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Spring 2022
In this dissertation, I identify an aesthetic tradition in settler literary texts that parallels the settler state’s political response to such policies as multiculturalism and Reconciliation. I argue that modern Canadian fiction in English continues the tradition of romantic art in Hegel’s...
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Contribution of Montney Sourced Hydrocarbons to the Doig and Montney Petroleum System in Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
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Previously acquired biomarker analyses of oil samples and Rock-Eval analyses of cores and cutting samples have been integrated with new Rock-Eval analyses to determine the source rock potential of Montney Formation. Furthermore, the geochemical signature of Montney organic matter is used to...
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Development of A Gadolinium-Based Nanotheranostics Platform for Irradiation Activatable MRI-Radiosensitization and Doxorubicin Release in Cancer Therapy
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The ultimate goal of this thesis research was to design, fabricate, and characterize an integrated nanotheranostics platform for activatable doxorubicin delivery and simultaneous MRI- radiosensitization for synergistic cancer therapy, targeting breast cancer treatment. As shown in the diagram,...
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Exploiting second-order nonlinear phenomena for the generation and detection of coherent terahertz electric fields
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This thesis explores terahertz radiation sources and detectors, where the driving physical mechanism for generation and detection is second-order nonlinear phenomena. The heart of this work considers novel crystals and waveguiding arrangements for terahertz radiation generation and/or detection...
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Spring 2022
During the past 10 years, we have witnessed the proliferation of cloud computing services and their adoption in the industry. This rapid growth has been mainly due to economies of scale, improving resource utilization, infinite computing resources on demand, and pay per use cost model. However,...
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Spring 2022
Transitions towards renewable energy at all scales are urgently needed to meet current targets for climate action and renewable electricity generation. Indigenous communities across Canada are increasingly investing in clean energy initiatives, energy efficiency measures, and renewable energy...
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Nuanced Effects of Decision Effort on Decision Confidence in Matters of Quality versus Matters of Taste
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Consumers are largely considered cognitive misers because of their general aversion toward exerting mental effort in decision making. Prior research suggests that engaging in effortful decision tasks tends to undermine consumers’ decision confidence by increasing metacognitive difficulty. In the...
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Spring 2022
Owing to a large number of applications, starting from pharmaceutical packaging to advancement in nanotechnology and microfluidic devices, wetting characteristics has always been regarded as an essential prerequisite for many phenomenal processes. In the present time, the term ‘wetting’ is not...
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Spring 2022
Iron is involved in many aspects of life and is essential for survival and normal development. The role of iron in the body is crucial for many processes, including oxygen transport, steroid hormone synthesis, and DNA repair. However, iron transport in Drosophila melanogaster is less...
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Spring 2022
The International Roughness Index (IRI) is one of the most critical indicators in the field of pavement performance management. Since the introduction of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), many researchers have created different kinds of DNN models to forecast the IRI. However, none of them employed...