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Spring 2024
The representation of real-world relationships and entities through nodes and edges in a network has found wide applicability across diverse scientific fields. At the core of network analysis are the tasks of community detection and community search, which aim to identify distinct groups within a...
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Towards Context-Independent Gamification: An Evaluation of Intrinsic Motivation in Gamified Contexts
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Gamification is becoming widely adopted as a way of making applications fun and engaging, in order to motivate adoption and use. Despite its popularity, the question of whether gamification actually has any effect on user motivation remains open [1]. For many years, video game designers have...
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Towards Critical Realism: Marginality in Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian Photography (1980s–1990s)
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This thesis explores the unofficial photography of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus in the 1980s and 1990s: an art form that is barely studied in academia and therefore remains almost completely unknown to the general public. The dissertation offers a novel perspective of research within Eastern...
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Towards Decolonizing and Indigenizing Teaching and Curricular Practices in Canadian Higher Education: A Narrative Inquiry into Settler Academics’ Experiences
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For some moving toward reconciliation is controversial; for others acting on decades of talk about reconciliation is long over-due. Debates about Canada’s relationship with Indigenous Peoples have the potential to build or break apart Canada. Institutions of higher education in Canada have a...
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Fall 2019
Software energy efficiency has become a concern for the scale of operations in data centers and for the availability of battery-driven mobile devices. Developers now consider energy efficiency as one of the performance metrics. Unfortunately, developers are not trained enough and do not know how...
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Fall 2019
Pea root rot is one of the major diseases of field pea (Pisum sativum) in the Canadian prairies. Field avoidance is one possible approach for reducing yield loss caused by root rot. Current research aimed to investigate the possibility of developing a model to predict root rot. Surveys were...
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Spring 2010
Nigeria has a huge natural gas reserve, but to date this resource has been largely under-developed. This state of affair has impacted negatively on Nigeria’s economic potential. In contrast, Alberta has benefitted immensely from its natural gas resource because it has effectively developed same....