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  • Amiri, Pouya
    2020 — Identification of central, stretch reflex, and intrinsic contributions to human postural control
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    Cette thèse examine l'identification des contributions centrales, réflexes et intrinsèques au contrôle postural humain. Rester debout est une tâche importante qui requis des interactions complexes entre les système nerveux central, système nerveux périphérique et système musculo-squelettique. Le corps est intrinsèquement instable en position verticale; le moment de torsion de la cheville doit donc être modulé continuellement pour maintenir la stabilité. Ceci est réalisé par: (1) un contrôleur central, activant les muscles en conséquence des informations sensorielles, (2) la raideur intrinsèque, à cause de propriétés mécaniques des muscles et des articulations, et (3) la raideur réflexe, résultant de l'activation du réflexe …  Read more

  • Anand, Konrad
    2020 — Probabilistic Analysis of RRT Trees
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    Cette thèse présente l'analyse de les propriétés et le temps d'exécution de l'algorithme Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (\textsc{rrt}). C'est montrer que la temps pour le \textsc{rrt} avec largeur de pas $\epsilon$ à devenir proche à toutes les pointes dans le cube unité de dimension $d$ est bondée en haut et dessus par un constant multiple de un sur epsilon à la d multiplié par le log de l'inverse de epsilon.. Aussi, le temps ça prends à arriver a un région de probabilité positive est moins qu'un constant multiple de epsilon à la moins 3/2. Finalement, un relation avec l'Arbre des plus …  Read more

  • Anastassiadis, Chloe
    2020 — Effects of a high-fat diet and an exercise-based rescue on neuroanatomy in the triple-transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
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    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the main cause of dementia worldwide and the 7th leading cause ofdeath in Canada. The absence of cure or treatment foreshadows a major public health crisis forour rapidly aging society and has led researchers to turn towards preventive strategies instead.Indeed, up to 30% of dementia cases may be attributable to potentially modifiable lifestyle-relatedrisk factors. In particular, midlife obesity and its associated conditions, such as physicalinactivity, are known to increase risk for dementia. Previous work has also found thathigh-fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity causes neuroanatomical changes and cognitive impairmentin a mouse model of AD.In this project, I assessed …  Read more

  • Andrade Hernández, Aixa Xiuhyolotzin
    2020 — Exploration of potential parameters that influence when to replan Head and Neck Cancer patients during Radiotherapy
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    The need to modify or “replan” a head and neck cancer patient’s radiotherapy treatment arises when significant anatomical changes occur during their treatment course. While regular patient imaging during treatment can be useful to identify when a patient needs to be replanned, they continue to be treated with the sub-optimal original plans until a new plan is created. For this reason, the ability to predict in advance if and when a patient’s plan will require replanning would be advantageous so that the patient is treated with a more optimized plan throughout their treatment course, improving the overall quality of treatment. …  Read more

  • Andrews, Shane
    2020 — Classification of Euclidean signature metrics admitting a rank 2 closed conformal Killing-Yano tensor
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    In this thesis, we start with a review of topics such as Lie derivatives, Killing vectors, and Killing tensors, as well as the generalizations of these objects to their conformal variants. We then introduce the form of the Kerr-NUT-(A)dS metric for an arbitrary number of dimensions, followed by a review and proof of a result by Houri, Oota, and Yasui. The main takeaway from this result is that if a metric of Euclidean signature, satisfying the Einstein equations, admits a rank 2 closed conformal Killing-Yano tensor, then it must be a member of the Kerr-NUT-(A)dS family of metrics. At the …  Read more

  • Angeles Pasco, Enzo
    2020 — Equipment management towards sustainable mining
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    Sushama, Laxmi (Supervisor2)  Read more

