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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,...
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Predictive Control, Estimation and Sensor Placement of Large-Scale Transport-Reaction Systems
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Advanced process control and monitoring rely on the accurate description of complex processes and their dynamic behaviors. Typically, numerous industrial processes are characterized by either partial differential equations (PDEs) or ordinary differential equations (ODEs), depending on whether...
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The Collection of Dongpo's Joy of Chan: Su Shi's Buddhist Writings and Their Resonances in the Late Ming
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This thesis investigates the text and context of The Collection of Dongpo’s Joy of Chan (Dongpo chanxi ji 東坡禪喜集), a collection compiled in the late Ming 明 (1368-1644) in two editions that mainly contains Buddhist writings of Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037-1101). Su Shi was one of the most prominent poets and...
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Fall 2023
Recent work has shown that by approximating the behaviour of a non-differentiable black-box function using a neural network, the black-box can be integrated into a differentiable training pipeline for end-to-end training. This methodology is termed "differentiable bypass," and a successful...
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Fall 2023
The endoplasmic reticulum serves as a center for protein quality control, where chaperones and foldases facilitate protein folding. IRE1 is a transmembrane protein that transduces proteotoxic stress signals by forming clusters and activating the unfolded protein response (UPR). Recent research...
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Soil Microbial, Physical, and Chemical Response to Cattle Grazing Management in the Northern Great Plains
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Globally, 25% of the terrestrial surface is covered by grasslands, 40% of which is used for grazing livestock and is estimated to hold 30% of global soil carbon. Native grasslands in the Canadian prairie cover 12 million hectares and are used extensively for grazing cattle. Livestock grazing...
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Methylmercury production and export across the terrestrial-aquatic continuum in permafrost peatland catchments
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Ongoing permafrost thaw in northern peatland catchments may increase the production and downstream delivery of neurotoxic methylmercury (MeHg) across the terrestrial-aquatic continuum. Peatlands in boreal-Arctic regions have large stocks of mercury (Hg) in frozen soils, accumulated through...
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Fall 2023
Metabolomics is a rapidly growing field that focuses on identifying and measuring the collection of chemicals present within a biological system. These chemicals, known as metabolites, play a crucial role in the functioning of the body and can provide valuable insights into various...