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Fall 2014
The oil sands landscape in northern Alberta is interspersed with large tailings ponds that hold wastewater from bitumen mining and extraction processes. Recent monitoring results indicate that annually many thousands of birds, mostly migrating waterfowl, land on the ponds associated with this...
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Fall 2010
This study aimed to examine potential mechanisms for glucocorticoid (GC)-induced decreases in glucose clearance, and to determine if a reduction in oxidative stress load via dietary pre-treatment with an antioxidant-rich diet has a positive net effect on glucose tolerance following a sub-chronic...
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Lipidomics of Biological Samples for the Assessment of Physiological and Pathological Processes
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Lipids are a large class of hydrophobic molecules involved in energy storage, signaling, modulation of gene expression and membranes. Lipidomics focuses on the comprehensive analysis of lipids and their interactions. Although the potential of lipidomics to study physiological and pathological...
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Fall 2009
This thesis contributes to the growing body of gender-specific health research by integrating both psychological and neuroendocrine data to assess the impacts of stress and violence on women's health. Women seeking support for intimate partner violence (IPV) were compared with women seeking...