• Detection of malicious Encrypted Web Traffic using Machine Learning 

  Shah, Jay (2018-11-15)

  An increasing amount of web traffic is currently encrypted using HTTPS. While most of the HTTPS traffic is legitimate, a growing slice is generated by malware. The use of the HTTPS protocol by malware makes its detection ...
• Diagnosis of PEMFC stack failures via electrochemical impedance spectroscopy 

  Mérida Donis, Walter Roberto (2018-11-15)

  Two failure modes related to water management in Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cells (dehydration and flooding) were investigated using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy as a diagnosis tool. It was hypothesised that ...
• On some limiting performance issues of multiuser receivers in fading channels 

  Djonin, Dejan V. (2018-11-15)

  The problem of information-theoretic optimal resource allocation for the synchronous single-cell CDMA Gaussian multiple access channel is investigated. Several different cases are analyzed including: optimal sequence ...
• Mitigating risk of emissions in energy planning and the operational implications 

  Niet, Taco Anton (2018-11-15)

  There is increasing imperative to reduce emissions from global energy systems to avoid catastrophic climate impacts. Much of the work on how countries can meet their emissions reduction targets assumes perfect knowledge ...
• Test Automation of Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) Validation using Hardware Software Approach 

  Panchal, Akash (2018-11-15)

  The Inter-Integrated Circuit(I2C) is a serial communication protocol used to enable communication between two or more devices. Modern-day semiconductor devices require thorough validation prior to its release, which captures ...
• Modeling of interactions of electromagnetic fields with human bodies 

  Caputa, Krzysztof (2018-11-14)

  Interactions of electromagnetic fields with the human body have been a subject of scientific interest and public concern. In recent years, issues in power line field effects and those of wireless telephones have been in ...
• Distance determination algorithms for convex and concave objects 

  Carretero G., Juan Antonio (2018-11-13)

  Determining the minimum distance between two objects is a problem that has been solved using many different approaches. Most methods proposed so far are, in essence, limited to solve the problem amongst convex polyhedra. ...
• On Variant Clique Problems and their Applications 

  Xiao, Zhuoli (2018-11-13)

  Clique-based problems, often called cluster problems, receive more and more attention in computer science as well as many of its application areas. Clique-based problems can be used to model a number of real-world problems ...
• Liquid phase electroepitaxial bulk growth of binary and ternary alloy semiconductors under external magnetic field 

  Sheibani, Hamdi (2018-11-09)

  Semiconducting single crystals are vital to the electronics industry. A number of methods have been developed to produce or ’’grow” these materials. A widely used group of growth techniques is known as the growth from ...
• An Affordable Microsphere-Based Device for Visual Assessment of Water Quality 

  Rajwani, Azra; Restall, Brendon; Muller, Nathan J.; Roebuck, Scott; Willerth, Stephanie M. (Biosensors, 2017)

  This work developed a prototype of an affordable, long-term water quality detection device that provides a visual readout upon detecting bacterial contamination. This device prototype consists of: (1) enzyme-releasing ...
• The JAFARDD processor: a Java architecture based on a Folding Algorithm, with reservation stations, dynamic translation, and dual processing 

  El-Kharashi, Mohamed Watheq Ali Kamel (2018-11-07)

  Java’s cross-platform virtual machine arrangement and its special features that make it ideal for writing network applications, also have a tremendous negative impact on its operations. In spite of its relatively weak ...
• The distributed utility model applied to optimal admission control & QoS adaptation in multimedia systems & enterprise networks 

  Akbar, Md Mostofa (2018-11-05)

  Allocation and reservation of resources, such as CPU cycles and I/O bandwidth of multimedia servers and link bandwidth in the network, is essential to ensure Quality of Service (QoS) of multimedia services delivered over ...
• Rapid prototype development of PEM fuel cell gas delivery plates 

  Zheng, Rong (2018-11-05)

  This research focuses on new rapid prototype development techniques for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell gas delivery plates. The study addresses several key issues in the design, analysis and manufacturing of fuel ...
• New multiuser detection schemes for direct-sequence code-division multiple access systems 

  Wang, Xiaofeng (2018-11-05)

  In this dissertation, three multiuser detectors are developed for different application scenarios in direct-sequence code-division multiple access systems. The first detector is an overlapping widow decorrelating detector ...
• Active magnetic regenerators: performance in the vicinity of para-ferromagnetic second order phase transitions 

  Rowe, Andrew Michael (2018-11-02)

  A technology that has the potential to liquefy hydrogen and natural gas efficiently is an Active Magnetic Regenerative Liquefier (AMRL). An AMRL exploits the magnetocaloric effect displayed by magnetic materials whereby a ...
• A Comparative Study on Recently-Introduced Nature-Based Global Optimization Methods in Complex Mechanical System Design 

  Saad, Abdulbaset El Hadi; Dong, Zuomin; Karimi, Meysam (Algorithms, 2017)

  Advanced global optimization algorithms have been continuously introduced and improved to solve various complex design optimization problems for which the objective and constraint functions can only be evaluated through ...
• Lessons Learned from Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing of Two Residential Towers at the University of British Columbia 

  Teshnizi, Zahra; Pilon, Angelique; Storey, Stefan; Lopez, Diana; Froese, Thomas M. (Procedia CIRP, 2018)

  The University of British Columbia has an interest in incorporating life cycle environmental impacts and financial information into project planning, as well as research and teaching. As part of a tall wood building research ...
• Malicious URLs and Attachments Detection on Lexical-based Features using Machine Learning Techniques 

  Zeng, Yuanxi (2018-11-01)

  Email is one of the prime sources of cyber-attacks against Internet users. Attackers often use social engineering in order to encourage recipients to click on a link which refers the user to a malicious website or opens a ...
• Single stage soft-switched high-frequency transformer isolated AC-to-DC bridge converter and extension to multiphase converter 

  Rahman, M. M. Azizur (2018-11-01)

  This thesis presents the operation, analysis, simulation and experimental results of a single-phase single-stage soft-switched high frequency (HF) transformer isolated ac-to-dc bridge converter with low total harmonic ...
• Non-uniform sources in the total/scattered finite difference time domain (FDTD) method 

  Potter, Michael E. (2018-11-01)

  The Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method has been used extensively in electromagnetic field modeling because of its ability to robustly handle interactions of fields with complex heterogeneous structures. In ...

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