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Spring 2024

Lugo Bustillo, Gabriel A

Pattern recognition aims to differentiate patterns and regularities across diverse data types. Pattern recognition can identify unfamiliar objects, localize objects from various perspectives or resolutions, and infer patterns even when they are partially occluded. The ubiquity of sensors in...

Spring 2024

Shahriari, Arash

Animals use olfaction to receive invaluable information about their chemical environment. Chemical cues, also referred to as odourants, are detected by the olfactory system, which begins at the olfactory epithelium. Within this olfactory epithelium are olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) that...

Spring 2024

Yang, Kunyan

The conservation of ketone body metabolism across various domains of life, including eukaryotes, bacteria, and archaea, underscores its pivotal role in physiological processes. Primarily activated during carbohydrate scarcity, ketone body metabolism provides alternative energy, mainly to the...

Spring 2024

Mousavi, Seyedeh Tahereh

The province of Alberta’s diverse ecology and large population of wild game poses the importance of management practices to keep the species population from overpopulating and encountering disease and food shortage. While hunting facilitates these management practices, the success of management...

Spring 2024

Zhang, Tianyu

Retrofitting buildings and optimizing their operation have been at the forefront of global efforts to reduce carbon emissions over the past few decades. Intelligent control of building systems, such as Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), presents two clear benefits: it improves...

Spring 2024

Arjmand Shakouri, Alireza

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) continues to open up promising opportunities for a broad spectrum of users, with lending pools emerging as a cornerstone of its applications. While prominent platforms like Compound and Aave maintain a large share of the funds in lending pools, numerous other smaller...

Spring 2024

Jacobs, Nicholas

Death is an ungraspable phenomenon that will grasp us all, and while humans may go to great lengths to avoid confrontations with death, it inevitably seethes its way into the psyche. The mortal condition of humanity warrants thoughtful and careful consideration, including the ways in which it is...

Spring 2024

Ouyang, Yunzhu

Leadership is a crucial force in shaping group identity and initiating collective changes within groups, particularly during times of uncertainty. The use of affirmations in rhetoric to convey a clear group identity that reduces uncertain feelings can garner more support for leaders when group...

Spring 2024

Ahmadian, Nasim

This thesis explores the aesthetics of sorrow and melancholic expression in Iranian classical music, with special focus on the discursive and performing aspects of its pedagogical tradition. Although barely defined by performers, the ethos of huzn (sorrow) and melancholic ardor of suz (a burning...

Spring 2024

Zhang, Gaoxin

With the increasing demand for energy storage and declining lithium stores around the globe, sodium is emerging as an alternative source due to its natural abundance and similar reaction kinetics and chemical properties to lithium. While sodium-ion and lithium-ion batteries started development at...