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Spring 2024
Hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM) is a common flocculant used in oil sands tailings dewatering technologies. Although HPAM is regularly used in tailings treatment and will eventually be incorporated into the reclaimed landscape of the oil sands, there are knowledge gaps surrounding the environment...
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Modelling Mountain Pine Beetle Abundance and Distribution in Novel Hosts and Changing Climate
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The mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae, Hopkins 1902), an invasive bark beetle native to North America, has expanded its habitat from central British Columbia to Northern Alberta. This expansion poses an immediate threat to jack pine forests, which extend from Alberta to Nova Scotia....
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Spring 2024
Lithium is crucial for battery production and is utilized in electric vehicles and portable electronics. Among alternative sources of lithium is flowback and produced water (FPW) brines, which can be recovered utilizing ion-exchange with sorbents such as lithium manganese oxide spinels. Among...
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Spring 2024
In this thesis, an advanced stress-state- and strain-rate-dependent model, Generalized Incremental Stress State dependent damage MOdel (GISSMO), is implemented to predict the ballistic responses of Armox 500T steel under high-velocity impact in finite element solver LS-DYNA/Explicit. The GISSMO...
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Design and synthesis of renewable lipid-based nanocarriers with thermosensitivity for targeted drug delivery applications
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Numerous drug molecules currently available on the market suffer from short half-life, in vivo instability, poor bioavailability, rapid degradation and inappropriate distribution. While nanocarriers have emerged as a promising solution to address these issues, the primary objective and challenge...
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Enhanced Methodologies for Improved Ground Kinematics Interpretation in the Context of Landslide Early-Warning Systems
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Landslides are widespread geohazards in Canada that cause loss of millions of dollars annually directly and indirectly. Such geohazards are prevalent in Canada’s landforms which compromise the safe operation of infrastructures and public safety. Not only stabilizing an area with this scale is...
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Spring 2024
Large scale modern control systems involve the interconnection of system components using a communication network. The presence of a network can make these systems vulnerable to cyber attacks, thus compromising overall system’s performance and stability. Cyber attacks in control systems has been...
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Numerical investigation of the pollutant dispersion in the heterogeneous urban settings from rooftop sources
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Exhaust gases emitted from roof-based sources are recognized as one of the primary sources of urban air pollution that could considerably deteriorate both outdoor and indoor air quality. Urban planners frequently use analytical and semi-empirical dispersion models to assess the pollutant...
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Open-Source Radiation Testing Apparatus and Electrical Power Supply Design for CubeSat Missions
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The continuing miniaturization of computing technology and the increasing popularity of CubeSats among a growing market of modest-budget developers have revolutionized the space industry by enabling cost-effective access to space. However, ensuring reliability remains a paramount concern. This...
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Spring 2024
Concerns are growing about plastics in the environment. The aging of the plastics in the environment will impact their fate and their interactions with the ecosystems’ constituents. As such, there is a need to improve our understanding of aged plastics and how they differ from their pristine or...