Year: 2025, 2025
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Ackuayi, Stephen Makafui, Thesis advisor (ths): Cater, Bruce, Thesis advisor (ths): Parker, James, Degree committee member (dgc): Cater, Bruce, Degree committee member (dgc): Parker, James, Degree committee member (dgc): Pollanen, Marco, Degree committee member (dgc): Kam, Eric, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Accurately forecasting financial distress in companies is crucial in the turbulent economic conditions of our time. This study highlights the potential benefits of incorporating qualitative data into financial distress prediction models. The study assessed the relative effectiveness of traditional distress prediction models against integrated models, determined which variables… more Year: 2025, 2025
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Obinwanne, Uchechukwu Emmanuel, Thesis advisor (ths): Feng, Wenying, Degree committee member (dgc): Alam, Omar, Degree committee member (dgc): Xu, Simon, Degree committee member (dgc): Parker, James, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have provided powerful tools for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks like sentiment analysis. However, their fine-tuning and deployment present challenges, specifically in terms of computational efficiency and high training costs. To address these challenges, this work applies optimization… more Year: 2025, 2025
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Han, Huawei, Thesis advisor (ths): Burr, Wesley, Degree committee member (dgc): Parker, James, Degree committee member (dgc): Shin, Hwashin, Degree committee member (dgc): Chan-Reynolds, Michael, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This thesis develops an Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network model to assess the relationship between ambient air pollutant exposure and public health risks, accommodating both linear and nonlinear associations with distributed lags.The research makes three key contributions. First, Maximal Information Coefficient (MIC) methods identify the most relevant air pollutants and their… more Year: 2025, 2025
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Urmee, Farjana Zaman, Thesis advisor (ths): Abdella, Kenzu, Thesis advisor (ths): Wang, Xiaoying, Degree committee member (dgc): Parker, James, Degree committee member (dgc): Shu, Hongying, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This study focuses on the world dynamics of a cholera model that includes delayed bacterial shedding and water disinfection. From the method of the next generation matrix, a basic reproduction number is found that sets a threshold of disease persistence. It is shown that the disease disappears if $R_0<1$, which means that the disease-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically… more Year: 2025, 2025
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Attarwala, Hamza, Thesis advisor (ths): Rahman, Quazi, Thesis advisor (ths): Tawfeek, Mostafa, Degree committee member (dgc): Ghaleb, Taher, Degree committee member (dgc): Asaduzzaman, Muhammad, Degree committee member (dgc): Parker, James, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Predicting vehicle speed at critical road segments, such as pedestrian crossings during left-turn maneuvers at signalized intersections, is essential for improving traffic safety and supporting autonomous driving systems. This thesis presents a novel two-stage hybrid deep learning framework enhanced with reinforcement learning to forecast vehicle left-turn speed at pedestrian crossings.… more Year: 2023, 2023
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Baxter, Sean Andrew, Thesis advisor (ths): Hurley, Richard, Degree committee member (dgc): Srivastava, Brian, Degree committee member (dgc): McConnell, Sabine, Degree committee member (dgc): Pazzi, Richard, Degree committee member (dgc): Parker, James, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Video games have always been intrinsically linked with the technology available for the progress of the medium. With improvements in technology correlating directly to improvements in video games, this has recently not been the case. One recent technology video games have not fully leveraged is Cloud technology. This Thesis investigates a potential solution for video games to leverage… more Full Text: AN INVESTIGATION OF A HYBRID COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM FOR CLOUD GAMING A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY …
Year: 2023, 2023
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Baxter, Sean Andrew, Thesis advisor (ths): Hurley, Richard, Degree committee member (dgc): Srivastava, Brian, Degree committee member (dgc): McConnell, Sabine, Degree committee member (dgc): Pazzi, Richard, Degree committee member (dgc): Parker, James, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Video games have always been intrinsically linked with the technology available for the progress of the medium. With improvements in technology correlating directly to improvements in video games, this has recently not been the case. One recent technology video games have not fully leveraged is Cloud technology. This Thesis investigates a potential solution for video games to leverage… more Year: 2021, 2021
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Shamess, Dean Skinner, Thesis advisor (ths): Cater, Bruce, Degree committee member (dgc): Lew, Byron, Degree committee member (dgc): Parker, James, Degree committee member (dgc): Pollanen, Marco, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Universities produce a significant and increasing share of basic research that is later commercialized by firms. We argue that the university's prominence as a producer of basic research is the result of a differential efficiency in research production that cannot be replicated by firms or individual agents - teaching. By using research accomplishments to signal knowledge and… more Full Text: Academic Efficiency: The University-Firm Innovation Market, Intellectual Property Rights and Teaching A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in the Faculty of …
Year: 2020, 2020
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Depression during the transition into adulthood is a growing mental health concern, with overwhelming evidence linking the developmental risk for depressive symptoms with maternal depression. In addition, there is a lack of research on the protective role of socioemotional competencies in this context. This study examines independent and joint effects of maternal depression and trait… more Full Text: i MODELLING DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN EMERGING ADULTHOOD: INTERGENERATIONAL RISK AND THE PROTECTIVE ROLE OF TRAIT EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE TRENT UNIVERSITY Peterborough, Ontario, Canada (c) Copyright by Samantha Wynne Snetsinger 2020 Applied Modelling and …
