PhD defences
Academic Year 2006 - 2007
Xiande Yang
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Friday, August 3, 2007
10:00 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Strongly Clean Rigs and G(X)-Clean Rings
Casey Butt
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
Friday, July 6, 2007
11:00 a.m.
EN-4002, S.J. Carew Building
Intelligent Speed Control of Interior Permanent Magnet Motor Drives
Deborah Mary Gregory
Faculty of Medicine
Friday, July 6, 2007
10:00 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Acute Care Reform and Its Implications for System and Provider Outcomes
Hassan Al-Saraierh
Department of Chemistry
Friday, July 6, 2007
10:00 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Synthesis of New Narrow-Rim Modified Calix(4)Arenes Via Sonogashira Reactions and Their Photochemistry
Terrence Mudiyanselage
Department of Biochemistry
Monday, June 18, 2007
10:00 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Antioxidant Phenolics of Different Barley (Hordeum vulgarae L.) Cultivars
S.M. Tareque Abedin
Department of Chemistry
Thursday, June 14, 2007
10:00 a.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Synthesis, Structure, Magnetism, and Coordination Chemistry of Some Self Assembled Polynuclear Clusters and Grids of First Row Transition Metal Ions Derived From Polytopic Hydrazone Ligands
Jiajia Zhang
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Thursday, June 14, 2007
10:00 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Certain Survival Models and Their Semiparametric Estimation Methods
Xueming Li
Department of Computer Science
Thursday, May 29, 2007
10:00 a.m.
ED-4015, Education Building
Using UML for Conceputal Modeling: towards an Ontological Core
Patricia Ann Robinson
School of Social Work
Friday, May 4, 2007
10:30 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Mental Health Research: A Path to Personal, Interpersonal and Political Change for Participant Researchers
Jennifer L. Lavers
Department of Biology
Monday, April 30, 2007
2:00 p.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Cumulative Mortality and Population Parameters for a Vulnerable Seabird, The Razorbill Alca torda, in Atlantic Canada
Jennifer Devine
Department of Biology
Thursday, April 12, 2007
2:00 p.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Temporal Trends in a Large Marine Ecosystem
Jungyong Wang
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
10:00 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Prediction of Propeller Performance on a Model Podded Propulsor in Ice (Propeller-Ice Interaction)
Sritama Sarkar
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
Thursday, April 5, 2007
10:00 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Submersible Walking Dredger/Miner
Chuanke Li
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
Monday, April 2, 2007
2 p.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Methodology of Ice Estimation and Associated Mechanics
Justin Moores
Department of Biology
Monday, March 5, 2007
2 p.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Analysis of Huntingtin-Interacting Protein 1 inDrosophila melanogaster
Thanyamanta Worakanok
Faculty of Engineering
Friday, March 2, 2007
11 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Well Modeling Incorporating Compositional Non-Isothermal Effects
Justin N. Moores
Department of Biology
Monday, March 5th, 2007
2:00 p.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Analysis of Huntingin-Interacting Protein 1 IN Drosophila melanogaster
Saleh Saleh
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
11:00 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Wavelet Modulated DC-AC Power Inverters
Anas El-Aneed
Department of Biochemistry
Friday, March 16, 2007
10:00 a.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Mass Spectrometric Analysis and Fingerprint Identification of Natural and Synthetic Glycoconjugates
William David Molyneux
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
Tuesday, March 22, 2007
11:00 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Escort Tug Hydrodynamics: Analysis of Flow Around Hulls at Large Yaw Angles
Department of Chemistry
Monday, March 26, 2007
10:00 a.m.
2971, Health Sciences Centre
Humic Substances Studies and New Approaches to Analysis of Small Molecules by Maldi-Tofms
Steven Benjamins
Cognitive and Behavioural Ecology
Friday, February 16, 2007
2 p.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Incidental Catch of large Marine Vertebrates in Gillnet Fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador
Enoka Wijekoon
Department of Biochemistry
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
2 p.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Homocysteine Metabolism in a Rat Model of Type 2 Diabetes
Cherie-Lee Fietsch
Department of Biology
Monday, February 12, 2007
2 p.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Distribution and Ecology of Larval Hydropsychidae(Trichoptera) in Newfoundland
Kristi Holloway
Department of Condensed Matter Physics
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
10 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Fingering Instabilities in Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids
Chris-Anne Stumpf
Department of English Language & Literature
Friday, January 26, 2007
2 p.m.
