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Mapping experiences: Understanding pathways to course credit awarding for high school-aged Indigenous youth mentors across Canada
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Educational attainment is a strong predictor of future health outcomes and overall wellbeing, particularly as education is an important social determinant of health closely interconnected with other aspects of health including employment, food security, and quality of life. However, educational...
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Evaluating and Enhancing Liquid-Phase Exfoliation of Graphitic Carbon Nitride with Molecular Dynamics and Machine Learning
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Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) has gained significant attention due to its versatile applications in photocatalysis, energy conversion, and environmental remediation. To harness its full potential, high-quality g-C3N4 nanosheets are essential, which can be achieved through liquid-phase...
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Fall 2024
This thesis grapples with the discourse and materiality of ‘borderline personality disorder (BPD),’ a highly stigmatized psychiatric label for a cluster of relational and affective patterns with several unresolved clinical and theoretical debates. While feminists have long critiqued the diagnosis...
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Fall 2024
Clubroot, caused by the soilborne pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae, is a serious disease threatening the production of canola (Brassica napus) in Canada. This project explored various management options for clubroot, including fungicide application, fall and spring liming, and genetic...
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Heart Failure Related Outcomes in Patients within a Specialized Clinic-Based Cohort and a Population Level Cohort: Emphasis on Diabetes
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Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a well-established risk factor for adverse prognosis in patients with heart failure (HF). Outcomes in this patient population have not been thoroughly investigated in specialized heart function clinics (HFC). Recently, sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors...
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Fall 2024
The turbulent structures of Taylor-Couette (T-C) flow of a Polyacrylamide (PAM) solution (200 and 400 ppm) is experimentally investigated and compared with the same flow with water at Re = 1.50 × 104, to understand the effect of nonlinear shear-thinning viscosity on the flow regime, in terms of...
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Exploring Ethnocultural Diversity in Canadian Parks: Perceptions and Experiences of New Canadians
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The overall purpose of this dissertation was to gain a better understanding of how Canadian parks are experienced by New Immigrants. To achieve this goal three studies, each focusing on a different aspect of Canadian parks, were conducted. The first study examined how public policy and programs...
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Fall 2024
Procedural content generation (PCG) algorithms have been utilized for automating the creation of game content such as levels, assets, and narratives. One specific type, Exhaustive PCG (EPCG), systematically generates all possible variations of content before selecting the best, embodying a form...
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The Changing Face of Restructuring in Canada: Reverse Vesting Orders and Judicial Discretion
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Reverse Vesting Orders (RVOs) have emerged as a crucial restructuring tool for financially distressed companies in Canada. RVO transactions involve the sale of a debtor company's shares to a purchaser, and the bifurcation and transfer of unwanted assets and liabilities into another corporate...
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Targeting Metabolic Dysregulation in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease
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Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a condition characterized by the accumulation of fat in the liver of persons who do not consume alcohol, commonly associated with metabolic dysregulation. MASLD is rising globally, particularly in Canada, impacting more than 7...