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- 1Abbasi Brujeni, Lena
- 1Abbasi Dezfouli, Meysam
- 1Abbaspour Gharamaleki, Ali
- 1Abdolrahimi, Shohreh
- 1Abdulrehman, Haneef
- 776Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
- 776Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of/Theses and Dissertations
- 11St. Stephen's College
- 6St. Stephen's College/Department of Theology-MTS (St. Stephen's College)
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Spring 2010
The presence of chlorine in the subcratonic lithospheric mantle (SCLM) has been evaluated by compiling the compositional data of fluid inclusions in fibrous diamonds. Chlorine associates with potassium, dissolving in water and forming a KCl-bearing brine with the Cl/(Cl+H2O) molar ratio of...
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Spring 2010
The following consideration of methodologies in comparative Canadian literary criticism is influenced by Margaret Atwood’s Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, and Clément Moisan’s Poésie des frontières: étude comparée des poésies canadienne et québécoise. An analysis of the...
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Agriculture in crisis: policy analysis and cow-calf producer behaviour in the aftermath of the Canadian BSE events
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The bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis was a significant shock to the Canadian agricultural sector. On May 20, 2003, it was announced that an animal infected with BSE had been identified. The economic aftermath of this discovery was described as “horrendous” (AGO, 2004). Economic...
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Spring 2010
Commercial Magnafloc 1011and in-house synthesized Al-PAM were used as flocculants for model tailings, laboratory extraction tailings and tailings from paraffin froth treatment unit. The polymers were tested for their flocculation ability in settling and filtration. For model tailings, both...
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The Effects of a Quality Grading System on the Development of Consumer Driven Best Practice Value Chains: The Example of Meat Standards Australia
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This research project analyzes the beef grading system in Australia. Firstly, the Meat Standards Australia (MSA) grading system as a potential value-creating and value chain-coordinating mechanism is investigated. In-depth interviews with value chain stakeholders and industry experts suggest...
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Fall 2010
After the scientific problem of interest is defined, collecting data is the first stage of any statistical analyses. The question of how large the sample should be is thus of great interest. In this thesis we demonstrate that in a geostatistical experiment determining the minimum sample size to...
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The Effect of Caffeine on the Neurobehavioral and Neuropathological Outcome of the Newborn Rat
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Caffeine is used for the treatment of apnea of prematurity. The objective of this study was to determine the long term neuropathological and neurobehavioral effects of caffeine on the immature rat brain. Newborn rats were injected with either caffeine, or normal saline from postnatal days 3 to 7,...
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Curriculum and the foreign language student: interpretive approaches to understanding the postsecondary study of German in Canada
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In this dissertation, I use a hermeneutic framework drawing on critical and postcolonial theory and interpretive inquiry (narrative analysis) to explore the postsecondary curriculum for German as a foreign language and culture (GFL) in Canada, its history, and its current manifestation, in...
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Spring 2010
This thesis explores the limitations of determinism in regards to music, media, and the constitution of subjectivity. Its methodological resource is derived from a synthesis between media ecology, social psychoanalysis, and music semiotics. The case studies describe the incorporation of nostalgia...
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Lipid Modified Polymers for Transfection of Human CRL Fibroblasts, and for siRNA Mediated MDR Reversal in Melanoma Cancer Therapy
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Gene delivery for therapeutic purposes is quickly emerging as the best potential treatment option for inherited genetic diseases and cancer. Viral gene carriers have been the choice for this purpose due to their high efficiency, but harmful immunogenic and oncogenic host reactions have limited...