-locked loops


Causes and consequences of variation in patterns of parasitism in anuran amphibians


An empirical study of the relationships among strategy, flexibility, and performance in the supply chain context : a path analysis approach


The design and commissioning of a micro-cogeneration testing facility


Psychosocial modeling of Canadian gaming behavior : a comparative analysis of Canadian community mental health


Novel micro-aggregation techniques for secure statistical databases


Techniques for low-power CMOS transmitter system integration for short-range radio-frequency communication


Experimental and numerical investigations of conceptual models for biological clogging of unsaturated soils


Beyond data protection: applying Mead's symbolic interactionism and Habermas's communicative action to Westin's theory of privacy


Predicting respiratory induced tumor motion using external surrogates


The making of a Cold War air force: planning and professionalism in the postwar Royal Canadian Air Force, 1944-1950


One-dimensional numerical model of transient discharges in air of a spatial plasma ignition device


Team situation awareness in firefighting : the impact of sudden obstructions, building complexity and information availability


Satisfying end-to-end quality of service requirements with end-to-end performance inference technique


A brief history of the future of urban computing and locative media


A theory of internal conflict: causes of political instability in natural resource rich developing economies


Charity in Canada : a governance and historical institutional lens on charitable registration


Essays on financial aspects of macroeconomics and monetary policy


Efficient table lookup algorithms for the next generation IP networks


The stripping susceptibility of airfield asphalt mixes: the development of guidelines for a laboratory test method


The impact of a large arctic storm surge on chironomid community assemblages, Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada


Anthropological advocacy?: Frank Speck and the mapping of aboriginal territoriality in eastern Canada, 1900-1950


Playing the survivor : how (and if) women recover from spousal abuse


Present at the creation: the telecommission studies and the intellectual origins of the right to communicate in Canada (1969-71)


An investigation of critical factors of citizen-centric electronic-government adoption


title: The syntax and pragmatics of English tag questions : a study of adult Arabic learners of English

creator:
Al-Nabtiti, Imad Moh&#039
d


Design, synthesis and characterization of indenofluorene and indenofluorenone derivatives


Tail asymptotics and ergodicity for the GI/G/1-type Markov chains


Fracture mechanics analyses of partial crack closure in shell structures


Taking it to the streets: space, labour and resistance in the Vancouver and Paris film industries from 1970 to 2005


Ambivalent constrcutions of nature and region in Lynn Coady's fiction : an ecocritical reading


The determinants and effects of financial liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa : a regional analysis with a case study of Nigeria


Inclusion chemistry of TRIS(5-acetyl-3-thienyl)methane (TATM) materials


Scaling up or selling out? A critical appraisal of current developments in vertical farming


Development of tetraphenylborate-based photobase generators and sacrificial polycarbonates for radiation curing and photoresist applications


Producing enhanced quality biosolids through anaerobic digester optimization


Memory and mythmaking : the role of autobiography in the works of Jack Chambers and Greg Curnoe


PIES: protocol independent energy saving technique for mobile ad hoc networks


Mixed siliciclastic-carbonate ramp sediments and coral bioherms of the late Ordovician Lourdes Formation, Western Newfoundland: sedimentology, stratigraphy, and tectonic significance


Safe streets and communities? : public discourses on a Canadian "tough-on-crime" legislation


The relationship between beliefs, strength of evidence, statistical presentation, and expert testimony on jury decision-making in DNA cases


Mammalian hibernation: gene expression and transcription factor regulation of the unfolded protein response, apoptosis, and atrophy in ground squirrels


Deterministic design and performance analysis of low-density parity-check codes in the presence of channel estimation error


Biologically plausible methods for robot visual homing


Development of design tools for coining process using FEM


Monitoring-cycle based fault detection and localization in mesh all-optical networks


Touching fiction : embodied narrative self-reflexivity and eighteenth-century British sentimental novels


Nihilism and technologies of othering: the Kurds in Iran, Iraq and Turkey


The politics and processes of social assistance gender regime shift in Nova Scotia : from voluntary 'rehabilitation' to compulsory 'employability', 1980-2001


The antimicrobial activity of Bacillus subtilis strain CU12


Finite element model of structures with piezoelectric elements


Resedimentation of the late Holocene White River ash, Yukon territory, Canada and Alaska, USA


The universality of rights John Humphrey, Henri Bergson and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights


Conflict prevention in Africa at the end of the twentieth century: seizing opportunities to rescue an endangered continent


Organo-electronic technology for integrated high functionality devices


Mitigation of freshwater turtle bycatch and mortality associated with inland commercial fyke-net fisheries


Dynamic manipulation of asymmetric forebody vortices to achieve linear control


Wireless system-on-chip sensor design for radiotherapy applications


Rule-based automatic software performance diagnosis and design improvement


The "what" and "where" of landmarks : impact on way-finding and spatial knowledge


Circles of trust: a comparison of the size and composition of trust circles in Canada and in China


Audio signal classification in reverberant and noisy environments


Subjects, comrades, and citizens: imperial, bolshevik, and post-Soviet foundings in the Russian citizenship tradition


Adaptive laser range scanning using quality metrics


A refuge from militarism? : the Canadian movement to support Vietnam era American war resisters, and government responses, 1965-1973


Learning automata based intelligent tutorial-like systems


Mechanisms for energy efficient scheduling-based MAC for wireless sensor networks


Towards scalable genetic programming


Stochastic modeling and analysis of multichannel SW-ARQ


Adulthood and other horizons: the complexities of temporalities and orientations to the future


A genus level revision of the subfamily Cardiophorinae Candèze (insecta: Coleoptera : Elateridae)


On the predictability and security of user choice in passwords


Beyond singer vs. non-singer in singing, health and well-being : development and testing of the singing experience scale


Model-based dynamic resource management for multi tier informaiton systems


'Doing time  on the outside': transcarceration and the social control of criminalized women in the community


Assessing the incremental validity of personality on direct leadership in the Canadian forces


Development of a Bayesian decision theory framework to enhance the design of rear-end collision warning systems


The influence of integration on the remittance behaviours of diasporas


Numerical investigation of the effects of cracking and embedded reinforcement on surface concrete resistivity measurements using Wenner probe


Of science and civic character: a study of Plato, Bacon and Hobbes


Variation in Shorebird nest survival : proximate pressures and ultimate constraints


