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« The women folk often helped »: La conception inéquitable de la citoyenneté dans les manuels d’études sociales albertains de la première moitié du 20e siècle
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The teaching of Canadian history has been a source of contention over the past century, particularly regarding the place of minorities in the nation’s narrative and cultural identity. In early 20th-century Alberta, history education was driven by male-authored textbooks which were used to...
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Fall 2014
Many accounts of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) describe them as cohesive social movements that adequately address the social and environmental externalities of food and agricultural production. Yet others question whether initiatives that focus on localized consumer driven change can provide...
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An Interpretive Analysis of Educational Administrators' Perspectives of Democracy and Citizenship Education in Albertan Public Schools
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Little is known about the effects of public school educational administrators’ perspectives on democracy and citizenship education on the pedagogy and learning of the same topics within the school buildings that they lead. This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to better...
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Applications of nonautonomous infinite-dimensional systems control theory for parabolic PDEs
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Parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) are used as models of transport-reaction phenomena in a variety of different industrial chemical and materials engineering processes, and can yield precise descriptions of process variables with complex temporal and spatially dependent system...
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Fall 2014
This dissertation describes a series of experiments that examined: 1) hydraulic responses of Populus trichocarpa x deltoides, Populus trichocarpa and Picea glauca plants to change in their surrounding environment; 2) Changes of aquaporin expression in response to such changes. In the first study,...
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Spring 2022
The social studies and history education research communities have paid a great deal of attention to citizenship and citizenship education. This dissertation, as both theoretical and empirical parts of that scholarly attention, delves deeper into the ways in which we attend to good citizenship in...
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Fall 2012
Enterprises must manage their information risk as part of their larger operational risk management program. Traditionally, IT security investment decisions are made in isolation. However, as firms that compete for customers in an industry are closely interlinked, a macro perspective is needed in...
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DHR51 as a coordinator of heme biosynthesis and steroid hormone production to time metamorphosis in Drosophila melanogaster
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Development from a juvenile to an adult animal is driven by pulses of steroid hormones released at precise developmental times. Inputs from the environment, timing cues, and nutritional factors are all coordinated to produce a steroid hormone pulse. Insects and in particular, the fruit fly...
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Fall 2013
This thesis examines the role that digital technology plays in the advancement of political and social goals. Though a fairly recent phenomenon, digital activism has become a highly contested topic as regards its effectiveness. This thesis looks at two case studies in the use of digital tools for...