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Spring 2023

Rao, Meng

Rotating machines are widely used in industrial applications, such as driving motors in elevators and gearboxes in wind turbines. Machines in these applications often operate under varying speed conditions due to variable operation demand, ever-changing environment conditions and so on. As time...

Spring 2023

Lajeunesse, Gabrielle

Human-coyote conflicts are increasing in urban areas, where reports of coyotes approaching, pursuing, or attacking pets and people have become more prevalent. Aversive conditioning is increasingly being advocated as a non-lethal method to reduce conflicts with bold coyotes, but it has not been...

Spring 2023

Mast, Heather

Background: Mitochondrial dysfunction is a recognized hallmark of aging that is also directly or indirectly connected to practically all the other hallmarks of aging. As a result, mitochondrial dysfunction seems to be an important regulator of lifespan. Many studies provide evidence of lifespan...

Spring 2023

Bafgeesh, Ahmed

Oil sand development is the main economic engine in Alberta’s Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB). Large-scale boosterism and investments in oil sand projects have mainly driven the Municipality’s rapid growth during the path dependency of the last few decades. The rapid growth and...

Spring 2023

Ertman, Selina

Self-determination is a core concept framing the historical and ongoing efforts of Inuit in Nunavut seeking to align the territory’s social and political institutions with Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ), or Inuit ways of knowing, being and doing. Educational self-determination represents an...

Spring 2023

Xu, Zhixiao

With advantages of high capacity, water compatibility, suitable redox potential, high safety, and low cost, Zn-based aqueous energy storage devices are promising for grid-level energy storage. However, Zn metal reversibility is challenged with dendritic growth, low Coulombic efficiency (CE),...

Spring 2023

Petrich, Laura C.

Wheelchair-mounted robotic manipulators have the potential to help the elderly and individuals living with disabilities carry out their activities of daily living independently. While robotics researchers focus on assistive tasks from the perspective of various control schemes and motion types, ...

Spring 2023

Alam, Arafat Ul

Background: Inherited bleeding disorders are caused by quantitative and qualitative alterations of coagulation proteins or platelets involved in hemostasis. The most frequent inherited bleeding disorders are hemophilia, von Willebrand disease (VWD) and inherited platelet function disorder. Women...

Spring 2023

Ohi, Sabrena Jahan

The unpredictability of natural events like wildfires and earthquakes, and how they impact human settlements, often results in short- and no-notice evacuations, and can sometimes lead to evacuees being displaced for weeks if not months (and sometimes, years). One key issue of concern is where...

Spring 2023

Rygus, Jason P. G.

Catalysis is essential to the modern chemical industry. Catalytic strategies can enable new synthetic methods with improved atom economy and reduced chemical waste under mild conditions, representing an indispensable approach to the development of green chemical processes with improved...