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A crossdisciplinary exploration of essentialism about kinds: philosophical perspectives in feminism and the philosophy of biology
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“Essentialism about kinds” is the belief that there are necessary and sufficient conditions for membership in a kind. This thesis addresses the parallels in the discussions of essentialism across feminism and the philosophy of biology. Specifically, I address the similarities and differences...
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Fall 2015
2015 marks the 50th anniversary of Moore's law, which has described the exponential progress in semiconductor patterning technologies, enabling creation of smaller circuitry features at greater densities. These continued hardware developments, economically mass manufactured, have made possible...
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Aphrocallistes vastus Trinity transcriptome
2014-02-11
Sponges (Porifera) are among the earliest evolving metazoans. Their filter-feeding body plan based on choanocyte chambers organized into a complex aquiferous system is so unique among metazoans that it either reflects an early divergence from other animals prior to the evolution of features such...
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Fall 2010
The glass sponge reefs of western Canada are modern analogues to ancient reefs and are unique habitats requiring conservation. However, the patterns and processes of the glass sponges have not been empirically studied. Here, I characterized the biology of the glass sponges in their reefs. I...
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2018
University of Alberta, Department of Biological Sciences
This image illustrates brine shrimp as viewed under a compound microscope with an ocular micometer for measurement. This laboratory equipment is used in Introduction to Cell Biology: Biology 107 and MolecuLar Genetics and Heredity: Biology 207. This image was created as part of the University of...
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2018
University of Alberta, Department of Biological Sciences
This image illustrates brine shrimp as viewed under a compound microscope with an ocular micometer for measurement. This laboratory equipment is used in Introduction to Cell Biology: Biology 107 and MolecuLar Genetics and Heredity: Biology 207. This image was created as part of the University of...
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Building a Glass Sponge Reef
2019-02-10
Keenan Guillas, Amanda Kahn, Nathan Grant, Stephanie Archer, Anya Dunham, Sally Leys
ABSTRACT Glass sponge reefs are endemic to the continental shelf waters of British Columbia and Alaska where they form complex three-dimensional habitats used by a variety of commercially important fish and invertebrate species. The Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound Glass Sponge Reefs...
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Carotenoid diversity in novel Hymenobacter strains isolated from Victoria Upper Glacier, Antarctica, and implications for the evolution of microbial carotenoid biosynthesis
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Many diverse microbes have been detected in or isolated from glaciers, including novel taxa exhibiting previously unrecognized physiological properties with significant biotechnological potential. Of 29 unique phylotypes isolated from Victoria Upper Glacier, Antarctica (VUG), 12 were related to...
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2017-01-01
Marson, Juliana M., Myers, Paul G., Hu, Xianmin, Petrie, Brian, Azetsu-Scott, Kumiko, Lee, Craig M.
Cascading of dense water from the shelf to deeper layers of the adjacent ocean basin has been observed in several locations around the world. The West Greenland Shelf (WGS), however, is a region where this process has never been documented. In this study, we use a numerical model with a 1/48...
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Spring 2013
20Cr-32Ni-1Nb stainless steel alloys are commonly used in hydrogen reformer manifolds for transporting hot hydrogen by-products at 750-950 celcius. After long periods of exposure, embrittling secondary carbides and intermetallic phases can precipitate at the grain boundaries which can drastically...