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Fall 2020
In the months leading up to the 2016 election in the United States, YouTube’s recommendation algorithm decidedly favored pro-Trump videos, fake news and conspiracy theories. In this thesis, I question whether such bias is present in the context of the 2019 federal election in Canada. To do so, I...
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Updated understanding of landslides kinematics along the Thompson River Valley using satellite InSAR
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Geohazards threaten human’s well-being in many different ways. Landslide, as a common geohazard in both natural and anthropogenic man-made features all around the world, generally, damage many infrastructures, nature balance, animal habitat and cause even loss of lives for many creatures as well...
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Updating Local Birth Weight Percentiles and Statistical Methods Motivated by Challenges in Analysis of Microbiome Studies
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This dissertation contains two main parts. In part one, I updated the current reference for sex-specific birth weight percentiles by gestational age, overall, and for specific ethnic groups, based on data from all singleton live-birth deliveries from 2005 to 2014 in Alberta, Canada. Crude and...
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Fall 2021
The use of fatty acid feedstock to produce renewable fuel and value-added chemicals has recently gained a lot of attention. Pyrolysis has been used in fatty acids conversion to yield products with fuel characteristics like fossil fuel equivalent. However, the conventional heating at commercial...
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Fall 2009
The work presented in this dissertation was focused on developing an affordable, automated, upper extremity exercise system suitable for individuals with stroke and spinal cord injury (SCI). The three studies presented in this thesis demonstrated the efficacy of functional electrical...