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Fall 2011
In the Introduction of this thesis, consideration is given to historical and ongoing value of investing research efforts in the total synthesis of natural products. Following this discussion is an explanation of the factors that guided the selection of palmerolide A as a synthetic target. The...
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A Cells Capture, Separation and Detection Modelling Method in the Microfluidic and IDEs Based Biosensor
DownloadSpring 2020
Lab-on-a-Chip technologies have been developed over the past few decades and it has a wide range of applications. For example, in the field of medicine and agriculture, portable devices with the biosensoring function have a great potential in disease detection for animals and crop disease...
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A century of landscape change in the southern Rocky Mountains and Foothills of Alberta: Using historical photography to quantify ecological change
DownloadSpring 2017
Throughout the Rocky Mountain regions of North America fire regimes have been altered towards longer fire return intervals in the 20th century as compared to the 18th and 19th centuries; this has been accompanied by losses of grassland and open canopy woodlands due to encroachment by closed...
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A changing disability-intertext: representation of disability in Canadian young adult fiction
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This study examines the disability-intertext in contemporary Canadian young adult fiction and seeks to analyze new patterns in the representation of disability. The disability-intertext is explored using Michel Foucault’s theory of the “background-body” and Ato Quayson’s theory of “aesthetic...
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A characterization of adult retinal neurogenesis in the Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii) to elucidate the evolutionary origins of the vertebrate retina
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The vertebrate retina is a vital sensory structure that has a murky evolutionary origin. Living vertebrates possess a strikingly complex retina and eye with highly conserved development and physiology. In contrast, the photoreceptive organs of the closest non-vertebrate relatives are...
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Fall 2023
Lipids are integral components of all cells. Lipid molecules form the membrane and control membrane integrity while storage lipids act as a source of energy for the cell. The chemical properties of lipids are determined by the composition of the molecule’s acyl chain moieties. Incorporation of...