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Tracer Development for the Molecular Imaging of Breast Cancer: Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of C-3 Modified 2,5-Anhydro-D-mannitol Derivatives as Potential Tracer Molecules
DownloadSpring 2016
Mammography is the most frequently used imaging method for the detection of breast cancer. Despite the key role of mammography in the breast cancer detection, false-negative diagnosis by mammograms ranges from 4 to 34%. Positron emission tomography (PET), a tracer based molecular imaging method...
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Fall 2018
Background to this dissertation: In 2012 I began a creative collaboration in the Tłı̨chǫ region of the Northwest Territories. Over a period of 18 months I worked with community elders and youth in the creation of an animated film (based on a historic oral story). This PhD is a continuation of...
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Tracing Organic Contamination from Collection to Curation: Contamination Mitigation of Meteorites and Implications for Advanced Curation Methods of Astromaterials
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Meteorites are the most primitive materials in the solar system and can provide important information about the early earth, planetary processes, and possibly yield insights to the building blocks of life. All meteoritic astromaterials are exposed to both organic compound and microbial...
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Tracking a better way to count wildlife: testing the Formozov-Malyshev-Pereleshin (FMP) formula in the Kalahari
DownloadSpring 2020
The science of conservation biology is about conserving species. To do so often requires information about population sizes. Great efforts have been devoted to counting animals, the diverse means by which are invariably taxa and environment-limited. Faced with a biodiversity crisis,...
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Tracking and Controlling Persons: Identification for Control in Cognitive Behaviours and Cultural Practices
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This research aims (i) to demonstrate the unity of the phenomena of person identification and control and (ii) to propose the first philosophical theory that uses a single conceptual framework to describe and explain these phenomena. Chapter 1 introduces the philosophical significance of the...
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Fall 2017
A socio-cognitive approach to language assumes language is multimodal, embodied in general cognition, and modulated by contextual cues (van Dijk, 2014). Research on situation models confirms that language is processed multimodally and experiences top-down influence from pre-existing knowledge in...
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Tracking the Evolutionary History of Development Genes: Implications for the Diversification of Fruits and Flowers in the Brassicaceae and Cleomaceae
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Flowers of Brassicaceae are remarkably similar across all species, whereas their fruits vary in almost all conceivable traits, particularly in the tribe Brassiceae. In contrast, Brassicaceae’s sister family, Cleomaceae, exhibits substantial variation in flowers but are more uniform in their...