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Fall 2020

Park, Juana

This dissertation analyzes three types of semantically opaque phrases (i.e., phrases that are composed of constituents whose literal meanings do not entirely contribute to the meaning of the overall phrase): opaque compound words (e.g., hogwash), metaphors that have a compound-like structure...

Spring 2020

Luo, Houyuan

Clinical supervision is a critical part of training mental health professionals. Feedback has the potential to improve performance across professionals, including clinical supervisors. And, for supervisors, asking supervisees for feedback is an important part of clinical supervision due to its...

Fall 2020

Newbury, Kristen L

Cryptographic (crypto) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) play an important role in application security; unfortunately crypto APIs are difficult to use, which may lead to security vulnerabilities. Prior work have looked at detecting and fixing crypto APIs misuses at development time and...

Fall 2020

Maher, Robert

The first part of this thesis presents an exposition of some of the links between integrability, matrix models and Airy structures. We first introduce the notion of an integrable hierarchy and a tau function. We then probe tau functions further by considering matrix integrals. These are...

Fall 2020

Hu,Wenjihao

The functionalized 2D nanomaterials have attracted increasing attention due to their promising selective interfacial separation performance, including oil-water separation, desalination, ion extraction, wastewater treatment and ionic sieving. To help understand the separation performance or...

Spring 2020

Wright, Allan EC

The aim of this project is to add to the scholarly interpretive discourses surrounding the Gospel of Mark. This dissertation argues that the author of Mark attempts to re-construct social identity. Specifically, Mark deploys Jesus as a narrative method for a socio-cultural identity rectification...

Fall 2020

Austen Lee

This collection of essays explores my experience of girlhood in rural Alberta and beyond, especially the ways in which my relationships with other women and girls have impacted my sense of myself and the world. This project takes a particular interest in platonic love, and the kinds of heartbreak...

Fall 2020

Biddle, Sara

The Hare Indian and Canol Formations, making up part of the Horn River Group in the Northwest Territories, primarily consist of organic-rich mudstones deposited during the Middle to Late Devonian. The formations were previously considered to represent marine basin fill accumulated in an...

Fall 2020

Bescucci, Danisa M

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a prevalent incitant of enteritis in human beings and swine. The historic use of antibiotics at non-therapeutic concentrations for growth promotion, and at therapeutic doses for group and individual treatment of pigs has been linked to development of...

Spring 2020

Mukhtarov, Ravkat

A few high-profile forest fires and floods in recent history has exposed the vulnerability of Canadians’ drinking water supply systems to extreme events and their long-lasting consequences. Elevated levels of contaminants in surface waters can force downstream communities to engage in costly...