Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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eng
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Copyright for all items in the Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection is held by the author, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise noted.
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Prescription Drugs: From Paper to Database with Application to Air Pollution-Related Public Health Risk

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Year: 2022, 2022
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Sung, Kyungeun, Thesis advisor (ths): Burr, Wesley, Degree committee member (dgc): Shin, Hwashin, Degree committee member (dgc): Pollanen, Marco, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>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 fulfillment at coarse Canadian geographic scales were obtained from Health Canada in order to track the use of these… more

Problem Solving as a Path to Understanding Mathematics Representations: An Eye-Tracking Study

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Year: 2020, 2020
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Kim, Seyeon, Thesis advisor (ths): Burr, Wesley, Thesis advisor (ths): Pollanen, Marco, Degree committee member (dgc): Chan-Reynolds, Michael, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Little is actually known about how people cognitively process and integrate information when solving complex mathematical problems. In this thesis, eye-tracking was used to examine how people read and integrate information from mathematical symbols and complex formula, with eye fixations being used as a measure of their current focus of attention. Each participant in the studies was… more

Combinatorial Collisions in Database Matching: With Examples from DNA

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Year: 2020, 2020
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Johnson, Stephanie, Thesis advisor (ths): Pollanen, Marco, Thesis advisor (ths): Burr, Wesley, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Databases containing information such as location points, web searches and fi- nancial transactions are becoming the new normal as technology advances. Conse- quentially, searches and cross-referencing in big data are becoming a common prob- lem as computing and statistical analysis increasingly allow for the contents of such databases to be analyzed and dredged for data. Searches… more