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Spring 2024

Rogers, Corinne

Using narrative inquiry, I inquired into the experiences of health and well-being of women previously trafficked in Canada. Narrative inquiry is considered a research methodology and a method of understanding human experiences as storied phenomena under study (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000). By...

Spring 2024

Cheong, I Teng

Luminescent silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) are attractive nanoparticles due to the utilization of non-toxic and earth-abundant silicon. Despite these advantages, challenges in optimizing their optical properties, particularly broad luminescence bandwidths and photostability, persist. This thesis...

Spring 2024

Anjum, Afia

With over 100 million synthetic chemicals and over 1 million biologically-derived compounds known to humans, chemists face significant challenges trying to identify or characterize them. In addition to this large collection of known compounds, analytical chemists, natural product chemists,...

Spring 2024

Saini, Jasmeen

Breathing and sleep are both imperative and intricate physiological processes that require development in the perinatal period to sustain life and adapting to changes in postnatal life. Inspiration and expiration are generated by oscillatory microcircuits located in the ventrolateral medulla and...

Spring 2024

Yu, Haitian

Root rot is a soilborne disease of canola (Brassica napus) caused by a pathogen complex. Canola crops were surveyed in Alberta, Canada, in 2021 and 2022 to assess the composition and diversity of fungi associated with root rot in this region. Isolates were identified to genus and/or species based...

Spring 2024

Arif, Muhammad Faisal

Canola meal contains a considerable concentration of protein after oil extraction, and it is a potential alternative to other plant proteins because of its functional properties and well-balanced amino acid composition. However, canola meal contains undesirable compounds such as phenolic...

Spring 2023

Morris-O'Connor, Danielle A.

From the earliest miniature narratives in English literature, there has been an insistence on miniature people’s inferiority to and dependence on big people and the big world, and the conclusion that big people will always be dangerous and destructive to miniature people because of this innate...

1997

Sprysak, Kathleen Anne

Fall 2023

Zhang, Yongneng

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is an incurable disease characterized by profound pulmonary vascular remodeling, including the development of plexogenic lesions (which is the hallmark of PAH) that results in lumen obliteration, raising the pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) and the right...

Fall 2023

Javed, Kashif

The increasing energy demand, dependency on fossil fuels, reduction in their reserves, and rise in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have drawn global attention toward a more viable alternative, such as biofuels produced from agricultural residue biomass, which is an abundantly available type of...