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Real-time Process Monitoring for Froth Flotation Processes using Image Processing and Dynamic Fundamental Models
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Froth flotation is a crucial and complex process, which has been used in various industries for the purpose of separation and beneficiation. Various classes of factors including chemistry, operational, or equipment influence the process outputs. Its complex nature makes it difficult to control...
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Spring 2018
Renal cell carcinoma comprises approximately 2-3% of all malignancies, with the majority, approximately 70%, being clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). ccRCC features many cancer hallmarks such as suppressed mitochondrial glucose oxidation, apoptosis-resistance, angiogenesis, immune evasion,...
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Estimation and control of froth flotation units used in Coal Handling and Preparation Plants (CHPPs)
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The processing of coal in coal handling and preparation plants (CHPPs) produces a significant amount of valuable fine coal which is then recovered using froth flotation. As froth flotation units are regulated using simple, conventional control methods the application of modern control methods is...
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Stories We Live By, With, and In: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Canadian Muslim Girls and their Mothers
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Drawing upon my experiences as a Canadian Muslim woman, mother, and researcher, I engaged in a two-year multiperspectival narrative inquiry (Houle, 2012; Huber, Clandinin, & Murphy, 2011) alongside three Canadian Muslim girls and their mothers as girl co-inquirers transitioned into adolescence....
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Spring 2017
Memory research has progressed substantially in the recent past, yet the mechanisms responsible for memory formation and permanence are still not well established. Much of this research has been focused on the events that occur at the level of the cell, leading to many molecular theories about...
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Spring 2017
Cannabis use is a known risk factor for the development of psychotic disorders. Clinical and preclinical genetic studies provide growing evidence that genes related to dopamine signalling and neuroprotection, like COMT, are implicated in the cannabis-psychosis association. Considering the burden...
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Fall 2017
Nakita S. Valerio, 2017 “Remembering the Departure of Moroccan Jews” Before the end of the Second World War, Morocco’s Jewish community numbered approximately 240,000 people and was one of the largest and oldest populations of Jews in the Arab-Muslim world. Between 1948 and 1968, the vast...
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Production and perception of vowel harmony: Phonological predictors of ratings and on-line adaptations of Russian vowels in Yakut (Sakha)
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This dissertation investigates phonological input predictors of the Russian vowels /a, e, i, o, u/ in on-line adaptations among modern Russian-Yakut bilingual speakers in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the Russian Federation, with a particular focus on the production and perception of vowel...
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Linguistic and Social Experience During an Online Mentoring Program for Young Adults Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Devices
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Individuals who use speech generating communication devices (SGCDs) are described in the literature as having limited expressive linguistic competence due to limited functional practice, and limited skills in social competence due to limited social experience. Many individuals who use SGCDs in...
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Genesis and controls on mineralization at the Hammer Zone silver showing, Mount Mye Trend, hosted by the Anvil Batholith, South-Central Yukon
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When Silver Range resources acquired the Keg property in 2010, one of the prospects included was the Hammer Zone. Ensuing mapping and surface sampling found the Hammer Zone to be a small, bonanza-grade, epithermal silver system contained entirely within the Anvil Batholith. Initial petrographic...