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2016 — Leadership and Health Information Management in CanadaRésumé
Health Information Management (HIM) professionals play a critical role in Canadian health settings. HIM professionals maintain the health information vital to providing quality patient care and they often serve in bridge roles that connect clinical, operational, administrative, and financial functions (AHIMA, 2015). Despite the importance of HIM to health care, HIM professionals are not represented at higher levels of management where their knowledge and expertise should be welcomed. Research on the reasons HIM professionals do not achieve and perform leadership roles in Canadian health settings is considerably limited. This study explored the factors that influence leadership development of HIM professionals … Lire la suite
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2016 — Organic geochemical assessment of the Upper and Lower Members of the Bakken Formation, southern SaskatchewanRésumé
The Upper and Lower Members of the Bakken Formation (Late Devonian- Early Mississippian) are some of the most prolific petroleum source rocks of the Williston Basin. However, despite their excellent petroleum potential, the available geochemical data appears insufficient to provide a complete understanding of variations in organic matter content, kerogen Type and petroleum generative potential. Using a combination of bulk geochemical analysis, augmented by gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analyses (GC-MS), as well as high-resolution sampling of drill core from 32 boreholes, results clearly show that a significant degree of variation exists in every geochemical parameter, both depth-wise … Lire la suite
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2016 — Predictability of Carbon Dioxide and Ethane Solubility in Ionic Liquids: A Simulation ApproachRésumé
Capturing greenhouse gases using solvents is considered an efficient solution to address climate change and surging anthropogenic activity. In an attempt to find efficient solvents and avoid high experimental costs, predicting the solubilty of acid gases in different solvents is attracting attention. Ionic Liquids (ILs) are considered promising solvents for the sweetening of natural gas streams. These ionic liquids can also be used to capture CO2 from flue gases. This study examines the predictability of modeling the solubility of CO2 and C2H6 in ionic liquids based on some intrinsic properties such as critical temperature, critical pressure and acentric factor as … Lire la suite
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2016 — Kinetic Study of the Catalytic Desorption of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) from CO2-Loaded Monoethanolamine (MEA) and Blended Monoethanolamine-Methyldiethanolamine (MEA-MDEA) during Post Combustion CO2 Capture from Industrial Flue GasesRésumé
The objective of this research was to elucidate the kinetics of the catalyst-aided desorption of CO2 from CO2-loaded aqueous solutions of single monoethanolamine (MEA), and monoethanolamine blended with methyldiethanolamine (MEA-MDEA) during the post-combustion capture of CO2 from industrial flue gases. The experiments were performed over γ-Al2O3 and HZSM-5 catalysts in a complete absorber – desorber CO2 capture pilot plant unit with the absorber and desorber columns having an internal diameter of 2-inches (0.051 m) and a total height of 3.5 ft (1.067 m). The experimental kinetic data for CO2 desorption were obtained in the catalytic packed bed tubular desorber at … Lire la suite
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2016 — Conditional Preference Networks: Learning and OptimizationRésumé
The last two decades have shown a great body of work in the eld of Arti cial Intelligence (AI) addressing issues related to representing, reasoning and learning preferences. One of the main models for graphical representation of preferences is that of Conditional Preference Networks (CP-nets). A CP-net de nes a partial order over the set of outcomes or alternatives by providing a concise set of small preference statements. Since their introduction, CP-nets have been intensively studied and applied in various problems involving preferences. This thesis is concerned with two main issues related to CP-nets: learning and optimization. Concerning the learning … Lire la suite
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2016 — Regulation of competence gene homologs in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and Escherichia coilRésumé
Many bacteria have the ability to take up DNA from their environment through a process termed “natural competence”. Even though there are numerous bacterial species that are recognized to be naturally competent, competence is undetected or overlooked in many species such as members of the Enterobacteriaceae. Homologs of competence genes and the main regulator of natural competence, Sxy, are conserved in Salmonella and Escherichia coli; however, these genes were found to be silent under all previously-tested conditions. Thus, I carried out molecular studies to investigate genetic induction and regulation mechanisms of natural competence in Salmonella Typhimurium, and E. coli. Despite … Lire la suite
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2016 — Subproduct Systems of Quasi-Free Quantum Dynamical SemigroupsRésumé
In this thesis, we construct a class of quantum dynamical semigroups, called quasifree quantum dynamical semigroups, of the von Neumann algebra generated by an arbitrary Weyl system, with respect to some compatible families of quasi-measures and C0-semigroups. We then describe in concrete terms their associated subproduct systems, in the case of irreducible Weyl systems. Lire la suite
