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Fall 2022
ABSTRACT Benzene is a priority contaminant that is commonly coincident with fossil fuel entities, whether natural or anthropogenic, and is characterized by high mobility and toxicity. In Alberta, Canada, where oil and gas production comprises much of the provincial industrial output,...
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Fall 2022
A major challenge that plagues nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopists is the inherently low sensitivity of this workhorse characterization technique. This low sensitivity results in long acquisition times and/or costly isotopic-labelling to obtain good resolution and signal-to-noise...
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Fall 2022
Matrix multiplication is a key operation both in high-performance computing and in deep-learning applications. Generic building blocks have been introduced to abstract a matrix-multiplication operation and to enable the generation of efficient code for multiple architectures. This thesis presents...
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Opportunities and Limitations of Using Melting Curve Dissimilarity to Determine Protein Interactions
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Proteins are large biomolecules that perform many functions within an organism. Proteins frequently form interactions with other biomolecules. A group of proteins held together by interactions is known as a protein complex. Protein interactions are essential to many biological processes. Thus,...
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Implications of direct contacts between mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) on transmission of chronic wasting disease
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal, prion disease of cervids that was first detected in Alberta in 2005. Transmission of CWD occurs by direct contact with an infected individual or via contaminated environments. I investigated the seasonal effects of landscape heterogeneity on direct,...
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Prediction of Horizontal In-situ Stress in Shale Gas Reservoirs Based on Artificial Neural Networks and Conventional Rock Mechanics ——A Case Study on Longmaxi Formation in Southern Sichuan (China)
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Shale gas is one of the most important unconventional fossil fuel resources. It is usually developed by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques. The in-situ stress magnitude distribution in a given shale gas field is a significant factor that should be considered by horizontal...
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Fall 2022
OpenSpiel is an open-source software system for implementing high-performance software players for many different computer games. Hex is a two-player game of perfect information used in a variety of computer games research projects. The OpenSpiel project has implemented a version of the AlphaZero...
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Fall 2022
Biofouling is a serious problem in the medical, marine, and several other industrial fields as it poses significant health risks and financial losses. Therefore, there is a great need to endow surfaces with antifouling and antimicrobial properties to mitigate biofouling. For long-term biofouling...
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Forest Tree Population Response to Climate Variability and Climate Change: Implications for Reforestation
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This dissertation aims to quantify the sensitivity and adaptive capacity of forest tree species to climate change in Canada and North America, with applications of guiding sustainable forest management through case studies focusing on Alberta. The general idea is that management interventions...
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After the spill: The mechanisms behind recovery and exposure to flowback and produced waters in Daphnia magna
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Hydraulic fracturing for unconventional oil and gas extraction produces a complex wastewater known as flowback and produced water (FPW). FPW effluents contain inorganic constituents (e.g., Na, Ca, Mg, Zn, Cu, Cl) and organic constituents (e.g., surfactants, proppants, polycyclic aromatic...