New complex silicon-containing molecules were made by B(C6F5)3-catalyzed hydrosilation, dehydrocoupling, and dealkylative coupling reactions starting from Si-H reagents. The scope of reactions starting from disilane was ...

This work seeks to recover the critical spirit of conservatism and re-emphasize its goal of stability and resilience in society. I will argue that we should strive to view ourselves as deeply dependent and persistently ...

The goal of the research of this Dissertation is using actuation redundancy to reduce backlash in parallel manipulators (PMs.) Initially, 3-RRR and 3-RPR PM layouts where 3 is the number of branches, R is a revolute joint ...

Testing every possible combination of the input parameter values is often impractical, inefficient or too expensive. One common alternative is pairwise testing where every pairwise combination of the parameter values is ...

Women who experience homelessness are faced with a myriad of challenges and struggles. Compared to women with housing, they endure higher than average rates of physical illness, mental health challenges, and substance ...

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 ...