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2016 — Use of the Pain Assessment Checklist for Seniors with Limited Ability to Communicate-II (Pacslac-II) by People Who Are Not Health ProfessionalsRésumé
Pain is prevalent among older adults but it is often underestimated and undertreated, especially in older people with dementia. Patients with severe dementia are likely to suffer from untreated pain because of their limited ability to report it. Observational methods of pain assessment, such as the Pain Assessment Checklist for Seniors with Limited Ability to Communicate-II (PACSLAC-II; Chan, Hadjistavropoulos, Williams, & Lints-Martindale, 2014), have been shown to be valid indicators of pain in this population when completed by health professionals or other trained personnel (Fuchs-Lacelle, Hadjistavropoulos, & Lix, 2008; Zwakhalen, Hamers, Abu-Saad, & Berger, 2006). With growing demands, informal caregivers … Lire la suite
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2016 — Senior Administrators in School Divisions (Re)Composing Stories to Live By: A Narrative InquiryRésumé
My research puzzle for this narrative inquiry is about senior administrators in school divisions (re)composing stories to live by during a period of heightened accountability to improve student achievement. As this study unfolds, Clandinin and Connelly’s (2000) understanding of a narrative inquiry approach is used to explore research puzzles, wonders, and new learning. This study begins with my experiences as a senior administrator on the educational landscape and explores my puzzles about improving student achievement in school divisions. My wonders centre on questions such as: How do we demonstrate improved student achievement for all students? Do we all agree on … Lire la suite
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2016 — A Management Framework for Sharing - Economy Services in a Smart CityRésumé
Today, sharing economy model is reshaping services provisioning mechanism in many regulated sectors in cities. This changes put a huge pressure on the city’s decisions’ makers around the world. Different stakeholder’s interests call for actions from the government in response to the services provided under this model. For instance, on-demand mobility service providers such as UBER are affecting the whole service delivery mechanism in the transportation sector and are forcing licensed service providers to leave their market positions. Software systems such as smart city platforms can be used in upgrading service delivery mechanism of regulated sectors to satisfy such needs. … Lire la suite
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2016 — Women Past Menopause: Learning from the Voice of ExperienceRésumé
Menopause is a private, physiological change event that begins with the body but is greatly influenced by social context. While the current knowledge base about the experience is extensive it is also fragmented and incomplete. The primary focus is on symptoms and the loss of estrogen with women’s direct experience of menopause largely missing from the public discourse. This study proposes a model of menopause that unifies the disparate viewpoints through understanding postmenopausal women’s lived experience. The study design is based on the grounded theory qualitative research methodology of B.G. Glaser and A.L Strauss (1967), Kathy Charmaz (2012, 2014), and … Lire la suite
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2016 — Factors Contributing to Support for Reparation Following Mass Violence: The Case of SerbiaRésumé
The separation of the Former Yugoslavia, beginning in 1991, resulted in mass violence. Transitional justice was established to aid in developing measures to deal with mass victimization, as the shift from authoritarian regimes to democratic ones could not be resolved with the existing paradigms of restorative or retributive justice. Stephan Parmentier developed the TARR-III model, introducing a dialogical approach as a potential method to address crimes of this calibre, which is also the theoretical framework for the current research. Chi-square tests of independence with an accompanying measure of association t-tests, and logistic regression analysis were utilized to assess respondent’s perceptions … Lire la suite
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2016 — Desire Lines: Treading Trails and Telling Tales of Lesbian MotheringRésumé
This study highlights the ways in which the marginalization of lesbian families in Canada and the United States is perpetuated by heterobias and exacerbated by the legislation that continues to exclude non-hetero families. As demonstrated in this study, however, this marginalization is actively being countered as lesbian mothers disrupt the hegemonic notions of motherhood and family by seeking to make their voices heard and stories known in the public sphere. The focus on lesbian parented families in this thesis is important and timely in its engagement of the social debate that continues to surround the queer community as a whole. … Lire la suite
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2016 — Survival and Overland Transport of Fecal Coliform under Canadian Prairie ConditionsRésumé
In-field winter feeding of cattle is becoming a common practice in the Canadian Prairie. Cattle feeding in-field during winter provides economic advantages to agricultural producers over feeding the cattle in confined corrals by eliminating the extra work and cost associated with feed transport and manure management. Despite the economic advantages; wintering grounds for livestock operations can have profound impacts on water quality. Animal waste accumulated during winter can be transported to surface water with spring snowmelt. The potential impact on snowmelt runoff quality of winter in-field bale-grazing under the cold climate of Saskatchewan is being evaluated under the Saskatchewan component … Lire la suite
