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Writing Research Articles in Discrete Mathematics: A Rhetorical, Multimodal Genre Analysis and Pedagogy
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This dissertation reports my rhetorical, multimodal genre analysis of research articles (RAs) in discrete mathematics and its pedagogical applications. The increasing demand on graduate students to publish their research in English and the need of these students to write in the key genres of...
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Spring 2022
This study, which adopts the physical modelling technique to investigate caprock deformation behaviour, intends to elucidate the impact of steam chamber expansion rate on caprock integrity. This study develops a synthetic material to replicate the behaviour of Clearwater Formation shale for the...
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Spring 2022
It is well established that physical activity confers numerous health benefits for both mother and fetus in the vast majority of pregnant individuals. Yet, significant knowledge gaps remain. Of the 12 systematic reviews which informed the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of...
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Spring 2022
Most immigrants and refugees lose their Heritage Language (HL) within one to three generations of moving to Canada. This study addresses a major gap in language education research about the potential of arts-based curricula to support the HL development and maintenance (HLDM) of multilingual...
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Buried wood effects on soil nutrient supply and microbial activity in different oil sands reclamation soils in Northern Alberta
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Manchola Rojas, Laura Alejandra
Buried wood is an important component of natural and anthropogenic soils, yet it remains severely understudied. Nutrient immobilization as a response to wood addition in soils raises concerns from oil sands reclamation practitioners since the clear and grub procedures prior to soil salvaging tend...
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Spring 2022
Solar photovoltaic (PV) generation is one of the fastest-growing renewable energy sources worldwide. Almost half of this growth is projected to be behind-the-meter (BTM) installations — typically PV systems mounted on the rooftop of a home or a commercial building. Today, utilities neither have...
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Spring 2022
Predation is an important process that helps to shape community structure. The study of predation in the fossil record has often used repair scars – traces of failed predatory attacks left on prey individuals – to identify differences in predation pressure across space, time, and taxa. However,...
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Mapping the Microstructure of Single-Site Ethylene/1- Hexene Copolymers Using Response Surface Methods
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Polyolefins are a commercially important class of polymers made only of carbon and hydrogen atoms. Polyethylene accounts for a sizable fraction of commercial polyolefins, covering applications from packaging films, water tanks, biomedical equipment, bulletproof vests, and adhesives. The use of a...
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Spring 2022
Board game research has pursued two distinct but linked objectives: solving games, and strong play using heuristics. In our case study in the game of chess, we analyze how current AlphaZero type architectures learn and play late chess endgames, which are solved. We study the open-source program...
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Spring 2022
Targeting DNA repair enzymes has attracted much attention in recent years to overcome the therapeutic resistance in cancer therapy. Inhibition of DNA repair enzymes can be used to make cancer cells sensitive to the DNA damaging effect of ionizing radiation or chemotherapy. In addition, the...