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Fall 2013
This dissertation examines the relationship between Canadian newspapers, the development of Alberta’s oil sands, and neoliberalism. It uses both content and discourse analysis to analyze coverage of oil sands development in six English-Canadian newspapers between October 1, 2005 and October 31,...
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Canadians’ Anti-Masking Attitudes on Twitter During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Several countries recommended universal masking as a preventive health measure to contain the spread of COVID-19 before public health officials in Canada started endorsing public mask wearing. In the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, public use of face masks was controversial. Many...
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Cannabis use among Canadian university students: Norm perceptions and interest in online supports
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Cannabis is one of the most widely used and misused substances, yet research on plausible intervention targets and strategies to reduce cannabis use is underdeveloped. This thesis addressed these issues in two secondary analyses of population survey data in the 2018 Campus Experiences with...
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Cardiovascular Disease Risk factors in Canadian-born and Immigrant Children and Youth in the Canadian Health Measures Survey
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Immigrants make up almost 20% of Canada’s population. Recent adult immigrants to Canada are generally in better health than those born in Canada. However, we know little about whether this is also the case in children. We compared mean levels and prevalence of adverse levels of CVD risk factors...
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Spring 2012
The aim of this work was to examine any possible IBD activity-related variations in immunoglobulin A (IgA) anti-tissue transglutaminase (tTG) levels in children with IBD. The prevalence of CD in children with IBD was also examined. In a prospective cohort study, children with IBD were screened...
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Spring 2022
In this dissertation, I identify an aesthetic tradition in settler literary texts that parallels the settler state’s political response to such policies as multiculturalism and Reconciliation. I argue that modern Canadian fiction in English continues the tradition of romantic art in Hegel’s...
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Characterization of Aerosol Deposition in Children and Infants Using Idealized Extrathoracic Geometries
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This thesis describes a number of experimental studies performed with the common goal of characterizing pharmaceutical aerosol deposition in children and infants using idealized extrathoracic geometries. First, an in vitro study of the recently proposed Alberta Idealized Child Throat showed that...
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Fall 2013
To overcome the limitations of lens aberrations in an electron microscope, Dr. Dennis Gabor invented electron holography, a technique that uses no lenses. The technique uses low energies (60-200eV), which makes it ideal for imaging fragile biological samples. To suspend samples, graphene has been...
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Fall 2014
Number-line estimation is an important, useful, everyday skill that has been linked to numerical cognition and mathematical achievement more generally. Despite numerous investigations in the last decade and the importance of number-line estimation as a mathematical concept, gaps remain in our...