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A century of landscape change in the southern Rocky Mountains and Foothills of Alberta: Using historical photography to quantify ecological change
DownloadSpring 2017
Throughout the Rocky Mountain regions of North America fire regimes have been altered towards longer fire return intervals in the 20th century as compared to the 18th and 19th centuries; this has been accompanied by losses of grassland and open canopy woodlands due to encroachment by closed...
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Resistance and Encroachment in Everyday Life: A Feminist Epistemological Study of Qajar Era Iranian Women’s Travel Journals
DownloadSpring 2020
Mohaghegh Neyshabouri, Safaneh
This dissertation is a study of Iranian women’s everyday resistances in Qajar-era Iran, the period prior to the Constitutional Revolution (1906). Mobilizing feminist epistemology, and specifically feminist standpoint theory, which calls for the uncovering of women’s hidden knowledge, I analyze...
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Fall 2013
In recent years, the increased public awareness of energy conservation has attracted serious attention to detailed energy consumption monitoring and management for the end users of power system. Load decomposition is a technique that can extract detailed sub-load information from compound load...
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Directed Evolution Approaches for Improved Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Calcium Ion and Voltage Indicators
DownloadFall 2014
Fluorescent proteins (FP) have revolutionized our imaging technologies and facilitated visualization of biochemical and physiological processes occurring in complex biological systems, which has opened up a new and unprecedented era in cell biology. Although FPs mainly serve as passive...
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Spring 2016
Interconnection of two power systems is a common task. An example is to reconnect an islanded system to the main power grid. Synchronization condition must be satisfied when interconnecting these two systems. Traditionally, feedback-control based methods are used to adjust the generating units of...
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Producer stated preference for hypothetical new winter wheat varieties on the Canadian Prairies
DownloadSpring 2010
This research project gauges producer demand on the Canadian Prairies for the attributes of new hypothetical varieties of winter wheat. Data collected from a survey of producers in Western Canada is used to determine the values and attitudes of producers regarding new winter wheat variety traits...