  • Antaki, Vincent
    2020 — Instantiations of conditional activation frameworks in deep learning context
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    Conditional computation aims at leveraging the computational expense of very large models by imposing a sparse computation prior. At the core of the idea lies the need for model subsets specialization. To do so, an active selection of the model's subsets must be learned and leveraged by the computation.In this thesis, we explore the application of various techniques to learn deep models which use conditional computation. Also, we suggest a new architectural framework for reinforcement learning problems which subscribes to the option framework; an approach which allows the agent to take temporally extended actions  Read more

  • Anthonisen, Madeleine
    2020 — Tools for measuring the material parameters of neurites
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    This thesis details the development of a collection of methods to measure the material parameters of mechanically-created neurites. Neurites are long thin processes extending from the body of a nerve cell. To characterize the material response of a neurite to a deformation, information about both its tension and its geometry are required and the body of this thesis is divided accordingly. In the first part, we describe a platform to precisely control and manoeuverneurite-tethered polystyrene beads. We use a mechanical probe composed of a hollow micropipettewith its tip fixed to a functionalized bead to incite the formation of a neurite …  Read more

  • Arboleda Restrepo, Juan
    2020 — The struggle between public and private ordering in family law. A study of marital agreement regimes in existing conjugal relationships in the Republic of Columbia and the provinces of Quebec and Ontario
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    Conjugal relationships have faced numerous changes in recent history. The struggle between private and public ordering has compelled changes in the personal and the economic spheres of conjugal relationships. This thesis explores this debate through a critical analysis of a proposal which would attenuate the immutability of marital agreements in Colombia. This critical analysis relies on feminist relational contract theory to survey the economic regulation of couples’ relationships in the Canadian Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, as well as in Colombia. Two general arguments arise from this analysis. First, marriage and cohabitation are often long-term, interdependent relationships that change over …  Read more

  • Ardakani, Arash
    2020 — Complexity reduction of deep neural networks for efficient hardware implementations
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    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technology that is rapidly changing our world and driving a new industrial revolution. We envision a world with intelligent devices that are able to perceive, reason and take intuitive actions. The new vision of intelligent devices requires inexpensive, low-energy and fast hardware platforms. However, state-of-the-art AI algorithms are both computationally and memory intensive, making them difficult to deploy on embedded devices with a stringent power and timing budget. In this dissertation, we focus on efficient processing of AI algorithms to address the aforementioned issues. On the software side, we modify state-of-the-art AI algorithms by reducing …  Read more

  • Armstrong, Benjamin
    2020 — An affect in its own right: Investigating the case for the independence of social safeness from PA and NA
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    Social safeness is the warm soothing affect system that is theorized to motivate and reinforce social connection and attachment processes (Gilbert et al., 2008). Together with positive and negative affect (PA and NA), it comprises Gilbert’s tripartite model of affect (Gilbert et al., 2008). This three-dimensional model stands in contrast to two-dimensional models including the model from which PA and NA were derived (Watson et al., 1988). The independence of social safeness from and precise relationships with PA and NA are not well established. The aim of the present work was to investigate the precise relationship of social safeness with …  Read more

  • Arnob, Samin Yeasar
    2020 — Improving robustness in inverse reinforcement learning
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    In Reinforcement learning (RL) framework, an agent is trained using a designed reward function to solve a particular task. Often designing reward function requires specific reward engineering. Imitation learning provides an alternative to reward engineering ambiguity, where an agent is trained to imitate expert without considering reward from the environment. As these algorithms only learn a policy, they fail miserably when there is a change in environment dynamics. Thus in inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) agent rather learns the underlying objective of expert through approximating reward function and trains a policy accordingly. But it comes with a cost of bad imitation …  Read more

  • Arsenault, Jonathan
    2020 — Practical considerations and extensions of the invariant extended Kalman filtering framework
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    Cette thèse étudie le filter de Kalman invariant (IEKF), une méthode récemment introduite pour l'estimation d'état non linéaire sur des groupes de Lie matriciels. L'IEKF est bien adapté à une classe particulière de systèmes, plus précisément ceux dotés de fonctions affines et de fonctions d'observation invariantes. En fait, lorsque ces conditions sont satisfaites, l'IEKF est un observateur localement asymptotiquement convergent. Cependant, en situation pratique, ces conditions ne sont souvent pas satisfaites. Des scénarios ou ces conditions ne sont pas satisfaites sont étudié ici. En particulier, un exemple 3D est considéré, avec et sans estimation de biais dans le gyroscope. L'estimation …  Read more

