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Microwave Absorption of Multifunctional Graphene Based Polylactide Acid Composites: Experimental and Numerical Study
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Thermoplastic polymer piping is increasingly used in a variety of industries. Thermoplastics permit fusion bonding for the joining of pipe sections, which can be performed using joule heating. However, embedding heating wires into the plastic adds fabrication complexity and expenditure. Moreover,...
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A Universal Approximation Theorem for Tychonoff Spaces with Application to Spaces of Probability and Finite Measures
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Universal approximation refers to the property of a collection of functions to approximate continuous functions. Past literature has demonstrated that neural networks are dense in continuous functions on compact subsets of finite-dimensional spaces, and this document extends those findings to...
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Fall 2022
In this thesis we study some aspects of `Airy structures' first proposed in \cite{ks}, as an algebraic reformulation of the Chekhov-Eynard-Orantin (CEO) topological recursion initiated in \cite{eo} and \cite{eo1} in order to study the large $N$ expansion of matrix models. Our primary goal is to...
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Women's Experiences of Self-Compassion in Coping with Sexual Problems Following a Sexual Assault
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The majority of sexual assault incidents in Canada are committed against women and girls. Among the many injurious sequelae survivors can experience post-sexual assault are sexual problems. Sexual concerns related to desire, arousal, pain, orgasm and/or sexual well-being can last for years after...
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Fall 2022
Building intelligent open-domain dialogue systems is a long-standing goal of artificial intelligence. These systems, also known as chatbots, aim to hold conversations with humans in an open-ended fashion. However, it is well known that standard encoder-decoder dialogue systems tend to generate...
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Management of alcohol use disorder in cirrhosis: effect of a clinician-targeted alcohol use disorder in cirrhosis educational intervention on knowledge, attitudes, and practice habits
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Introduction: Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a common cause of liver cirrhosis. Low knowledge and comfort managing AUD among well-intentioned clinicians impacts the number of patients with cirrhosis who receive AUD treatment. Structured education focused on screening, brief intervention, referral...
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Exploring the Association Between Frailty and Adverse Clinical Outcomes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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Background and Rationale: Chronological age does not always accurately reflect “biological age”, or the extent of physiological reserve an individual possesses to endure stressors. The concept of physiological reserve is best represented by frailty; a multifaceted syndrome or state that...
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Fall 2022
Endochondral ossification is a skeletal development process where mesenchymal progenitors differentiate into chondrocytes that will be eventually replaced by bone. Disrupting this process causes skeletal dysplasia. FOXC1 and FOXC2 are two transcription factors of the forkhead box family that...
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Fall 2022
Background: Hypertrophic scars (HTS) are a dermal fibroproliferative disorder that commonly occurs following burn injury. Due to the intricate nature of the wound healing process and an incomplete understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in HTS formation, current treatments have...
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Characterizing physical activity documentation patterns and curriculum of Canadian family physicians
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Family physicians (FP) can be meaningful advocates to support patients to attain the benefits of physical activity (PA); however, the PA-related documentation FPs make in electronic medical records (EMR) is largely unknown. The purpose of this dissertation was to conduct three studies: to examine...