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Spring 2023

Sanchez Juncal, Abel

Discontinuities are one of the most prominent features of the Earth’s upper crust, these are the result of the action of different geological, mechanical, thermal and chemical activities over millions of years. The term rock mass was created to describe the in situ medium containing intact rock...

Spring 2023

Disele-Pitso, Lebogang

This dissertation reflects on a research process that explores how performance can foster women’s leadership in Botswana. The process began with the question, “where are the women,” which in turn grew out of curiosity about what happens to women between the time they leave the classroom and the...

Spring 2023

Hill, Jesse Lee

Most emergency departments (ED) within North America report issues with overcrowding. Overcrowding is defined as an inability to provide quality care in an appropriate time course to ED patients. Delays to see a care provider produce poor patient outcomes; recent research demonstrates...

Spring 2023

Littlefair, Carter J

Large carnivores have a significant role in ecosystems and their role as apex predators can have cascading effects that influence ecosystem stability. Managing large carnivores requires an understanding of how they use the land and their vital rates, including survival. For cougars (Puma...

Spring 2023

Peterson, Caitlin

This research explores the role community organizations can have in the design, implementation, and assessment of the University of Alberta’s Alternative Reading Week community service-learning program to align the program with a more justice-based approach to service-learning. Specifically, this...

Spring 2023

Anjum, Nuzhat

The decay rate of exotic atoms is of great importance due to their short lifetimes, which presents a challenge when attempting to probe them. The study of pionic atoms can open up a new area of physics, and experiments such as the PiHe collaboration have found a new method of laser spectroscopy...

Spring 2023

Saghafi, Ali

In the wake of increasing demand for DC-DC converters with high power density and high efficiency, the design of modern power converters has evolved into a multi-objective optimization problem with multiple uncertainties associated with parameter and component selection. The iterative design...

Spring 2023

Lopes, Nayara Gabriela Antunes

Prenatal maternal stress (PNMS) is any type of stress that pregnant women and animals experience. It was reported that over 70% of pregnant women experience low to moderate stress, while 6% experience high stress. Growing evidence indicates that PNMS influences maternal and offspring health...

Spring 2023

Reid, Kyle Burke

Background: The Autism Observation Scale for Infants (AOSI) has been used to investigate early features of children with an increased likelihood (IL) of a later diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Though independent research groups have evaluated its use in IL infant siblings (younger...

Spring 2023

Hu, Mei

Atherosclerosis and aortic aneurysms are two major vascular diseases, and extracellular matrix (ECM) plays an important role in both as a non-cellular component of the aortic wall that also regulates vascular cell behavior and function. Atherosclerosis is a major contributor to cardiovascular...