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Children and Youth Mental Health: The Role of a Collaborative, School-Based Wraparound Support Intervention in Fostering Mental Health
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There is an increased recognition that early mental health interventions are needed in response to a growing mental health crisis among children and youth. Schools are promising sites for early intervention because they have existing infrastructure for accessing and engaging with students....
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Fall 2023
Obesity is a worldwide epidemic that is associated with immune dysfunction. In human and rodent models, obesity-induced immune dysfunction has been characterized by lower T cell proliferation and interleukin (IL)-2 production. While the mechanisms responsible for the observed reduction in T cell...
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Fall 2023
Microbes in the intestinal tract are essential for host health and development. While the role of bacteria in these process is well studied, the role of fungi (the mycobiota) have received less attention. However, fungi have been shown to alter immune system development and intestinal...
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Learning to speak a minority language at school: Mandarin speech development of children in a Chinese-English bilingual program in Canada
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A key factor of bilingual speech development is speech input. Different from an immigrant setting where children who are learning the majority language as a second language (L2) can receive rich and authentic input, the speech input is usually limited when learning a minority language. For L2...
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Fall 2023
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have become indispensable assets in modern medicine, necessitating advancements in large-scale production to meet the growing market demand. This thesis focuses on two critical aspects of mAb production: state estimation in the upstream process and the control and...
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Alzheimer’s Dementia Detection Through Machine Learning: Analyzing Linguistic and Acoustic Features in Spontaneous Speech
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With the rapid aging of the world’s population, the global burden of aging related mental disorders, such as Alzheimer’s dementia (AD), is also on the rise. Unfortunately global healthcare systems are vastly under-resourced, which means that many people who need mental health services are unable...
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Development of AI-based ergonomics risk assessment tools for harmonization of industrial work systems
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Manufacturing industry workers face significant ergonomic risks due to poorly designed work systems. Consequently, it is crucial to periodically assess work systems to identify areas for improvement. However, the assessment process is often disregarded due to the absence of userfriendly...
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WAYS TO GO: A grounded theory study of how the laboratory culture in the applied sciences impact on international doctoral students' career paths in the STEM/applied sciences
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As Canadian Universities join in the global realization of the Third mission and become more entrepreneurial, international students’ participation in this agenda is pivotal to its success as they form about a half of STEM doctoral students in the country. Extant studies have either been...
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{Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Energy Coordination in Demand Response Methods for Residential Distribution Networks
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In the field of collaborative learning and decision-making, this thesis aims to explore the effects of individual and joint rewards on the performance and coordination of agents in complex environments. The research objectives encompass two main aspects: firstly, to determine the objective...
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Effects of Plant Growth Regulators on Plant Phenotypes and Yield Components of Grass Seed Crops
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Creeping red fescue (Festuca rubra L.), meadow brome (Bromus riparius Rehmann) and timothy grass (Phleum pratense L.) are the most important grass species grown for seed production in the Peace River region of Alberta and British Columbia. Creeping red fescue is a popular turf grass species,...