  • Arumugagounder Thangaraju, Naresh Kumar
    2020 — Predicting crop water requirements and yield for tomato under a humid climate
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    Methodologies to predict crop water requirements in arid and semi-arid areas are well known. Humid areas pose a challenge, because irrigation is normally required only for short periods of a few weeks or months, during the peak of the summer growing season. The amount of irrigation water is also much less compared to the arid and semi-arid regions and is supplementary to rainfall. The objective of this study was to assess the usefulness of the AquaCrop (V 6.1) to estimate irrigation requirements for field grown tomato in a humid region of Eastern Canada. Input to the model was obtained from …  Read more

  • Ashouri, Mahan
    2020 — The impact of transnational private actors on public international law in economic sanctions regime: the case of Iran’s nuclear program
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    Economic sanctions have become a favorite instrument of foreign policy to bring about a change in political behavior or status quo of sanctioned states. However, the cost of sanctions on global trade, targets’ economies, and especially civilians of designated repressive sanctions has caused scholars of different disciplines to evaluate this instrument through an academic perspective. Among them, legal scholars have tried to examine the legitimacy and legality of such coercive measures imposed in the international arena in order to demonstrate sanctions’ boundaries within the framework of public international law. When sanctions are determined to be illegitimate or illegal under public …  Read more

  • Askar, Mohammad
    2020 — The will not to count: Technologies of calculation and the quest to govern Afghanistan
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    Ce travail se veut une étude dur les technologies de l'information numérique en Afghanistan. Elle analyse l'histoire et la politique des outils utilisés pour produire des données numériques en vue de la gouvernance. Basé sur les recherches archivistiques et le terrain ethnographique, ce projet évalue le rôle critique des nombres, ou de leur absence, dans les pratiques de l’États à travers l’histoire moderne de l’Afghanistan. Ancré à l'intersection des études sur les médias et de la science, de la technologie et de la société, le projet se penche principalement sur trois technologies utilisées pour le calcul et le contrôle : …  Read more

  • Aslani, Saba
    2020 — Micro-engineering the biomechanical niche for brain organoids
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    Brain organoids represent a robust model system that offers various potential applications in drug screening and disease modeling. Experimental control over brain organoid cultures is in part limited by variability of the physical properties of the culture environment. Matrigel, a soluble basement membrane-rich extract is currently the gold standard material for organoid development. It supports organoid formation by providing both the structural scaffold and the source of signals influencing various biological functions, namely tissue polarity and cell migration. However, Matrigel suffers from considerable variability and poor mechanical properties prompting the search for more reproducible ECM-mimetics for brain organoid culture. To …  Read more

  • Aublet-Longpré, Yann
    2020 — Eye movements and the visual system: an insight from trans-saccadic adaptation
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    Les primates, qui utilisent la vision comme outil principal pour naviguer l'environnement, remuent les yeux constamment, faisant de courtes fixations ponctuées d'abruptes saccades. À chaque fixation, les neurones du système visuel s'adaptent localement aux propriétés actuelles du stimulus pour maximiser l'assimilation d'information. Lorsque la saccade déplace la rétine, le système visuel (rétinotopique) doit soudainement encoder une différente partie de l'image. Dans cette dissertation, je cherche à vérifier si l'influence de l'adaptation est maintenue trans-saccadiquement. Pour ce faire, j'ai procédé à l'enregistrement électrophysiologique de neurones corticaux de la région V4 de macaques éveillés performant une simple tâche oculomotrice guidée visuellement. L'utilisation …  Read more

