Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations from 2009 by Title
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Surface estimation from multi-modal tactile data
(2021)The increasing popularity of Robotic applications has seen use in healthcare, surgery, and as an industrial tool. These robots are expected to be able to make physical contact with the objects in the environment which ... -
A Survey of expatriate teachers in Kuwait
(2009-08)The purpose of this study was to understand why qualified American and Canadian educators left their home country to teach overseas and more specifically, why they decided to live and work in Kuwait. Fifty-one participants ... -
Survivable multipath provisioning schemes in mesh transport networks
(2012-11-10)Back to the 1 960s, Internet originated from the military research of survivable, fault-tolerant and distributed computer networks. Half-century later, quarter of Earth' s population use Internet services. International ... -
Sustainability analysis of carbon dioxide emissions on combustion of biomass for electricity
(2022)The transition towards renewable, low-carbon energy is a fundamental element of climate change mitigation. Many countries around the world have set their decarbonization strategies to reduce emissions. The European Union ... -
Sustainable happiness in an ecovillage: exploring the impacts of sustainable living on individual happiness
(2017)While there has been substantial growth in scholarly attention to negative emotional responses to environmental issues such as climate change, limited research has been conducted on the converse, such as how environmentally ... -
Synthesis and applications of room temperature ionic liquids
(2017)A variety of room temperature ionic liquids have been synthesized and applied to various reactions. Four of these ionic liquids were prepared in a chiral manner: [1-butyl-3- methylimidazolium][L-lactate], [1-butyl-3-me ... -
Synthesis and Electrochemical Studies of Titanium Dioxide Based Nanostructured Catalysts for Environmental Applications
(2016)Nanomaterials are playing an increasingly important role toward addressing emerging environmental challenges. Heterogeneous catalysis is the best option available for the elimination of environmentally incompatible compounds ... -
Synthesis and electrochemical study of palladium-based nanomaterials for green energy applications
(2014-01-22)Rising global energy consumption leads to increased environmental impacts. The continued use of current energy resources, e.g. fossil fuels, will exaggerate the cumulative nature of CO2 byproduct emissions in the atmosphere. ... -
Synthesis and electrochemical study of Ptlr and PtRu nanomaterials
(2015)The rapidly growing need for clean energy on a global scale has led to the emergence of new fields of scientific research to facilitate the discovery and development of novel energy sources, such as fuel cells, which ... -
The Synthesis and kinetic evaluation of lysosomotropic substrate-based probes for cathepsins B and L
(2015-10-21)Members of the cathepsin family of cysteine proteases are gaining interest as potential imaging biomarkers and drug targets due to their multifunctional roles in a range of diseases such as cancer, asthma and arthritis. ... -
Synthesis and modification of TiO2 and WO3 based nanostructured materials for environmental applications
(2015-10-21)TiO2 and WO3 based nanomaterials are highly attractive for various applications encompassing photocatalysis, electrochromic devices, dye sensitized solar cells, hydrogen production, and sensing applications due to their ... -
Synthesis and study of palladium-containing nanomaterials for hydrogen technologies
(2010)We are currently facing a climate change and global warming effect due to the emission of greenhouse gases from our existing energy sources. A hydrogen-based economy is one solution to uphold our standard of living while ... -
Synthesis of molecular probes for one-electron reduction
(2017)Controlled drug release plays an important role in medicine because it can be a factor in human health care. It is defined as the ability to release a drug inside the body at a specific time. Radiation-sensitive ... -
Synthesis of muramyl dipeptide analogues as immunomodulatory agents
(2018)Peptidoglycan occurs naturally in cell wall structures of almost all types of bacteria. Muramyl dipeptide (MDP) is a fragment of peptidoglycan, which consists of N-acetylmuramic acid that is attached to a dipeptide of ... -
Synthesis of novel Lipid A analogs as potential ligands for toll-like receptor 4
(2009)Lipid A, the glycolipid component of Gram-negative bacterial lipopolysaccharide has been shown to engage the Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signalling pathway. While this signalling cascade results in cellular mediators which ... -
Synthesized emulsifiers from kraft lignin and the role of mixing in oil-in-water emulsions
(2023)Oil-in-water emulsions are widely used in various industrial applications such as food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. An oil-in-water emulsion is a colloidal system in which oil droplets are dispersed in water with the ... -
System formulation for parallel circuit analysis
(2015-06-16)Advances in communication systems and VLSI circuits increase the performance requirements and complexity of circuits. During the design process, there is a need to perform computationally demanding numerical simulations ... -
System identification and optimization of fuzzy relation matrix models based on semi-tensor product
(2021)Generally, in real-world engineering disciplines a dynamical system is nonlinear, having multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) variables, and high level parameter uncertainties. Although there are many approaches proposed ... -
Systematic literature search on health promotion strategies for adults with intellectual disabilities
(2009)Intellectual disability (ID) is not a disease itself, rather it is a condition that is characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and adaptation in conceptual and practical skills (van ... -
The systems thinking paradigm and higher-order cognitive processes
(2014-12-12)The present study examined a new psychological construct we have coined “The Systems Thinking Paradigm.” The systems thinking paradigm describes a cognitive style with which one is more likely to understand that complex ...