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Adolescents' Experiences of Self-Compassion when Navigating Difficult Friendship Dissolutions
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Among adolescents, the ending of a close friendship may be a source of significant psychological distress. Considering the potentially adverse sequalae of friendship dissolutions, it is crucial to gain an understanding of strategies and practices that adolescents can employ to cope with such...
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Fall 2023
Real-time strategy games require players to respond to short-term challenges (micromanagement) and long-term objectives (macromanagement) simultaneously to win. However, many players excel at one of these skills but not both. This research studies whether the burden of micromanagement can be...
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Fall 2023
This thesis introduces a new approach for grounding concepts to vision using visual descriptions, which are text-based descriptions of visual attributes. We hypothesize that these descriptions can enhance the grounding of concepts to vision, thereby improving performance in vision-language tasks....
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Alberta Advantage?: An examination of the long-term challenges of Alberta’s non-renewable resource wealth governance
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This dissertation applies an intergenerational lens to investigate the historical record of Alberta’s resource wealth governance from Premier Lougheed to Premier Klein. It explores how Alberta has collected, saved, and distributed its resource wealth in order to examine the explicit and implicit...
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Fall 2023
Despite accounting for a significant proportion of the transgender population, non-binary individuals are often neglected within research. Studies that do include non-binary participants are often focused on deficit, stigma, and mental health disparities, resulting in a narrow and one-sided...
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Fall 2023
This thesis aims at improving robot perception for autonomous navigation in highly dynamic environments. In the first part of this research, a fixed frame visual localization method utilizing a fisheye monocular camera is proposed to enhance the navigation accuracy for autonomous mobile robots in...
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Fall 2023
Computational thinking (CT) has become an essential literacy for the digital age, as it enables individuals to approach complex problems systematically and adapt to a rapidly changing technological landscape. Despite the educational benefits of CT being largely supported in the literature, the...
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“Missing microbes” in commercial broiler production and the effects of early-life microbial inoculations on broiler microbiota development
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Modern poultry production relies on strict biosecurity procedures to minimize the risk of introducing pathogens to flocks, and may inadvertently limit exposure to beneficial commensal bacteria that naturally coexist with chickens. Commensal bacteria promote gastrointestinal and immune...
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NOVEL CONTROL APPROACHES TO IMPROVE SINGLE AND MODULAR DC-DC CONVERTERS DYNAMICS IN DATA CENTERS
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In many modern power electronics applications such as data centers, there are specific requirements such as fast load dynamics and sensitive power, voltage or current sharing. Therefore, power converters need to provide and maintain ultra fast responses to achieve a certain control objective. For...
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A Search for Dark Matter Interactions in the DEAP 3600 Detector Using Fiducial Masses Ranging from 1433 to 2966 kg
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The DEAP-3600 detector is a single-phase direct-detection Dark Matter (DM) experiment located 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. The detector consists of 3279 kg of liquid Argon contained in a spherical acrylic vessel. DEAP-3600 was specifically designed to search for direct detection...