Deep learning ship detection in satellite optical imagery suffers from false positive occurrences with clouds, landmasses, and man-made objects that interfere with correctly classifying ships. A custom U-Net is implemented ...

Ultra wideband (UWB) systems have the potential for extremely high data rate transmission, accurate ranging and positioning. In order to build systems that realize all the potential of UWB, it is first required to understand ...

Ultra-wide Trans-Neptunian Binaries (TNBs) are extremely sensitive to perturbation, and therefore make excellent probes of the past and present dynamical environment of the outer Solar System. Using data gathered from a ...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology is the next viable solution for applications in wireless personal area network (WPAN), body area network (BAN) and wireless sensor network (WSN). However, as application evolves toward a ...

Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is a prevalent monogenic disease, often presenting with cognitive and neurological disorders including autism and epilepsy. The Fmr1 gene - transcriptionally silenced in FXS - normally encodes the ...

This thesis offers a sociocritical (Collin, Guichon et Ntébutsé, 2015) and ergonomic (Bertin, 2015; Caws & Hamel, 2016; Rabardel, 1995) analysis of an online language learning activity using Twitter, in order to better ...

Moral skeptics sometimes argue that science is at odds with morality. These arguments sometimes privilege scientific explanations of moral belief at the expense of objective moral knowledge. More specifically, since morality ...

With an explicit focus on how power is enacted and what this produces in the everyday lives of chronically ill women living on B.C. disability income support (BC Benefits), this research is located at the contested ...

The risk of waterborne infections acquired from the consumption of contaminated water is related to changes in source water fecal contamination, which is often influenced by land-use and hydro-meteorological conditions in ...

The purpose of this research is to review the past and present pedagogy and curricula of theatre lighting design in Canada; the factors, values, ideas and theories that inform it; and to recommend an updated pedagogy and ...