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Spring 2016

Bowden-Gil, Amanda Susan

With a call for non-Aboriginal counsellors to develop a better understanding of the health issues facing Canada’s Aboriginal peoples, future counsellors need to have a strong understanding of the changing social conditions and focus beyond existing paradigms of mental health care. Culturally...

Spring 2016

Park, Elly

Young women with learning difficulties are over-represented in the criminal justice system. They are more likely to be arrested, charged, sentenced, incarcerated, and re-incarcerated. A literature review revealed an emerging body of research within the disciplines of disability studies and...

2016-01-01

Yifei Cui, Alireza Nouri, Dave Chan, Ehsan Rahmati

This paper presents a model for the investigation of sandstone degradation and sand production mechanisms coupled with fluid flow analysis using the Discrete Element Method (DEM). The model was used to investigate the effects of in-situ stresses and flow rate on sand production. We developed a...

Spring 2016

Rushd, M M A Sayeed

Water lubricated pipe flow technology is an economic alternative for the long distance transportation of viscous oils like heavy oil and bitumen. The lubricated flow regime involves an oil-rich core surrounded by a turbulent water annulus. Energy consumption associated with this type of pipeline...

2016-01-01

Koufogiannakis, Denise, Brettle, Alison

Spring 2016

Nandi, Biswajit

There is a fundamental need to improve grit removal techniques for municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) to meet newer effluent standards and to deal with the rapid growth of urbanization and industrialization. In response to this need, secondary and tertiary treatment processes are being...

Spring 2016

Zhang, Xi

Visual tracking serves an important role in a wide variety of applications like video surveillance, robotic manipulation and augmented reality. The goal of tracking in the last two cases here is to efficiently and accurately locate the object in each frame of an image sequence/stream, with the...

Fall 2016

Sarker, Nitish Ranjan

Wear-related reliability issues, especially slurry erosion has become one of the principal concerns for the process industries that use slurry pipelines for coarse particle transport. The study and development of an appropriate wear model for slurry pipelines is, therefore, essential from the...

Fall 2016

Melnik, Oleg

The effectiveness of fire management tactics and safety of firefighters strongly depend on the reliability of fire behaviour predictions that is currently limited by a lack of understanding of the flammability of live fuel. Until now fire modeling has been primarily based on the flammability of...

2016

Thompson, Stephanie, Tonelli, Marcello, Klarenbach, Scott, Molzahn, Anita

Background and objectives Randomized, controlled trials show that regular exercise is beneficial for patients on hemodialysis. Intradialytic exercise may have additional benefits, such as amelioration of treatment-related symptoms. However, the factors that influence the implementation of...