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- Resource Type:
- Video
- Creator:
- AccessibiliTV and Accommodation Councilors of Canada Network
- Description:
- Highlights of documentary footage from June 21, 2019, proceedings of the Senate, when Bill C-81 received Royal Assent. Subtitled in English.
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Video
- Creator:
- Accommodation Councilors of Canada Network
- Description:
- Two and a half hours of documentary footage from June 21, 2019, proceedings of the Senate when Bill C-81 received Royal Assent. The footage takes viewers behind the scenes with individuals closely involved with ensuring the Act received Royal Assent and features interviews with the Honourable Carla Qualtrough, Senator Jim Munson, James van Raalte, Sinead Tuite, Bill Adair, and Frank Folino.
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Creator:
- Tierney, Cara, Lundy, Jess, Asakura, Kenta, and Black, Dillon
- Date Created:
- 2019-10-03
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Creator:
- Russell, Joshua, Coady, Joseph, Schott, Stephan, Duquette, Jean, Lafreniere, Keelia, and Chabot, Jean-Pierre
- Date Created:
- 2019-11-01
- Resource Type:
- Other
- Creator:
- Bokore, Nimo
- Date Created:
- 2019-08-01
- Resource Type:
- Other
- Creator:
- Bokore, Nimo
- Date Created:
- 2019-08-01
- Resource Type:
- Other
- Creator:
- Bokore, Nimo
- Date Created:
- 2019-08-01
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Creator:
- Kozak, Aaron, Weaver, Liz, Goemans, Magdalene, and Schwartz, Karen
- Description:
- Edited by Karen Schwartz, Liz Weaver, Aaron Kozak & Magdalene Goemans. Produced by the Poverty Reduction Hub of Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE), a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded project, coled by Carleton University and Vibrant Communities (an imprint of Tamarack Institute). CFICE website: https://carleton.ca/communityfirst/
- Abstract:
- Contents: Preface - Pathways to Poverty Reduction through Community-Campus Partnerships Chapter One: Creating Strategic Partnerships to Influence Policy (Liz Weaver) Chapter Two: Models of Community-Campus Engagement in the Poverty Reduction Hub of CFICE (Karen Schwartz) Chapter Three: University and Community Collaboration: Achieving Social Change (Erin Bigney, Tracey Chiasson, Melanie Hientz, Robert MacKinnon and Cathy Wright) Chapter Four: On a Path of True Reconciliation: Investing in a Poverty-free Saskatoon (Colleen Christopherson-Côté, Lisa Erickson, Isobel M. Findlay and Vanessa Charles) Chapter Five: Using Campus Community Engagement to Build Capacity for Poverty Reduction (Amanda Lefrancois) Chapter Six: Shifting Societal Attitudes Regarding Poverty: Reflections on a Successful Community-University Partnership ( Mary MacKeigan, Jessica Wiese, Terry Mitchell, Colleen Loomis and Alexa Stovold) Chapter Seven: Models of Collaboration: Does Community Engagement with University Colleges Have an Impact on Poverty Reduction? (Polly Leonard and Karen Schwartz) Chapter Eight: A Peephole into the Student Experience: Student Research Assistants on their Experiences in the Poverty Reduction Hub (Aaron Kozak, Zhaocheng Zeng and Natasha Pei) Chapter Nine: Poverty Reduction Hub Evaluation (Aaron Kozak, Karen Schwartz, Amanda Lefrancois and Liz Weaver) Chapter Ten: Conclusion (Magdalene Goemans)
- Date Created:
- 2019-06-20
- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Winseck, Dwayne
- Description:
- Part of a series from the CMCRP - visit the CMCRP website for additional background. See also the related overview Poster - Canada’s Top Media, Internet & Telecom Companies by Market Share (2017) The workbook and reports were revised in early January 2019 to replace estimated revenue values for the mobile wireless, internet access and internet advertising markets with published final revenue figures from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on December 21, 2018 and by the Internet Advertising Bureau of Canada on December 10, 2018.
- Abstract:
- This report examines the state of competition in the mobile wireless market, internet access, broadcast, pay and streaming TV services, internet advertising, advertising across all media, newspapers, browsers, online news sources, search, social media, operating systems, etc. in Canada over the period from 1984 until 2017. We call the sum-total of these media “the network media economy”. We then use two common metrics—Concentration Ratios and the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI)—to determine whether these markets—individually and collectively—are competitive or concentrated.
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-06
- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Winseck, Dwayne
- Description:
- Part of a series from the CMCRP - visit the CMCRP website for additional background. The workbook and reports were revised in early January 2019 to replace estimated revenue values for the mobile wireless, internet access and internet advertising markets with published final revenue figures from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on December 21, 2018 and by the Internet Advertising Bureau of Canada on December 10, 2018.
- Abstract:
- The report examines the development of the media economy over the past thirty-three years. We do so by examining a dozen or so of the biggest telecoms, internet and media industries in Canada, based on revenue. These include: mobile wireless and wireline telecoms; internet access; cable, satellite & IPTV; broad- cast, specialty, pay and over-the-top TV; radio; newspapers; magazines; music; and internet advertising. We call the total of these sectors “the network media economy”. Our method is simple: we begin by collecting, organizing, and making available stand-alone data for each media industry individually. We then group related, comparable industry sectors into three higher level categories: the “network media” (e.g. mobile wireless, internet access, broadcast distribution), the “content media” (e.g. television, newspapers, magazines, etc.) and “internet media” (e.g. internet advertising, search, internet news sources). Ultimately, we combine them all together to get a bird’s-eye view of the network media economy. We call this the scaffolding approach.
