Object Detection is widely used in many applications such as face detection, detecting vehicles and pedestrians on streets, and autonomous vehicles. Object detection not only includes recognizing and classifying objects ...

The proliferation of wireless communication has driven up the demand for electromagnetic and circuit co-simulations. Electromagnetic field solvers such as CST Microwave Studio and Flomerics Microstripes have proprietary ...

There are many observational methods for studying debris disks because of constraints imposed on observing their predominately infrared wavelength emission close to the host star. Two methods which are discussed here are ...

An issue of concern for maritime safety when operating a small to medium-sized sailboat is that the presence of hazards in the navigational route in the form of floating logs can lead to a severe collision if undetected. ...

This study addressed two questions: (a) how do the various discourses that are at work in everyday practice of occupational therapists inhibit or enhance a collaborative therapist-client therapeutic relationship and (b) ...

This thesis is an application of the theory and method of the comparative world-systems approach to West Polynesia. This study examines the interactions between the archipelagos of Tonga, Fiji, and Samoa during the period ...

Resolute Bay, a remote Arctic bay opening into Parry Channel, in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, hosts diverse populations of marine mammals and fish at various times each year. These animals migrate through the bay ...

This dissertation examines dog and idiot tropes—and, specifically, the conflation thereof—in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929), John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men (1937), and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, ...

During the latter half of the 11th century through to the end of the 13th century, Europe was experiencing what is considered by some historians as “the” medieval renaissance, otherwise referred to as the European Renaissance ...