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2016-12-01

Rathi, Dinesh, McMahon, Rob, McNally, Michael B, Prevatt, Chardelle, Evaniew, Jennifer, Pearce, Hanne

Understanding Community Broadband: The Community Broadband Toolkit has been designed for use by Alberta communities to assist in developing broadband solutions. The toolkit is organized into three general sections - learning about broadband, thinking about broadband, and planning broadband....

Spring 2016

Aberdeen, Gertrude Catherine

This work provides an in-depth analysis of the views of leaders of heritage language schools in Alberta. Over 25 hours of transcribed interviews and focus-group data from community heritage language (HL) school leaders and elders in the HL learning community, along with research notes were...

Fall 2016

Wang, Yongjie

The migration of Chinese rural workers to urban centers represents one of the largest movements of peoples globally in the past century. While previous studies have focused on rural migrants as a whole, research on rural migrant women has not yet been fully developed. This thesis addresses the...

Spring 2016

Bekele, Raie Taye

Tamoxifen is the accepted therapy for patients with estrogen receptor α (ERα)−positive breast cancer. However, clinical resistance to tamoxifen, as demonstrated by recurrence or progression on therapy, is frequent and precedes death from metastases. To improve breast cancer treatment it is vital...

Spring 2016

Kandil, Amin AA

Bioethanol industry is fast growing as it is a clean substitute of fossil-fuel. Starch is a clean, cheap & non-toxic source for bioethanol production. Efficient conversion of starch to fermentable sugars is important. The objective of this research was to investigate the effect of non-starch...

Fall 2016

Shirband, Zeynab

Near-neutral pH stress corrosion cracks (NNpH SCC) are developed under coating disbondments on the external surface of pipelines where the surface of pipeline is exposed to the soil solution. NNpH SCC initiation and early stage of growth is mainly governed by the dissolution process of steel....

Spring 2016

Elian, Fahed Ah

Overexpression of ErbB2 occurs in about 25-30% of breast cancer cases and therefore, represents an attractive therapeutic target for treating breast cancer. There are two models for ErbB2 inhibitors that are currently in clinical use: humanized antibodies directed against ErbB2 and small molecule...

Spring 2016

Salehi Karashk, Reza

The objectives of this work were to investigate the influence of diets enriched in long chain fatty acids on feed intake, calf birth weight, maternal and neonatal fatty acid profiles, milk production, postpartum reproductive function, early embryonic development and its transcriptome profile in...

2016-01-01

Li, Xue, Serpe, Michael J.

By depositing layers composed of poly (N‐isopropylacrylamide)‐based microgels and the polyelectrolyte polydiallyldimethylammonium chloride on a flexible substrate, responsive materials that bend upon drying can be fabricated; the extent of the bending depends on atmospheric humidity. This study...

Spring 2016

Lu, Qiuyi

In this study, a two-step flocculation method by combining anionic and cationic polymeric flocculants on the treatment of oil sands tailings was investigated. Compared to conventional flocculation by using a single anionic or cationic polymer, which has been a widely exploited procedure for...