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- 1Boechler, Patricia (Educational Psychology)
- 1Franczak, Brian (MacEwan University, Mathematics and Statistics)
- 1Kashlak, Adam (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences)
- 1Lu, Ming (Construction Engineering and Management)
- 1Mohamed, Yasser (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 1Peter, Boxall (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
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1988-01-01
Paleontology is a multi-faceted subject that involves taxonomy and community analysis as two of its cornerstones. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches have been incorporated into the various methods employed in such analyses. Each paleontologist obvious has his or her own preference that...
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Heterogeneity in Attitudes Underlying Preferences for Genomic Technology Producing Hybrid Poplars on Public Land
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This study investigates the public preference heterogeneity of planting genetically improved poplar tree on public land for biofuel production in Western Canada. Using a sample of the public from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, respondents were asked to vote in a series of...
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Spring 2014
There are many road construction companies in Canada that possess numerous fleets of heavy equipment. A big portion of the operating cost of these fleets is consumed by maintenance operations. This thesis focused on the cost of maintenance operation for a road construction company. The objective...
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Identifying the Relationship between Personality Traits, Unique App, Unique Strategy, and Mobile Task Performance of Undergraduate Learners
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This study investigated personality and mobile use of undergraduate student learners at an undergraduate university in Western Canada. The study included 262 participants enrolled in first- and second-year psychology and business courses. Participants were administered a mobile experience...
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Spring 2019
Accounting for seven percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the construction industry is the fifth largest contributor to the Canadian economy (Statistics Canada 2019). Structural steel is one of the primary materials used in the construction industry for providing structural stability in...
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Parsimonious Contaminated Shifted Asymmetric Laplace Mixtures: Unsupervised Learning with Outlier Identification for Asymmetric Clusters in High Dimensions
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A family of parsimonious contaminated shifted asymmetric Laplace mixtures is developed for asymmetric clusters in the presence of outliers and noise (referred to as bad points herein). A series of constraints are applied to a modified factor analyzer structure of the scale matrix parameters,...