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Data-driven processes are increasingly being used in architectural design to create, evaluate, and select design options. Multiple design-aid systems for supporting such processes exist. Despite this…

The number and scales of data centers have significantly increased in the current digital world. The distributed data centers are standing out as a promising solution due to the development of modern…

An O(\sqrt {n}) query time and O(n^{1.5}) size oracle for counting shortest paths is proposed. Given a pair of vertices u and v in a planar graph G of n vertices, the oracle answers the number of…

This thesis presents an approach to incorporating qualitative assertions of conditional irrelevance into belief change, in order to address the limitations of existing work which considers only…

We address the Plan2Scene task: converting a floorplan and associated photos into a textured 3D mesh model of a residence. Our method 1) lifts a floorplan image to a 3D mesh, 2) synthesizes textures…

Supersingular isogeny graphs, which encode supersingular elliptic curves and their isogenies, have recently formed the basis for a number of post-quantum cryptographic protocols. The study of…

The effective population size Ne was introduced by geneticist Sewall Wright to describe idealized populations. Ne has been a research interest because of its mathematical theory and population…

The nuclear shell model has accurately predicted many experimental trends in the atomic mass region of A=20-60 and beyond. One way to examine this model is by studying mirror nuclei–which have…

This dissertation explores implications of reconsidering the nature of mathematics from a conjoined enactivist/quantum theoretical perspective. The research is motivated by the view that…

The first series of uranyl ([UO2]2+)-dicyanoaurate coordination polymers has been synthesized and characterized. The diversity of structures generated demonstrates the flexibility of uranyl and…

Despite clothing's importance and antiquity, cross-cultural variations in clothing complexity have not been adequately quantified. This study aims to build on existing quantitative methods for…

The environmental sustainability issues arising from growing global textile and fashion consumption have increasingly come under scrutiny. Reportedly, synthetic microfibre emissions during the use-…

Background: Primary care provides entry to the Canadian health care system, subsequent coordination, and integration of all levels of care. People who have immigrated to Canada may experience…

O-GlcNAcylation is a post-translational modification that governs certain cellular pathways essential for eukaryotic cell functioning including transcription, translation, and protein transport. Its…

Over 86,000 Canadians live with the consequences of a spinal cord injury (SCI). Injury to spinal autonomic pathways can lead to profound cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction. Key areas of concern…

This thesis includes an introduction, an extended narrative, and eight essays integrating philosophies on science education, poetic inquiry, and place-based learning. This collection explores a range…

Nowadays, mobile robots capable of autonomous navigation and interaction in unfamiliar and dynamic environments have received great attention among researchers. The robot must be able to precisely…

A latin square of order n is an n × n array in which each row and each column contains each of the numbers {1, 2, . . . , n}. A k-plex in a latin square is a collection of entries which intersects…

This thesis studies the problem of articulated object reconstruction from an input video. Our focus is on estimating the shape, pose, and part motion of an articulated object during human-object…

Many organisations store large amounts of data in relational databases and require efficient ways to extract useful information from them. Machine learning models learned from these databases enable…