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-06
- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Winseck, Dwayne
- Description:
- Part of a series from the CMCRP. Visit the CMCRP website for project details and background: http://www.cmcrp.org
- Abstract:
- This report examines the development of the media economy over the past thirtyfour years. Since beginning this project nearly a decade ago, we have focused on as comprehensive as possible selection of the biggest telecoms, internet and media industries (based on revenue), including: mobile wireless and wireline telecoms; internet access; cable, satellite & IPTV; broadcast television, specialty and pay television services and over-the-internet video subscription and download services; radio; newspapers; magazines; music; internet advertising; social media; operating systems; browsers, etc. This year, we have made some fairly dramatic changes in terms of what we cover, and the breadth of our analysis. For the first time, this report takes some preliminary steps to capture a broader range of audiovisual media services that are delivered over the internet beyond online video subscription and download services and internet advertising, including: online gaming, app store and music downloads.
- Date Created:
- 2019-12-13
- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Winseck, Dwayne
- Description:
- Part of a series from the CMCRP. Visit the CMCRP website for project details and background: http://www.cmcrp.org
- Abstract:
- Every year the Canadian Media Concentration Research Project puts out two reports on the state of the telecoms, internet, and media industries in Canada. This is the second installment in this year’s series. Whereas the first report in this series examines the growth, development and upheaval that are transforming the media industries in Canada, this report takes a step further by asking a deceptively simple but profoundly important question: have these industries—individually and collectively—become more or less concentrated over time? The report does so by examining the state of competition and concentration in the mobile wireless and wireline telecoms market, broadband internet access, cable, satellite & IPTV services, broadcast television and radio, specialty and pay television services, online video subscription and download services, newspapers, magazines, internet advertising, search engines, social media as well as mobile and desktop operating systems and browsers. This year’s report also adds significantly to our efforts last year to examine the dynamics of advertising spending across all media in Canada, i.e. TV, radio, online, newspapers, magazines and out-of-doors. As we noted in our first report, we have also significantly expanded our coverage by taking some preliminary steps to capture a broader range of audiovisual media services that are delivered over the internet.
- Date Created:
- 2019-12-13
- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- van de Sande, Adje, Feder, Zoey, Ang, Steven, and McIntosh, Karen
- Date Created:
- 2019-03-06
- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Centre for Studies on Poverty and Social Citizenship
- Description:
- Special thanks to the Toolkit researchers, including Tara McWhinney, Aaron Kozak and Evan Culic for their contributions towards building this toolkit. Cette publication est aussi disponible en français.
- Abstract:
- This Community-Based Research Toolkit is intended for community organizations trying to decide if they want to conduct research, and whether they should seek an academic partner to work with to conduct this research. This toolkit is designed as a project development checklist that acts as a guide for things to consider for community organizations conducting a research project.
- Date Created:
- 2019-07-02
- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Petrie, Sam, Sendanyoye, Claudia, Sebastian, Steven, Carson, Dean, and Peters, Paul A.
- Description:
- See also Carleton's Spatial Determinants of Health Lab: https://carleton.ca/determinants
- Abstract:
- Rural and remote communities comprise around32% and 22% of Australia’s and Canada’s population. However, only 14% and 16% of family physicians in Australia and Canada, respectively, practice in these communities, resulting in a disproportion in access as compared with urban areas. An erosion of health services occurs when the number of physicians and other health care providers in a region is insufficient or these professionals are non-existent. Even when existing in a rural and remote region, providers are often overburdened. Inaccessibility to services in rural and remote communities’ results in poor health outcomes for all involved. In Canada, 1 in 7 physicians will leave rural practice within two years. Strategies to address these turnover rates and the lessening interest in entering rural practice have focused on supporting recruitment and retention initiatives (RnR) to first bring physicians into rural practice and then encourage physicians to continue in rural practice beyond the short-term. These programs have so far been insufficient or ineffective to address the lack of physicians in rural and remote areas. A review of recent literature related to RnR initiatives focused on rural physicians in Australia and Canada was conducted to investigate the strengths and limitations of initiatives. Further, this review critically examines the short and long-term feasibility of initiatives and develops a conceptual framework for designing or examining RnR initiatives.
- Date Created:
- 2019-07-12
- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Paskaran, Saambavi, Carson, Dean B., Leblanc, Michele, Petrie, Sam, and Peters, Paul A.
- Description:
- Visit the Spatial Determinants of Health Lab website at https://carleton.ca/determinants
- Abstract:
- Although health care is widely accessible in most developed countries, rural areas often struggle to adequately meet health care needs. Challenges in accessing and receiving adequate health care introduce large variations in disease levels, level of treatment, life expectancy,and overall health status for rural populations. eHealth, or electronic health,defined here as any electronic medium used to access health services,is a method used to bridge the gap between rural and urban centers to improve health care access. Including the above definition, eHealth also includes any technology designed to improve efficiencies and reduce costs in relation to health care. By providing a comprehensive overview of feedback from past interventions, policy-makers and program developers can develop strategies to improve the implementation and the use of eHealth technologies.
- Date Created:
- 2019-08-12
- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Petrie, Samuel, LeBlanc, Michele, Peters, Paul A., Aboukarr, Sereen, Paskaran, Saambavi, and Carson, Dean B.
- Description:
- Visit the Spatial Determinants of Health Lab website at https://carleton.ca/determinants
- Abstract:
- A review of recent literature related to eHealth technologies in Canada and Australia was conducted to better understand specific barriers and enablers for the uptake, acceptability, and success of eMental health programs. It has been shown that the more “rural” or “remote” a community, the access to mental health services decreases. By mitigating barriers and promoting enablers, successful eMental health integration can increase access to mental health services for rural residents. eMental health aims to bridge the gap between rural and urban mental health services by introducing electronic methods such as teleconferencing or videoconferencing for psychological services, virtual referral to psychiatrists, and sharing of electronic records. Successful integration of the technology remains a challenging task, with key actors, enablers, and barriers all influencing its success.
