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Spring 2017
Food is fundamental to life. It is the source of essentially all the chemical and biological components found in our bodies. Given its importance, there is a growing desire among food producers, consumers, nutritionists, and dieticians to have a better understanding of the precise chemical...
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Spring 2010
Perfluorinated acids (PFAs) are widespread global and human blood organohalogen contaminants. These monomer decomposition products used in surface treatment products and in fluoropolymer manufacturing and fire fighting may disrupt maternal thyroid hormone homeostasis given that animal studies...
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The Potential of Lasers as Deterrents to Protect Birds in the Alberta Oil Sands and Other Areas of Human-Bird Conflict
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Human population growth, urbanization, and industrialization are rapidly increasing the potential for human-wildlife conflict throughout the world. Such conflict is often mitigated by attempting to deter wildlife from the affected areas, but wildlife frequently habituate to deterrent devices,...
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Fall 2017
Histological examination of biopsy slides is the gold standard for the diagnosis of skin cancer such as cutaneous melanoma. However, visual evaluations performed by pathologists are prone to inter- and intra-observer variations. In addition, it is very labor-intensive to manually analyze a whole...
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Materials Characterization and Growth Mechanisms of ZnO, ZrO2, and HfO2 Deposited by Atomic Layer Deposition
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Gallium Nitride (GaN) is recognized as one of the best candidates for high-power high-frequency metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors (MOSFETs). The critical component to enable this technology is the development of a robust oxide with low density of defects and preferential mobility...
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Fall 2023
Oftentimes, machine learning applications using neural networks involve solving discrete optimization problems, such as in pruning, parameter-isolation-based continual learning and training of binary networks. Still, these discrete problems are combinatorial in nature and are also not amenable to...