  • Auclair, Olivia
    2020 — Consumption of milk and alternatives and their contribution to nutrient intakes among Canadian adults: Evidence from the 2015 Canadian Community Health Survey - Nutrition
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    En tant qu'aliment de base et source compact de nutriments, le lait et substituts contribuent à l'adéquation nutritionnelle. Les objectifs de cette étude étaient de quantifier la consommation de lait et substituts dans les régimes alimentaires des Canadiens et de déterminer leurs apports en nutriments et en énergie. Les rappels alimentaires de 24 heures de l’Enquête sur la santé dans les collectivités canadiennes – Nutrition de 2015 ont été utilisés pour évaluer les apports alimentaires et nutritionnels au cours d’une journée des adultes canadiens ≥ 19 ans (n = 13 616). Les aliments ont été considérés lait et substituts selon …  Read more

  • Austin-Keiller, Amanda
    2020 — The lived experience of loneliness in older men living with HIV: A qualitative analysis to guide service development
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    Contexte: La solitude est un facteur prédictif de mauvaise santé et de mortalité précoce dans la population générale et se produit plus fréquemment chez les personnes âgées vivant avec le VIH. Alors que de nombreux services sont disponibles pour les personnes vivant avec le VIH, des services pour vaincre la solitude constituent le principal domaine de besoins non satisfaits pour cette population. La solitude est un problème à multiples facettes qui est vécu différemment selon le sexe, la culture et l’âge. Cependant, pour développer des services ciblés et efficaces, il faut comprendre l’expérience de la solitude chez les personnes âgées …  Read more

  • Avidan, Miron
    2020 — Acknowledging the water-energy nexus as paradox: antecedents and consequences
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    Climate change amplifies water quality and quantity crises through the shifting of precipitation patterns around the planet, causing an increasing number of extreme weather events with every passing year. This link has sparked growing interest over the past decade in how water and energy are connected throughout nature as well as in the design of industrial production, commonly referred to as the water-energy nexus. However, most of the academic discussion on the nexus has been confined to environmental sciences and has not been broached by management researchers to date. My dissertation constitutes a pioneering effort to examine the nexus from …  Read more

  • Avila Cervantes, José
    2020 — Evolution and ecology of neotropical crocodiles
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    To understand the origin of biodiversity, it is fundamental to understand the evolutionary processes that give rise to new species. Genomic approaches have enhanced our understanding of the underlying mechanisms that contribute to speciation and divergence. This thesis presents three case-studies examining speciation, hybridization and divergence of crocodile populations using a genomic approach to understand the evolution and ecology of Neotropical crocodiles. Chapter one reassesses the phylogeny of Crocodylus and focuses on the global events may have driven the radiation and diversity of the genus Crocodylus worldwide, with emphasis on possible migrations from Africa to the Neotropics. I used only …  Read more

  • Awada, Asmara
    2020 — Exploring the extent of training-induced visual plasticity and the potential for use in visual rehabilitation
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    In humans, vision represents the dominant source of sensory information about the external world, with more than half of the brain dedicated to the processing of visual information. Vision loss can thus be extremely devastating, with major impacts on quality of life. One of the most prevalent causes for visual deficit is stroke. Indeed, around 15 million people suffer a stroke every year with 30-50% of the cases associated with visual deficits. While two-thirds of stroke patients survive, the majority require months, or even years, of rehabilitation. However, to date, no clinically validated strategies exist to recover vision after stroke. …  Read more

  • Ayala Alvarez, David
    2020 — Dosimetric studies on the INTRABEAM electronic brachytherapy source
    Abstract

    The INTRABEAM system is a miniature kilovoltage x-ray source manufactured by Zeiss (Carl Zeiss Meditech AG, Germany) and is designed especially for intraoperative radiotherapy applications. The nature of its use inside the patient body suggests its dosimetric study as an electronic brachytherapy source. As a brachytherapy source, the INTRABEAM represents a convenient alternative to conventional radionuclides since it delivers a low energy (50 kVp) x-ray beam, reducing the regulatory and shielding requirements without compromising the dose delivery rates.Despite its benefits and extended use for the treatment of brain and breast cancers, the source has not been characterized according to the …  Read more