- Date Created:
- 2019-07-12
- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Petrie, Sam, Carson, Dean B., Steven, Sebastian, Peters, Paul A., Priest, Liam, Waid, Chelsea, and Sinclair, Laleah
- Description:
- Visit the Spatial Determinants of Health Lab website at https://carleton.ca/determinants
- Abstract:
- Rural and remote communities in both Australia and Canada have a higher burden of mental illness relative to their urban counterparts. Suicide rates, particularly, are higher across all age groups among men in rural communities as compared to metropolitan areas. Mental health issues are especially present in younger populations within these communities. Additionally, rural and remote communities tend to have higher proportions of Indigenous origin individuals, who face additional challenges and service barriers. Rural and remote communities often encounter significant barriers to accessing mental health care. Individuals from these communities may be serviced solely by general health care providers that are not trained in mental health treatment. Travelling away from the community to alleviate this issue only further hinders accessibility as these individuals must travel larger distances to access specialized health services. When services are accessed, those from rural and remote communities are met with longer wait times than their urban counterparts. With no specialized treatment within the rural or remote community and inaccessible treatment outside the community, mental health care must shift to informal caregivers and the community as a whole. Rural and remote communities are often not trained in mental health care. Interventions to address rural and remote youth mental health are needed to equip communities with the tools and skills to overcome access barriers and support community members. A review of recent literature related to rural and remote youth mental health interventions was conducted. The aim of the review is to characterize these mental health interventions in Australia and Canada and examine how they relate to youth.
- Date Created:
- 2019-11-20
- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Morris, Sydney, Peters, Paul A., LeBlanc, Michele, Steven, Sebastian, Carson, Dean, and Petrie, Sam
- Abstract:
- Rural and remote communities in Australia and Canada experience barriers to accessing healthcare services (1). These barriers are especially pronounced when attempting to access more specialized health care services, such as paediatric (2–4). Both countries have implemented programs that aim to bridge the gap between rural communities and specialized healthcare. One such service is telepaediatrics. Telepaediatrics, as part of telehealth, refers to any paediatric health-related service, network, or medical tool that transmits voice, data, images and information through telecommunication programs as part of providing health services (5–7). Telehealth services are ideal because they remove the need to relocate the rural patient to urban specialist sites (5–7). In a WHO survey (2010), 60% of member countries had telehealth services in place but only 30% of these programs were implemented as part of routine care (8). Only 3 member countries had established telepaediatric services in place (8). No previous investigations examine the use of telehealth programs in urban versus rural settings (8). This review aims to identify the common barriers to telepaediatric services in rural Australia and Canada and outlines suggestions for future implementation.
- Date Created:
- 2019-11-20
- Resource Type:
- Other
- Creator:
- Steven, S., Peters, P.A., Sendanyoye, C., Petrie, S., and Carson, D.B.
- Description:
- Visit the Spatial Determinants of Health Lab website at https://carleton.ca/determinants
- Date Created:
- 2019-07-12
- Resource Type:
- Other
- Creator:
- Carson, D.B., Petrie, S., Sinclair, L., Priest, L., Waid, C., Steven, S., and Peters, Paul A.
- Description:
- Visit the Spatial Determinants of Health Lab website at https://carleton.ca/determinants
- Date Created:
- 2019-07-23
- Resource Type:
- Other
- Creator:
- Hodge, Heidi, Carson, Dean, and Peters, Paul A.
- Description:
- Visit the Spatial Determinants of Health Lab website at https://carleton.ca/determinants
- Date Created:
- 2019-05-13
- Resource Type:
- Other
- Creator:
- Peters, Paul A., Petrie, S., Carson, D., LeBlanc, M., Steven, S., and Morris, S
- Description:
- Visit the Spatial Determinants of Health Lab website at https://carleton.ca/determinants
- Date Created:
- 2019-08-12
- Resource Type:
- Other
- Creator:
- Paskaran, S., Peters, Paul A., LeBlanc, M., and Petrie, S.
- Description:
- Visit the Spatial Determinants of Health Lab website at https://carleton.ca/determinants
- Date Created:
- 2019-11-20
- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Beale, Mike
- Description:
- More about the Regulatory Governance Initiative (RGI): https://carleton.ca/rgi
- Abstract:
- Canada’s coal-fired electricity regulations were published in 2012 and were the first federal regulations targeting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from stationary sources. They have since been strengthened. This case study tells the policy story of how the regulations came about, and how in the space of 18 months the government’s regulatory approach evolved from one based on emissions intensity, to cap-and-trade, to capital stock turnover. It also tells the technical story of how a simple regulation based on the length of time a facility has to operate can still build in elements of trading and other flexibilities. It ends with some observations around lessons learned.
- Date Created:
- 2019-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Cavalcanti, Andre Felipe da Rocha
- Abstract:
- Decision makers in accelerators and startups need to understand how their businesses are currently performing. A comparison between business goals, performance indicators and market benchmarks are a problem for both sides. The central question that accelerators and their associated startups face is what Key Performance Indicators (KPI) they should measure to know whether they achieved their business goals?This thesis proposes the use of goal-oriented modelling as a technique to identify the goals that accelerators and startups pursue and the corresponding KPIs. Its contribution is threefold: it introduces a method for documenting the goals and KPIs of accelerators and their associated startups, conducts an empirical demonstration of the method, and documents an initial goal model that provides a basis for further research. The results are relevant to managers of accelerators and startups as well as entrepreneurship researchers.
