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Genetic and Genomic Characterization of Composite Beef Breeds with an Insight into the Canadian ‘Hays Converter’
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Crossbreeding is a widely used strategy in animal breeding to benefit from complementarity and heterosis. Composite breeds are one of the products of crossbreeding in which animals maintain a stabilized combination of genetic characteristics of two or more pure breeds. Hays Converter (HC), the...
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Effectiveness of On-Site Professional Oral Health Care Programs and Service Delivery within Nursing Homes: Preventing Bacterial Mouth Infection and Pneumonia/Aspiration Pneumonia
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Abstract Background: Seniors who are dependent on others to brush their teeth, communicate their dental needs, and provide them access to professional oral health care define dentally dependent nursing home residents in the context of this dissertation. Oral problems in Canadian nursing home...
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Anthocyanins and Gingerols Exhibit Synergism in their Anticancer and Antioxidant Effects in Vitro
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Anthocyanins and gingerols are naturally occurring phenolic compounds abundant in berries and ginger, respectively. They have been reported to induce antioxidant effects, inhibit the growth of different cancer cell lines, and stimulate apoptosis by modulating different cellular signal pathways....
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Investigation of highly efficient Bismuth-based electrocatalysts for CO2 electroreduction to formate
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Renewable energy-powered electrochemical CO2 reduction (ECR) is considered as a promising approach to producing high value-added chemicals to mitigate the ever-increasing accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere. It could offer a sustainable route to achieving both carbon neutrality in the energy...
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Tracing Organic Contamination from Collection to Curation: Contamination Mitigation of Meteorites and Implications for Advanced Curation Methods of Astromaterials
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Meteorites are the most primitive materials in the solar system and can provide important information about the early earth, planetary processes, and possibly yield insights to the building blocks of life. All meteoritic astromaterials are exposed to both organic compound and microbial...
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Sample-Efficient Control with Directed Exploration in Discounted MDPs Under Linear Function Approximation
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An important goal of online reinforcement learning algorithms is efficient data collection to learn near-optimal behaviour, that is, optimizing the exploration-exploitation trade-off to reduce the sample-complexity of learning. To improve sample-complexity of learning it is essential that the...
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Impact of an employment guarantee program on child health and women's reproductive behaviours in rural India
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In this dissertation, I examine the impact of the world's largest employment guarantee program on child health and women's reproductive behaviours in rural India. The program, popularly known as National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) was introduced in India in 2005. I utilize two...
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Evaluation of dietary calcium level effects on the productivity, eggshell quality, and bone traits of laying hens
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Given the significance of calcium (Ca) in the metabolism of laying hens, the purpose of this thesis was to contribute to existing knowledge regarding Ca metabolism and requirements in these highly productive birds. Phosvitin (PV), is an egg yolk phospholipid protein that increases Ca...
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Development of immuno-affinity mass spectrometry assays for the detection and quantification of viral antigens and antibodies
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Currently, immunoassays are the gold standard tools for the detection and measurement of proteins in biological samples. These methods have a high level of sensitivity but are prone to limitations, such as non-specific binding and limited specificity due to cross-reactivity. This research aimed...