A ubiquitous GIS: framework, services and algorithms, development


Decomposable combinatorial structures with restricted patterns


A reconfigurable systolic array architecture for multicarrier wireless applications


A new look into the linkages between metal speciation and bioavailability and toxicity in natural waters


Accurate measurement of the x-ray coherent scattering form factors of tissues


Counter-hegemonic citizenship, hate crimes and the safety of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered (LGBT) people in Canada, 1993-2003; perspectives on violence targeted at LGBT communities in Ottawa


The phenology of turion formation in Spirodela polyrhiza as an adaptation to unpredictable environments : implications for the evolution of bet hedging and phenotypic plasticity


An integrated hybrid data mining systems for preterm birth risk assessment based on a 'semantic web services for healthcare' framework


Predicting the offending trajectories of Canadian juvenile probationers: a latent growth curve modeling approach


Usable authentication and click-based graphical passwords


Studies on the structure and morphology of perylene containing polymers


Oral amphetamine administration's effects on prefrontal monoamines and the behavioural comorbidities of temporal lobe epilepsy : a potential new model for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder


Perceptions of voluntourism


An Assessment of the state of knowledge transfer in health services: a framework and health services case study


Cloud client prediction models for cloud resource provisioning in a multitier web application environment


Prediction  of single and multi-user downlink channel capacities based on multiple antenna propagation measurements


Expelling pleasure? School-based sex education and the sexual regulation of youth


Authentication and securing personal information in an untrusted internet


Determinants of marketer satisfaction with the choice of electronic marketplace type


Assessment of record linkage and measurement error in cohort mortality studies


Parallel text mapping of web-based bilingual corpus materials


Finding solutions to work-life conflict : examining models of control over work-life interface


title: Transform domain model-based wideband speech enhancement with hearing aid applications

abstract:
This thesis studies transform-domain model-based algorithms to improve the feedback and noise control performance of hearing aids processing wideband speech in non-stationary environments. Subband adaptive filter structures are investigated for continuous and non-continuous adaptation feedback compensation, and the particle filter framework is used to develop state-space model-based speech enhancement algorithms.
Subband feedback compensation is shown to offer several advantages. The flexibility offered by the frequency division allows subband systems to offer faster and more stable convergence for wideband signals, and better tracking of changing acoustic feedback paths. Robustness is also improved, as divergence caused by path changes or input signal correlation is confined to individual frequency bands.
A Rao-Blackwellized particle filter (RBPF) algorithm is proposed for enhancement of speech discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients, and is evaluated in comparison to the standard fullband RBPF. The DCT subband decomposition is shown to enable improved modeling of wideband speech signals, especially in spectral troughs, thereby decreasing intra-speech noise in both best-case and real-world conditions.
A novel particle filter algorithm is also proposed for short-time spectral amplitude (STSA) speech enhancement. A dynamic model of spectral amplitude evolution is used to allow for speech signal correlation in the frequency domain. Two variants of the basic algorithm are presented: the first incorporates phase information to improve the spectral amplitude estimates; the second uses interacting multiple models to account for speech presence uncertainty. The monaural algorithm is extended to the binaural case with a filter based speech and noise parameter estimator. The estimator exploits knowledge of the diffuse noise field coherence to separate the clean speech and noise power spectra without external noise or voice-activity estimation.
In both feedback and noise control, the transform domain allows for processing strategies that take into account the diverse frequency-dependent characteristics of the wideband signals. Incorporating models of speech, noise and the acoustic environment allows the addition of time-domain constraints and a-priori knowledge to address signal non-stationarity. The developed algorithms are evaluated using real speech and noise signals recorded with a commercial hearing aid.


Une approche théorique des conceptions du fédéralisme mises de l'avant par les revendications d'autonomic gouvernementale autochtones comme éléments de remise en question du fédéralisme canadien


Dynamic multiscale modeling of materials at the nanoscale


Influence of support media on membrane fouling reduction of water with different organic and inorganic matter content


A pharmacological examination of GABAb receptor-mediated inhibition in the amygdala of fast and slow kindling rat strains; in VIVO and in VITRO studies.


Neural-network-based transient modeling of nonlinear electronic circuits for high-speed applications


Forging bonds with women, nature and the Third World: an ecofeminist critique of international relations


Sub-lethal consequences of net entrapment on freshwater turtles encountered as bycatch in commercial fisheries


Racing through adolescence: becoming and belonging in the narratives of second generation South Asian girls


End-cap calorimeter performance and identification of the t-channel single top quark process with ATLAS dectector


Rician noise corrected multi-component analysis of the MR diffusion signal decay for human brain in vivo


Resistance is futile: Indian cinema and identity construction among young south Asian Canadians of muslim and other backgrounds


Reproductive anxiety : reconfiguring the human in virtual culture


Radiometric identification of long term evolution transmitters


Wave solutions of nonlocal delayed reaction-diffusion equations


User design research : an investigation into interprofessional rehabilitation care practices of geriatric patients with hip surgery


Metal speciation in natural water: evaluating kinetics versus equilibrium


Polynomials over finite fields: relationships with integers and permutation polynomials


Modelling and experimental study of automotive air-conditioning systems with consideration of two-component two-phase flow


Towards a defense of moderate naturalism


Stress parameter distribution on an earthquake fault based on a stochastic modeling approach


"If it's good for you, it's good for the nation!" The moral regulation of nutrition in Canada, 1930 - 1945


Detection of rogue devices in wireless networks


A methodology for computational cognitive modelling


Disrupted self-concept among early-maltreated women: a path to disordered eating symptomatology


Adaptation of Canadian Forces members and their spouses to the demands of military life : the role of social and organizational support


Estimation in mixture models


Classification in the presence of missing covariates


Exclusion and the global political economy: from critique to rethinking


A low complexity digital phase-locked loop based frequency synthesizer


Reconfiguring assimilation : understanding the First Nations Property Ownership Act in historical context


Looking for the political good: a "friendly" encounter between Aristotle and Jacques Derrida


Martin Scorsese and film culture: radically contextualizing the contemporary auteur


OECD Programme for International Student Assessment: unraveling a knowledge network


Field-test of a gender-informed security re-classification scale for female offenders


Operationalizing clean development mechanism baselines: a case study of China's electrical sector


Constructing whiteness and locating power in East Africa : desirability and status of 'others' with access


