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Spring 2023
Wind farms are often concentrated geographically as they are cited in areas with strong resources. While this maximizes energy generation, it can decrease the value of that energy, particularly as the relative amount of wind increases in the overall system. Wind energy is growing rapidly in...
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Fall 2023
Central to calcium homeostasis and bone health is adequate intestinal calcium absorption. Calcium from the diet is absorbed via either a transcellular or a paracellular pathway both of which are regulated by calciotropic hormones. In cases of low dietary calcium availability, a transcellular...
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Streamlining Decarbonized Construction through Automated Design and Drafting: Ribbed Precast Concrete Panels
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The use of precast concrete panels in panelized construction has gained popularity due to their numerous advantages. However, conventional precast designs encounter challenges, such as high costs, limited flexibility, and restrictions in remodelling. To address these issues, this research...
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Fall 2023
This dissertation explores portable, wearable biomedical devices, focusing on bioimpedance and low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) for pre-diagnosis, detection, and treatment. It includes five studies, three on bioimpedance and two on LIPUS. First, in the bioimpedance area, this dissertation...
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Spring 2023
Written nearly a century ago, Вуйкова книга Uncle’s Book (1930) by Jacob Maydanyk embodied the collective memories of early Ukrainian settlers on the Canadian prairies. It was Maydanyk’s graphic memoir, and over the years, time was unkind - the book of comic strips became a collection of...
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Fall 2023
Advancements in wireless communication are continuously evolving, and the progression towards the 6th generation (6G) and beyond of cellular architecture will heavily rely on the implementation of machine learning (ML) algorithms in both cellular devices and base stations (BSs), along with the...
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Fall 2023
We introduce the Condorcet attack, a new threat to fair transaction ordering. Specifically, the attack undermines batch-order-fairness, the strongest notion of transaction fair ordering proposed to date. The batch-order-fairness guarantees that a transaction tx is ordered before tx' if a majority...
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Machine learning classification of plant genotypes grown under different light conditions through the integration of multi-scale time-series data
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In order to mitigate the effects of a changing climate, agriculture requires more effective evaluation, selection, and production of crop cultivars in order to accelerate genotype-to-phenotype connections and the selection of beneficial traits. Critically, plant growth and development are highly...
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Evaluating Consumer Behaviour, Attitudes, and Emotions Surrounding Environmental Aspects of the Canadian Animal and Plant-based Dairy Industries
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Across Canada, there are approximately 3 million people that identify as vegan or vegetarian. Though reasons for this diet vary across individuals and groups, a major motivator found in recent research is that consumers are concerned about their environmental footprints and are seeking diets and...
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Addressing Diameter Non-uniformity in the Melt Spinning of Asphaltenes-Derived Carbon Fibres
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Asphaltenes offer a cheap alternative to the predominant precursor currently used in the manufacture of carbon fibres. Melt spinning is typically employed for transforming asphaltenes into a fibrous form but faces two challenges: inconsistent or poor spinnability and a large diameter variation in...