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Enhancing Landslide Risk Management Through a Cost-Effective dGNSS Technology and a Method to Estimate Stability of Shore Landslides in Response to Climate Change
DownloadSpring 2024
Climate change is having an impact on Canada, resulting in variations in temperature, precipitation, and evaporation, among other aspects. These changes could be significant in Alberta since agriculture is a major factor in the social-economic development of the province. For example, the...
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Detecting minimum energy states and multi-stability in nonlocal advection–diffusion models for interacting species
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Valeria Giunta, Thomas Hillen, Mark A. Lewis, Jonathan R. Potts
Deriving emergent patterns from models of biological processes is a core concern of mathematical biology. In the context of partial differential equations, these emergent patterns sometimes appear as local minimisers of a corresponding energy functional. Here we give methods for determining the...
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2022-11-04
Amir Zakerimanesh, Tony Z. Qiu, Mahdi Tavakoli
Platooning which is defined as controlling a group of autonomous vehicles (multiple followers and one leader) to have a desired distance between them while following a desired trajectory has caught on recently in the control engineering discipline. Platooning brings along promising advantages,...
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Fall 2020
This thesis develops a time averaged model (TAM) and a dynamic phasor model (DPM) of a generalised modular multilevel converter (MMC) structure that can be used to represent four different MMC topologies. These four topologies include two different classes of next generation MMCs that are...
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Clinical Utility of Proposed Gait Stability Measures: Selection, Application and Evaluation of the Extrapolated Centre of Mass
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Gait stability is the ability to maintain a state of equilibrium during locomotion. In humans, this includes the need to maintain a stable walking pattern while regularly positioning the body in a state of imbalance. Thus, it is not surprising that gait is accompanied by an increased risk of...
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Fall 2019
Lateral–torsional buckling is a stability-related failure mode of unbraced or insufficiently braced flexural members. In recent years, several concerns have been raised regarding the adequacy of the Canadian steel design standard, CSA S16-14, in characterising the lateral–torsional buckling...
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Novel feed enzyme delivery method: Binding exogenous feed enzymes to Bacillus spores to improve enzyme stability and total tract digestibility
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The effects of binding feed enzymes to Bacillus subtilis (strain RK28) spores on enzyme stability and digestion in cattle were studied in comparison to unbound enzymes. Optimal conditions for adsorbing six different enzymes (α-amylase, β-glucanase, feruloyl esterase, phytase, purified xylanase,...
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Characterization of magnetic nanoparticles as contrast agents and their application for quantitative magnetic susceptibility monitoring of the waterflooding of heavy oil in real time
DownloadSpring 2018
Waterflooding is one enhanced oil recovery process used in heavy oil reservoirs such as at Cold Lake in North-Eastern Alberta. However, little has been published in terms of imaging heavy oil waterfloods, mainly due to the similar densities of water and heavy oil, which makes it difficult to...
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Study of Methylammonium Lead Triiodide Intrinsic Stability and Solid-Solution behaviour in Mixed Halide Perovskite Systems
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Askar, Abdelrahman Mostafa Mohamed Sanad
Over the last nine years, a new class of materials named lead halide perovskite has made a paradigm shift in the field of optoelectronic solution-processable low-cost and high-efficiency devices, with outstanding accomplishments especially in the ever-growing field of renewable solar energy...
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2016
Turkakin, Hava, Rankin, Robert, Mann, Ian R.
The emission of propagating MHD waves from the boundaries of flow channels that are unstable to the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI) in magnetized plasma is investigated. The KHI and MHD wave emission are found to be two competing processes. It is shown that the fastest growing modes of the KHI...