Matching and morphing of isometric models


title: Force-reflecting teleoperation over wide-area networks

abstract: Bilateral (force-reflecting) teleoperation in the presence of network induced communication constraints presents significant challenges in terms of stability and transparency of the teleoperator system. It is well-known that the stability of the force reflecting teleoperators is compromised in the presence of even small communication delays. Also, stability and transparency are conflicting goals; in particular, high force reflection gain provides a better kinesthetic as well as tactile feedback, however, it also destabilizes the overall system due to increasing the closed-loop gain. In this thesis, a set of results is presented towards stable and transparent force-reflecting teleoperation in the presence of communication constraints typical for serial communication networks. A small gain approach to network-based bilateral teleoperation is systematically developed. The approach is built upon a new version of the input-to-output stability small gain theorem for systems which communicate over multiple networked channels. Based on this theorem, schemes for bilateral teleoperation over networks are developed that guarantee the stability/tracking properties in the presence of network induced communication constraints. Projection-based force reflection algorithms are introduced that solve the contradiction between stability, maneuvrability, and high force reflection gain; in particular, these algorithms allow for achieving the stability for arbitrarily low damping of the master manipulator and arbitrarily high force reflection gain Next, the problem of design of the network-based teleoperators enhanced by means of virtual environment is addressed. The approach proposed is based on a nonlinear sampled-data design framework, and uses ideas from model-based control as well as multi-rate sampled data systems. The control algorithms and the communication protocols are presented that guarantee stability of the overall system under mild assumptions imposed on communication process.


Government, not-for-profit and for-profit sectors in Canadian international aid


Cooperative connectivity models and bounds for wireless relay networks


Chemical heterogeneity of humic substances and its impact on metal complexation in natural waters


Language, gender and generation : the social economy approach to health and the case of Estrie's English-speaking communities


Fair medium access control scheme for packet ring networks


Mentalizing capacities in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)


Measurement of thermal conductivity of smaller thermal insulation specimens using standard heat flow meter apparatus


Crafting on the fringe: a contextualised analysis of government development policy and self-employed commodity production in Newfoundland


Comparative study of materials' behaviour in supercritical water and superheated steam


The effects of housing density and the trade-off between housing density and sprawl area on breeding birds and carabid beetles


An archaeology of Keynesianism : the macro-political foundations of the modern welfare state in Canada, 1896-1948


Genesis of polymetallic mineralization and the metallogeny of the paleoproterozoic cobalt embayment, Northern Ontario


Channel estimation in single carrier frequency domain equalization space division multiple access systems


On improving FPT K-VERTEX COVER with applications to some combinatorial problems


Applying an ecosystem approach to community health research in rural Northern Ghana


Rethinking wife abuse: violence, resistance, and public policy in Canada


Chaotic systems for pattern recognition and brain modelling


Process for developing an initial version of a shared platform


Revolutionising landscapes: hydroelectricity and the heavy industrialisation of society and environment in the Comté de Beauharnois, 1927-1948


Transnational governance through inclusive neoliberalism: the international financial institutions and the Poverty Reductions Strategy Papers (PRSPs) of Nicaragua and Honduras


Ferroelectric thin film nanocomposite and bilayer characterization through simulation using the phase field method


An "anecdotic self-portrait" : strategies of disclosure in The Secret Life of Salvador Dali


Neoliberal global governance: a study of how international development organizations transform East African mediascapes


Resource management and service differentiation in WDM networks


The rise of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario and the demise of the Alberta Liquor Control Board: why such divergent outcomes?


A self-regularization technique in boundary element method for three-dimensional elastostatics


Continuous compensation of binary-weighted DAC nonlinearities in bandpass delta-sigma modulators


The financial embargo of 1986-1991 on South Africa: dynamic analysis


Analysis and design of swarm-based robots using game theory


ERP systems institutionalization: the effect of organizational and perceived technological characteristics


A multibit reference feedback sigma-delta modulator for radio receivers


Automatic rule discovery and generalization in supervised and unsupervised learning tasks


Local entrepreneurialism, state re-scaling and scalar strategies of representation: the case of the city of Gaziantep, Turkey


The role of organizational capabilities in technology commercialization performance


Mosaic of silence : hearing what young people in Canada have to say about citizenship


Faster MIP solutions via new node selection rules


Volcano-stratigraphy and major element geochemistry of the southern Natkusiak Formation flood basalts of Victoria Island : insights into the initiation of the Neoproterozoic Franklin Magmatic Event


Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of the Baker Lake sub-basin, Nunavut: evolution of a paleoproterozoic rift basin


Imaging men, masculinity and fatherhood in magazine advertising: ideological and hegemonic constructions of masculinity and fatherhood in magazine advertising (1960-2000)


High performance transducer architecture for content inspection engines


Minimum movement relocation strategies for barrier coverage on a line segment


Competitive effects on the evaluation of brand extensions


Low power sub-sampling radio receiver architecture


Electrophysiological characteristics of neurons in the dorsal cortex of the inferior colliculus


Adopting agile software development practices: success factors, changes required, and challenges


Æip: a generalized framework for the study of interactive learning


Reading and spelling development in Persian from grade 1 to grade 4


Should politicians be forced to disclose their health status in Canada?


Contributions to imputation for missing survey data


Characterization of hyperpolarized 129xe dessolved in perfluorooctyl bromide emulsions as a novel magnetic resonance contrast agent


A new matrix of the arts : a history of the professionalization of Canadian women artists, 1880-1914


Uneasy relationship : the dilemma of liberal state and new citizens


Organizational change : processes, contexts and perspectives


Traffic balancing: a method for exploiting system capacity in wireless Ad Hoc networks


Moral discourse in a world after virtue : communication and dialogue in the thought of Alasdair MacIntyre


Measuring the effects of forest extent and road traffic on anuran populations


Evaporation, cracking, and salinity in a thickened oil sands tailings


10+Gbps serial data transmission over a Tyco 34" FR4 backplane channel using amplitude-optimized bit-edge equalization with an adjustment of LMS error derivation points


Resizing H.264/AVC frames in the compressed domain


Modernity, social movements and democracy: feminist movements in post-1980 turkey


Conspiracy and the logic of capital


The Supreme Court of Canada: reaffirming the norm through the veil of constitutional neutrality


Unphilosophical philosophy : Nietzche's will to power as overcoming of truth and revaluation of time


Transcriptional regulation in the hibernating thirteen-lined ground squirrel, Spermophilus tridecemlineatus


