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Policing The Corporate Image: A Case Study Of In-House Security Governance And The Management Of Risk In A Mass Private Property In Canada., Steven David. Hutchinson
Policing The Corporate Image: A Case Study Of In-House Security Governance And The Management Of Risk In A Mass Private Property In Canada., Steven David. Hutchinson
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'Mass private properties' such as shopping malls, hotel complexes, and large educational, manufacturing and industrial sites increasingly operate as sites of public and social life. Since private interests reign over the policing of these spaces, public life that was once protected and controlled by the state is now policed by private institutions. These changes have resulted in a significant rise in the number of private security personnel employed in Canada, where there are now more than twice as many private security agents as there are public police officers. This development has expanded the ambit of authority held by the 'private …
Psychosocial Subtyping And Brain Metabolism In Children With Epilepsy., David W. Collins
Psychosocial Subtyping And Brain Metabolism In Children With Epilepsy., David W. Collins
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Past research has indicated that psychosocial dysfunction in children with epilepsy is a significant area of concern. Psychosocial functioning in children with epilepsy has typically been broadly defined in relation to various control groups. The present investigation provided a more multidimensional classification to examine psychosocial functioning in these children. In Study 1, behavioural ratings from the Personality Inventory for Children-Revised (PIC-R) were subjected to cluster analyses, yielding a psychosocial typology. Based on clinical scale elevations of the mean PIC-R profiles, the participants were classified into six subtypes of psychosocial functioning: Cognitive-Somatic, Cognitive-Internalized, Cognitive-Externalized, Cognitive-Social Isolation, Internalized Psychopathology, and Somatic Concern. …
Simulating The Plenoptic Camera., Arash. Razavi
Simulating The Plenoptic Camera., Arash. Razavi
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis presents the simulation of a CCD based camera called the Plenoptic Camera. Plenoptic Camera is a novel single lens camera capable of capturing 3D information of the scene and is used to find the depth of the objects. The main concept behind the design of this camera lies in the fact that light which passes through the lens of a camera is quite rich in information which regular cameras are not designed to take advantage of. The plenoptic camera keeps track of the 3D information of the light rays by distributing these rays over a two dimensional array …
Nonlinear Deformations Of Laterally Loaded Piles Embedded In Stiff Clay Located Below The Water Table: Sensitivity Analysis., Deddy. Suwarno
Nonlinear Deformations Of Laterally Loaded Piles Embedded In Stiff Clay Located Below The Water Table: Sensitivity Analysis., Deddy. Suwarno
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Sensitivity analysis is one of the methods predicting how sensitive a soil-pile interactive system will behave under a lateral loading, whether a horizontal force or a bending moment, due to the changes of the design variables. For a civil engineer, it is important to know what is the deformation at the top of the pile foundation to be considered for the upper structure. Therefore, the sensitivity analysis in this thesis focuses on the changes of the displacement and the angle of flexural rotation at the top of the pile due to the changes of the design variables which are the …
Investigation Of Completeness Of Combustion In Cng Fueled Spark Ignition Engines., Mohsen Battoei Avarzaman
Investigation Of Completeness Of Combustion In Cng Fueled Spark Ignition Engines., Mohsen Battoei Avarzaman
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The focus of this study was to apply and evaluate two separate techniques for estimating of the completeness of combustion in a multi-cylinder engine fueled with compressed natural gas. The degree of correlation between such two independent estimates of the combustion completeness was sought. One technique, with better time resolution and viewed to be more accurate, calculates the completeness of combustion on a cycle-by-cycle basis using in-cylinder pressure measurements. The technique utilizes the normalized pressure rise parameter due to combustion to describe the completeness of combustion. The second technique evaluates the completeness of combustion based on time-averaged measurements of unburned …
Development Of A Tire Characterization Unit Using Four Post Road Test Simulator., Egidio Mosca
Development Of A Tire Characterization Unit Using Four Post Road Test Simulator., Egidio Mosca
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Effective Road Profile (ERP) Control is a relatively new simulator control strategy which shows a great deal of promise in reducing automotive suspension and structural testing times, thus shortening the product development cycle. The key to ERP is a linearly approximated tire model consisting of a characteristic stiffness of the spring elements within the model (K), characteristic damping coefficient of damper elements within the model, (C), and the tire modal mass (MMTM). The tire parameters can be purchased as a data set from MTS Systems Corporation for approximately $6000 US per tire. This thesis offers an alternate method of obtaining …
A Parametric Investigation Into The Effect Of The Dish Depth And Spoke Angle On The Crashworthiness Characteristic Of A Four-Spoke Steering Wheel Armature., Ophelia. Nabeta
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis investigates the effect of geometric variations on the crashworthiness performance of new steering wheels. Experimental tests were carried out on steering wheel armatures from popular 1996--2001 compact vehicles. The armatures were subjected to impact loading using a drop tower testing device in which a 57 kg rigid plate impacted a steering wheel with a velocity of 3.2 m/s. The purpose of the experimental tests was to investigate the crashworthiness characteristics of steering wheel armatures from a similar vehicle line in terms of peak loads, Crush Force Efficiency, elastic response, energy efficiency, specific energy absorption and the Energy Absorption …
Modeling Sugarbeet Quality Variables From Satellite Images And Canopy Spectral Indices, Subodh Kulkarni
Modeling Sugarbeet Quality Variables From Satellite Images And Canopy Spectral Indices, Subodh Kulkarni
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Remote sensing was used to model crop quality from measurements of canopy spectra. Three indices of canopy characteristics, derived from satellite image data, were tested for relationship to whole-field sugarbeet quality. Quality was quantified as recoverable sucrose per ton of harvested sugarbeets. Quality data were extracted from the year 2002 Field Database of the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Co-operative, (SMBSC), Renville, Minnesota. Linear regression models utilizing canopy indices and changes in canopy indices over time were tested for relationship to sugarbeet quality for four classes of sugarbeets. Classes of sugarbeet tested represented fields planted to a mix of varieties resistant …
The Well-Being Of Children As Viewed Through Their Conceptions Of Death, Jennifer Kampmann
The Well-Being Of Children As Viewed Through Their Conceptions Of Death, Jennifer Kampmann
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
An explorative study was conducted to try and understand how young children’s emerging death concepts form including, (a) what family demographics and child factors contributed to family well-being, (b) did family well-being influence children’s social competence, and (c) did family well-being and children’s social competence influence children’s death conceptions. Although the subject of death contains many unique characteristics, it is not easily separated from other aspects of life; death is inseparable from the whole human experience (DeSpelder & Strickland, 2002). It was the assumption of this paper that children develop their conceptions of death based on the appreciation they hold …