- Thesis Degree:
- Master of Applied Science (M.App.Sc.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Engineering, Technology Innovation Management
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Bisong, Ekaba Ononse
- Abstract:
- This thesis proposes the use of "Adaptive" Data-Structures (ADSs) that invoke reinforcement learning schemes from the theory of Learning Automata (LA). The ADSs work in conjunction with select re-organization rules to update themselves as they receive queries from the Environment. The result of such a process is to minimize the cost of query accesses. The Environments under consideration are those that exhibit a so-called "locality of reference", and are referred to as Non-stationary Environments (NSEs). A hierarchy of data "sub"-structures is used to design Singly-Linked Lists (SLLs) on SLLs, which contains outer and sub-list contexts. The Object Migration Automaton (OMA) family of reinforcement schemes are employed to capture the probabilistic dependence of the elements query accesses from the Environment within sub-lists. The Enhanced-OMA (EOMA), the Pursuit-EOMA (PEOMA), and the Transitivity-PEOMA (TPEOMA) are incorporated into the hierarchical SLLs. The results are currently the state-of-the-art methods for SLLs operating in NSEs.
- Thesis Degree:
- Master of Computer Science (M.C.S.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Computer Science
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Garrod, Joel Zackary
- Abstract:
- Many scholars today treat globalization as a new form of imperialism, in which the global political economy remains constituted by competing national capitals and their respective nation-states. This view is shared by many Canadian political economists who, carrying on a longstanding debate, continue to argue that Canada should be understood as either a secondary imperialist power or a dependency of the American empire. In this dissertation, I argue that contemporary theories of imperialism and dependency neglect a number of qualitative changes to the global political economy over the last 40 years that challenge the conceptual framework on which they are based. Through a comparative-historical analysis of the changing assemblages of territory, authority, and rights that have sustained the Royal Bank of Canada's activities from 1864 to 2014, I argue that we should instead treat globalization as a novel epoch constituted by a centrifugal organizing dynamic that is moving the rights of capital and the authority over those rights to the transnational level. I claim that this process is transforming the nation-state from a capability to grow and develop national capitals into a capability for globalizing capitals as a result of new rights that restrict the ability of the nation-state to legislate against corporate interests. The dissertation concludes by reflecting on what this means for the future of Canadian liberal democracy and the struggle against global capitalism.
- Thesis Degree:
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Sociology
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Al-Talabi, Ahmad Abid Atiya
- Abstract:
- This thesis investigates the learning issue for mobile robots playing the differential forms of the pursuit-evasion (PE) game by proposing different learning algorithms. The intended learning algorithms are used to reduce (1) the computational requirements as much as possible, without affecting the overall performance of the learning algorithm, (2) the learning time, and (3) the capture time and the possibility of collision among the pursuers, and to deal with multi-robot PE game with a single superior evader.The computational complexity is reduced by examining four methods of parameter tuning for the Q-Learning Fuzzy Inference System (QFIS) algorithm to decide which parameters are the best to tune and which parameters have a little impact on the performance. Then, two learning algorithms are proposed to reduce the learning time. The first one uses a two-stage learning technique that combines the PSO-based fuzzy logic control (FLC) algorithm with the QFIS algorithm. The PSO algorithm is used as a global optimizer, whereas the QFIS algorithm is used as a local optimizer. The second one is a modified version of the fuzzy-actor critic learning (FACL) algorithm, which is called fuzzy actor-critic learning Automaton (FACLA) algorithm. It uses the continuous actor-critic learning Automaton (CACLA) algorithm to tune the parameters of the FIS.After that, a decentralized learning technique is proposed to enable a group of two pursuers or more to capture a single inferior evader. It uses the FACLA algorithm together with the Kalman filter technique to reduce the capture time and to reduce the collision possibility among the pursuers. No communication among the pursuers is assumed. Finally, a decentralized learning algorithm is suggested and applied successfully for the case of multi-robot PE game with a single superior evader, in which all the players have similar speeds. A new reward function is suggested and used as a guide for the pursuer to move either to the intercepted point with the evader or to move in parallel with the evader depending on whether the pursuer can capture the evader or not. Simulation results show the feasibility of the proposed learning algorithms.
- Thesis Degree:
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Engineering, Electrical and Computer
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Hilewit, Doma
- Abstract:
- With the world's growing energy demand, the need for offshore wind turbine installations in water depths greater than 50 meters has become a strategic priority for the wind energy market. In deep water sites, Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs), particularly with curved rotor blades, may provide more than a 20\% reduction in costs (i.e. installation and maintenance) when compared to standard HAWTs (Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines). However, VAWTs have suffered from lower performance and blade fatigue. One source of lower performance was attributed to the interactions between the downwind blades with vortices that were shed from the upwind blades (so-called "Blade-Vortex Interactions", BVIs) during normal turbine operation. To overcome this performance limitation, a novel VAWT design that decreases the BVI effects is proposed. The key concept behind this design focused on vertically shifting the position of one blade with respect to the second blade, herein named Shifted Troposkien Shape VAWT (STS-VAWT).
- Thesis Degree:
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Engineering, Mechanical
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Harding, Christopher Donald
- Abstract:
- Selecting employees that act with integrity is paramount for organizations such as the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) where integrity-related behaviour can impact national security. Currently, the Military Police, an occupation within the CAF, utilize a high-cost, time consuming Integrity Assessment Centre (IAC); however, personality assessment tools have the potential to be a less resource intensive way to predict integrity behaviour. The primary goal of this thesis was to examine whether facets of disinhibition, a relatively unexplored maladaptive trait, could add incremental variance above facets of conscientiousness in predicting integrity among Military Police applicants (n = 151) attending an IAC. Hierarchical linear models were conducted using a self-report assessment of integrity, and the IAC results, as outcomes. Disinhibition added incremental variance in the prediction of the IAC integrity scores but not the self-report assessment which indicates that including maladaptive facets of personality has value when predicting behavioural assessments of integrity.