Understanding virtual team effectiveness : an exploration


Approximation algorithms for geometric networks


Sensing characteristics of core and cladding modes in conventional single mode fibre and photonic crystal fibre


Pathways to literacy: a study of invented spelling and its role in learning to read


Trans-species expression of a nonself recognition domain


Electrophysiological and behavioral indices of acoustic change detection and involuntary attention switches in schizophrenia


Revisiting the problem of market segmentation : a new approach using self-organizing maps, a data mining technique, in database marketing


A case study of the expatriate boundary spanning role


Transceiver architecture for short-range wireless applications


Numerical and experimental analysis of aerosol deposition in a novel and standardized human nasal cavity


A general perception based framework for modelling animal aggregation


Cellular model simulations of solidification structures in ternary alloys


Dynamic analysis of a biofilter treating ATAD off gases and dynamic model development


Impact of road surface temperature and condition on the risk of winter vehicle collisions


A new platform for integrated photonic sensing with nanostructured thin films


Modelling and attenuation feasibility of the aeroelastic response of active helicopter rotor systems during the engagement/disengagement phase of maritime operation


Making Canadian trade policy: domestic decision making and the negotiation of the auto pact and the CUFTA


Tc99m/T1201 cross-talk corrections on a dedicated cardiac CZT SPECT camera


Interacting systems and subordinated systems in time-varying and random environments


Synthesis, characterization and properties of near infrared-active ruthenium complexes and polymers


Characteristics of a multi-functional device and capillary flow of refrigeration systems


Monopoly, competition, and productive efficiency


The impact of product positioning strategy, manufacturing strategy and their co-alignment on firm's performance


The imposter phenomenon : insecurity cloaked in success


Magnetic resonance imaging approaches to gel dosimetry for validation of conformal radiotherapy treatment plans


An algorithm for the aerodynamic analysis of rotating blades using a weak viscous-inviscid interaction method


The effects of constructive realism and attachment orientation on the adjustment of university students


Image reconstruction in EIT using advanced regularization frameworks


Multiuser multirate DS-CDMA detection techniques in multipath fading channels


Winning the peace: Canadian economic and political security, 1943-1948


The choice between focus and diversification strategies in banking and its relationship to risk and return outcomes


Extravascular density imaging for regional partial volume correction of 18FDG cardiac PET images


Reproduction disruptions: an exploration of personal and social meanings of conception difficulties


title: Robust echo cancellation in harsh environments

abstract:
This thesis deals with the development of adaptive filter structures, adaptation algorithms, and control algorithms capable of operating in harsh environments, and applied to the problem of echo cancellation in telecommunications systems. The specific environments considered are moderate-to-high levels of background noise, doubletalk conditions, and echo cancellation in Voice-over-IP (VoIP) networks. A secondary focus is maintaining low complexity in the resulting structures and algorithms.
The problem of doubletalk detector calibration is addressed by statistical modeling and applied to the normalized cross-correlation-based doubletalk detector. Detection probability is a function of the parameter estimation window, echo to noise ratio (SNR) and near-end speech to echo ratio (NER), and methods for compensating background noise bias do not eliminate the detection statistic’s SNR dependency. Signal-adaptive algorithms are presented for constructing thresholds based on statistical criteria, which are shown to be capable of increasing detection rates.
Psychoacoustic limits of echo canceller performance in the presence of noise are quantified using a perceptual model of hearing, and it is shown that average-power-based performance measures may under- or over-estimate the amount of audible echo removed by an echo canceller. Two algorithms are proposed for estimating the audible echo signal reduction provided by an echo canceller, and verified using informal listening tests.
Affine Projection (AP) and normalized cross-correlation-based doubletalk detection algorithms are derived for echo cancellers employing critically sampled subband adaptive filters. Subband AP, even with only 2 - 4 subbands, can improve the rate of convergence over fullband AP employing the same projection order. Background noise is not spectrally flat, and so per-subband adaptive detection thresholds can be constructed which provide an improvement in detection rates over fullband doubletalk detectors.
Adaptation and control algorithms utilizing linear-prediction-based speech parameters are proposed for echo cancellers deployed in VoIP networks. Decorrelated adaptation and doubletalk detection algorithms are presented that avoid the cost of constructing decorrelation filter coefficients. A power spectrum estimation algorithm is proposed for residual echo from nonlinear vocoder distortion. When incorporated into a frequencydomain post-filter, near-end speech spectral distortion is improved by 0.98 dB, with 0.4 increase in estimated mean opinion score.


Reversing the gaze : Wasu, The Keys and The Black Man on Europe and Western civilization in the interwar years, 1933-1937


Bayesian Model selection and parameter estimation for a nonlinear fluid-structure interaction problem


The homeless and reformers: negotiating progress in the upper streets of Halifax, 1890-1914


Securing cyberspace: neo-liberalism, risk and child safety


Coping with threats to religious identity : implications for psychological outcomes, social action, and political consciousness


Quantification of pavement textural and frictional characteristics using digital image analysis


Welfare states and crime rates: an analysis of the impact of welfare state inclusiveness on the production of youth crime statistics in Quebec & Ontario


From UML to performance models by XML transformations


Identity, discourse, and the media: the case of the Kurds


Gender and policy development in mid-sized Canadian cities : a case study of local economic development in Waterloo Region


A study on the drinking patterns of male and female employees in Alberta: the impact of work environment and job stress


Exploring the 'as yet unknown' in historical epistemology, experimental systems and contemporary nutrition


Dinuclear ruthenium and platinum complexes: design, synthesis, characterization and potential applications


Overcoming the limitations of silicon MMICs


A comparison of life-history characters of arctic and alpine populations of the annual Koenigia islandica


Decorrelation of MIMO channels with distributed base station antennas


It is a big deal! : it's not just a dirty kitchen : examining the gendered division of housework


Invariance principles via studentization in linear structural and functional error-in-variables models


Determination of T-stress solutions for cracked 2D anisotropic elastic bodies using the boundary element method


A study of some issues related to seismic design provisions of national building code of Canada


Influence of loading distribution on the performance of high pressure turbine blades


Free trade zones: characteristics and tennant behaviour


Performance and characteristics of Canadian acquiring firms


Flexible residential smart grid simulation framework


Mapping to coarse grain reconfigurable arrays using evolutionary algorithms


Development of zwitterionic chromophores for electro-optic applications


Study of carrier injection for performance optimization of a reconfigurable waveguide digital optical switch on InGaAsP/InP