  • Ayoub, Ghada
    2020 — Mechanochemistry and properties of functional organic and metal-organic solids
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    Cette thèse explore les avantages et les limites de la mécanochimie, c’est-à-dire les réactions induites ou entretenues par l’agitation mécanique, lors de la fabrication de matériaux organiques et métallo-organiques. Bien que la mécanochimie ait été établie comme un outil polyvalent et un moyen efficace de découverte des nouvelles formes solides d’ingrédients pharmaceutiques actifs, cette thèse met en évidence les différences non-établies précédemment des propriétés physicochimiques entre matériaux nominalement identiques fabriqués de manière mécanochimique, et les propriétés obtenues par des procédés plus conventionnels. Dans le contexte des réseaux métallo-organiques (MOF), cette thèse montre le développement de nouvelles stratégies de synthèse rendues …  Read more

  • Ayyadhury, Shamini
    2020 — Changing perspectives in glioblastoma therapeutics - A neurodevelopmentally organized hierarchical model of glioblastoma guides the mechanistic understanding of FAM107A/DRR as a therapeutically relevant target
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    Les gliomes sont des tumeurs malignes mortelles et incurables. Les traitements présentement disponibles sont la chirurgie combinée avec la radiothérapie et/ou la chimiothérapie, qui vont permettre de prolonger la vie des patients; cependant, la tumeur récidive peu importe le traitement. La tumeur progresse et semble évoluer de sorte à changer sa signature moléculaire pour échapper aux traitements thérapeutiques. Le glioblastome, le plus agressif des gliomes est un cancer très hétérogène qui est associe à une très mauvaise pronostique. La résistance de ce cancer aux traitements thérapeutiques serait due à la présence d’une sous-population de cellules cancéreuses nommées cellules souches (GbSCs). …  Read more

  • Baakdah, Fadi
    2020 — Biochemical characterisation of the «Plasmodium falciparum» chloroquine resistance transporter
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    L'émergence de la résistance aux antipaludiques a entravé les efforts mondiaux visant à éliminer le paludisme, et a coûté des millions de vies humaines. Les parasites Plasmodium falciparum sont responsables pour la majorité de la morbidité et de la mortalité, comparément aux autres espèces. Les thérapies combinées à l'artémisinine sont utilisées pour traiter les personnes infectées et ont connu un gros succès. Cependant, une résistance à ces combinaisons a récemment émergée et le schéma de progression est alarmant. La chloroquine était autrefois utilisée comme médicament principal pour le traitement contre le paludisme, mais elle est devenue inefficace en raison de …  Read more

  • Babadi, Saeed
    2020 — Identification of brain networks involved in sensorimotor learning
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    Il est d’un grand intérêt d'étudier les corrélats neuronaux de l'apprentissage sensorimoteur et le rôle des différentes zones du cerveau impliquées dans l'acquisition des aptitudes motrices. Il existe plusieurs formes d'apprentissage sensorimoteur, chacune d'entre elles recrutant vraisemblablement des mécanismes et des processus neuronaux distincts. Cependant, il existe encore des conjectures sur la façon dont ces processus sont réalisés dans le cerveau. Cette thèse a consisté à étudier les réseaux cérébraux impliqués dans l'apprentissage de nouvelles tâches sensorimotrices. Nos paradigmes expérimentaux exigeaient que les sujets apprennent des mouvements dans de nouveaux environnements haptiques obtenus par des interfaces robotiques. Une imagerie par …  Read more

