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Fall 2023
Cantillo Olave, Cristhian Camilo
The coal industry in Canada boasts abundant reserves, with significant potential for value addition through innovative processes. Oxidative coal dissolution (OCD) emerges as a promising method to generate high-value products from coal, using air as the oxidant, making it a cost-effective and...
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Fall 2023
Background: During exercise, there is an increase in sympathetic activity, causing vasoconstriction and reduced blood flow. However, to maintain blood flow and oxygen delivery to the exercising skeletal muscle, a phenomenon known as sympatholysis occurs, which is the reduction in sympathetic...
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Incorporating ‘Nudge’ in Agri-environmental Program Design to Stimulate BMP Adoption: Does It Work?
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Sustainable agriculture refers to an environmentally friendly agriculture sector that ensures safe production for both current and future generations. To address climate change’s impact on Canadian agricultural production and mitigate the harmful environmental effects of agriculture, promoting...
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Fate of biodegradable disposables in high-solids anaerobic digestion followed by hydrothermal liquefaction
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To address the growing concern of environmental sustainability and waste management, recent research efforts have been dedicated to investigating innovative methods for the treatment and conversion of biodegradable disposables and bioplastics. These studies delve into the potential of high solid...
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Fall 2023
Pavements in cold regions face challenging environmental conditions, including prolonged periods of extreme cold, frost heave, and freeze-thaw cycles during late winter and early spring. These factors contribute to premature damage, reduced service life, and increased maintenance costs for cold...
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Fall 2023
Childhood forms the basis for a lifetime of ecological interaction. Due to many contemporary ecological challenges, including the threat of climate change, children today grow up with complex relationships to the environment. However, there remains relatively little scholarship on recent novels...
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Perioperative opioid demand and risk factors for long-term opioid use among anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and repair patients in Alberta
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Chapter 2 (Study 1): Background: Opioid use beyond typical postoperative pain timelines remains an adverse surgical outcome. Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and repair (ACLRR) are common surgeries whose perioperative opioid demands have not been characterized in a Canadian setting....
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Fall 2023
Statistical Shape Models (SSMs) describe the shape variation in a family of similar objects in a computational format. An example of a shape family is the periphery of a specific bone for different individuals. SSMs have diverse applications in computer vision and medicine. In orthopaedics, SSMs...
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Fall 2023
Biomass burning, from wildfires to cooking stoves, is a major contributor to atmospheric pollution on a global scale, affecting the quality of the air we breathe. Emissions from biomass burning are both health and climate affecting, and vary considerably in composition depending on how the fuel...
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Sex-specific Changes in Neonatal Cardiac Mitochondria in Response to Perinatal Iron Deficiency
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Introduction: Iron deficiency (ID) during gestation has been shown to alter growth and developmental trajectories, consequentially increasing the risk of long-term cardiovascular dysfunction in offspring. The heart becomes energetically dependent on mitochondria soon after birth and disturbances...