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Fall 2018
Canada has the third largest oil reserves in the world where 97% of these reserves are located in the oil sands, Alberta province. The product resulted from the extraction of oil sands reserves is called bitumen which can be diluted and shipped to the market or it can be proceeded and upgraded...
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Fall 2020
The increasingly heavy standardization of distribution overhead powerline installations presents an opportunity for the automated design of distribution overhead powerline pole structures, attachments and conductor spans. A successful design automation algorithm must be capable of generating...
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Outcomes associated with Hospital Acquired Complications in patients with Chronic Kidney Diseases
DownloadSpring 2017
Improving the quality of healthcare has been a focus for researchers and policy makers during the last two decades. Hospital acquired complications (HACs) are unintended harms to patient (e.g. urinary tract infection, wound infection), yet many are potentially preventable. They are common and...
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1997
Lafferty, K.D., Shostak, A.W., Bush, A.O., Lotz, J.M.
W: e consider 27 populationa nd communityt erms used frequentlyb y parasitologistsw hen describingt he ecology of parasites. We provide suggestions for various terms in an attempt to foster consistent use and to make terms used in parasite ecology easier to interpret for those who study...
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Physical Activity Information Seeking and Advertising Recall
2011
Plotnikoff, R., Bauman, A., Berry, T. R., Spence, J. C.
Abstract: The purposes of this research were to examine the characteristics of those who look for physical activity-related information, where they find it, and to examine what types of physical activity-related advertisements are recalled (i.e., publicly funded or commercial). These purposes...
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2005
Hurd, T.E., Kloppers, E.L., St. Clair, C.C.
Wildlife habituation near urban centers can disrupt natural ecological processes, destroy habitat, and threaten public safety. Consequently, management of habituated animals is typically invasive and often includes translocation of these animals to remote areas and sometimes even their...
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2009
Pretorius, V., Majumdar, S.R., McAlister, F.A., Ross, D.B., Norris, C.M., Kapoor, A.S., Mohamed, R.
Background. It has been suggested that the routine use of statins preoperatively would reduce the risk of postoperative infection. We conducted this study to explore whether preoperative statin use was associated with infection after cardiac surgery (recipients of which have a higher-than-average...
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1996
Energy requirements of moose (AIces alces) and wapiti (Cervus elaphus) calves were compared from December to February to determine whether metabolic requirements were lower in a boreal-adapted than in a parkland-adapted wild cervid. Eight calves of each species were divided equally into groups...
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2002
Bork, E. W., Bogen, A. D., Williams, W. D.
Rough fescue (Festuca campestris Rydb.) is an ecologically and economically important native plant species within grasslands of southwest Alberta. This is also a region where wildfires have become prevalent over the last decade. While the risk of long-term damage from fire may be determined by...