IIC-1004, Inco Innovation Centre
An Examination of the Roles of Contemporary Legend in Literature
Adewale Lambo
Department of Biology
Friday, January 26, 2007
2 p.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Characterization of the Temperature Dependent Catabolism of 2.4’-Dichlorobiphenyl by a Polychlorinated Biphenyl Degrading Psychrotolerant Hydrogenophaga sp.1A3-A
Alexandre Garcia
Department of Biology
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
10 a.m.
HSC-2975, Health Sciences Centre
Effect of Differently Lipid-Enriched Live Feed on Growth, Survival and Lipid Composition of Two Larval Gadoids: Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhus) and Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)
Haiyan Li
Faculty of Medicine
Monday, December 18, 2006
2:30 p.m.
IIC-1004, Inco Innovation Centre
The Role of Iodine in Experimental Autoimmune Thyroiditis
Huu-Anh Tran
Department of Chemistry
Monday, December 18, 2006
10 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Synthesis and Complexation Properties of Naphthalene Ring-Based Receptors
Susan Molloy
Faculty of Engineering
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
10 a.m.
IIC-1004, Inco Innovation Centre
Uncertainty Analysis of Ship Powering Prediction Methods Using Monte Carlo Simulation
Wanda Aylward
Department of Chemistry
Monday, December 11, 2006
10 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
The Development, Electrochemical Characterization and Applications of Sulphonated Silica Sol-Gels
Mary Jane Elizabeth Burns
Department of Folklore
Friday, December 8, 2006
2 p.m.
IIC-1004, Inco Innovation Centre
Everyday Objects as Mediators of Self: A Material Culture Study of Work, Home and Community in the Pulp and Paper Town of Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador
Donald Craig
Department of Computer Science
Monday, December 4, 2006
2 p.m.
EN-2022, Engineering Building
Compatibility of Software Components - Modeling and Verification
Rajibul Huq
Faculty of Engineering
Monday, December 4, 2006
10 a.m.
EN-4002, Engineering Building
Behavior-Based Robot Control Using Fuzzy Discrete Event System
Sharon Oldford
Faculty of Medicine
Monday, December 4, 2006
10 a.m.
IIC-1004, Inco Innovation Centre
Interrelationships and Clinical Significance of Expression of Immunological Markers in Invasive Brest Carcinoma
Ahmad Jafari Mehrabadi
Faculty of Engineering
Monday, November 27, 2006
10 a.m.
EN-4002, Engineering Building
Seismic Liquefaction Coutermeasures for Waterfront Slopes
Pattaramon Tantichattanont
Faculty of Engineering
Friday, November 24, 2006
2 p.m.
EN-4002, Engineering Building
Fitness-For-Service Assessment for Thermal Hot Spots and Corrosion in Pressure Vessels
Fayez Hamam
Department of Biology
Friday, November 24, 2006
9 a.m.
IIC-1004, Inco Innovation Centre
Biology and Biotechnology of Modified Oils
Victoria Windle
Faculty of Medicine
Friday, November 10, 2006
9:30 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Role of Serotonin and Norepinephrine Systems in Functional Recovery After Stroke
Barry Gaulton
Department of Anthropology
Friday, November 3, 2006
10 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
The Archaeology of Gentry Life in Seventeenth-Century Ferryland
Michelle Ploughman
Faculty of Medicine
Monday, October 30, 2006
10 a.m.
IIC-1004, Inco Innovation Centre
The Effects of Exercise on Neurotrophins, Neuroplasticity and Functional Recovery in a Rat Model of Focal Ischemia
Faculty of Engineering
10 a.m.
Propeller Wake Impingement on a Strut
Department of English Language & Literature
1 p.m.
The Postmodern Spirit: The Postmodernization of the Ghost Figure in Twentieth-Century North American Fictions
Faculty of Engineering
10 a.m.
Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Online Voltage Stability Monitoring and Enhancement of an Electric Power System
Faculty of Engineering
2 p.m.
Faculty of Engineering
10 a.m.
Michael Devine
School of Social Work
10:30 a.m.
Wendy Welch
Department of Folklore
2 p.m.
Simona Sanvito
Department of Biology
10 a.m.
Department of Biology
10 a.m.
Jinguo Wang
Faculty of Medicine
Monday, September 11, 2006
2 p.m.
IIC-1004, Inco Innovation Centre
Mechanisims of Hepadnavirus Persistence and Role of Interferon Gamma in Modulation of Anti-Viral Immune Response
Jason Treberg
Department of Biology
Friday, September 8, 2006
10 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre
The Accumulation and Metabolism of methylamine Organic Osmolytes in Elasmobranch Fishes