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2023-09-12

Davidson, Debra

NFRF-I awarded 2024: This project focuses on enhancing energy transition planning, recognizing that such plans must: integrate mitigation and adaptation; embrace a justice framework; and be socio culturally embedded within local geographies. This demands direct engagement with the diverse peoples

living and working in those spaces, with special attention to vulnerable groups, such as Indigenous and marginalized communities. Our primary objectives are to 1) co-produce directly applicable knowledge to facilitate local climate adaptation planning that prioritizes justice and wellbeing; 2) generate

Fall 2016

Rabiei, Montazar

installation. These adoptions are often made without making proper adjustments, leading to inaccurate pipe designs. This dissertation aims to identify and address the shortcomings that exist in current pullback determination methods during pipe installation by HDD. Throughout the study, special attention is

Technologies (CETT) at the University of Alberta, and collected on different project sites for crossings executed in Alberta, Canada. The new proposed models have been able to simulate the recorded pullback forces, while the PRCI method failed to do so. It has been observed that the fluidic drag changes

2018-02-01

Goodman, Karen

openly sharing scientific data were developed to primarily benefit science and scientific researchers. Guidelines for genomics research do not consider the special context of research with Indigenous partners, who have been historically exploited by academic institutions. This project will use a

SSHRC IDG, awarded in 2018 jointly with Genomics Canada. The team has also included the SSHRC Notice of Decision, including ranking and evaluation information. The project seeks to address ethical and cultural challenges related to potential use of genomic data by generating information required

together to generate data and produce research outputs that provide insight into the societal impacts of genomics projects on Indigenous communities who request the research.

2017-05-01

Justine Lloyd

Title: Species of Spaces: Rhetorical, Dialogic, Precarious Justine Lloyd Abstract In the early 2000s I guest-edited a special issue of Space and Culture on ‘dialogic spaces’ (Vol 7.1 2004). At the time, this notion was formulated to get at the ways in which “culture and space are always already

in 1995 and Georges Perec’s project ‚Les Lieux’, briefly documented in his collection Species of Spaces, translated into English in 1997. I explore how the spatial processes highlighted by these authors redistribute attention to place, space and culture by making the many tensions and contradictions

Fall 2022

Ibrahimi, Janat

qualitative research projects conducted in Pakistan between 2009 and 2015. The first study, entitled “Are community midwives addressing the inequities in access to skilled birth attendance in Pakistan? Gender, class, and social exclusion”, used a mixed methods approach - an institutional ethnography and a

members, and 180 formal and informal observations of patient-provider interactions in health facilities. The survey interviewed 1457 women who had given birth in the two years prior. The second project, “Addressing disparities in maternal health care in Pakistan: gender, class and exclusion” is a critical

, encouraging monthly scans, and offering special discounts. A desire to ensure birth of a son is driving pregnant women’s demand for repeat scans in the hope of either expecting a different ‘diagnosis’ if a female fetus is suspected or repeatedly confirming a male fetus. Conclusions: Obstetric ultrasound has

2014-12-10

CIHR, Coe, Helen - Project Coordinator, Grant Assist Program (Health Sciences), Simala-Grant, Joanne - Director, Health Research Funding Initatives

Please find the anonymous national and University of Alberta Foundation 2014 Stage 1 results. National and University of Alberta results are stratified by career stage and University of Alberta results are also presented stratified by theme and title.

Fall 2016

Gala Lopez, Boris L.

recurrent hypoglycemia events. This thesis presents the results from multiple projects aimed to improve some of those limiting factors for prolonged islet survival. We provide sufficient background for the reader to learn about the historical perspective, along with the latest efforts to improve islet

immunosuppression in islet transplantation towards the improvement of engraftment and graft durability. Moreover, a special case reports provides an opportunity to debate the practice of islet autotransplantation after total pancreatectomy. In this case, a new indication is presented in a patient with metastatic

1980-01-01

Wallis, P., Baker, B., Peake, E., Telang, S., Strosher, M.

assimilative capacity of the Athabasca River with special regard to organics. Objectives for the project are: (1) To analyze available hydrometric, sediment and water quality data pertinent to the organic regime of the river; (2) To synthesize the data into a framework of understanding (model) that would

external factors while maintaining their productivity and diversity. The rate and extent of this adaptive capability is the underlying process of assimilative capacity which must be understood and therefore examined. This project is intended to provide a problem analysis of the goal to determine the

Fall 2023

Bani, Moad A

design standard, CSA S16-19. Special design requirements were introduced for MT-BRBFs in the 2016 edition of AISC Seismic Provisions in the U.S. to improve column stability response and control tier drift demands. However, very limited supporting research data is available to verify these requirements

potential improvements, and develop an enhanced design method in the framework of CSA S16. This M.Sc. research project aims to evaluate the seismic response of steel MT-BRBFs designed to the Canadian and U.S. provisions and propose enhanced analysis and design methods to better represent MT-BRBF seismic

2011

Yao, Hengshuai

Technical report TR11-04. World model is very important for model-based reinforcement learning. For example, a model is frequently used in Dyna: in learning steps to select actions and in planning steps to project sampled states or features. In this paper we propose least-squares Dyna (LS-Dyna

) algorithm to improve the accuracy of the world model and provide better planning. LS-Dyna is a special Dyna architecture in that it estimates the world model by a least-squares method. LS-Dyna is more data efficient, yet it has the same complexity with existing linear Dyna that is based on gradient descent