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Assessing landscape influences on the base of the aquatic food web across the North Saskatchewan River basin
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Anthropogenic activities are forcing a shift in landscape types and climate regimes with concomitant effects on runoff draining into regional rivers and downstream water quality. Stream microbial communities at the base of aquatic food webs play an important role in overall ecosystem health, yet...
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Spring 2024
Background: Ongoing faculty shortages in nursing education has illuminated the need to better understand the experiences of PhD prepared new tenure track faculty. In the limited research available when I began this study, the initial tenure-track experience was reported to be an extremely...
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A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Health and Well-Being of Women Previously Trafficked
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Using narrative inquiry, I inquired into the experiences of health and well-being of women previously trafficked in Canada. Narrative inquiry is considered a research methodology and a method of understanding human experiences as storied phenomena under study (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000). By...
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Spring 2024
Luminescent silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) are attractive nanoparticles due to the utilization of non-toxic and earth-abundant silicon. Despite these advantages, challenges in optimizing their optical properties, particularly broad luminescence bandwidths and photostability, persist. This thesis...
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Application of Machine Learning Towards Compound Identification through Gas Chromatography Retention Index (RI) and Electron Ionization Mass Spectrometry (EI-MS) Predictions
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With over 100 million synthetic chemicals and over 1 million biologically-derived compounds known to humans, chemists face significant challenges trying to identify or characterize them. In addition to this large collection of known compounds, analytical chemists, natural product chemists,...
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Sleep Disordered Breathing: Contribution of Abdominal Muscle Activation and Hormonal Intervention in Healthy and Pathological Conditions
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Breathing and sleep are both imperative and intricate physiological processes that require development in the perinatal period to sustain life and adapting to changes in postnatal life. Inspiration and expiration are generated by oscillatory microcircuits located in the ventrolateral medulla and...
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Fusarium root rot of canola (Brassica napus): Occurrence, pathogenicity and yield losses in Alberta, Canada
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Root rot is a soilborne disease of canola (Brassica napus) caused by a pathogen complex. Canola crops were surveyed in Alberta, Canada, in 2021 and 2022 to assess the composition and diversity of fungi associated with root rot in this region. Isolates were identified to genus and/or species based...
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Effects of Atmospheric Cold Plasma Treatment on Canola Protein Structural and Functional Properties
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Canola meal contains a considerable concentration of protein after oil extraction, and it is a potential alternative to other plant proteins because of its functional properties and well-balanced amino acid composition. However, canola meal contains undesirable compounds such as phenolic...