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Fall 2023

Fitzpatrick, John

Stream temperature is an important water quality parameter linked to biotic and abiotic processes that influence the abundance and distribution of aquatic organisms. Stream temperatures can be highly variable through space and time and are determined by energy flux processes. Key energy flux...

Fall 2023

Lu, Yutao

Shintō is often recognized as Japan’s indigenous religion embedded with Japanese animistic beliefs such as kami cults. However, upon investigation, Shintō is much more complex, as it constantly changes and transforms; even whether it independently existed in pre-modern Japan (before 1868) is up...

Fall 2023

Naeim Abadi, Ali

Product Entity Matching (PEM) is a challenging subfield of record linkage that involves linking records referring to the same real-world product. Despite recent transformer models showing near-perfect performance scores on various datasets, they struggle the most when dealing with PEM datasets....

Fall 2023

Ward-Flanagan, Rachel

Sleep is a vital neurobiological process, yet despite its fundamental significance, delineating the endogenous neural pathways involved has been slow to progress due to a lack of diverse sleep models. Anesthesia, which has direct behavioural parallels to natural sleep, and which is often linked...

Fall 2023

Momeni Rad, Faeze

The inadequate design of highway elements is a major contributing factor to traffic collisions. Guidelines and regulations for highway design serve as a structured framework for engineers, providing essential direction to create compliant models. These rules are established to ensure the safety...

Fall 2023

Yan, Minyi

Iron is an indispensable micronutrient for almost all organisms. Either the lack or excess of iron can result in various human diseases. Therefore, to maintain cellular iron homeostasis, the IRP/IRE (iron regulatory protein/iron responsive element) system tightly regulates iron concentrations....

Fall 2023

Fetrat Qharabagh, Muhammad

One of the main challenges in distributed computing are straggling servers i.e. servers that have temporary or permanent delay in sending the result of the computations assigned to them. One of the proposed methods to address the straggler problem is using forward error correction codes to encode...

Fall 2023

Guzman Sanchez, Odin

The current Canadian standard for masonry structures design (CSA S304-14) is based on a Limit-State Design (LSD) philosophy, incorporating masonry-specific material strength reduction factors initially calibrated in the 1980s. These factors were last updated in 2014, prompted by changes in the...

Fall 2023

Chen, Yue

This project, following the elegant paradigm developed by Zhao and Warren (2015b), investigated how self-motion cues and landmarks are used during navigation in a familiar environment with constantly available landmarks. Participants learned the location of a specific object. After completing one...

Fall 2023

Stockall, Devon

The affine vertex superalgebra A=L^1(D(2,1;-v/w)) plays a key role as the geometric Langlands kernel VOA for SVOAs associated to so(3), osp(1|2) and other rank one Lie superalgbras. Since D(2,1;a) is an extension of the direct sum of 3 copies of sl(2), A can be naturally realized as an...