This work investigates fluid mechanical processes involving movement of shock waves inside channels. In particular, the prediction and control of shock motion in intakes is of great importance to high-speed flight and future spacecraft engines--it is a fundamental problem whose…

Research on suicidal behaviors from non-Western countries is limited, and knowledge from Western studies may not be suitable for developing appropriate intervention strategies in other cultures. An understanding of the sociocultural context within which suicidal behaviors take place can provide…

Biochemical regulatory networks are involved in many essential processes of life, such as maintaining homeostatic conditions, cell-cycle division, and responding to environmental stimuli. Such networks contain a staggering degree of complexity, inhibiting our ability to understand how they function. Two…

The urogenital system performs essential functions for life and reproduction in all vertebrate species. In humans, congenital malformations of the urogenital system rank among the most common birth defects and can cause life-threatening complications in adults. Therefore, understanding urogenital system…

The purpose of this study is to explore the theoretical foundation for conceptualizing information-sharing behavior and to develop a composite index or a global scale for measuring the overall level of information sharing in the context of supply chains. Specifically,…

This work generalizes the Liu and Elia dirty-paper coding scheme to include feedback channels with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and intersymbol interference (ISI). An optimal scheme is derived which achieves lossless interference cancellation, performs arbitrarily close to the feedback…

The purpose of the present thesis was to examine psychosocial and behavioural factors associated with the decision-making process involved in uptake of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. In Canada, the HPV vaccine has been approved for women and men aged…

My study focuses on b-boying, the archetype of hiphop dance, to better understand the informal teaching and learning processes embodied in the freestyle or raw b-boy cipher (improvisational dance circle). I draw from an ethnographic approach to investigate how hiphop…

This paper investigates and analyses the process of building a knowledge management (KM) model at Brazil‟s Embrapa (The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation). Embrapa is a world class knowledge organization whose mission is to provide feasible solutions for the sustainable development…

Objective: Despite the established effectiveness of medication in improving symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Spencer et al 2000), rates of adherence to pharmacotherapy are low, ranging from 34% to 91% (Gau et al., 2006). Since higher adherence rates are…