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The contribution of opioid analgesic use to the initiation of antidepressant medication in the older adult population
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The purpose of this thesis was to examine the incidence of antidepressant use following opioid initiation. This study relied on the exclusive use of outpatient community dispensations for all prescriptions. The cohort was restricted to Alberta residents aged 55 to 80, enrolled in the Alberta...
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Spring 2020
A sizeable portion of the Athabasca oil sand reservoir is classified as Inclined Heterolithic Stratification (IHS). IHS is a particular type of lithosome that is comprised of two alternating lithologies which are fluvially-dominated sand beds and brackish tidally-influenced mud beds. However, due...
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Spring 2020
Erosive wear due to particle–wall collision is an important challenge for slurry pipelines and solving this challenge requires a detailed understanding of particle motion near the wall. The complex phenomenology of the near-wall motion of particles in turbulent flows and the lack of a...
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Spring 2020
Despite its recognized importance in the literature, satisfaction with family life and the factors that influence it remain understudied in family science. To provide additional insight in this area, I applied the Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation (VSA) Model to answer the question: what are the...
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Circum-Arctic Glaciers, Past, Present, and Future: Current Trends in Mass Balance and Simulation of Mass Balance Sensitivity to Temperature and Precipitation Increase
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The circum-Arctic is a major contributor to sea level rise. Between 1991 and 2010, 70 % of eustatic sea level rise was attributable to glacier mass loss, 62 % of which was from glaciers in the circum-Arctic (Alaska, Arctic Canada North, Iceland, Svalbard, Scandinavia, and the Russian Arctic). In...
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Spring 2020
This thesis uses the magnetotelluric (MT) method to image the electrical resistivity structure of the Laguna del Maule Volcanic Field (LdMVF) and the regional subduction zone structure of central Chile (36°S) in the vicinity of the 2010 Maule earthquake. The LdMVF surrounds the eponymous Laguna...
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Many Places, Many Problems: Canadian First World War Military Nursing Sisters in the Mediterranean
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During the First World War, 2,845 fully trained nurses served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Although Canadian combat troops were focused on the Western Front in France and Belgium, more than 500 of Canada’s military nurses, called ‘Nursing Sisters,’ worked in hospital units which were...
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Novel radiation-activated Photodynamic Therapy (radioPDT) Theranostic Nanoparticle for Treatment of Deep-seated Tumors
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Radiotherapy is used in the treatment of 50% of all cancer patients. It has evolved into a high precision therapy in cancer care. Radiotherapy’s main limitation is the damage incurred on normal tissue. Advances in modern radiotherapy allowed for improved precision in delivery and optimizes its...
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Spring 2020
BackgroundPatients in Alberta report significantly lower levels of satisfaction than the national average in terms of physical comfort, coordination and integration of care, information, communication and education. As a result, patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) were developed into a tool...
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Des Africaines rebelles : Léonie Abo, Aoua Kéita, Simone Kaya Une exploration de l'héritage féministe des Canadiennes d'origine africaine
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This research demonstrates the importance of taking into account the cultural and social history of African women who are part of the African diaspora of Canada, since these women immigrate with social and cultural background, including gender relations. In this work, we argue that the...