Graduate Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Matteo Ricci: Friendship and Chinese Christianity
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2022-08-16)In the late sixteenth century CE, Macau was a fishing village located on China' s south. Ruled by the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), a fleet of ships had anchored in the village’s docks. China had limited foreign visitors. ... -
An Intersectional Analysis of Victimization of the Homeless, Mental Health, Guardianship and Housing Status
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2020-08)The present study examines victimization across a localized homeless population. It is widely agreed upon across the extant literature that those experiencing homelessness are victimized at disproportionately higher rates ... -
Invisibility cloaks, prisons, and a pandemic: Did COVID-19 render the prison invisibility cloak ineffective?
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2022-07-26)This thesis acknowledges the importance of examining news media representation of prisons, and more specifically, news media representation of Canadian prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic. A thematic qualitative and ... -
3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Solving Complex Digital Agriculture and Medical Imaging Problems
(University of WinnipeUniversity of Winnipeg, 2022-06)3D signals have become widely popular in view of the advantage they provide via 3D representations of data by employing a third spatial or temporal dimension to extend 2D signals. Predominantly, 3D signals contain details ... -
Developing Criteria to Prioritize Rapid Removal of American Elm Trees Infected with Dutch Elm Disease
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-10)During late summer and early fall in Manitoba, adult native elm bark beetles (NEBB) that carry Dutch Elm Disease (DED) emerge from brood galleries in the canopy and upper trunk of infected elm trees and move to the base ... -
Exploring Deep Neural Networks for Plant Image Classification
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2022-04)Automatically distinguishing different types of plant images is a challenging problem relevant to both Botany and Computer Science disciplines. Plant identification at the species level is a computer vision task called ... -
Unheard Voices: Healing Stories of Reclamation and Rebuilding for Families of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people who have not been involved in the National Inquiry
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021)This work uncovers the stories of relatives who have been impacted by the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people (MMIWG2S) in Canada, who have not been involved in the National Inquiry ... -
Chief Paskwa’s Pictograph: Revisiting Treaty Four Through an Anishinaabe Philosophy
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2020-02-23)This research provides an understanding of Treaty Four 1874 through an Anishinaabe philosophy using Anishinaabe (Ojibway) research methods. Prior research conducted has been done by primarily non-Anishinaabeg, therefore, ... -
N-Dimensional Polynomial Neural Networks and their Applications
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2022-04-06)In addition to being extremely non-linear, modern machine learning problems require millions if not billions of parameters to solve or at least to get a good approximation of the solution, and neural networks are known ... -
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation using Satellite Images for Significantly Different Infrastructure Objects
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2022-03-28)Deep learning has become one of the most efficient computer vision tools in recent years. The success and variety of deep learning semantic segmentation models inspired scientists in the remote sensing domain to apply them ... -
Using Machine Learning to Improve Neutron Tagging Efficiency in Water Cherenkov Detectors
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-11-25)When an anti-neutrino collides with a proton in the atomic nucleus, it yields an anti-lepton and a free neutron. In a water Cherenkov neutrino detector like Super-K or the next generation Hyper-K, the free neutron is ... -
Automated Deep Neural Network Approach for Detection of Epileptic Seizures
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-12-09)In this thesis, I focus on exploiting electroencephalography (EEG) signals for early seizure diagnosis in patients. This process is based on a powerful deep learning algorithm for times series data called Long Short-Term ... -
Analysis of Impact of Alcohol on Brain's Activity
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-11-30)Electroencephalography is an electrophysiological monitoring process to capture electrical activity on the scalp that has been shown to represent the macroscopic activity of the surface layer of the brain underneath. It ... -
Cubical homology-based Image Classification - A Comparative Study
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-12-23)Persistent homology is a powerful tool in topological data analysis (TDA) to compute, study and encode efficiently multi-scale topological features and is being increasingly used in digital image classification. The ... -
Endangered Oarisma poweshiek butterfly larval foraging and adult habitat interactions in Manitoba, Canada
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-10-29)The Poweshiek skipperling (Oarisma poweshiek) is endemic to the tall grass prairie in North America, and is now critically endangered globally. Existing populations are scattered amongst tall grass prairie remnants. However, ... -
A study on the modeling for obesity
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-12-03)This study primarily aims to develop an Agent Based Model (ABM) that can simulate the obesity rates based on statistical analysis and to find out how obesity is affected by risk factors in a Canadian environment. As obesity ... -
3-D Image Analysis via Jacobi Moments with GPU-Accelerated Algorithms
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-11-22)This research has developed a parallel algorithm to compute 3-Dimensional Jacobi moments with high efficiency and accuracy. The algorithm was implemented in CUDA C. Our developing progress was in the order of Legendre ... -
Discounting Life: The Impact of Gender, Race, Domestic Violence, and Ideal Victim Status on Second Degree Murder Sentencing in Canada
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-08-12)Scholars, the media, and the public have been concerned about differing values placed on crime victims on the basis of social factors such as gender, race, and domestic violence affiliation. Some academics argue that ... -
ka pamihiwehk mino pimatisiwin: kichi ininiw ahkosowinow kakiskaocik ahkosowinow HIV (Promoting mino pimatisiwin: Urban Aboriginal Women Living with HIV)
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-08-25)This research projects examine the impact of HIV among urban Aboriginal women living with HIV in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Despite the antiretroviral tereatment and HIV prevention strategies, new HIV positive cases for urban ... -
Effects of multigenerational exposure and phenotypic variation on a freshwater fish species exposed to elevated carbon dioxide (CO2)
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-08-11)The amount of dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) and the acidity of aquatic ecosystems is increasing as atmospheric CO2 concentrations increase due to human activities. Changes in pH and dissolved CO2 can have considerable ...
