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Featured Dissertation: Workplace learning – how space and place inform and influence librarian learning

Carla Jill Inget, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/11732

Abstract:

Public libraries have frequently been referred to as a ‘third place,’ which is defined as the place between home and work where people meet to exchange ideas, learn, and have a good time (Oldenburg, 2014). New and award-winning library branches have been built in Winnipeg, Halifax, and Calgary, and these central downtown branches provide not only access to books, but also to community meeting spaces and to social services; these major developments speak to the dynamic nature of the public library and to its importance in Canadian urban settings. As cities seek to redesign their public library spaces, the emphasis is on service provision and the community and its patrons. But, what about the librarian? What is the librarian’s experience of and in this space? This study explores the librarian’s experience in the public library space, and how this space informs and shapes librarian’s learning. Employing the principles of institutional ethnography, data were gathered through semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and textual analysis. A detailed picture of the work of librarians emerged through the indexing process, and three key spaces in the public library emerged from the data to ground and situate the participants experiences and learning at work. The data revealed the ways these spaces inform, influence and shape participants’ experiences and learning; the impact of some spaces is explicit and formal while other spaces provide an incidental or informal impact on participants.

To read more, visit UVicSpace https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/11732

*UVic’s open access repository, UVicspace, makes worldwide knowledge mobilization possible. Through this platform, researchers at any institution have access to dissertations (and theses and graduate projects) published by our graduate students. This also makes works available to the interested layperson, who may be engaged in learning more about the research being done at UVic, with no paywall. UVic’s graduate students are doing valuable research every day – but sometimes it goes unsung. Our goal with this series is to shine a light on our students by featuring excellence, one achievement at a time.

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Featured Dissertation: Secure and lightweight authentication schemes for Internet of Things (IoT)

by Mohammed M. Alshahrani

Is your cellphone hackable? What about your television, or your coffeemaker? Today, we feature research in Electrical and Computer Engineering, that examines authentication strategies related to the “Internet of Things” — the myriad of interconnected devices that help us in our daily lives. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/11349

Abstract (excerpt):

IoT platforms face huge challenges in deploying robust authentication mechanisms due to the fact that edge devices and resource-constrained devices may not have enough compute and storage capabilities to deploy and run existing mechanisms, which involve in general complex computations. Moreover, establishing end-to-end device authentication in the Internet of Things (IoT) networks is challenging because of the heterogeneous nature of IoT devices. One of the well-known challenges confronting the IoT infrastructure is related to authentication. Many IoT devices rely on weak authentication schemes, which has led in the last few years to several successful and widely publicized hacking incidents. According to the ISO/IEC 27002 standard, authentication is the process of determining whether something is, in fact, what it is declared to be. Authentication is considered the main gate to protect IoT networks from various security threats; determining who the entity is (authentication) is of high importance to establish a secure session between IoT devices. This dissertation identifies gaps in the literature and presents new authentication schemes and security mechanisms to improve IoT security and privacy against common attacks such as replay and impersonation.

To read more, visit UVicSpace https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/11349

*UVic’s open access repository, UVicspace, makes worldwide knowledge mobilization possible. Through this platform, researchers at any institution have access to dissertations (and theses and graduate projects) published by our graduate students. This also makes works available to the interested layperson, who may be engaged in learning more about the research being done at UVic, with no paywall. UVic’s graduate students are doing valuable research every day – but sometimes it goes unsung. Our goal with this series is to shine a light on our students by featuring excellence, one achievement at a time.

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Featured Engineering Theses/Dissertations on “Green Vehicle” Technology

Here is a selection of UVic theses and dissertations going back through the years, dealing with hybrid and alternative vehicles. By no coincidence, UVic is host to the UVic Formula Hybrid Team , the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems,  and the Sustainable Systems Design Laboratory. Sustainable transportation is one of the many engineering areas we focus on here at UVic.

S. Munthikodu, “Driving data pattern recognition for intelligent energy management of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles,” M.A.Sc. thesis, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, 2019. Available: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/11052

R. Cheng, “Modeling and simulation of plug-in hybrid electric powertrain system for different vehicular applications,” M.A.Sc. thesis, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, 2016. Available: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/7164

S. Ehtesham Al Hanif, “Multi-objective Optimization of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) Powertrain Families considering Variable Drive Cycles and User Types over the Vehicle Lifecycle,” M.A.Sc. thesis, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, 2015. Available: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/6739

B.W. Kerrigan, “The techno-economic impacts of using wind power and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles for greenhouse gas mitigation in Canada,” M.A.Sc. thesis, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, 2010. Available: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/3140

L. Kelly, “Probabilistic modelling of plug-in hybrid electric vehicle impacts on distribution networks in British Columbia,” M.A.Sc. thesis, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, 2009. Available: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/1702

J.D. WIshart, “Modelling, simulation, testing, and optimization of advanced hybrid vehicle powertrains,” PhD dissertation, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, 2008. Available: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/937

M.B. Guether, “Modelling and design optimization of low speed fuel cell hybrid electric vehicles,” M.A.Sc. thesis, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, 2005. Available: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/675

*UVic’s open access repository, UVicspace, makes worldwide knowledge mobilization possible. Through this platform, researchers at any institution have access to dissertations (and theses and graduate projects) published by our graduate students. This also makes works available to the interested layperson, who may be engaged in learning more about the research being done at UVic, with no paywall. UVic’s graduate students are doing valuable research every day – but sometimes it goes unsung. Our goal with this series is to shine a light on our students by featuring excellence, one achievement at a time.

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Featured Dissertation – A City Goes to War: Victoria in the Great War 1914-1918

Dissertation of the Day*

A City Goes to War: Victoria in the Great War 1914-1918, by James S. Kempling (History)

Abstract:

This dissertation is a combined digital history-narrative history project. It takes advantage of newly digitized historical newspapers and soldier files to explore how the people of Victoria B.C. Canada, over 8000 kilometers from the front, experienced the Great War 1914-1918. Although that experience was similar to other Canadian cities in many ways, in other respects it was quite different. Victoria’s geographical location on the very fringe of the Empire sets it apart. Demographic and ethnic differences from the rest of Canada and a very different history of indigenous-settler relations had a dramatic effect on who went to war, who resisted and how war was commemorated in Victoria. This study of Victoria will also provide an opportunity to examine several important thematic areas that may impact the broader understanding of Canada in the Great War not covered in earlier works. These themes include the recruiting of under-age soldiers, the response to the naval threat in the Pacific, resistance by indigenous peoples, and the highly effective response to the threat of influenza at the end of the war. As the project manager for the City Goes to War web-site, I directed the development of an extensive on-line archive of supporting documents and articles about Victoria during the Great War that supports this work (http://acitygoestowar.ca/). Once reviewed by the committee, this paper will be converted to web format and added to that project.

To read more, visit UVicSpace https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/10987

 

*UVic’s open access repository, UVicspace, makes worldwide knowledge mobilization possible. Through this platform, researchers at any institution have access to dissertations (and theses and graduate projects) published by our graduate students. This also makes works available to the interested layperson, who may be engaged in learning more about the research being done at UVic, with no paywall. UVic’s graduate students are doing valuable research every day – but sometimes it goes unsung. Our goal with this series is to shine a light on our students by featuring excellence, one achievement at a time.

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