Design of novel thermal barrier coatings with reduced thermal conduction and thermal radiation


Monte Carlo studies of the ATLAS forward calorimeter and of the supersymmetric top quark


Silicon photonics: coupling, propagation and modulation of light in silicon


Dose errors in the treatment planning process of cancer radiotherapy


Two essays on the real exchange rate


On the feasibility of using Use Case Maps for the prevention of sequence breaking in video games


"A splendid army of organized womanhood" gender, communication and the National Council of Women of Canada, 1893-1918


A CDR with a digital threshold decision technique and a cyclic reference injected DLL frequency multiplier wtih a period error compensation loop


Investigation of planar fresnel zone plate antennas


On the elementary theories of free nilpotent Lie algebras and free nilpotent groups


The substantive representational effects of women legislators in presence, legislative outputs, & extra-parliamentary activity: a qualitative analysis of the Canadian Senate


Handling inconsistency in databases and data integration systems


Power, race, class and gender in Colonial Santo Domingo: an analysis of Spanish Dominican marital patterns in the Archbishopric of Santo Domingo, 1701-1801


Getting in the car to Weirdsville: taking a trip with Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes


Monopoly bidding strategy under the Ontario MPMA and system reliability


A frequency synthesizer with frequency divider and frequency multiplier for spur reduction


When can genetic information be used to measure inter-population movement?


Performance estimation, code construction and decoding of finite-length low-density parity-check codes


Chemical-genetic profile analysis of inhibitory nano-compounds in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae


Metamorphic petrology of siliceous marbles and associated gneissic rocks in the Grenville Province of southeastern Ontario


Gender discrimination: emotions and ingroup strength a stress and coping perspective


Driving high: a study of student driving behaviours and attitudes towards marijuana use and driving


Donne senza uomini; women without men : Canadian film and video makers of Italian heritage


Adaptive algorithms for routing and traffic engineering in stochastic networks


An examination of faying surface fretting in single lap splices


Parametric uncertainty quantification in coalescene flutter


A pro-active mobility management scheme for publish/subscribe middleware systems


Performance modeling of replication techniques in parallel and distributed layered service architectures


Tax breaks & tax averaging: longitudinal insights into the incidence of deferred income plans


Forest structural complexity in a temperate hardwood forest : a geomatics approach to modelling and mapping indicators of habitat and biodiversity


National innovation systems, social capital, and country image: a multi-country study of international scientific collaborations


The effects of unsteady loads on human postural stability while exposed to shipboard motions


Thermal modeling of solid oxide fuel-cell based biomass gasification systems


The politics of governance in Canada : building new relations between the state and voluntary sector organizations across scales


Performance of the Atlas Forward Calorimeter and search for the invisible Higgs via vector boson fusion at ATLAS


Three essays on cross-border mergers and acquisitions in emerging markets


Bandwidth allocation and fairness in resilient packet rings


title: Development of Ontario ShakeMaps

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The coastal communities network: community development, the internet, and cultural change in rural Nova Scotia


Optimizing and implementing repair programs for consistent query answering in databases


Effect of initial water content and stress history on water-retention behaviour of mine tailings


Development of the interrelationship between driver behaviour and highway design and safety


Exaptation and functional shift in evolutionary computing


Strong ground motions for bridge design and non-linear dynamic response analysis of bridges


Advanced algorithms for modeling and simulation of high-speed interconnects


Performing capital: toward a cultural economy of popular and global finance


Predictors of career adjustment for immigrant women in Canada


Securing routing protocols through information corroboration


Post-glacial climate and vegetation change in the Seymour-Belize Inlet Complex, central coastal British Columbia, Canada


Improving area coverage by mobile sensor networks


Priority based resource management techniques for distributed systems


Study of the replacement correction factors for ionization chamber dosimetry by Monte Carlo simulations


Scheduling algorithms for OFDM broadband wireless systems


Fair enough? How notions of race, gender, and soldiers' rights affected dependents' allowance policies towards Canadian aboriginal families during World War II.


Conflict, consensus, convention : the depoliticization of Canada's macroeconomic discourse


Optimal packet scheduling in emerging wireless networks


The Russian welfare state: moving towards neofamilialism?


Three essays on general equilibrium analysis of economic policy in Thailand


"I like my class and my class likes me!": links between children's perceptions of their classroom environment and socio-emotional adjustment


"It was the circus, and I was the clown": Emma Goldman, popular and avant-garde cultures of American modernity, and the politics of (self) performance


Personality correlates of response to motivation-based branding appeals of developing countries


Sliding mode control for singularly perturbed systems


Global compact passive macromodeling algorithms for high-speed circuits


Neoliberal conservation : legitimacy and exclusion in the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement


Canada's policy on financial system consolidation: a political economy of public policy transformation in an era of globalizationAbdulghany Mohamed.


Development of a remote sensing based coniferous regeneration monitoring system


Advocacy and nonprofit charities: two cases on home care


Docility, resistance and the indie guitarist : a Foucaultian interpretation of the guitar-hero


Modelling shared vehicle system design and operation using discrete-event simulation technique


The Impact of Knowledge Management Practices on Nuclear Power Plant Organization Performance


Prohibition in Ontario, 1919-1923


"Shadow-selves": facing femininities through Gothic horror films of the 1960s


An experimental study of flow control using blowing for a low-pressure turbine airfoil


Performing across boundaries: Nicole Kidman's meaningful intertextuality as contemporary female star


The time that binds: science fiction cinema and the social experience of time


Alternate lighting design software: a tool for cognitive architectural modeling


Canadian Government decision-making and the commitments to the Somalia peace operations in 1992


The rock film: film genre and notions of euthenticity in rock music


Art of this land and the exhibition of aboriginal art at the National Gallery of Canada


Rehabilitation strategies: the case of Vancouver Downtown Eastside


Canada Science and Technology Museum architecture as a link between technology and natural environment


'Place' making: Henry Fliess and the development of humane housing and urban design in Canada after the Second World War


Cartoon "realities": the animated body and narrative conventions in Walt Disney Productions and Fleischer Studios, Inc. films of the 1930s


Output feedback adaptive control for robot manipulators


An alternative arrangement for measurement of line tension on solid substrates


Study of amygdala kindling-induced alterations in GABAa receptor mediated inhibition in the piriform cortex of rat


