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Fall 2024

Cole, Hailey

Boreal forests provide multiple ecological and economic services, including carbon storage, provision of wildlife habitat and recreational space, and timber supply. In Canada’s western boreal forests, natural resource energy exploration and extraction results in substantial anthropogenic...

Spring 2024

Nazarzadeh Oghaz, Amin

Large scale modern control systems involve the interconnection of system components using a communication network. The presence of a network can make these systems vulnerable to cyber attacks, thus compromising overall system’s performance and stability. Cyber attacks in control systems has been...

Spring 2024

Ahmed, Nirob

Asphalt pavement performance is significant in order to ensure safety, longevity, cost-effectiveness, environmental sustainability, and the overall socio-economic well-being. A substantial amount of financial allocation is dedicated every year to enhance the performance of asphalt pavement in a...

Spring 2024

Sufiyan, Zahin

In 2005, Opportunity, one of NASA’s renowned Mars rovers, faced a dire situation. It was a moment that could end a mission that had already far outlasted its expected lifespan. After clambering out of the Victoria crater, the rover started to experience an abrupt current spike in its right front...

Spring 2024

Qin, Yadong

Cold heavy-oil production with sand (CHOPS) is a primary recovery process in unconsolidated heavy-oil reservoirs. The recovery factor typically ranges from 5% to 15% of the initial oil in place (OOIP). Approximately 90% of crude oil is left underground with considerable exploitation potential...

Spring 2024

Selvamanikkam, Meruja

Pediatric valve surgery typically requires cardiopulmonary bypass and cardioplegic arrest, which can have adverse effects on both post-operative recovery and long-term neurological function. However, non-bypass surgical techniques have limitations in pediatric patients, particularly due to...

Spring 2024

Edwards, Claire

Parks and protected areas provide important refugia for source populations of threatened grizzly bears in Alberta, where high human-use and recreation can cause human-bear conflict. Many jurisdictions in Alberta and beyond use hazing and aversive conditioning (hereafter AC) programs to deter...

Spring 2024

Lavoie, Ewen

Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating human perception, cognition, and behavior. The ability to create immersive and interactive environments provides researchers with the opportunity to study human behavior in controlled and repeatable conditions. In recent years,...

Spring 2024

Zadunayski, Tanis K

Abstract Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers (HCW) were at risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and of developing a post-COVID condition (PCC). Post-COVID conditions are generally defined to occur following the onset of COVID-19, be present after 3 months, and persist for at...

Spring 2024

Botterill, Scott Edward

The Lower Cretaceous Aptian to Albian Dina and Cummings lithostratigraphic units comprise a complex assemblage of siliciclastic strata deposited in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) during transgression of the Lower Cretaceous Boreal Sea. The internal stratigraphic complexity of this...