  • Babaei Bourojeni, Farin
    2020 — Development and interactive contribution of anterolateral system neurons to nociception
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    Pain is a distressing sensory and emotional phenomenon often caused by a damaging intense noxious stimulus. The activation of nociceptive circuits elicits a multi-component response including complex behavioural reactions to alleviate pain and coping responses such as aversion after chronic exposure to pain. The generation of appropriate nocifensive responses strongly relies on the anterolateral system (AS) neurons that transmit a wide range of inputs from the spinal cord to multiple supraspinal targets including the medulla, midbrain and diencephalon. Despite the considerable progress made over the past five decades in understanding the contribution of AS neurons, the programs that guide their …  Read more

  • Babaei, Mehdi
    2020 — Language, identity, and investment: Trajectories of purilingual skilled and well-educated immigrants in intercultural Quebec
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    Cette thèse a exploré les trajectoires d'immigrants qualifiés et instruits, leur investissement dans l'apprentissage des langues, la construction de l'identité et l'intégration à Montréal, Québec. Le Québec accueille des immigrants professionnels et qualifiés pour bâtir son économie, ainsi que pour promouvoir l’identité et le nationalisme du Québec. Bien que le Québec ait adopté des politiques interculturelles visant à reconnaître la diversité linguistique, ces efforts ont été enchâssés dans un cadre linguistique français, dont la Charte de la loi française (loi 101), qui fait du français la langue officielle et de tous les jours au Québec. Plusieurs immigrants sélectionnés dans le …  Read more

  • Babazadeh Bedoustani, Farzaneh
    2020 — How does a successful secondary school woman principal in the greater Montreal area describe how she carries out her responsibilities as a leader?
    Abstract

    Cette étude qualitative examine le leadership d'une directrice d'une école secondaire anglaisedans la grande région de Montréal. L’étude avait pour objectif d’apprendre comment la directricede l’école secondaire assume ses responsabilités en tant que dirigeante. Plus précisément, lesquestions qui ont conduit à cette étude étaient : “ Quelles qualités attribue-t-elle audéveloppement du leadership ? ”, “Quelles sont ses approches pour la mise en œuvre duleadership ? ”. Les sources de données comprenaient des entrevues avec une directrice, quatreparties prenantes, mémos de réflexions, artefacts scolaires, informations en ligne, y compris le filTwitter de la directrice et le site internet de l’école.L'analyse thématique …  Read more

  • Baeriswyl, Fabien
    2020 — Modelling of heatwaves and dependence assessment
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    In this thesis, we consider a dataset consisting of spatio-temporal temperature measurements for two distinct decades, the first covering the years 1979-1988 and the second covering the years 2008-2017. We create a catalog of heatwaves based on a connected components labelling algorithm. We then propose and extract characteristics of the obtained heatwaves. We compare these characteristics for the two periods of interest. We then assess the dependence between these characteristics, in particular extreme value dependence. We recall the main tools available to test for and quantify the strength of (extremal) dependence. We finally develop a test to formally assess whether …  Read more

  • Bagga, Sunyam
    2020 — Detecting abuse on the internet: It's subtle
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    Piper, Andrew (Supervisor2)  Read more

  • Bailey, Christopher
    2020 — Biomechanics and physiology of motor variability in repetitive movements of young and old female and male adults
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    La vieillesse et la variabilité naturelle des patrons sensori-moteurs (c'est-à-dire la variabilité motrice) sont indépendamment liées au risque de blessure durant les activités quotidiennes impliquant des mouvements répétitifs. Cependant, comment la vieillesse modifie la variabilité des schémas biomécaniques (c'est-à-dire les mouvements articulaires et les activités musculaires), si le segment corporel, la fatigue et le sexe affectent ces patrons, et comment la variabilité motrice est régulée physiologiquement restent incertains. Cette thèse visait à déterminer comment la vieillesse affecte la variabilité motrice des paramètres biomécaniques des membres supérieurs et inférieurs lors de mouvements répétitifs à faible charge en fonction du sexe et …  Read more

