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- 1Badejo, Ifueko
- 1Boulet, Joel L
- 1Brausen, Henry A
- 1Chakraborty, Tathagata
- 1Chan, Emily
- 7Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 5Department of Physics
- 4Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 3Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- 2Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
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- 3Freeman, Mark (Physics)
- 1Barton, Sylvia (Nursing, University of Alberta)
- 1Beattie, Owen (Anthropology)
- 1Bell, Rhonda C. (Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science)
- 1Bhattacharjee, Subir (Mechanical Engineering)
- 1Boxall, Peter (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
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Fall 2014
This research investigates radially spreading intrusion created from a forced plume, when fluid continuously injected vertically from a nozzle entrains uniformly stratified ambient as it falls back upon itself. The flow evolution is determined as it depends upon the ambient buoyancy frequency,...
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Gestational weight gain, physical activity, and nutrition counselling practices of prenatal health care providers: What influences practice?
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Appropriate gestational weight gain is important for maternal and child health. Data from a recent Alberta cohort showed 49% of pregnant women gained weight in excess of Health Canada guidelines. Regional studies have shown low rates of gestational weight gain counselling by health care...
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How Does Maternal Education Influence Language Acquisition? Interdependencies between Environment and Input in the Bilingual Development of Immigrant and Refugee Children
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Research examining monolingual children’s acquisition demonstrates that children’s language development is intricately connected to the linguistic input they receive. However, their input varies on an individual basis; input is shaped by the broader social context in which they live...
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Fall 2013
Due to the potentially devastating implications of sexual assault, investigating how women heal in the aftermath of this event is imperative. One method of healing which has received minimal research attention has been spending time in nature. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to answer...
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In quest of improved nanomechanical sensitivity at larger damping and applications in ambient conditions
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In the current state-of-the-art, a wide variety of devices, from computer clocks to smartphone accelerometers and from pressure gauges to atomic force microscope sensors, rely on mechanical resonators, either in microscale or nanoscale. Nanoscale mechanical resonators have even more potential...
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Industrial emissions and Children’s Environmental Injustice in Canada: Exploring geographical patterns and an example of its relation to Children’s Cancer in Manitoba
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Background: Environmental Injustice (EI) suggests that socioeconomically disadvantaged citizens/minority groups have a higher than average exposure to environmental contaminants and bear more subsequent health risks than their socioeconomically advantaged/majority group counterparts. In order to...
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Metallic thin films for NEMS/MEMS: from fundamental behaviour to microstructural design and fabrication
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The main focus of this thesis is the study of thin metal films in microelectromechanical/nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), ranging from application to fundamental behaviour. The use of metallic structural components is desirable since they are electrically conductive, optically reflective...
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Fall 2016
Mass sensitive mechanical resonator based biosensors are a promising label free biological sensing platform due to the capability for high sensitivity, fast response, accurate and real time measurement, integration with traditional electronics and flexible readout techniques. With the advancement...
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Nanofabrication Methods Towards a Photonically-Based Torque Magnetometer for Measurement of Individual Single-Crystalline Yttrium-Iron-Garnet Microstructures
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This thesis describes preparation and nanofabrication of single crystalline yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) for the purposes of ultra-clean torque magnetometry, as well as the design, fabrication, and testing of photonic crystal-based nanoelectromechanical systems for sensing applications. A focused...
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Nanophotonic detection of nanomechanical structures for use toward mass sensing applications
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Nanomechanical beam resonators show much promise for use in integrated on-chip mass sensing systems. This follows from their own very small masses and also their ability to store the mechanical energy of their oscillations to produce strong measurable mechanical response signals. To achieve...