- UVicSpace Home
- →
- Faculty of Graduate Studies
- →
- ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations)
ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations)
Browse by
For information on how to submit your thesis to this collection, please go to our ETD website on the UVic Libraries Website.
Access to the full text of some theses may be restricted at the request of the author.
All theses from 2011 to the present are in this collection, as well as some from 2010 and earlier years.
UVic Partial Copyright License for Thesis/Dissertation/Project 1. In consideration of the University of Victoria Libraries agreeing to store your thesis/dissertation/project (“Work”) as required for the granting of your degree and facilitating access to this Work by others, you hereby grant to the University of Victoria, a non-exclusive, royalty-free license for the full term of copyright protection to reproduce, copy, store, archive, publish, loan and distribute to the public the Work. Distribution may be in any form, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, through the Internet or any other telecommunications devices. 2. This license includes the right to deal with this Work as described in paragraph 3 of this agreement in any format, including print, microform, film, sound or video recording and any and all digital formats. The University may convert this Work from its original format to any other format that it may find convenient to facilitate the exercise of its rights under this license. 3. The University will not use this Work for any commercial purpose and will ensure that any version of this Work in its possession or distributed by it will properly name you as author of the Work. It will further acknowledge your copyright in the Work and will state that any third party recipient of this Work is not authorized to use it for any commercial purpose or to further distribute or to alter the Work in any way without your express permission. 4. You retain copyright ownership and moral rights in this Work and you may deal with the copyright in this Work in any way consistent with the terms of this license. 5. You promise that this Work is your original work, does not infringe the rights of others and that you have the right to make the grant conferred by this non-exclusive license. You have obtained written copyright permission from the copyright owners of any third-party copyrighted material contained in the Work sufficient to enable you to make this grant. 6. You also promise to inform any person to whom you may hereafter assign or license your copyright in the Work of the rights granted by you to the University in this license.
Recent Submissions
-
(2023-12-06)Object detection is one of the vital and challenging tasks in the field of computer vision. It supports a wide range of applications in real life, such as surveillance, autonomous driving, and medical diagnostics. Object ...
-
(2023-12-05)Dementia is a general term used to describe a decline in mental ability that interferes with daily life. This thesis aims to investigate the use of EEG (Electroencephalography) signals to detect dementia, which offers a ...
-
(2023-12-04)We focus on a class of optimization problems known as optimal design problems, where the goal is to select design points optimally with respect to some criterion of interest. For regression models, the optimality criterion ...
-
(2023-12-04)Human pelvic morphology has often been described in terms of an evolutionary compromise between bipedalism, encephalization, and obstetrics, however recent research has argued that the pelvis is more biologically plastic ...
-
(2023-12-04)As the aquatic tadpole undergoes metamorphosis to become a terrestrial juvenile frog, its innate immune system must adapt to its new environment. Skin is a primary line of defense in the innate immune system since it acts ...
-
(2023-11-28)Performance-based budgeting (PBB) is a common performance management practice throughout OECD countries where performance information is directly or indirectly linked to resource allocations in the budgetary process. Canada ...
-
(2023-11-24)Aging concrete infrastructure, particularly in colder climates like Canada, demands urgent maintenance and renewal due to the severe temperature variations. These conditions lead to issues such as cracking, spalling, ...
-
(2023-11-24)The practice of disinfecting potable water is widely accepted as a way of reducing the risk of waterborne infections. This practice, however, may also result in the formation of numerous compounds known as disinfection ...
-
(2023-11-23)In an era of rapidly evolving software usage, addressing the diverse needs of users from around the world has emerged as a critical challenge. Diverse users bring forth diverse requirements, encompassing factors such as ...
-
Hall measurement-based study of ferromagnetic thin films stimulated by the idea of spin-orbit torque (2023-11-17)This study is motivated by the idea of spin-orbit torque (SOT). The research attempts to study SOT effects in ferromagnetic systems through numerical and experimental approaches. The numerical simulation segment employs ...
-
(2023-11-16)BACKGROUND: Neurofeedback (NF) has been used for cognitive optimization in non-clinical populations and for therapeutic and rehabilitative purposes in clinical populations, as have mindfulness meditation (MM) training ...
-
(2023-11-16)Both Indigenous and state governments grapple with drivers of ecological decline in colonial states. Ecological drivers such as resource extraction and climate warming meet in the realm of shared land and water governance. ...
-
(2023-11-14)Security has become a significant concern in our lives with the proliferation of connected devices and the emergence of embedded systems where the attack surface is getting wider every day. New security challenges and ...
-
(2023-11-06)Among the first observations released to the public from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was a section of the star-forming region NGC 3324 known colloquially as the “Cos- mic Cliffs.” We build a photometric catalog ...
-
(2023-11-06)Climate change involves complex interactions with various sectors, such as energy, water, land, and socio-economic systems. To achieve the global warming target of "well below 2°C," the international community must address ...
-
(2023-11-06)Recent advances demonstrate satellite communications (SatComs) as a potent enabler for future Terabits/s wireless networks and bridging the digital divide. Existing SatCom systems, however, are mostly dependent on radio ...
-
(2023-11-01)We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Cycle 3 observations of 73 starless and protostellar cores in the Orion B North molecular cloud. We detect a total of 34 continuum sources at 106 GHz, and after ...
-
(2023-11-01)With the ever-growing reliance on IoT-enabled sensors to age in place, a need arises to protect them from malicious activities by detecting attacks or other anomalies. In this work, we first confirm the presence of ...
-
(2023-10-26)Remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) present a potentially efficient method for quantifying surface-schooling forage fish species in important nearshore habitats. In British Columbia, this method could help fill data ...
-
(2023-10-24)Targeted delivery of bioactive molecules to specific locations within the GI tract allows for better orally delivered therapies, as the molecules will only be released upon reaching the desired absorption or delivery ...
