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Fall 2023
In recent years, the growing concern over fossil fuel supply insecurity and its negative environmental impacts has led researchers to focus on advancing renewable energy technologies. Buildings, which account for a significant portion of global energy consumption, offer great potential for...
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Fall 2018
Background: Lean is a management system aimed at maximizing value by reducing waste and reconfiguring organizational processes that originated from the Toyota manufacturing industry. Lean is increasingly implemented as a quality improvement management system for healthcare. We conceptualize Lean...
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Determination of Optimal Sites for Municipal Solid Waste-to-Value-Added Facilities for Canada through Geographical Information System Modelling
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Sustainable management of municipal solid waste (MSW) is one of the biggest challenges faced by economies worldwide. Rising waste generation rates, limited land resources, and environmental and public health issues raised by conventional land disposal have shifted the focus of decision-makers...
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Development of cellulose-based material from wheat straw using a combination of pressurized water and ethanol and high-intensity ultrasound treatments
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The increasing demand for food containers, along with growing petroplastics concerns and Canada's single-use plastic ban, led to an interest in replacing petroplastics with renewable, biodegradable materials like cellulose. Wheat is one of the main cereal crops produced in Canada, and thus, large...
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Examining contingencies of the plant community–grazing relationship at multiple scales across North America
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Defoliation is a globally ubiquitous driver of plant community structure and function. However, plant community responses to defoliation remain challenging to predict as they are highly context-dependent. Following defoliation, plant community diversity and production may increase, decrease, or...
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Experiences of Former Street Involved Youth Living in Housing: Contributors, Themes, and Factors
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Little attention in research has been paid to post-homeless trajectories among former street involved youth (SIY), despite previous studies having revealed fragile housing stability post-homelessness. It is important to understand how former SIY are able to cope with life post-homelessness and...
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Integrating Product Stewardship into the Clothing and Textile Industry: A New Zealand Case Study
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The clothing and textile industry has become one of the world’s greatest polluters as tremendous volumes of clothing are produced, used, and disposed of at alarming rates. The amount of resources, both renewable and non-renewable, required to continue at the current rate of consumption, along...
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Fall 2019
This dissertation studies efforts by self-declared grassroots groups, organizations, and campaigns that promote Canadian oil through traditional and social media. Since the emergence of the Ethical Oil campaign following the publication of Ethical Oil in 2010, similar groups and organizations...