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The Falls Island Collection: A report on a collection of late Maritime Archaic through Protohistoric period artifacts from Falls Island in Cobscook Bay, Maine.
(University of New Brunswick, 2025-02) Cummings, Joshua A.; Hrynick, M. Gabriel; Anderson, Arthur
Falls Island is located in Cobscook Bay, Maine, in the western Quoddy Region. Between the 1930s and 1950s, local avocational archaeologists John and Douglas Knapton visited the island and collected artifacts from eroding shell middens and intertidal zones. Their collection was donated to the Robert S Peabody Institute, where they are currently curated. I analyzed the artifacts using a culture-historical approach. The collection suggests an extensive period of occupation from the Late Maritime Archaic through Late Maritime Woodland periods (ca. 5500-550 cal BP). In this thesis I place the artifacts chronologically using typology from the Quoddy Region, the Atlantic Northeast, and New England. I also conducted a pedestrian survey of Falls Island, which revealed two remaining archaeological sites, and two eroded sites. This thesis uses collections research and pedestrian survey to analyze coastal archaeological sites in the Quoddy Region.
DGSim: A scalable and configurable framework for simulating energy consumption of household appliances
(University of New Brunswick, 2025-02) Addala, Bhavani Sai Prasad; Kent, Kenneth B.
We introduce DGSim, a flexible and scalable framework for simulating household energy consumption. Traditional energy simulation tools often struggle with configurability across diverse household types and scalability to urban and regional scales. First, we explore DGSim’s ability to adapt to different appliance configurations and household structures, allowing precise modeling of varied consumption patterns. Second, we implement a multi-faceted configurability approach, enabling detailed customization for appliances, usage patterns, and community demographics. Third, we enhance scalability with optimizations that support large-scale simulations involving millions of instances, allowing DGSim to model energy use across residential communities. Our evaluation demonstrates DGSim’s capability to provide insights for demand-side management, highlighting its benefits over existing simulation frameworks for both detailed and large-scale residential energy analysis.
“The Greatest Scoundrels in the Universe:” Haitian migrants, revolutionary contagion, and Jamaican migration law during the Haitian Revolution
(University of New Brunswick, 2025-02) Waters, Colin; Hunt-Kennedy, Stefanie
In 1791, the enslaved people of French Saint-Domingue revolted, leading to a thirteen-year revolutionary war. In the neighbouring British colony of Jamaica, slaveowners feared that revolutionary ideology would spread and inspire Jamaican bondspeople to revolt. Between 1791 and 1799, Jamaican lawmakers, who were themselves slaveowners, responded to the threat of revolutionary contagion through a series of laws known as the Alien and Foreign Slave Acts. The creation and development of these laws was also shaped by a long-standing political dispute between Jamaica and Great Britain over their respective privileges and powers and over the future of slavery. The legislation sought to limit the entry of Saint-Domingue migrants, including white slaveowners, free people of colour, and the enslaved, restrict their movements within Jamaica, and surveil them. These laws, unprecedented in their scope and severity, demonstrate the ways that Jamaican slaveowners drafted legislation to navigate colonial politics and perpetuate slavery.
Developing a hybrid actuated cable-driven parallel manipulator using a compact tape rod actuator
(University of New Brunswick, 2025-02) Sanford, Paul William; Antonio Carretero, Juan
Cable-driven parallel manipulators (CDPMs) are an active area of research due to their efficiency, speed, and range of workspace sizes. In this work, a parallel manipulator with hybrid actuation is developed to expand the capabilities of conventional CDPMs by adding a compact linear actuator. The linear actuator, which unlike cable actuators can push and pull, is created using three tape measures forming a rigid rod that can be spooled. The combined mechanism is controlled using position and force sensors for each of the four actuators. The mechanical design, control system, kinematics, and electronics are discussed.
The cable and tape rod actuators were tested individually and as a manipulator with quasi-static loading. The control system and cable actuators were able to reliably apply compressive forces to the tape rod actuator, which experienced early fatigue and excessive wear.
Chasing the dream: Understanding the journey of Canadian high performance athletes, the nature of the challenges and the motivation to persevere
(University of New Brunswick, 2013-01) Allain, Monique; Morrison, William; Peterson, Patricia
The purpose of this study was to develop a better understanding o f the journeys of Canadian high performance athletes, specifically, their experiences of strain and social support in becoming and being a senior national team member, representing Canada at international events. Eleven Canadian high performance athletes shared their journeys while competing at the 2011 Pan American Games, held in October 2011 in Guadalajara. The research design employed a narrative inquiry approach, and included in-depth interviews that were conducted with participating athletes. The goal of this investigation was to give voice to the athletes, allowing them to share their stories. The process of interviewing and analyzing the athletes’ stories yielded a deeper understanding of how they drew upon internal and external resources in meeting core psychological needs associated with relatedness, competence and autonomy support. Based on the completed
research, a five-step model for building athletes’ resiliency is proposed.