The presented method applies to data storage devices having applications in information storage, data security, intelligent media, and other secure storage applications. Traditional data storage devices can be altered or erased simply with a magnetic field. The presented method …
Today's road workers increasingly demand computing and communications capability that is available from any place, in any form, and at any time. Such network access primarily needs to be independent of location and device, which identifies ‘global mobility support’ across wired …
Background: This thesis explores routine social care data collection and management processes resulting from the Scottish Government's strategic vision for 2020 and the formal implementation of health and social care integration. Key to this strategy is the initiative to use rou…
Pressure ulcers (PUs) are a very common health problem. Nurses in clinical practice collect large volumes of PU data every day, which must be recorded and used appropriately. With this in mind, this research explored how PU data is recorded and used in clinical settings. In addi…
Literary modernism’s “queer” textual forms and erotic meanings were inextricable from the construction of “normal” sexuality as a statistical, racial, and gendered category in the early-twentieth century. However, scholarship on modernist sexualities has tended not to historiciz…
Medication used to treat human illness is one of the greatest developments in human history. In Canada, prescription drugs have been developed and made available to treat a wide variety of illnesses, from infections to heart disease and so on. Records of prescription drug fulfil…
This dissertation examines the strategies used by early Americans to collect and display data on a variety of natural phenomena. I argue that these data displays allowed Americans to enter debates and dialogues about what kind of place the North American continent was and would …