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2016 — Self-Storying to (De)Construct Compulsory Heterosexuality: A Feminist Poststructural Autoethnography of a Self-Wedding RitualRésumé
Written from the perspective of a white-settler, obese, bisexual, middle class cisfemale graduate student in Canada, the wedding ritual and bride are explored as sites of ideal female/feminine formation of the subject. Compulsory heterosexuality is implicated. “Single” and “married,” like “woman,” are constituted in discourses. The author explores ways that she, as an unmarried and therefore “single” woman has been positioned as personally deficient as single-ness is produced as an illegitimate and undesirable position for female/feminine subjects to take up. This research uses an autoethnographic methodological frame augmented by feminist poststructural epistemology to open up, trouble, disrupt and interrupt the … Lire la suite
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2016 — Learning Erasing Pattern Languages from Minimal InformationRésumé
A pattern is a concatenation of variable symbols and constant symbols. The language of a pattern is the set of strings generated by replacing the variables of the pattern with all possible strings. Patterns and pattern languages, introduced by Angluin, have attracted much attention in the past 35 years. In this thesis, we study learning the class of erasing pattern languages within three models of learning: classic teaching, recursive teaching, and query learning with shortest additional information. In the rst model, a teacher chooses helpful examples to help the learner in the process of learning. We measure the complexity of … Lire la suite
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2016 — Equivariant LS-Category and Equivariant Topological ComplexityRésumé
In this thesis we consider topological spaces endowed with an action of a topological group, and we develop a new concept to study these spaces. This concept is called orbit class and is often a good replacement for the well-known concept or- bit type. Using the concept of orbit class, we de ne a partial ordering on the set of all orbit classes. This partial order not only gives a partition on the topological space based on the orbits, but it also gives a discrete combinatorial translation of the topological space. We also use the properties of the orbit class … Lire la suite
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2016 — The Stories of Fat Women Accessing Healthcare in SaskatchewanRésumé
The research question posed within this study asks: What are the experiences of women who identify as ‘fat’ or ‘overweight’ in accessing healthcare in Saskatchewan? The ideology of ‘fat is bad, thin is good’ is buried deep within our cultural psyche. Utilizing a narrative methodology, an in-depth understanding of the lived experience of fat women pursuing health through engagement with the health care system was sought. Specifically, potential barriers such as attitudes of health care providers, shame due to weight stigma, and lack of proper equipment impact the ability of fat women to access health care services were explored. New … Lire la suite
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2016 — Stratigraphic Investigations into the Genesis of Anomalously Thick Coal Deposits in East-Central SaskatchewanRésumé
The discovery of anonymously thick Cretaceous-age coal deposits in east-central Saskatchewan in 2008 generated a great deal of interest in the province and raised a number of geologic questions. Unlike other parts of the Saskatchewan where Mannville coals are laterally extensive and restricted to a few metres of thickness, these deposits appeared to be hosted in isolated ‘sub-basins’ with coal thicknesses exceeding 100 m. Coal accumulating in these thicknesses is exceptionally rare, comprising less than 1% of global deposits. The remarkable nature of these deposits provided the impetus for this study, with the aim of unravelling the geologic processes responsible … Lire la suite
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2016 — Fabricating Gender Identity: Analyzing the Evolution of the Highland Kilt and TartanRésumé
The Scottish kilt has evolved over generations and has been adopted in various countries; however, despite shifting circumstances and consumer demands, it remains a recognizable and controversial icon. The kilt is now portrayed as a national symbol, but prior to the sixteenth century, the kilt, or belted plaid, was worn only in the Scottish Highlands. The kilt began as the primitive clothing of the Highlander, evolved into a sign of rebellion during the Jacobite Rebellion, and later became a sign of Scottish allegiance to the British army. Finally, through narratives of heroic Highlander warriors, the kilt was transformed into a … Lire la suite
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2016 — Assessing Pre-Frontal Cortex Oxygenation After Sport Concussion With Near Infrared SpectroscopyRésumé
Clinicians typically rely on neuropsychological and balance tests to track concussion recovery. These balance and neuropsychological tests only imply impairments that are based on performance – the tests do not directly measure (or reliably track) brain physiology throughout concussion recovery. Because of these issues, there has been a call to find an objective biomarker that can index both severity and the timeline for recovery. An additional problem is that, with the amount of concussions occurring at a recreational activity level, an effective biomarker must be cost effective, easily applied, and easily interpreted for lay people. To address these issues, non-invasive … Lire la suite
