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Electroencephalography (EEG) records electrical brain activity typically in a non-invasive manner. Recent literature has shown its potential in stroke rehabilitation, to actively engage stroke…

This study examines whether suffix sequences in a Turkish corpus distribute as units (formulas). Most research on formulaicity focused on word-level formulas. As for affix-level formulas, most…

South Africa has one of the highest prevalence of HIV globally with adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) being mostly affected. Increased vulnerability to HIV acquisition among adolescent girls…

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) continue to see integration in data centres, where customized hardware accelerators provide improved performance for cloud workloads. However, existing…

Privilege based security policies for programs are effective as a first line of defense against attacks. They are able to mitigate broad classes of attacks against programs, potentially saving the…

Nuclear well-logging tools play an essential role in helping petroleum engineers and geoscientists to understand properties of formations and give a quantitative evaluation of the hydrocarbon…

Achieving the Paris Agreement goal of “holding the increase in global temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” is increasingly challenging. Overshoot trajectories, which assume that…

This thesis applies the principles of feminist and postcolonial methodology to analytically compare two types of oral history projects on women survivors from India’s 1947 Partition: grassroots…

NISHGA is a deeply personal and autobiographical book that attempts to address the complications of contemporary Indigenous existence. As a Nisga’a writer, I often find myself in a position where I…

For many decades, professional digital imaging has faced a dilemma. On one hand, imaging scientists and engineers – and, within the last two decades, programmers – have been taught that the goal of…

In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is the most common fertility treatment. In an IVF treatment, embryologists inspect embryos for subjective quality assessment on a daily basis to select one for…

In this study, the blade pitching motion on a representative (12 kW) vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) is optimized over a wide range of operating conditions. The pitching is referred to as active…

Telecommunication service providers have franchise dealers to sell their services and products to a wide range of customers. These franchise dealers are small-sized businesses working with a small…

Although spontaneous blinking has traditionally not been considered to have much importance in cognition, increasing behavioural evidence suggests that blinking is modulated by changes in attentional…

Learners increasingly refer to online videos for learning new technical concepts, but often overlook or forget key details. We investigated how retrieval practice, a learning strategy commonly used…

Educators have spent 130 years, from Dewey to Pinar, developing curricula in North America that have contributed to the development of the idea of an “individual self”. Such emphasis on individuality…

Vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature have revolutionized medical care by providing rapidly assessed, physiology-based, non-invasive and easy-to-understand standardized…

This dissertation presents a descriptive study of discourse practices used in the context of a doctor-patient interaction in alternative medicine sessions. Alternative medicine is oriented toward a…

In recent times, there has been a substantial interest in capitalizing on the abundance and the ubiquity of mobile and personal technologies for their educational use. Even though use of emerging…

Lattice walks in cones have many applications in combinatorics and probability theory. While walks restricted to the first quadrant have been well studied, the case of non-convex cones and three-…