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Spring 2024

Vasquez Aldana, Adriana Marcela

Oil Sands Process Water (OSPW) is a byproduct generated during the extraction of bitumen from oil sands deposits in Northern Alberta, Canada. This matrix presents a critical environmental and industrial challenge due to its toxic nature, primarily associated with its complex mixture of...

Fall 2019

Zhang, Zifan

Recently, during surfactant aided recovery processes for unconventional reservoirs, carboxybetaine based zwitterionic surfactants (CnDmCB) have attracted attention due to their good tolerance to high saline produced water, remarkable water solubility, and ultra-low interfacial tension (IFT) at...

Fall 2023

Atrazhev, Peter

In the field of collaborative learning and decision-making, this thesis aims to explore the effects of individual and joint rewards on the performance and coordination of agents in complex environments. The research objectives encompass two main aspects: firstly, to determine the objective...

Spring 2019

Purcell, Kaitlyn

In the introduction to my thesis, I discuss how I use a writing technique in my creative work in order to cope with the process of writing autobiography. As an Indigenous scholar and creative writer, I have been influenced by Indigenous research methodologies that support the practice of...

Spring 2010

Elford, Timothy

Allylboration reactions have been thoroughly utilized in organic chemistry since it was discovered that they could add in a nucleophilic fashion to aldehydes and ketones in 1964. Modification of allylboronates and the substrates that they can react with has been the focus of many research groups...

Spring 2016

Zhang, Li

Furanose-containing molecules are widespread in nature and have been identified as important constituents of glycoconjugates from numerous pathogenic microorganisms. Although significant advances in the synthesis of 1,2-cis-glycofuranosides have been made, there are still some challenges. In...

Fall 2012

Ha, Jacqueline R

β-catenin is a potent oncoprotein that serves as a structural anchor at the adherens junctions and as a transcriptional co-activator of the Wnt Signaling pathway. β-catenin was identified to be post-translationally modified by O-linked β-D-N-acetyl-glucosamine (O-GlcNAc). This investigation was...

Fall 2013

Hobson, Neil Robert

The phloem fibres of flax (Linum usitatissimum) have specialized, cellulose-rich secondary walls of the gelatinous type (G-type), which give the fibres remarkable strength. G-type walls are also found in tension wood of many trees. β-galactosidases (BGAL) and fasciclin-like arabinogalactan (FLA)...

Fall 2016

Cooper, Ian R

Stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system evokes the release of neurotransmitters and produces vasoconstriction that is primarily mediated by the binding of norepinephrine (NE) to alpha-adrenergic receptors. However, NE may also bind to beta (β)-adrenergic receptors and produce vasodilation...

Fall 2018

Houle, Justin R

I have created a custom keyboard for Western Plains Cree syllabics based on a symmetrically square layout. It is called the Star Chart Keyboard and currently runs on Apple iOS devices. It allows for previously difficult to access syllabics characters to be typed digitally in as few steps as...