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Spring 2011
We have designed and engineered bi-catalyst magnesium hydride composites with superior sorption performance to that of ball milled magnesium hydride catalyzed with the individual baseline catalysts. We have examined the effect of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT)-metallic nanoparticle...
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Spring 2014
Seetharaman Srinivasan, Praveen Raj
Recent studies have reported high rates of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection and gastric disease in the remote community of Aklavik (NWT) as compared with urban centers in Alberta. Current therapies fail to eradicate 20-25% of H. pylori infections, which may be related to antimicrobial...
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USING PHOTOGRAMMETRY TO ANALYZE THE MORPHOLOGY, TAPHONOMY, AND SEDIMENT DEFORMATION OF BRASILICHNIUM TRACKWAYS ON A SLOPING SAND DUNE FROM THE NAVAJO FORMATION
DownloadFall 2023
The ichnogenus Brasilichnium is widely distributed locally and is found stratigraphically on eolian sediments of the same western erg system of the Early Jurassic period. Exceptionally wellpreserved synapsid trackways of Brasilichnium were discovered by researchers from the National Park Service...
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Using plain forms but still being polite: speech style shifting as an interactional phenomenon in Japanese native and non-native talk
DownloadFall 2010
The Japanese language is known for its various styles of speech, conditioned by factors such as social status, formality, and gender. When a speaker switches between the speech styles within the same talk targeted at the same recipient, such a phenomenon is called speech style shifting...
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Using predictors of public reporting and reducing attractant accessibility can support proactive management of human conflict with urban coyotes
DownloadFall 2024
Human-wildlife conflicts are increasing globally, prompting a need for efficient, proactive management strategies. Management can be supported by collecting information about human-wildlife conflicts from citizen-provided reports and by mitigating drivers of conflict, like wildlife access to...
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Using primary care electronic medical record data to establish a case definition and describe the burden of young-adult onset metabolic syndrome in Northern Alberta
DownloadFall 2019
Background: There is little evidence on the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in the younger adult Canadian population. Moreover, MetS is even less studied within the primary care setting due to multiple barriers including difficulty for providers to identify patients given the multitude of...
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Spring 2021
This dissertation demonstrates how to utilize data collected previously from different sources to facilitate learning and inference for a target task. Learning from scratch for a target task or environment can be expensive and time-consuming. To address this problem, we make three contributions...