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Tradeoffs Between Environmental Quality and Economic Returns from Agriculture: A Case Study of the Lower Little Bow Watershed, Alberta
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The aim of this study is to evaluate both the costs and benefits of implementing changes to agricultural practices, with the goal of identifying cost effective means of achieving environmental targets and providing supplementary information to policymakers. A suite of agricultural land use...
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Trading Consistency for Synchronization Cost Reduction in Real-time On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) Systems
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A real-time OLAP system caches previous queries' results to accelerate the processing of future queries. On such a system, whenever an update happens, affected cached values must be invalidated, or re-calculated, to maintain their consistency. Several different invalidation policies are used in...
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Fall 2013
This thesis focuses on characterizing an optimal trading strategy for a large trader, who has to buy (or sell) a fixed large volume over a given time period. We propose a model in discrete time, based on VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price). The objective is to minimize expected deviations...
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Fall 2016
This thesis focuses on the experimental and theoretical study of various rare-earth transition-metal germanides that contain three or four components. Ternary and quaternary germanides were synthesized through various methods, including direct reaction of the elements, arc-melting, and flux...
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Spring 2010
The increasing popularity of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapies as health care options warrants thorough examination of the efficacy and safety evidence around these therapies. This thesis explores the intersection of TCM and fatigue using two rigorous methodologies: systematic reviews...
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Traditionalism, Transnationalism, and Modernism in Fu Baoshi’s 1943 Paintings of the Red Cliff
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This thesis examines two paintings on the subject of the Red Cliff boat trip (Chibi zhouyou) both made in 1943 by the modern Chinese ink painter, Fu Baoshi (1904-1965). In the history of Chinese painting, the Red Cliff is an unfading memorial in the collective memory of Chinese literati, and was...
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Traduire en français le roman Reto en el paraiso d’Alejandro Morales : les implications d’une traduction d’un texte en spanglish et de ses dimensions culturelles.Translating Alejandro Morales’ Reto en el paraiso into French : the Implications of Translating a Spanglish Text as well as its cultural dimensions.
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This thesis first analyses the context and linguistic mechanisms of Spanglish within Chicano literature. Then the issue of multilingual translation is examined through the case study of A. Morales’ Reto en el paraiso. After looking into the many difficulties stemming from the translation of a...