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Spring 2021

Wang, Ying

The problem of moving heat sources is central to a wide range of industrial fields, including welding, surface heat treatment and additive manufacturing. However, there are few general and easily applicable solutions to predict critical thermal characteristics of heat flow such as the cooling...

Spring 2021

Millar, Ryan

Jurassic-Cretaceous rifting within Arctic North America that eventually resulted in the formation of the Arctic Ocean greatly affected deposition within nearshore terrestrial basins in surrounding areas, such as the Brooks-Mackenzie Basin and the Sverdrup Basin. In this thesis, measured...

Spring 2021

Lima Amorim, Jéssica

The atmospheric processing of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) leading to the formation and evolution of secondary organic aerosols (SOAs) is highly complex, involving “multiphase” chemistry occurring in the gas, particle, and aqueous phases (e.g., cloudwater, fog, aerosol liquid...

Spring 2021

DesLauriers, Airell Grayson Camille

Nutritive values of feedstuffs used in broiler rations vary significantly. Corn and wheat are theprimary energy sources in many broiler diets, depending on geographical availability. As feed is a largeproportion of live production costs, broiler operations may decrease diet nutrient density to...

Spring 2021

Soares dos Santos, Bruno

According to David Damrosch, world literature is a locus of negotiation between a source culture and a host culture, and a “space defined in many ways by the host culture’s national tradition and the present needs of its own writers” (What Is World Literature? 283). Damrosch also notes that “more...

Spring 2021

Langlois, Lauren A

Geochemical signatures within an economic deposit are an important indicator used in the exploration of high-grade mineralization. In this study, we aim to identify elements that can act as geochemical indicators for orogenic gold within the Yellowknife greenstone belt that allow the...

Spring 2021

Askin, Courtney

Little is known about how and why Indigenous peoples are engaged in wildland fire management particularly in the areas of wildfire prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery abilities in the event of a threatening wildfire. This qualitative study explored how and why Indigenous...

Spring 2021

Darius, Juan

At different stages during the extraction of bitumen from the Athabasca oil sands, the removal of unwanted fine solids  whether suspended in aqueous or non-aqueous liquids  continues to present serious challenges to the oil sands industry. These fine solids are unique in that their colloidal...

Spring 2021

Budd, Valerie Gayle

Let G be a semi-simple algebraic group over the complex numbers, B a Borel subgroup, and T a maximal torus contained in B. In the first part of this thesis, we examine the singular loci of rationally smooth T-orbit closures X (of some point x) in the flag variety G/B in types A and D. In type A,...

Spring 2021

Prabhakaran, Aswathi

Causality analysis using data-driven models helps in the construction of graphical models that illustrate the interaction among the variables of a process system. A majority of industrial processes operate in multiple operating modes and thus the measurements from these processes exhibit...