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Spring 2023

Holt, Miranda C

Carbonaceous chondrites contain significant abundances of sulfur components such as sulfide, sulfate, elemental sulfur (S0), and organosulfur compounds. These are significant because questions remain regarding the role of S in the origin of life. Chondrites and all other meteorites are out of...

Spring 2023

Thompson, Peter

The spatial distributions of animals have fascinated scientists for centuries. Understanding where animals go and why helps ecologists conserve their populations. Technological advances during the 21st century have allowed scientists to record the spatial location of animals over time, motivating...

Spring 2023

Budd, Alexandra

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder and causes not only well-characterised motor symptoms, but also a host of non-motor symptoms that greatly impact quality of life. PD exists within a larger spectrum of disorders caused by the accumulation of Lewy bodies...

Spring 2023

Pacholok, Tanya I.

From beekeeping to brewing, Alberta’s craft food sector offers potential provisionary pathways toward degrowth. While many sustainable development policies are fuelled by beliefs in ecological modernisation or green growth, degrowth scholars criticize these approaches as offering empty promises...

Spring 2023

Bazrafkan, Mehrnoosh

Introduction Frailty is a syndrome that is often associated with aging. It can be identified through specific frailty scales or a comprehensive assessment by a healthcare provider. In Alberta, it appears that there are no specific billing or diagnostic codes for frailty. So, healthcare providers...

Spring 2023

Verma, Suyash

This dissertation numerically evaluates the wake dynamics of oscillating foils with combined heaving and pitching motion. Spatio-temporal evolution of vortical structures and associated instabilities contributed to transitions in the wake topology. This also coincided with changes in the foil's...

Spring 2023

Moscardi Pauka, Gabriel

This research deals with wide speed control of permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) driven by voltage-source converters (VSCs). The objective is to develop a current control algorithm that allows said machines to optimize their torque for any speeds within their operational range, for...

Spring 2023

Yang, Xinlei

The primary purpose of the present study is to compare the clause combining strategies used by Chinese L1 Japanese speakers and native Japanese speakers speaking Japanese. This study used storytelling data from the corpus I-JAS and involved both quantitative and qualitative analyses to identify...

Spring 2023

Bediako Boateng, Kwabena

Sustainable management of natural resources such as fish is important as millions of people rely on such resources for food, source of income, and well-being. It is increasingly challenging, however, for institutions and stakeholders to induce a sustainable exploitation of such resources due to...

Spring 2023

Aasberg, Sophie

Microsite heterogeneity is an important variable that drives biodiversity in forests. Current forest reclamation practices often do not incorporate site heterogeneity in their practices which might pose a challenge to the reclamation goals of restoring disturbed sites to resilient and sustainable...