Examining information on mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS: the influence of organisational concepts on counsellor training documents in areas of high HIV prevalence


From amateur to professional: placing Harlan I. Smith in the history of North American anthropology


Michel Foucault's analytic of power relations: a defence


Constructing locality in contemporary Canadian aboriginal art


Modelling masculinity: the return of the dandy in contemporary society


Hate expectations: a narrative of the conceptualisation of criminal hatred in Canada


Antecedents and social consequences of Type 2 Diabetes among urban First Nations people, especially women, of Eastern Ontario: Western science and indigenous perceptions


Exploring a middle ground for ecotourism research: a stakeholder analysis of the Indian Creek trail project in Belize


A sociological socio-psychological analysis of substance abusers in recovery while in the course of erly residential treatment


Beyond the rhetoric: exploring the reality of North-South NGO partnerships


The schizoid presentation of self in everyday life: a phenomenological analysis of Dundonald Park


Memorializing historical imprints: analysis of historical texts and photographs at Kitselas, 1850-1930


Constructing refugees: a case study of the 'Safe third country' agreement


Media representation and the case of Tracy Latimer


Time order errors in visual lenght discrimination


The role of parents in their child's acquisition of early literacy skills


Quality of life following coronary artery surgery with cardipulmonary bypass: the effects of post-operative cognitive impairments and pre-surgery symptoms of depression and trait anxiety


The differential role of protective factors in pure versus mixed syndrome childhood behavioural problems


Classroom management style and kindergarten teachers' tolerances, beliefs, and responses to child behaviours and misbehaviours


Orientation and skill effects in exact and approximate addition


Self-monitors' coping strategies in response to an identity threat: self-presentation versus self-protection


Reliability and validity of the self-appraisal questionnaire in a sample of incarcerated youth


Measuring physical health in occupational health psychology: development of the Well People Physical Health Scale


Elucidating the subunit identity of GABAa receptors using subunit selective compounds


Birthmothers' experiences of open and closed adoption


Politically unbecome: Rawls, Connolly and fondness for the dead


Contestable bodies: law, medicine, and the case of conjoined twins


The Ottawa specialized domestic violence court: a case study


"Protection orders, partner abuse and police liability; a socialist feminist analysis"


Judicial perceptions of the criminal justice system in response to drug-addicted offenders: the mainstream court and the Drug Treatment Court


Lifetime ban: the end of the capitalist welfare state and the return of Laissez-faire


Manufacturing subjectivities: exploring the role of race and biopower in U.S. immigration policies


Zero tolerance: a critical examination of Ontario's Safe Schools Act


Another whack for raped women: co-option of the Ontario Criminal Injuries Compensation Board by the criminal justice system, publication bans, adjudicator problems and gendered legal solutions for the 21st century


Sustainable skiing: a North American environmental program evaluation


Federal governance regimes for ocean ecosystems in Canada: accountability within collaborative management regimes


Monitoring change in forest cover in Karnataka, India using landsat data


Water balance and seepage estimates for the sewage lagoon at Mayo, Central Yukon Territory


The Canadian Red Cross and relief in Siberia, 1918-1921


Man behaving badly: humour and the (re)presentation of masculinities in late Victorian British popular culture, 1885-1895


'I have tried your tomato chutnee and found it very good': negotiating local, national and imperial identities in Canadian consumer culture, 1890-1914


Government size in Switzerland from 1960 to 2000: a time series approach to testing alternative hypotheses


Insider and outsider perspectives: strategies for alleviating women's oppression in a global context


Toward a foundation for interdisciplinary science: a model of special sciences and levels of complexity


The ontology of duration, intuitionism and transcendental empiricism


Edna Mae and the child star: the career of Deanna Durbin


Jori Smith: a contextual analysis


Recognizing aboriginal voice in federal government exhibitions: a case study of Transitions: contemporary Canadian Indian and Inuit art


Home in the age of mechanical reproduction: Canadian contemporary photographers and the contested terrain of home


The therapeutic effects of vocal improvisation


Cultural landscapes and world heritage: an uneasy relationship?


The subversive power of the fantastic in Canadian women's fiction


"Understanding value and its implications for pay equity and the wage gap: a federal government case study"


Limitations and contradictions: corporate social and environmental responsibility


By the nose: the role of the media in Canada's cannabis ban


The mediated counterpublics of Canadian farm women


Finding the "lost generation": redefining Canadian youth as consumer-citizens


The relationship between technology and the future in modern and postmodern thought


The gender divide and internet access in Canada: a critical analysis of concepts, policies, and measurements


Between the violence and virtue of desire: film noir and family melodrama in the transgeneric cinema of Hollywood's late studio era


Screening August: reflections upon the events of August 1968 in American and Czechoslovakian cinema.


The female body turned inside out


Governing likenesses: the production history of the official portraits of Canadian Prime Ministers, 1889-2002


Identity ignited: the politicisation of ethnicity in Fiji and New Caledonia


Geopolitics of governing human mobility: the EU, Turkey and illegal immigration


Test-takers' perceptions: behind the construct of a test


Music and politics in the Soviet Union: from revolution to reaction (1917-1936)


Landscape without theory? An analysis of the methods of the transmission of knowledge surrounding Chinese classic gardens


Digital media applications in heritage conservation


Revealing the ephemeral via new media tools: a digital exploration of the classical Chinese private garden


The architecture of the Western Canadian community arena


Contagion and inhabitation: the contemporary medical museum


Fluxtional domiciles


Home is where the car was: solutions for housing the urban homeless


The balance between technology and culture in sustainable architecture


Identity, Interrupted


Redefinition in a 'New' paradigm


International corporate social responsibility: a case study


Market orientation and business performance : an empirical study comparing Canadian manufacturers and telecommunications equipment manufacturers of Canada


Exploring the link between Canadian university athletics and emotionally intelligent leadership potential


Addition reactions between silicon centered radicals and olefins: an assessment of theoretical procedures


Highly dispersed alkali metals confined in porous matrices


Analysis for ochratoxin A by molecularly imprinted sold phase extraction and pulsed elution


A comparative study of adiabatic circuit techniques towards asynchronous adiabatic systems


Reliability-based coded modulation for low-density parity-check codes


Non-intrusive speech quality assessment in VoIP


An analysis of non-linear adaptive output feedback control algorithms for a robotic manipulator


Lifetime-extended, power-aware, non-position based localized routing in hybrid ad-hoc/infrastructure network


