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Opportunities and Limitations of Using Melting Curve Dissimilarity to Determine Protein Interactions
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Proteins are large biomolecules that perform many functions within an organism. Proteins frequently form interactions with other biomolecules. A group of proteins held together by interactions is known as a protein complex. Protein interactions are essential to many biological processes. Thus,...
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Fall 2022
Gutierrez Gutierrez, Candelario A.
Social media platforms are online public venues where conversations about a wide range of public interests take place. Users can interact within a social platform in two ways: (i) they can post an opinion, talk about an event, or share a personal status, optionally accompanied with a video, an...
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Protecting Agricultural Land: How Informal Institutions and Historical Perspectives Affect Land-Use Policy
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Land-use pressures in Alberta's agricultural landscapes have intensified in recent years. With the province's broad historical agricultural base and ongoing urban expansion, there have been growing concerns about the loss of prime agricultural land. These concerns and conflicts have been...
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Fall 2022
ABSTRACT Benzene is a priority contaminant that is commonly coincident with fossil fuel entities, whether natural or anthropogenic, and is characterized by high mobility and toxicity. In Alberta, Canada, where oil and gas production comprises much of the provincial industrial output,...
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Fall 2022
Phosphate is important for a variety of physiological functions, including the composition of bone via formation of the calcium-phosphate salt hydroxyapatite. Given that bone mineralization occurs very rapidly early in life, young mammals require high phosphate absorption to establish and...
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Fall 2022
Some real-world deployments of deep reinforcement learning (RL) may require a human-in-the-loop. Whether to ask-for-help, obtain new demonstrations and data, or handle out-of-distribution states, many methods rely on uncertainty estimates from a neural network to determine when to solicit a...
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Experimental Investigation of Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop of Pipes with Internal Roughness
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In many industrial heat exchangers, it is desirable to improve the rate of heat transfer from a pipe wall to the fluid flow. This improvement is commonly made by adding some form of roughness to the pipe surface. However, the added roughness often leads to an increase in the pressure drop of the...
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Fall 2022
Existential, postmodern, and positive psychologists tell stories about meaning and human flourishing beset with philosophical difficulties. Canadian counselling psychologists would benefit from a story of meaning and flourishing which views both as shaped and constrained by human nature, rather...
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After the spill: The mechanisms behind recovery and exposure to flowback and produced waters in Daphnia magna
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Hydraulic fracturing for unconventional oil and gas extraction produces a complex wastewater known as flowback and produced water (FPW). FPW effluents contain inorganic constituents (e.g., Na, Ca, Mg, Zn, Cu, Cl) and organic constituents (e.g., surfactants, proppants, polycyclic aromatic...
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Fall 2022
Modern representation learning methods perform well on offline tasks and primarily revolve around batch updates. However, batch updates preclude those methods from focusing on new experience, which is essential for fast online adaptation. In this thesis, we study an online and incremental...