Those who study world politics are divided between the traditional Realist paradigm, which depicts an international political system dominated by states involved in a 'power struggle' in pursuit of their 'national interest', and an emergent approach that includes in the analysis…
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Current biometric systems references information stored on templates and it possess major drawbacks in their inability, if lost or stolen, to be revoked and re-issued as would be the case with passwords. Thus, once a biometric source has been compromised, the owner of the biomet…
This thesis examines the properties of novel transmission lines and waveguides as well as their practical applications. The research begins with a discussion of metamaterial transmission lines. Two new composite right/left-handed designs formed in shielded striplines are present…
Diabetes Mellitius is a major chronic disease with multi-organ involvement and high-cost implications. Although it has been demonstrated that structured education can control the risk of developing these complications, there is a substantial room for improvement in the education…
The present dissertation develops, applies and evaluates a novel method for the representation and retrieval of patterns in musical data. The method supports the typical polyphonic patterns that one finds in music theory textbooks. Most current computational methods to musical p…
The research conducted in this thesis is on distributed termination detection in multiagent systems. Agents engage in complex interactions by executing behaviour specifications in the form of protocols. This work presents and experiments with a framework for making termination i…
This research studies Mass Customization as an operations strategy and model. Opinions differ over whether MC should be a label for a specific business model in which customers select from pre-engineered product options, or whether it should be interpreted as a performance goal …
Computers have become ubiquitous in the modern world and most people spend several hours each day viewing computer displays. With the advent of LCD flat panel displays and the increase in graphical processing power, computer displays have rapidly evolved from barely legible text…