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Spring 2024

Afaghi, Mohammad

Wildfires occurring in proximity to urban areas pose a potential risk to the safety and wellbeing of the population, while also carrying the potential for substantial economic damage through the destruction of infrastructure and private property. Canada, given its unique geographical and climatic...

Spring 2021

Wu, Sheng Yi

enable imaging in live cells with a spatiotemporal resolution and can be targeted to a specific subcellular region of a cell or a specific cell type of a tissue. While most biomolecules can be visualized with a fused fluorescent protein, more sophisticated biosensors are required to report a specific

, a DipdTFP/dTomato FRET pair was engineered by replacing the exterior residues of dTFP with that of dTomato. The surface residue engineering successfully allows heterodimer to form, but with a high affinity. More work is required to weaken this interaction for proper protein-protein interaction

Fall 2022

Castro Gomez, Maria Jose

. Understanding the structural connectivity that underpins these neurocognitive deficits is crucial for furthering our understanding of PAE. This thesis aims to examine the relationships between frontoparietal and temporal white matter as assessed by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) tractography, neurocognitive

), bilateral cingulum, inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF), and superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF). All participants completed three language subtests from the NEPSY-II. Executive functioning was measured using the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functioning-Parental Report (BRIEF-PR), and verbal

Fall 2014

Thomas, Javix

reports the first experimental detection of the elusive heterochiral dimer. This detection unequivocally establishes that tunneling between the gauche forms of 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol cannot be responsible for the strong chirality synchronization observed. The result highlights the advantages of using high

resolution spectroscopy in comparison to low resolution spectroscopy, in providing detailed and important structural and dynamical information about the molecular recognition process at the microscopic level. The first step of the solvation process of methyl lactate, a multifunctional chiral molecule, by

Spring 2018

Amjad Hafeez, Aleena

, 2010). In light of this, Canadian educational policies emphasize inclusiveness and equity (Alberta Education, 2017), however, despite efforts to equalize in-school conditions for students, the OECD reports that 9.4% of Canadian students' mathematics performance is determined by their socioeconomic

postsecondary educational attainment using structural regression modeling techniques. This study delineates activities by type, into high-, mid-, and low- brow activities, as prior research conducted in the United States has indicated that such factors might influence the focal relationship (Guest & Schneider

Fall 2021

Abohassan, Ahmed

snowstorms, structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to simultaneously model the two relationships in one framework. By using pavement friction as a mediating variable, the indirect influences of the independent variables on road safety were identified. The findings suggest that precipitation, extremely

Fall 2024

Matinfar, Marzieh

gelation. Engineering stress overestimated true stress by 21-66%. Real-time monitoring during compression, along with fractography, revealed radial, circumferential, and splitting cracks. Basic gels, with larger structural units, formed looser, mesh-like structures with large pores (3-5 µm), resulting in

Fall 2018

Li, Zhengwei

Elastic metamaterials have received growing attention from the research community due to their unique properties and attractive engineering applications. The unusual elastic wave manipulation ability of the elastic metamaterials mainly comes from the delicately designed structural configuration

Fall 2022

Shuvo,Badhon Das

Fabrication operations produce made-to-order structural components (such steel elements or precast concrete) for multiple construction projects, which require crews to repeat their work at a number of workstations or locations in a special manufacturing facility. Scheduling these interdependent

improve communication efficiency at different levels of project management, which is crucial to civil engineering applications; (5) analyzing the ‘mura’ (variations) inherent in product design and reducing the ‘muda’ (waste) in typical or nontypical repetitive projects of any size or complexity, which is

Fall 2017

Mahpeykar, Seyed M

nanostructured devices as compared to a planar structure. Among various technologically feasible nanostructures, a two-dimensional nano-branch array is demonstrated as the most promising structure and proven to be able to maintain its performance despite structural imperfections common in fabrication

fabrication for light management in optoelectronic devices. Furthermore, I will leverage a modeling approach for optoelectronic engineering of colloidal quantum-dot (CQD) thin-film solar cells. The presence of a strong efficiency loss mechanism, called the “efficiency black hole”, that can hold back the