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Fall 2023
This thesis explores the results of and claims made about the experimental 1963 literacy program operated in the small Brazilian town of Angicos, Rio Grande do Norte. This program was where the renowned pedagogue Paulo Freire’s literacy methods were first attempted at a large scale using...
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Fall 2023
Many standard approaches for conducting statistical inference on regression parameters rely heavily on parametric assumptions and asymptotic results. The wild bootstrap (Mammen, 1993) was developed as a nonparametric means to estimate a sampling distribution and is particularly useful when...
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The Nexus of Public Perceptions of Contemporary Energy Technologies in the Face of Climate Change
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The pressure to achieve net-zero CO2 objectives has heightened the need to evaluate energy technologies in Canada, where the oil and gas industry remains essential to the economy. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a component of Canada’s net-zero CO2 strategies and can absorb up to 90% of the...
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A Narrative Inquiry Into the Experiences of Participants in a High School Feminist English Language Arts Class
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While many scholars have engaged with the benefits of feminist pedagogy in schools, most conceptualize feminist pedagogy in university classrooms as singular lessons, projects, units, or strategies in elementary and secondary schools. Through the relational research approach of Narrative Inquiry,...
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Evaluating remote sensing covariates for understanding habitat selection by boreal forest birds
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Boreal forests are changing in response to climate change and shifts in disturbance regimes. Statistical models that link distribution, abundance, and community structure to select environmental variables have been used to understand how birds respond to these changes. However, model performance...
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Fall 2023
Biochar is a stabilized carbon with porous structure that can be used as an economical adsorbent for wastewater treatment. Since there are numerous types of biochars, it is important to understand how biochar characteristics influence adsorption performance by selecting or customizing biochars...
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Fall 2023
A matroid bandit is the online version of combinatorial optimization on a matroid, in which the learner chooses $K$ actions from a set of $L$ actions that can form a matroid basis. Many real-world applications such as recommendation systems can be modeled as matroid bandits. In such learning...
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Fall 2023
This thesis examines 2D Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations of a beat-wave interacting with a Near-Critical Density (NCD) plasma to generate an electron beam suitable for radiotherapy. The beat-wave is generated from the co-propagation of an 800nm laser, the primary laser, and a 400nm laser, the...
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Fall 2023
Due to the advancement of computational hardware and the abundance and variety of data, deep learning has achieved significant success in natural language processing, computer vision, recommendation systems, and other domains in recent years. Because of this, recent large models have gained the...
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Multifunctional Carbazole-Based Materials as Electrochemical Water Splitting and Photoredox Catalysis
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The combustion of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide and other harmful greenhouse gases into our living atmosphere, which traps heating and causes global warming. Renewable energy, however, can help solve the problem above by producing far fewer greenhouse gases. Renewable energy is a general...