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Spring 2019
In wildlife conservation, long-term monitoring is often justified by wildlife agencies as they allow managers to inform stakeholders, avoid conflicts, and to evaluate the results of management interventions. However, many wildlife agencies insufficiently or inadequately use these data in their...
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Enhanced prediction of extreme fire weather conditions in spring using the Hot-Dry-Windy Index in Alberta, Canada
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Fire weather indices used to forecast fire behaviour provide valuable information for wildland fire prevention, preparedness, and suppression. The primary index used in Canada, the Fire Weather Index System, provides qualitative fuel moisture and fire behaviour indices. However, the indices used...
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Fall 2012
Many rural Alberta communities face critical issues of sustainability including rural-urban migration by youth and young adults. Drawing on research in Alberta, this thesis identifies the factors influencing rural-urban migration and discusses ways of empowering communities. A survey of youth...
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Spring 2023
Current trends of knee injuries and anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR), as well as incidence of and factors associated with primary and recurrent ACLR in Alberta, are not well understood. This thesis aims to fill this knowledge gap by using administrative data from Alberta’s...
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Fall 2016
This thesis examines market power in a deregulated electricity market, and comprises two distinct areas of research grouped into three chapters. The thesis begins by overviewing electricity markets, including descriptions of uniformprice and discriminatory-price electricity auctions (and the...
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Ethnic Identity Discourses of Recent Ukrainian Immigrants to Canada: Interactions between New Ukrainian-Canadians and the Established Ukrainian-Canadian Diaspora
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Ukrainian-Canadians are a relatively well-established group in this country. This thesis focuses on an as yet unstudied segment of this community, namely the new, post-Soviet Ukrainian immigrants. As an interdisciplinary project, the thesis researches the ethnic identity discourses of recent...
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Fall 2012
Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) systems are used for dynamic traffic data collection. These sensors are capable of collecting various truck characteristics such as weights, speed, and dimensions. Alberta Transportation (AT) installed 20 WIM sensors in six different highway sections across Alberta in 2004....
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Examination of the diversity and assembly processes of digenean trematode communities in Alberta, and the implications of spatio-temporal community dynamics on swimmer's itch transmission in recreational lakes
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The preservation of biodiversity on our planet is crucial to our health. However, we cannot preserve what we do not understand. Biodiversity surveys most often forget to include some of the most diverse organisms on our planet, the parasites. Historically given a bad rap because of the diseases...
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Examining the First Uses of Pottery by Northern Great Plains Peoples During the Time of Besant and Sonota
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Highly successful pedestrian era communal bison hunters of the Besant and Sonota archaeological phases were the first to use pottery on the northern Great Plains. While the Besant phase is widely distributed across this region, the Sonota phase is confined to North and South Dakota. The Sonota...
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Examining vaccine coverage among immigrant populations in Alberta, Canada and factors associated with vaccination
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Study 1: Human papillomavirus vaccine coverage among immigrant children in Alberta: a population-based cohort study Background: Previous studies have shown that parents of immigrant children have more negative perceptions about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine than parents of non-immigrant...