Topological median filters for pattern recognition


Securing RSVP and RSVP-TE signaling protocols and their performance study


Linux adoption by firms


Influence of corrosion damage topography on fatigue properties in longitudinal fuselage lap joints


Relative measurement for kinematic calibration using digital image processing


Design and construction of a gas turbine combustor test rig for alternative fuel testing


Effects of sintering process and the coating of the reinforcement on the microstructure and performance of co-based superalloy composites


Assessment of cloud-property instrumentation for calibration of icing wind tunnels


Enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose from various waste sources and their feasibility as feedstocks for ethanol production


Modelling occupant evacuation during fire emergencies in buildings


Development and cost-effectiveness of new and improved 3D reverse horizontal curves with intermediate tangents


Generation of persistence data for DSL-fungi in intact soil microcosms using PCR-based markers


Characterization of the genes encoding tropomyosin and ARP4 in Neurospora crassa


Antioxidant defense in the hibernating thirteen-lined ground squirrel Spermophilus tridecemlineatus


Gene expression supporting freeze tolerance in the wood frog, Rana Sylvatica


su(un-24)-1, a suppressor of a temperature sensitive ribonucleotide reductase mutation in neurospora crassa: characterization and PCR-based mapping


Nonself recognition in Neurospora crassa and Cryphonectria parasitica


Pinhole SPECT with iterative reconstruction and the median root prior


Volume estimation from three-dimensional hyperpolarized 129Xe magnetic resonance images


Development of a model for prediction of repeat childhood injuries in injured patients using artificial neural networks


Quebecor and convergence, a case study


Journalists causing damage: three cases in fiction


Fast algorithms for finding the maximum edge cardinality biclique in convex bipartite graphs


Improving state-based coverage criteria using data flow information


Scheduling on firm real-time systems


On which finite supersolvable groups are subnormally monomial


A parallel map overlay algorithm for vector data


Diamonds are a plane graph's best friend: a corrected, improved, and generalized result for alpha-diamond spanners


Modified crossover operators for protein folding simulation with genetic algorithms


Hierarchical list organization strategies for nonstationary environments


C# complier extension to support the object constraint language version 2.0


Development of systems for 3D target/organ definitions and contouring


Algorithms for bivariate zonoid depth


Merging of XML documents


Computing Fréchet distance of two paths on a convex polyhedron


Hot swapping and state persistence a framework for state transfer


A case study in integrating formal verification tools using the OMDoc standard for mathematical documents


E-commerce patterns


Volumetric modeling using a generic three-dimensional framework


Design methodology of pre-emphasis filtering for digital data communications


DC-Offset mitigation of direct-conversion receivers


Hot carrier induced degradation and gamma radiation induced degradation in SiGe HBTs and VCOs


Design and implementation of multi-GHz energy-efficient asynchronous pipelined circuits in MOS current-mode logic


Viterbi decoders for mobile and satellite communications


Design and optimization of MOS current-mode logic circuits using mathematical programming


Neural based modeling of nonlinear microwave devices and circuits


Sensitivity analysis of nonlinear RF circuits using projection based techniques


24 GHz integrated differential antennas in digital bulk silicon


An electronically-tunable Bragg grating in silicon-on-insulator


Design and optizimation of fast adder circuits using mixed CMOS logic styles


Double-gate-line coplanar waveguide distributed amplifier


Automatic neural network based modeling and its applications to EM modeling of embedded passives


Transient simulation of thermal networks using multi-dimensional model reduction


Parameterized simulation and optimization of high-speed systems and interconnects


Using oscillator gain and injection-locking to measure on-chip inductor cupling


Experimental and numerical investigation of passive two-phase heat transfer devices for space applications


Adaptive construction of classification decision trees


Simulation approach to the study of driving behaviour, fuel consumption, and emissions


Constitutive properties of weld metal and heat-affected zone at butt weld


Evaluation of losses from anaerobic biosolids due to winter and late fall land application


Conceptual models for biological clogging of unsaturated soils


Economic impact of fires in buildings


Safety performance of freeway merge and diverge areas


Landslide induced gravitative debris flow in natural terrain


Development of an experimental aircraft/ship dynamic interface analysis motion facility for the investigation of helicopter manoeuvring


Measurements and computations of roughness effects on performance of a HP turbine cascade in compressible flow


Simulating the effects of ship motion on postural stability using articulated dynamic models


Kinematic calibration of six-axis serial robots using the relative measurement concept


Steady aerodynamic performance of a very highly-loaded low-pressure turbine airfoil


Thermal stress analysis of electronic packaging


Key knowledge delivery factors affecting software development productivity


Changes in product line due to product market repositioning


Venture capital investment dynamics: modeling the Ottawa boom-and-bust


Power consumption model for DSP systems


Improving network convergence time and network stability of an OSPF-routed IP network


Managing to be "free": personality, personal projects and well-being in entrepreneurs


The Colorado group in the Cold Lake heavy oil area, East-Central Alberta: biostratigraphy, paleoenvironments and regional correlations


A record of late quaternary vegetation and climate change from Woods Lake, Seymour Inlet, coastal British Columbia, Canada


Performance analysis of CDMA data networks with rate and delay variations


Beamforming for multisensor stethoscopes


A distributed probability-based backup resource allocation algorithm for network reliability


An investigation of spectrally efficient turbo coded modulation


Towards reverse engineering of UML sequence diagrams of real-time, distributed systems through dynamic analysis


Adaptive effective bandwidth allocation schemes


Design, implementation and performance evaluation of MPLS layer 2 Martini VPN


Improvement of classification accuracy in smell detection using electronic noses


Delay guaranteed cross pushout and loss rate differentiation for DiffServ networks


Adaptive modulation & coding-based packet scheduling with inter-base station coordination in fixed cellular broadband wireless networks


Importance sampling based internet traffic engineering under self-similar network traffic model


Mapping and localisation for mobile robots


QoS routing using traffic forecast - a case study of time-dependent routing


Multiuser scheduling using embedded modulation in wireless networks


Modulation of long-term potentiation by the glycine site of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor in rat hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells


Cellular physiology and synaptic pharmacology of the rat's external cortex of the inferior colliculus studied using in vitro brain slice techniques


First- and second-order binocular matching in stereopsis: psychophysics and modeling


Investigating the subcomponents of working memory in multi-digit arithmetic problems


Molecular and biochemical adaptations conferring cold-hardiness in two gall insects


Development of accurate and precise methods for the determination of butyltin species in sediments using HPLC and GC separation in combination with mass spectrometric detection


Controlling the morphology of self-assembling carbamate systems


Exploring the parameters of a simple model of the permafrost-climate relationship


Encouraging ingenuity in Bañados del Este biosphere reserve: Urban biosphere reserves and new myths in nature conservation


Cognition and psychological scaling: model, method, and application of constrained scaling


Grouping effects in spatial short-term memory


Situation awareness and working memory: an integration of an applied concept with a fundamental cognitive process


Reconsidering staple insights: Canadian forestry and mining towns


The meanings of citizenship: homelessness in relation to extra-local civic republicanism and local community spirit in Ottawa


Child abuse and disability in an Ontario community sample - does social capital matter?


