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- 2Cortini, Francesco
- 2Deng, Jian
- 2Dias de Andrade Silva, Raiany
- 2Echiverri, Laureen F. I.
- 2Feng, Han
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Fall 2015
Let a locally compact semitopological semigroup S have a separately con- tinuous left action on a locally compact Hausdorff X. We define a jointly continuous left action of the measure algebra M(S) on the bounded Borel measure space M(X) which is an analogue of the convolution of measure alge-...
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Are managed honey bees (Apis mellifera) altering native pollinator diversity, or their interactions with plants in Western Canadian grasslands?
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The grasslands region of southern Alberta, Canada, is dominated by agricultural activity, and approximately 75% of native grasslands have been lost to development. Honey bees (Apis mellifera) were introduced about a century ago, and today they are used to facilitate the pollination of crops; in...
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Fall 2021
This thesis includes 2 parts. Part 1 is: Discretization on High Dimensional Compact Domains. Part 2 is: Polynomial Approximation on High Dimensional Spheres. A special example for part 1 is the result on the unit sphere of high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. In chapter 2, we obtained general...
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Fall 2015
The use of ordinary differential equations modelled on networks has become an increasingly important technique in many areas of research. The local behaviour of the system is modelled with differential equations and interactions between members or nodes are described using weighted digraphs....
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Fall 2010
After the scientific problem of interest is defined, collecting data is the first stage of any statistical analyses. The question of how large the sample should be is thus of great interest. In this thesis we demonstrate that in a geostatistical experiment determining the minimum sample size to...
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Application of manure from cattle fed with different diets affects soil properties and greenhouse gas emissions
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Cattle production contributes the largest portion of livestock agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada mostly in the form of methane (CH4). Efforts to reduce CH4 emissions have led to modification of diet composition for livestock, resulting in a corresponding change in manure...
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Spatial and temporal stand dynamics of mature lodgepole pine forests of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
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In forest ecosystems, structure and species composition change over time as a function of ageing and minor disturbances and it is important to understand these changes for predicting forest productivity and habitat suitability for other plant and animal biota. Disturbances play a major role in...
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Fall 2023
Arsenic is a highly toxic and ubiquitous element. To this day, millions of people are exposed to arsenic contamination, which poses global health concerns. Phytoextraction performed with willows, a form of phytoremediation, is a promising means of cleaning up soils containing hazardous levels of...
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Fall 2011
The influence of the viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state on specific phenotypic traits of Escherichia coli O157:H7 as well as its transport behaviour in porous media was examined in this study. E.coli O157:H7 is a human pathogen capable of entering a VBNC state following exposure to sublethal...