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An Exploratory Analysis of Self-help Groups: An Alternative Mode of Public Service Delivery in High Density Rural Areas in India?
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Self-help groups (SHGs) as a mode of community-based participatory development has been increasingly adopted within international development practice as a platform for broader community engagement. These voluntary, membership-based organizations of 10 to 20 women have been mobilized in...
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Public Health Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication to Family Physicians in Canada: A Phenomenological Exploration
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Family physicians are a cornerstone of the Canadian public health and health care systems. During times of public health crisis, the role of the family physician as both recipient and translator of complex and rapidly-evolving health information is emphasized. How family physicians actually...
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Fall 2017
In industrial construction projects, cost estimation is one of the most important procedures for all stakeholders. Cost estimation relies on information provided by quantity take-off. The traditional practice of manual quantification based on 2D drawings is time-consuming, tedious, error-prone...
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Compressive strength of rectangular columns made with ECC and confined with rectangular stirrups
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Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) is a type of high-performance fiber-reinforced cementitious composites (HPFRCC) which is designed to achieve high tensile strain capacity with strain hardening effect during the post-cracking response. The high tensile ductility of ECC with steady-state...
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Rotational spectrum of the 2-fluoroethanol---water complex:water tunneling dynamics and struture
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The hydrogen-bonded complexes between 2-fluoroethanol and water molecules have been investigated by using Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy and ab initio calculations. The computational and experimental theories are briefly described. The instrumentation and theoretical consideration about...
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Cooperative Borderlands: Trafficking Values and Waste Across Nesting Boundaries in Russian Karelia
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In my dissertation, I explore the sense of place and the local identity in Petrozavodsk, the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation. We are aware of the geographical and political borders, of those visible dividing lines on the map that insulate ethnic groups and nation...
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Fall 2017
In this thesis, we prove the non-amenability of the Banach algebra B(E), the banach algebra of all operators on an infinite dimensional Banach space E, where, for p in the interval [1,infinity), E is an infinite dimensional Lp-space in the sense of Lindenstrauss and Pelczynski. In addition, we...
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The pulmonary vasculature during exercise in health and mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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The purpose of this dissertation was to characterize the response of the pulmonary vasculature to exercise in health (including a pharmacological intervention) and in individuals with mild chronic obstructive lung disease. The first project studied the effect of a dopamine receptor blockade on...
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Population Displacement and Health: Examples of Internally Displaced Persons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Syrian Refugees in Edmonton, Canada
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Background: Population displacement caused by complex humanitarian emergencies (CHE) has major health consequences, affecting 65 million people worldwide. This multiple methods thesis explores the impact of population displacement in two separate studies: (1) malaria among internally displaced...
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Fall 2017
Perception is to sensation what illusion is to the actual state of the world. How we sense information varies greatly from how we ultimately perceive and understand that information - a result of top-down and bottom-up processes at work. Work from over 100 years ago (Brucke, 1864) found an...