- Thesis Degree:
- Master of Arts (M.A.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Psychology
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Stevenson, Shaun
- Abstract:
- This dissertation examines several sites of conflict between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples over water and water rights in Canada, from the 19th century up to current articulations of environmental policy and land rights. Through examination of a selection of public policy, land rights decisions, grassroots activism, and Canadian and Indigenous fiction and non-fiction, I probe relationships to water that have structured and limited the legibility of Indigenous rights in Canada. I track a history of settler colonialism through the lens of water, querying whether water offers a productive site that might challenge the current land-based constraints of colonial legal and policy frameworks that have led to what are often irreconcilable relationships between the settler state and Indigenous peoples.Through Indigenous legal orders, social, cultural, and political expression, as well as strands of materialist and environmentalist Western philosophy that focus on water, ontology, and narrative, I explore the limits and potential for decolonial approaches to water governance that might better support the inherent rights of Indigenous peoples. Using an interdisciplinary methodology, I read public policy and land rights decisions in dialogue with settler and Indigenous literatures and community action in order to understand the often-competing worlding practices that materially, socially, subjectively, and figuratively construct settler and Indigenous approaches to water—what I am calling settler and Indigenous water worlds. Specifically, I analyze four sites of conflict and their various representations where competing laws, philosophies, and social registers of water come up against one another: the 19th century establishment of a liberal order in the Trent Severn Waterway, and its expression in early settler life writing and environmental policy; the mercury pollution of the English-Wabigoon River Systems in Treaty 3 Anishinaabe territory, and the ironic representation of late liberal environmentalism in M.T. Kelly's A Dream Like Mine; the James Bay Hydroelectric conflict, and the political response of the Grand Council of the Crees, as well as the conflict's figurative reimagining in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms; and Haudenosaunee and settler relations in Grand River territory in Southern Ontario, and the impetus to engage these relations through the historic treaty, the Two Row Wampum.
- Thesis Degree:
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- English
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Ibrahim, Rami F.
- Abstract:
- Moving objects such as people, animals, and vehicles have generated a huge amount of spatiotemporal data by using location-capture technologies and mobile devices. There is a high demand to analyze this collected data and extract the desired knowledge. In this study, we apply several data mining techniques on a trajectory dataset such as clustering, classification, sequential pattern mining, and time series analysis. Our model can detect the movement patterns of taxi trips in Porto city. We apply the Naïve Bayes classifier to predict the traffic status of each trip. We perform qualitative and quantitative analysis for our clustering method, then we evaluate the accuracy of the Naïve Bayes classifier. Finally, we discuss the implications of our methodology in terms of traffic jams, energy consumption, and air pollution. Our analysis results can be used to build a recommender system which can be beneficial for taxi drivers, passengers, and transportation authorities.
- Thesis Degree:
- Master of Information Technology (M.I.T.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Digital Media
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Chen, Lin
- Abstract:
- The present study examines the use of lexical bundles in first year core engineering textbooks, identifies vocabulary-based discourse units (VBDUs) in the textbooks, and explores the connections between lexical bundles and the VBDUs. A first year core engineering textbook corpus (FCETC) consisting of 995,672 running words was compiled with materials drawn from seven textbooks required in a first-year engineering undergraduate program. A total of 95 lexical bundles were identified in the FCETC. Lexical bundles in the corpus are more often phrasal than clausal. These bundles mainly serve as referential bundles, discourse organizers, and stance bundles. These bundles allow authors to take on the role of experts who deliver foundational knowledge in a professional way and enable the authors to act as facilitators who make the content accessible and involve readers in their learning processes. The comparison of the use of lexical bundles in first year core engineering textbooks, electrical engineering introductory textbooks, university teaching, and university textbooks indicates that disciplinary specificity and genres impact the use of lexical bundles in the four registers. A total of 665 VBDUs were identified in 14 chapters randomly selected from the FCETC. These VBDUs fall into five main categories, which include explaining VBDUs, presenting VBDUs, solving VBDUs, introducing VBDUs, and bridging VBDUs. Single or multiple VBDUs construct four types of macro-processes for knowledge construction, which suggest that the authors focus on the procedures and steps and guide learners to appropriately approach the theories and understand problem-solving operations. This study also shows that the communicative purposes of VBDUs determine the distribution of lexical bundles in these discourse units. The use of lexical bundles differs in the categories and subcategories of VBDUs and helps achieve various communicative purposes of the VBDUs. Furthermore, this study identifies textual colligations of lexical bundles in the engineering textbooks: the authors avoid using stance bundles in introducing VBDUs and rarely use discourse organizers in introducing VBDUs and bridging VBDUs. Findings of this study can provide pedagogical resources to improve learners' reading and writing competencies in the field of engineering.
- Thesis Degree:
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Chen, Carolyn
- Abstract:
- The performance of a radiometric unmanned aerial system (UAS) composed of a directional gamma spectrometer, the Advanced Radiation Detector for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operations (ARDUO), and a medium-lift helicopter airframe was demonstrated. The ARDUO's properties of the full-width half maximum energy resolution, linearity, gain stability, intrinsic photopeak efficiency, sheet source sensitivity and directional response were characterized in laboratory experiments. Small-scale trials were conducted over a single point source and two point sources of Cs137 at a 27m separation. The single point source strength was measured at 175±39MBq, which is within error of the true source strength of 161MBq. The directional information was shown to improve source locating by differentiating the two point sources. A large-scale `L'-shaped distributed source trial using La140 was completed. The total activity distributed in the area was estimated at 12±1GBq. The directional information was shown to improve constraint of the `L'-shaped distribution area.
