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Spring 2022

Gilmour,Logan

Panel-based prefabricated retrofits of existing building envelopes are considered a promising strategy for improving energy performance and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. These projects typically require some form of 3D model of the as-is building geometry, in order to construct the panels...

Spring 2022

Osuji, Emmanuella

Certain individuals, especially those in the geriatric population experience falls each year. Although there are validated assessment tools, like the Berg Balance Scale (BBS), they can be very subjective and insensitive to change. These tools are also limited to face-to-face interactions between...

Spring 2022

Noor, Rafat

Background: Labor augmentation using oxytocin is commonly used throughout the world, but certain precautions need to be taken, and certain conditions need to be met; otherwise, complications are possible for both mothers and babies. Method: We conducted a narrative literature review study to...

Spring 2022

Bubac, Christine Marie

Individual variation provides the material for natural selection to act upon, influencing ecological and evolutionary processes. Much phenotypic variation in traits, such as behaviour and life-history, have a moderate to high heritable component, suggesting that these traits may have adaptive...

Spring 2022

Abrar Islam

Deep wide-flange columns are commonly used in the construction of steel moment-resisting frames (MRFs) to resist lateral seismic loads in high seismic regions in North America. Past studies on deep columns with base plastic hinges located at the first storey of MRFs have indicated that such...

Spring 2022

Prasad, Amritha Jaya

Low water activity (aw) foods have been associated with several foodborne outbreaks and recalls. Eradication of foodborne microorganisms like Salmonella and Escherichia coli from low aw foods is challenging, as they are resistant to conventional decontamination practices. High intensity light...

Spring 2022

Gritter, Kelsey M.

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is an emerging prion disease in Canada that infects mule deer, white-tailed deer, elk, and moose by direct and environmental transmission and is invariably fatal. CWD spread can be promoted at “hotspots” that attract deer, such as attractants that are created in...

Spring 2022

Kaur, Jasdeep

The family Cichlidae is a species-rich family in the order Perciformes, with estimates of about 1,703 validly described species, which inhabit freshwater and marginal marine environments in Central and South America, Africa, Madagascar, the West Indies, Sri Lanka, and coastal areas of India and...

Spring 2022

Chu, Kevin

Dendritic cells (DCs) are antigen presenting cells critical for the initiation of the adaptive immune response. As such, DCs continually circulate the body to survey for foreign antigen in the periphery. DCs encounter a milieu of environmental cues within the traversed microenvironment that can...

Spring 2022

Hamilton, Samantha Marie

Hadrosaurid dinosaurs are largely considered to be facultatively bipedal. However, a distinct lack of well-described hadrosaurid postcranial material in the literature makes comparative analysis of hadrosaurid biomechanics difficult. A newly recovered lambeosaurine (crested) hadrosaurid from the...