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Using Social Media for Health Information: How New Technologies are Being Used in HIV/AIDS Communication
DownloadSpring 2014
Social networking sites, mobile technologies and other information and communications technologies have become popular ways of connecting. The health information field is no exception; however, what are best practices and strategies to effectively use the affordances of these tools, and currently...
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Using spatial autocorrelation to quantify the effects of sea ice fragmentation on polar bear movement in Hudson Bay
DownloadSpring 2020
Habitat fragmentation occurs when continuous habitat gets broken up as a result of ecosystem change. While commonly studied in terrestrial ecosystems, Arctic sea ice ecosystems also experience fragmentation, but are rarely studied in this context. Most fragmentation analyses are conducted using...
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Fall 2019
Although typically referred to as a generalist species, individual prey specialization has been documented in cougars (Puma concolor). This behaviour has the potential to limit and regulate ungulate dynamics, particularly in cases where ungulates exist in small or isolated populations. Cougars...
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Spring 2018
Quantum dots (QDs) have drawn substantial attention in multidisciplinary research in science, technology, and biomedicine during the last three decades. However, the toxicity of heavy metals and the depleting earth abundance of some elements common to QDs have prompted the development of...
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Spring 2018
Kuffel Kupferschmidt, Kristina L
Background: 9.44 million adults in the United States experience swallowing difficulties (i.e., dysphagia), with the most common etiology being stroke (Bhattacharyya, 2014). Upon diagnosis, patients are typically referred to clinicians who prescribe swallowing exercises, however access to this...
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Using Surface Geopolymerisation Reactions to Strengthen Athabasca Oil Sands Mature Fine Tailings
DownloadFall 2015
Bitumen extraction from oil sands operation in Fort McMurray, Canada produces an immense quantity of slurry waste that is discharged to tailings ponds. These ponds now stretch over a region which is roughly 1.5 times the area occupied by Vancouver city mainly due to slow consolidation process of...
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Using Survival Prediction Techniques to Learn Consumer-Specific Reservation Price Distributions
DownloadSpring 2015
A consumer's "reservation price" (RP) is the highest price that s/he is willing to pay for one unit of a specified product or service. It is an essential concept in many applications, e.g., personalized pricing, auction and negotiation. While consumers will not volunteer their RPs, we may be able...