- Thesis Degree:
- Master of Science (M.Sc.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Earth Sciences
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Sharifi, Beheshta
- Abstract:
- In grappling with the terrorist threat, states, together with security agencies and governmental bodies rely upon neo-Orientalist constructions of Islam to detect symptoms of the 'known' terrorist that legitimate counter-radicalization policies. Drawing on a governmentality perspective, the thesis unpacks the genealogy of terrorism to elucidate how the terms 'radical' and 'radicalization' have both rendered operative the social construction of risk encircling violence. The thesis argues that the emerging practice of counter-radicalization as a technology of risk has resulted in a permanent state of insecurity. Consequently, in the alleged War on Terror, certain groups are protected and 'Others' subject to scrutiny and stigmatization, particularly Muslims. The thesis analyzes counter-radicalization in the emerging War on Terror, arguing that its pre-emptive logic legitimates the managing of risks based on future threats. It is posited that a shift from a pre-emptive approach to happening or substantively-developed threats might eschew managing future risks.
- Thesis Degree:
- Master of Arts (M.A.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Legal Studies
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Klim, Evan David Alexander
- Abstract:
- I explored three late-night satirical monologues from late-night television following the Orlando Nightclub Shooting on 12 June 2016. I examined the monologues using a social constructionist approach to understand what lessons could be drawn from the event and how a satirist references the nomos when tackling an issue in the world. Satire uses comedic tools to point out follies within society and each host used his or her platform on late-night television to address issues they believed needed to be addressed following the shooting. What I found was that each host aimed to set an agenda in their monologues by emphasizing a) certain facts and information about the event and by b) presenting the audience with a way of viewing what happened and why the issue of gun violence and hate crimes in American needs to be addressed to ensure incidents like these do not happened again.
- Thesis Degree:
- Master of Arts (M.A.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Sociology
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Kasim, Hussein A.
- Abstract:
- Employing a comparative case study and using state effectiveness as a conceptual framework, this research explores malaria and its control in Uganda and Rwanda. These two neighbouring countries, which share a significant number of socio-economic characteristics, have been implementing the malaria control policies widely recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Despite their similarities, and the implementation of comparable malaria control policies, the two countries have experienced divergent outcomes: a reduction in malaria-related hospital admission and death rates in Rwanda, and an overall increase in malaria-related hospitalizations and deaths in Uganda during the same 2000-2015 period. During fieldwork in both countries over the span of several months, data was collected using key informant interviews; observation at four sites; and examination of government documents. The key findings suggest that the variation in malaria policy outcomes is due largely to political factors including the role of political leaders and institutions (i.e. the Presidency, the ruling party and parliament), and not to technical factors, as most of the literature suggests. The politicization of malaria and its control in Rwanda (i.e. putting responsibility for malaria control in the hands of political leaders), and the de-politicization of malaria control in Uganda explains the divergence in malaria control outcomes.
- Thesis Degree:
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Public Policy
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Moteshareie, Houman
- Abstract:
- Heavy metal and metalloid pollutants in our environment are among the most concerning types of contaminations. Major chronic diseases in humans such as renal and cardiovascular diseases, and neurological decline, are strongly associated with heavy metals and metalloids. Therefore, investigation and understanding the molecular mechanisms of cellular responses and detoxification processes that overcome the toxicity of these compounds in living organisms is very important. To date, several genes are identified to play central roles in cellular detoxification process. The expression of such genes can be influenced at both the transcriptional and/or translational levels by the heavy metals. As a fundamental step in the gene expression pathway, we focused on the regulation of translation initiation under stress imposed by heavy metals and metalloids. Although a wealth of information exists on the process of eukaryotic translation, a comprehensive understanding of regulation of translation initiation under stress conditions is lacking. The growing list of novel factors affecting this process further indicate the existence of other novel players, which are yet to be discovered. In the current study, we sought out to identify novel genes encoding regulatory factors known that affect yeast translation initiation during stress when general translation seems to be shut down. Utilizing systems biology techniques, we investigated the effect of specific gene deletions under heavy metal and metalloid conditions on the general process of translation and internal initiation of translation (an alternative mode of translation mediated by specific RNA structures). We explicitly investigated the role of four of identified potential translation regulating genes based on their activity in heavy metals and metalloids sensitivity. We also performed a high-throughput plasmid-based screening of a library of non-essential gene deletion strains (~4500), using the baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) as our model organism to identify novel genes that are involved in internal translation initiation. To this end, we identified dozens of potential novel genes that may be involved in internal translation initiation. We further investigated the role of five potential factors to support their newly identified activity.
- Thesis Degree:
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Biology
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Mouafo Piaplie, Cynthia
- Abstract:
- Unconstitutional changes of government (UCG) remain a constant challenge to democracy, governance and political stability on the African continent. These occurrences in the post-Cold War era have been characterized by the emergence of more subtle ways of accessing and maintaining power. To respond to the threat, the African Union (AU), supported by sub-regional entities, has adopted a zero-tolerance policy against UCGs. Such response includes the establishment of a sanctions regime to ensure a return to democratic and constitutional order in case of UCG in a given member state. Despite significant normative and practical gaps, the AU norm on UCG shows promise and remains a valuable tool to address anti-democratic coups on the continent. Moving forward, it is imperative to focus on improving the current legal and institutional framework against UCG to foster a more comprehensive and coordinated African-led response to these crises on the continent
- Thesis Degree:
- Master of Arts (M.A.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- International Affairs
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Rochette, Alicia Nicole
- Abstract:
- Characteristics of individual plants from the same species can differ significantly between habitats based on abiotic factors such as light intensity and temperature. In turn, these differences in plant quality can affect herbivores that feed on the plant. Here, we examined the effects of habitat on leaf characteristics for the invasive vine Vincetoxicum rossicum, as well as the preference and performance of its biological control agent, Hypena opulenta, on sun versus shade foliage. V. rossicum leaves grown in sunny habitats were tougher, thicker, and had lower water content than shade leaves. H. opulenta larvae consumed greater amounts of shaded foliage than sun foliage and were predominately night-active. H. opulenta larval development did not differ between sun and shade foliage diets; however, females preferred to oviposit on sun foliage. The underlying mechanisms of these results are discussed, as well as their implications for the biological control of Vincetoxicum species.
