There are various kinds of noise that affects DNA array data and it is a challenge to obtain high quality data from an experiment. Background correction is a first step for DNA array data processing; however, current methods ...

Surface water is used for drinking by many people around the world. E. coli is the most frequently used bacterial indicator used for assessing water quality. The survival, sources, and concentrations of E. coli were ...

The performance of communication and storage systems can be improved if the data being sent or stored has certain patterns and structure. In particular, some benefit if the frequency of the symbols is balanced. This ...

This dissertation reports on the findings of a single, embedded, interpretive case study centered on nine teachers, supportt staff and administrators in a small, fledgling, faith-baised, independent school in a major city ...

My reading of the figure of Adele, a woman with dementia, in David Chariandy’s novel Soucouyant: A Novel of Forgetting (2007), brings Giorgio Agamben’s biopolitical concept of “bare life” together with the notion of the ...

The objective of this thesis is to explore the factors that enhance collaboration in the interdisciplinary environment of front-line addiction and mental health care. This research will explore these factors by posing the ...

This thesis explores the barriers to mental health care that new, racialized Canadians may face. Using a case study methodology, this project first reviews the literature on identified barriers to care. Several barriers ...

This dissertation identified key parallels between the theories of place attachment and interpersonal attachment, a comparison that then informed three objectives of the research program: (1) to explore the functions of ...

In this dissertation, the performance of the newly developed Fuzzy Regression analysis is explored in various ways. First, the Fuzzy Regression model is compared with the popular nonlinear Self-Exciting Threshold Autoregressive ...