Inside Pandora's box: addressing abuse screening practices of health care providers in the emergency department


Paleoenvironmental recostruction of James and Granite Lakes in the Temagami region of Northeastern Ontario: from the retreat of the Laurentide ice sheet to the present


Paleoenvironments and regional correlations of Albian-Cenomanian strata in the frontier Liard Basin on Northwestern Canada


Earthquake ground motions in Eastern Canada


Finite element analysis of flow and heat transfer of molten metal during the slow shot of die castings


Emergence and evolution of computational habitats


Contribution to the analysis of complex survey data and cluster-correlated biological data using inverse sampling


Fundamental problems in computational video


Parallel query processing on a cluster-based database system


Estimating the effects of finance constraints and social learning on inventory investment, trade credit, and capital investment decisions


Modelling fuel consumption of advanced technology vehicles in traffic networks using artificial neural networks


Rake receiver performance in direct sequence spread spectrum systems operating at high data rates


Service offerings for XML Web services and their management applications


A study in low-power wireless transceiver architectures in submicron CMOS technology


Distortion analysis of CMOS analog integrated circuits operating in the moderate inversion region and implications for RF applications


Latent variable modeling in business research : a comparison of regression based on IRT and CTT scores with structural equation models


Myths of ICTs and progress in Malaysia


Interweavement - building a crisis decision-making model for rational responsibility in the media: international communication, political crisis management, and the use of mathematics


Magnetic resonance imaging of lungs at ultra-low magnetic field strenght using hyperpolarized 129Xe gas


Squeegee kids: a study of successful scapegoating, 1995-2001


Peasants on the move: early twentieth-century labour migration from Russia's Western frontier to Canada


Canada and the makings of a foreign intelligence capability, 1939-1951


Neo-liberalism, national champions, and commuter and regional aircraft manufacturing industry: continuous and discontinuous policy paths in the aerospace sector


N-(2'-deoxyguanosine-8-YL)-N-acetyl-2-aminofluorene induced translesion synthesis events in E.Coli: role of Y-family error-prone polymerases and the DNA sequence context


Stochastic modelling of turbulent combustion for design optimatization of gas turbine combustors


The oral stage: a comparative study of Franco-Ontarian drama from 1970 to 2000


An atonement for ambition and passion: the experiences of British Victorian educational pioner, Constance Louisa Maynard (1849-1935)


Speech recognition and cursor feedback in graphics software applications


Universal cycles for (n-1)-partitions of AN n-set


A two-hop energy-efficient mesh protocol for wireless sensor networks


Vector-valued and group-valued gauge integration via Kurzweil - Henstock's approach


Holistic and featural facial processing in children and adults


A comparison of audio-visual animated lessons to equivalent static graphics


Coping on the bright side: examining age, optimism and the coping process


Evaluation of a prognostic decision support system in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit


Emontial processing and psychopathic traits in male adolescent offenders


A method for quantifying generalized synchrony in brain activity


The association between motivations for violence, the victim-offender relationship, and psychopathic traits in violent youth


An Empirical analysis of the relationships among antisocial attitudes, the use of techniques of neutralization, and criminal behaviour


A comparison of false belief and referential opacity tasks: sorting out the relations


Activity theory and roles: feature bundling for wireless technologies


Exploring conceptual and empirical links between maternal personality, maternal parenting styles, and child well-being


Women and fraud: escaping an aversive existence


An invitation to contemplation: the angels as devotional images in John Milton's Paradise lost


The implementation of communicative focus-on-form activities in EFL: young adolescents' initial perceptions and classroom issues in Japan


Deleuze's critique of Hegel: answering the charges of Stephen Houlgate


Braiding the boundaries: a dialogical study of Alma Duncan's art from the 1940s and 1950s


"Whose streets?" the visual culture of resistance during the 2001 mass demonstrations against the Free Trade Area of the Americas in Quebec City.


The institutionalization of political parties in Russia from a regional perspective


Environmental education: goals and challenges


A fine balance: corridors-connectivity of chaos?


Can education help integration in Bosnia and Hercegovina?: rethinking the interim agreement


Developing world championship ice hockey in the USSR: the inside story, 1946-1972


Sex, trust and consequences: rethinking HIV prevention in Sub Saharan Africa


Inclusive exclusion: rethinking American prisoners and prisons


Canadian telehealth networks and the mapping of telehealth's virtual regions: a critique of Anthony Giddens's structuration theory


Manufacturing paradise: tourism, development and mythmaking on Prince Edward Island 1939-1973


Hierarchy and revelry at restoration Oxford, Cambridge and the Inns of Court.


Healthy eating and the anti-diet: the weight watchers approach to weight maintenance


Catering to consciousness: from pilgrimage to dharma tourism


The implications of self-government with respect to aboriginal justice initiatives


The ritual efficacy of modern dancesport


Evaluating the punitive turn thesis: is Canadian penal discourse officially exemplifying a punitive mentality?


Microscopic simulation approach to capacity analysis of public transit corridors


Enmity, appeasement and the national interest: the social construction of U.S. foreign policy toward North Korea


The failure of multiculturalism


Problematizing identity: the shift in Quebecois photography


Shared points of departure and battlegrounds of meaning: indigenous women and self-government in Nunavut and Oaxaca


The Western flute in Canada: history, flutists, and repertoire


A bitter irony: indigenous people, societal perceptions, and citizenship in Canada


The challenges of restorative justice projects in aboriginal communities through social, economic, and political perspectives


Community justice: the potentials and pitfalls of restorative justice in the youth community justice committee setting


Structure of semigroup algebras


Impact of the object constraint language in UML-based development