- Thesis Degree:
- Master of Science (M.Sc.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Biology
- Date Created:
- 2019
42. The roles of suberin biopolymer and associated waxes in protecting plants against abiotic stresses
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- De Silva, Nayana
- Abstract:
- Plants have various hydrophobic barriers that protect against environmental stresses. Suberin is one such extracellular lipid-based barrier that is deposited in various tissues in terrestrial plants. It is a complex aliphatic and aromatic heteropolymer that plays important roles in controlling water and ion movement. The precise mechanisms of suberin in defending against abiotic stresses (e.g. drought, salinity and heavy metals) are currently. In this thesis, I explore some of the specific roles of root suberin and seed coat suberin in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana in relation to abiotic stress tolerance.Physio-chemical responses and stress tolerance as a result of alterations in suberin were investigated using several suberin-altered mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana. Drought-induced suberin reduced water loss through the root periderm. The amount of water loss in roots was inversely correlated to the amount of total suberin. Suberin lamellae structure was important in reducing water loss under drought stress. Salt stress responses in suberin-altered mutants indicate suberin composition or lamellae structure are essential in barrier function of root suberin against uncontrolled Na uptake into the plant.Mutants of Arabidopsis defective in various seed coat polymeric substances (suberin, cutin, mucilage, or proanthocyanidins) were tested for changes in germination and viability after stratification and imbibition in a range of mining environment-relevant chromium Cr(III) concentrations. Seeds reduced in total seed coat suberin were strongly affected by increasing Cr3+ concentrations, affecting both germination and embryo viability. This provides evidence for the effective barrier function of seed coat suberin on the imposition of impermeability to Cr3+. Although proanthocyanidin mutants displayed reduced germination in the presence of chromium, their embryo viability was only partially affected by higher levels of Cr3+. Overall, these results reveal the risks associated with Cr3+ toxicity on the existence of plants with reduced seed coat suberin content in environments contaminated with high levels of chromium.The findings presented in this thesis helps to clarify how suberin content, composition, and lamellae structure relate to tolerance against drought, salinity, and chromium (Cr3+) toxicity. Further, these findings shed light on future directions in manipulating suberin genes for the development of stress-tolerant high-value crops.
- Thesis Degree:
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Biology
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Highstead, Thomas Steven
- Abstract:
- Abstract Machines acting as artificial agents are increasingly operating in environments populated by human beings, and are interacting directly with people. In order for artificial agents to be accepted by society, they must act in a manner that reflects society's norms. Since a society's norms are grounded in ethical rules of behaviour, artificial agents will also need to follow ethical norms of the society in which they operate, if they are to be accepted by human agents. In addition to an artificial agent's goals, tasks and actions for which it is designed such as operating as a care giver or an autonomous vehicle, an artificial agent needs to also incorporate ethical considerations when choosing which task to perform. To achieve this, an ethical component needs to be added to the artificial agent's programming. I present one such approach to achieve this based on Kent Beck's Test-Driven Development methodology
- Thesis Degree:
- Master of Cognitive Science (M.Cog.Sc.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Cognitive Science
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Murphy, Romalie
- Abstract:
- This dissertation examines how John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, and his wife, Elizabeth, manifested imperial expressions of power, sovereignty, security, and population within the new colony in the 1790s. There are also three chapters that focus on how territorial and route surveying played a critical role for both Simcoes, serving as a scientific foundation for reframing Upper Canada as a territory and a population. It does so by offering a re-examination of both their well-known private and public correspondence written in this decade, and also some select paintings and maps through which their ideas of governance and political and cultural visions were expressed. The dissertation's reading and contextualisation of this archive is informed by Michel Foucault's lectures on governmentality, critical cartographic histories, and imperial and colonial historiographies, all of which are brought into conversation with historical studies of Upper Canada.There are two central arguments in this dissertation. First, it demonstrates the ways that the actions of both Simcoes were imperial in nature and were not directed towards the establishment of an independent Province. Towards this end, it reconsiders Elizabeth's collection of writings as evidence of the ways that she embodied and administered imperial interpretations of power and knowledge as a faithful observer and cataloguer of the colony through scientific methods including cartography. Second, this dissertations argues that the Simcoes' work in and about Upper Canada were expressions of an early modern imperial governmentality that predated and thus operated somewhat differently from the historiographically well-known liberal governmentality that emerged in Canada in the early-to-middle decades of the nineteenth century.
- Thesis Degree:
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- History
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Abdullah, Shakeeb
- Abstract:
- The purpose of this thesis was to present a novel perspective on how to design extremely linear digitally controlled oscillators. This was achieved by introducing a new concept known as linearity field maps. The linearity response of the measured DCO had an R^2 value of 0.996. The measured frequency response of the DCO was from 6.66 GHz to 5.45 GHz. The DCO had fine tuning steps of 20.5 kHz resolution and a tuning range of ∼ 20%. The measured FoM was between -175 dBc/Hz and -181 dB/Hz (throughout the entire frequency span of the DCO and for various power levels). The thesis experiment was a success in showing how to design a linear DCO, the DCO in the thesis worked even though the frequency was shifted from simulated results, the point of the thesis was made, and the theorem and perspective introduced in this thesis held true.
