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Development of GIS-based Methods for Modeling Fire Hazard - A Large Scale Empirical Investigation
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Wildland fires are natural occurrences in the woodland landscape that play a vital ecological role in Canada's boreal forest region. However, they also endanger human life and can disrupt timber resources and other economic assets. Recently, wildfires have ravaged areas of British Columbia,...
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Dynamic Changes of Monocytes and Chemokine Pathway Signaling During Wound Healing Post-Burn Injury
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Background:There are over 11 million people hospitalized for burns annually according to the World Health Organization, resulting in painful skin scar contractures and restricted movements, as well as mental and physical stresses. Up to 70% of deep dermal injury result in hypertrophic scars,...
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Spring 2022
Background: Gut microbiota and diet, specifically fiber rich diets, have been associated with blood pressure regulation and cardiovascular health. Gut microbiota metabolize fiber into short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) of which, acetate is the most abundant, followed by propionate and butyrate. It...
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DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH PRESSURE-HIGH TEMPERATURE WELLBORE SIMULATOR FOR INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF CYCLIC STRESSES ON THE INTEGRITY OF WELLBORE SECTIONS WITH CEMENT/CASING INTERFACES
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An ideal cement job is expected to provide a perfect zonal isolation during the entire production life and even after the abandonment of the oil and gas wells. Variations of downhole stress conditions due to, for example, pressure cycles during the multistage hydraulic fracturing operations and...
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With Her Own Money: Female Benefactions, Urban Space, and Power Relationships in Ancient Rome
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While it is generally accepted that monumental public buildings in the ancient world communicated the power and wealth of their benefactors, whether and how this equation worked when the person funding the construction was female is a matter of current debate. Studies of this phenomenon have...
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Refuge and Life Overseas: Influences of Gender, Culture, and Migration on Parenting Practices of African Refugees in Canada
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Parenting is a socially and culturally constructed role and experience. Parenting practices vary across and within communities yet most of what we know about parenting in the literature stems from Western worldviews on what ideal parenting and child-rearing looks like in practice. Taking a...
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Spring 2022
Allergens possessing serine proteinase activity like house dust mite (HDM) and cockroach can activate proteinase-activated receptor-2 (PAR-2), a pro-inflammatory G-coupled receptor. Par-2 -/- mice develop attenuated airway inflammation compared to WT mice. PAR-2 blockage in the airways abrogated...
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Spring 2022
In this thesis I examine stories pertaining to women as told by the belongings recovered during excavations conducted at three hivernant Métis sites. The hivernants were groups of Métis families who banded together to form winter bison hunting brigades. Overwintering on the Canadian prairies,...
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Spring 2022
Schemes to implement laser bandwidth wide enough to mitigate laser-plasma instabilities will be both intrusive and expensive. As an alternate approach, work is presented that investigates the mitigating effects of spatial, rather than temporal, laser beam conditioning on cross-beam energy...
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Assessing seascape-wide ecological connectivity in support of conservation and restoration efforts in the Florida Keys, USA
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Multi-habitat use is a widespread strategy for marine organisms, including numerous coral reef fish and invertebrate species of ecological and economic importance. Through daily, seasonal, or ontogenetic migrations, these species play vital roles in maintaining functional connectivity, i.e., the...