  • Bakhshijooybari, Zeinab
    2020 — High-rate anaerobic digestion of ozonated biosolids at low mesophilic temperature in a single-stage treatment process
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    The production and disposal of biosolids by municipal wastewater treatment infrastructures represent an economic burden to plant operators considering that annual cost of biosolids is approximately 50% of their total operational cost. Anaerobic digestion is one of the most widely used processes to treat biosolids and has the benefit of producing valuable energy. Conventionally, anaerobic digesters are operated at 35 ºC to overcome the rate-limiting step of hydrolysis. However, the energy expenditure for heating up the anaerobic digester system is significant. This study assessed the feasibility of operating anaerobic digesters at low mesophilic temperature (20 ºC) by combining them with …  Read more

  • Balasubramanian, Prabakaran
    2020 — Linear and nonlinear damping identification in vibrations of thin-walled structures
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    Dissipation of mechanical energy is one of the most important aspects of designing any structure. Understanding the amount of dissipation or, in other words, damping present in the structure is of critical importance while designing mission-critical components. The dissipation defines the maximum vibration amplitude reached by the system at its resonance for a given excitation. Higher vibration amplitude results in lower fatigue life or other vibration related damage. Damping in a structure is typically characterized by experimental modal analysis and linear models. However, this assumption is not valid for structures experiencing large amplitude vibrations (larger than the characteristic dimension, for …  Read more

  • Balazs, Emma
    2020 — Sparring with femininity: an urban ethnography of mixed gender/martial arts youth programming
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    Cette ethnographie critique explore comment un groupe de jeunes femmes en milieu urbain a négocié sa place dans un programme de sport au service du développement axé autour d’un passe-temps traditionnellement masculin: les arts martiaux mixtes (MMA). Cette ethnographie s’est principalement déroulée dans un centre de jeunes situé dans un quartier central de Montréal, un quartier historiquement considéré à faible revenu. Le centre de jeunes offre une programmation parascolaire gratuite aux jeunes âgés de 11 à 18ans. Mon analyse s’accroît de la littérature des domaines de la sociologie du sport et du sport au service du développement, en élaborant sur …  Read more

  • Balleste, Roy
    2020 — The exercise of vital powers: rules of military cyber operations in outer space
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    RésuméLe monde a change de nombreuses manières dans les temps modernes, et la technologie a été un élément clé dans ce changement. La loi applicable aux utilisations militarires du cyberespace dans l’espace est en pleine mutation. Les jours beaucoup plus simples de l’ARPA Internet sont révolus. L’Internet, ou cyberespace, tel qu’il est couramment désigné par l’armée américaine, est une vulnérabilité stratégique. Le cyberespace est également défini comme un domaine analogue à un espace physique. Alors que les États cherchent des moyens de protéger leurs secteurs d’infrastructure nationaux, la communauté international se bat pour faire face aux défis juridiques aux associés …  Read more

  • Balvardi, Sahar
    2020 — Effectiveness and predictors of outcomes in a Psychiatric Day Treatment Program for elementary age children
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    Background. Childhood externalizing disorders are associated with later severe maladjustments and are one of the most common reasons for the elementary-age children’s referral to mental health facilities. Although day treatment programs have been used to treat children with severe externalizing disorders who cannot function in their community schools, there is limited literature regarding their effectiveness, with even fewer studies examining the predictors of outcome. Objective. In this study, I examined the effectiveness of a day treatment program in improving externalizing problems in elementary-age children. Moreover, I examined whether family functioning, severity and comorbid disorders can predict children’s treatment outcomes while …  Read more

  • Bamberger, Jacob
    2020 — Failure of the finitely generated intersection property for ascending HNN extensions of free groups
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    The main result of this thesis is a proof of the failure of the finitely generated intersection property of ascending HNN extensions of non-cyclic finite rank free groups. This class of group consists of free-by-cyclic groups and properly ascending HNN extensions of free groups. We also give a sufficient condition for the failure of the FGIP in the context of relative hyperbolicity, we apply this to the free-by-cyclic groups of exponential growth  Read more