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Spring 2022

Pswarayi, Felicitas

Mahewu is a non-alcoholic fermented maize and finger millet malt beverage produced in Zimbabwe. Africa has a rich tradition of cereal fermentations to produce diverse products including baked goods, non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages with live microbiota and the widespread use of fermented...

Spring 2022

Forgie, Andrew

Diet is a strong modifier of gut host-microbe interactions that alter host physiology and immunity against pathogenic bacteria. Some dietary components are required to support host defences that maintain gut homeostasis and symbiosis, whereas others can be detrimental, leading to changes in...

Spring 2022

Chiplunkar, Ranjith Ravi Kumar

Data-driven modeling has been finding increasing prominence in process systems engineering in both academia and industries. Latent variable modeling forms an important component of data-driven modeling. Through latent variable modeling, not only can we deal with issues such as collinearity,...

Spring 2022

Zhang, Lei

This thesis focuses on the structural performance of mass timber panel-concrete composite floors with notches. Mass timber panels (MTPs) such as cross-laminated timber, glue-laminated timber, and nail-laminated timber, are emerging construction materials in the building industry due to their high...

Spring 2022

Oduro, Razak

This study examines the antipoverty efforts and social movement-building approach of EndPovertyEdmonton (EPE). In the context of poverty, social movement organizing refers to groups of actors working together as a collective and in a coordinated manner to change fundamental structures that...

Spring 2022

King, Shivaughn M.

This thesis aims to investigate the portrayal of madwoman characters as antagonists in English literature, in order to contribute to ongoing critical discussions on the subject of the madwoman in feminist literary criticism. The thesis performs a close reading of the characters of Bertha Mason in...

Spring 2022

Sahir

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great success in solving many challenging tasks via the use of deep neural networks. Although the use of deep learning for RL brings immense representational power to the arsenal, it also causes sample inefficiency. This means that the algorithms are...

Spring 2022

Sharma, Davesh

In countries like Canada and the United States, where most of the population lives in snowy regions, winter road maintenance (WRM) has become a significant challenge. Hundreds of people are killed, and thousands are injured every year due to inclement winter weather conditions. To combat this,...

Spring 2022

Amin, MD Ruhul

Cannabis is one of the most commonly used illicit recreational drugs and is widely used for medicinal purposes. Cannabis contains three primary cannabinoids: 9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), Cannabidiol (CBD) and Cannabinol (CBN). The psychoactive ingredient in cannabis is THC, whereas the major...

Spring 2022

Yu, Yang

Low Impact Improvement (LID) had received great interest in the past decades to achieve sustainable urban stormwater management and improve urban ecological systems. Numerical studies were conducted in this thesis to improve the understanding of LID benefits in cold regions and explore the...