- Thesis Degree:
- Master of Applied Science (M.App.Sc.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Engineering, Electrical and Computer
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Morris, Riley Stewart
- Abstract:
- The timing of both winter freeze-up and spring thaws are unpredictable and under these variable environments, clonal populations of Spirodela polyrhiza (greater duckweed) provide an excellent case study of phenotypic diversification as a risk aversion strategy. Previous research on this species has demonstrated that potential diversification bet hedging in the phenology of the production of turions is generated by birth order within clones. The timing of turion reactivation the following spring may also have profound fitness consequences due to the risk of the thaw and re-freezing of the water's surface. I therefore hypothesize that variance in turion reactivation phenology within clones is influenced by birth order of turions. This was tested through a laboratory study that determined the source of observed phenological variability, and an outdoor mesocosm study that further examined fitness consequences of variance in the timing of turion reactivation under different temperature treatments.
- Thesis Degree:
- Master of Science (M.Sc.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Biology
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Piche, Ashley Elaine Marie
- Abstract:
- A pilot scale comparison study between conventional and biological dual media anthracite/sand filters was conducted to assess their performance and address industry concerns with biofiltration. The filters were subjected to various backwash and temperature conditions, including the addition of air scour and extended terminal subfluidization wash (ETSW) at 15-25°C and 0-5°C. The biofilters had significantly lower DBP formations (p<0.05) than the conventional filters under all conditions, by 33-46%. The biofilters exhibited greater headloss development than the conventional filters with a water only backwash, but it was found to be minimized by up to 19% when applying air scour and ETSW under warm water conditions. The conventional filters proved to be more vulnerable in terms of particle release during ripening, regardless of backwash strategy. A double stage ETSW step was also explored and found to improve ripening particle counts and turbidity in both filter types, even further than a single stage ETSW, while simultaneously providing headloss control.
- Thesis Degree:
- Master of Applied Science (M.App.Sc.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Engineering, Environmental
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Suresh, Saumya
- Abstract:
- The adsorptive capacity of a novel green media Sucrose Activated Carbon (SAC) was compared with the more traditional Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) used for water treatment which has certain disadvantages including high price, is coal based and has adverse affects on performance by variations in pH, temperature and flow rate. SAC is obtained from the hydrothermal carbonization of sucrose followed by pyrolysis at 900ºC. Preliminary tests indicate Iodine number for SAC is 1150 mg/g which is comparable to GAC in range of 500-1200 mg/g. Scanning electron microscopic (SEM) images of SAC show spherical particles with average particle size in the range of 2-9 µm with smooth external surface. SAC also shows good adsorptive capacity for methylene blue, nitrate, and phosphate with adsorption capacities, 196.1 mg/g, 1.07 (mg/g(L/mg)^(1/n) and 1.71 mg/g, respectively. Thus, based on the initial studies, this media has potential to be a sustainable substitute for GAC.
- Thesis Degree:
- Master of Applied Science (M.App.Sc.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Engineering, Environmental
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Kesidis, Cleoniki Elizabeth
- Abstract:
- Polyploidization has played a key role in the evolution of plant lineages. The effect of formation pathway on neopolyploid morphology and fertility, however, is unknown. This thesis compares one-step and two-step allopolyploids with Brassica carinata, Brassica juncea or Brassica napus as the maternal parent and Sinapis arvensis as the paternal parent. One-step allopolyploids formed twice as frequently, though once a homoploid hybrid formed two-step allopolyploids were ten times as frequent as one-step allopolyploids. The two-step allopolyploids were more fertile and more reproductively isolated from parental species. The two types of allopolyploids differed morphologically, but in both types, polyploidy had a large initial effect on morphology while the effect of hybridity endured. Both types of allopolyploids, but especially the one-step allopolyploids, showed an unexpectedly high rate of DNA downsizing. In conclusion, allopolyploids formed through different formation pathways differ significantly in fertility, morphology, and genome stability.
- Thesis Degree:
- Master of Science (M.Sc.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Biology
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Creator:
- Dibaj, Roya
- Abstract:
- FinFET is one of the most promising candidates in replacing planar MOSFET beyond the 22nm technology node due to further improvements in the transistor performance. However, the complexity of FinFET manufacturing process due to its three-dimensional structure and reduced critical dimensions have caused new challenges in achieving reliable device testing. With the emergence of new types of defects and dominance of others, accurate modeling of the defects and generation of reliable fault models are essential to create realistic set of test vectors to detect the defects.Automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) algorithms use traditional fault models that primarily capture the behavior of the circuit-under-test by introducing defects at the primary inputs and outputs. It has been found that many defects escape testing when they occur within the circuit structure. Recently, Cell-Aware Test (CAT) has been proposed to detect cell-internal defects by performing extensive analog simulations on post-layout standard circuit structures to generate the fault models. Although CAT methodology has significantly improved the defect coverage of the generated test patterns in MOSFET-based circuits, the defect models utilized are obtained based on the defects injected at the layout level and primarily represented by fixed lumped passive components that cannot reflect the true defect nature in the complex 3D structure of FinFET. Gate-Oxide-Short (GOS) is one of the dominant defects, which has significant impact on circuit reliability. It is the most complex to analyze and difficult to accurately model true behavior of the defective device.This thesis presents a novel methodology for GOS defect injection and fault modeling in FinFETs by introducing the defect to a 3D structure of the device for a specific process technology. The behavior of the defective device is captured through simulations in Sentaurus TCAD environment that lead to the generation of more accurate defect models. These defect models are used in circuit-level simulations to generate appropriate fault models for the circuit structures. These cell-aware models could be integrated in CAT environment to generate more realistic test patterns. This research will not only be used in test pattern generation, but it will aid in cell-aware diagnosis and yield analysis.
- Thesis Degree:
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Degree Discipline:
- Engineering, Electrical
- Date Created:
- 2019