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Music, Madness, & the Mainstream: The Communication of Bipolar Disorder in the Art and Reception of Kanye West & Mariah Carey
(2024-04-13)Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Mariah Carey are two of the biggest stars of popular music. While they have both earned vast amounts of critical and commercial success throughout their respective careers, this has ... -
Transmission and Reception Techniques for URA Based on Spreading and Compressed Sensing
(2024-04-15)The Internet of things (IoT) is a component of the massive machine-type communication (mMTC) paradigm, which supports a vast number of autonomous communicating devices. Unsourced random access (URA) is a communication ... -
What About My Voice? Music Pedagogy and Trans Identity
(2024-04-13)In this thesis, I examine the domain of music education and the experience of trans students, with particular attention to singers. In the past two decades, medical transition has expanded and become accessible to more ... -
Portable Spectroscopic Probe for Real-time Quantification of fat droplets in liver, under Ambient Light: Proof of Concept, Development, and Early Commercialization
(2024-04-15)Hepatic steatosis (HS) is the abnormal accumulation of lipids (fat) in liver cells, negatively impacting post-transplant outcomes. Accurate measurements of HS severity and the size of fat droplets in liver cells are critical ... -
Seeds for Thought: Fostering Rural Resiliency through Agro-tecture
(2024-04-14)Post-anthropogenic food industries have disconnected people from the land and, inherently, their food. Such issues have contributed to increasing levels of food insecurity across Canada, disrupting food memory and culture. ... -
"She Drew Forth Its Strongest Sounds": Tracing the Historical Throughline of Women Harpists
(2024-04-13)The cultural value placed on the harp today, as the instrument hiding graceful young women in the back of orchestras, is uniquely gendered. While there have been studies done on the feminization of harps and harpists, the ... -
ADVANCES IN SOLUTION-SHEARED MAPbI3 THIN FILMS THROUGH MIXED-SOLVENT ENGINEERING
(2024-04-15)The aim of this work is to produce perovskite semiconductor thin films with desirable photoactivity under high temperature deposition conditions by combining the solution shearing technique and solvent engineering. Currently, ... -
Investigation of Particle Size Increase of Micronized Copper Azole Preservative and the Effectiveness of Mixing Systems for Storage Tanks
(2024-04-15)Sedimentation in the holding tanks of the wood preservative micronized copper azole (MCA) is a key concern to the wood preservation industry. MCA is in suspension unlike other traditional preservative treating solutions. ... -
Secure, Full-duplex multi-domain communication network for Marine Robots
(2024-04-14)The underwater channel is a difficult communications medium as its link quality depends on the highly variable seabed and water column characteristics that vary on hourly, weekly, monthly and seasonal scales. One of the ... -
UTILIZING BIOLOGGERS TO INFER BEHAVIOUR AND PHYSIOLOGY OF COMMERCIAL ATLANTIC SALMON (SALMO SALAR)
(2024-04-15)There is a growing global market for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Stakeholders have a vested interest in the future of commercial operations considering the ongoing and future impacts of ocean warming as it relates to ... -
Examining the Mediators of Mental Health Improvement in Men with Localized Prostate Cancer: Self-Efficacy, Illness Perception, and Heart Rhythm Coherence in PC-PEP vs. Standard Care
(2024-04-14)Understanding how interventions reduce psychological distress in patients with prostate cancer (PC) is crucial for enhancing patient care. In a randomized controlled trial, 128 PC patients were assigned to either the 6-month ... -
Investigating Bibliometrics tools for article screening in a Cochrane systematic review
(2024-04-14)This research applies bibliometric methods to a case study Cochrane review, to describe attributes of the groups of articles that were eligible for inclusion, included, and excluded for research integrity concerns. The ... -
Exploring the lived experiences of occupational balance among mature graduate students: An interpretative phenomenological analaysis
(2024-04-12)Introduction: Occupational balance (OB) is a multidimensional concept that describes balancing occupations in terms of obligatory and chosen activities that can impact wellbeing. Purpose: This study aimed to better understand ... -
A ROBUST STEGO-CRYPTOGRAPHIC ANTI-PHISHING FRAMEWORK
(2024-04-15)Phishing attacks manipulate victims through impersonation, often mimicking brand logos and digital identities. Primitive anti-phishing solutions lack accuracy and protection, while modern solutions suffer from biased ... -
ADVANCES IN PROTEOMIC WORKFLOW FROM CELL LYSIS TO PROTEIN PURIFICATION FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT MASS SPECTROMETRY ANALYSIS
(2024-04-14)Proteomics aims to characterize the complete set of proteins in a cell, tissue, or organism at a specific state or time, playing a significant role in various fields, notably molecular medicine for biomarker discovery and ... -
Applications of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Baleen Whales
(2024-04-14)Research into automated detection and classification systems (DCS) of marine mammal vocalizations in acoustic recordings is expanding internationally due to the necessity to analyze large collections of data for conservation ... -
Sustainable extraction of carotenoids and polyphenols from carrots (Daucus carota L.) using pH-responsive Switchable Deep Eutectic Solvents
(2024-04-12)This study investigated the extraction of carotenoids and polyphenols from Daucus carota. L using pH-responsive phase-Switchable Deep Eutectic Solvents (SDESs). After screening several SDESs, DL-menthol: Octanoic acid (1:1 ... -
In Defense of Sass: On Approaching Schizophrenia Through the Lens of Wittgensteinian Solipsism
(2024-04-12)In this work, I defend Louis Sass’s use of Wittgensteinian treatments of solipsism as the basis for an interpretive framework for schizophrenia. I first offer further evidence in support of Sass’s project from the writings ... -
Speech-Language Pathologists’ Practices during Assessments with Linguistically Diverse Children
(2024-04-14)This study investigates the assessment practices used by Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) when working with linguistically diverse children in Canada. An online survey was used to collect data on the current approaches ... -
A Hybrid Machine Learning Intrusion Detection System Framework with Integrated Server and Client Models for Wireless Sensor Networks
(2024-04-15)Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a novel distributed Machine Learning (ML) approach to tackle the challenges associated with data privacy and overload in ML-based intrusion detection systems (IDSs). Drawing inspiration ...