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2016 — Playing the (Policy) Fields: The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the Development of the Modernization of Benefits and Obligations BillRésumé
The lesbian and gay rights movement in Canada has a rich history comprised of numerous groups and individuals that worked tirelessly for decades to promote lesbian and gay rights and champion for protections to the community at a number of levels. One of the primary challenges that occurred was in relation to relationship recognition. Throughout the 1970s, 80s, and 90s in Canada, the lesbian and gay movement worked to achieve relationship recognition, challenging the criminal code, human rights protections, and finally full relationship recognition through the Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Act in 2000. Using the theory of fields as … Lire la suite
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2016 — Seasonal k and Independent Carbon Dioxide Approaches For First Order Decay Landfill Gas ModellingRésumé
Canada's per capita solid waste disposal rates are among the highest in the world. Landfill gas generation requires more accurate modelling in order to properly compare future emission mitigation or energy production projects. The EPA software LandGEM was selected for its common use in the literature. Two alternative methods to increase accuracy in methane and carbon dioxide estimates were studied. Real-time methane collection data from a municipal landfill in Regina's cold, semi-arid climate were consolidated to fit a linear-interpolated form of LandGEM. LandGEM defaults were found invalid for this landfill due to significant overestimation (76.5% error). Seasonal variations in gas … Lire la suite
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2016 — Be(come)ing an English Speaker: Positioning of South Korean Students in a Canadian UniversityRésumé
The growth of international students across Canadian universities means classrooms are increasingly linguistically diverse. This change affects the learning and relationships that occur between English language learners and speakers. Grounded in poststructuralist understandings of language and identity and Davies and Harré’s (1990) positioning theory, this thesis explores six South Korean student’s English language experiences in a Canadian university. Through informal conversational exchanges, narrative dialogue journals, and a personal researcher diary, this qualitative study is concerned with student subject positions and identity construction pertaining to language. What emerges from the data is what I term moments of tension which include students’ … Lire la suite
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2016 — Nikawiy: A Cree Woman's ExperienceRésumé
The purpose of this research was to identify the barriers and challenges faced by my mother, an Aboriginal woman of Cree descent, and to determine how she has survived despite the multiple oppressions she has faced. I sought to discover the experiences that contributed to her life story; identify coping mechanisms that contributed to her resiliency; and understand if her experiences could be situated in the context of the encounters of other Aboriginal women. Drawing on both Western and Indigenous research models allowed me to complete this research in a way that holds meaning for me as an Aboriginal academic. … Lire la suite
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2016 — A coming together: The juxtaposition of the Rae and Hearne cratons along the Virgin River shear zone (Snowbird tectonic zone), Saskatchewan, Canada, and the implications for proto-LaurentiaRésumé
The Snowbird tectonic zone of western Laurentia remains an enigmatic feature; some researchers have suggested that it represents a Paleoproterozoic suture, whereas others have proposed that it represents a reactivated Archean intracratonic fault zone. The Virgin River shear zone is the most southwesterly exposure of the Snowbird tectonic zone, along which rocks of the southern Rae and southern Hearne provinces meet. The Rae craton is the hanging wall to the northwest-dipping structure. Rocks of the southwest Rae are an extension of the Taltson basement complex and the intrusive Taltson magmatic zone. The Taltson basement complex contains ca. 2460 Ma diorites … Lire la suite
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2016 — Planning and Optimization of Cellular Heterogeneous NetworksRésumé
Over the past few years there has been an dramatic increase in mobile data tra c demand, a trend that is expected to continue in coming years. Traditional macrocellonly networks are incapable of providing the quality of service that modern subscribers expect from a mobile broadband service. Increasing network densi cation with the deployment of low power base stations has proven to be an e ective solution in this regard. The resulting multi-tier topology is known as heterogeneous networks or HetNets. This new topology brings a series of new and important challenges, since traditional practices applied for macrocell-only networks no … Lire la suite
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2016 — Software Reuse and Its Effect on Software Quality for Real-Time Geometric MeasurementRésumé
The purpose of this thesis is to examine and understand the positive and negative effects of software quality with respect to software reuse during development. This work takes the concept of code reuse and applies it to the development of a complete software package prototype. This prototype will allow the real-time geometric measurement of images during flight mode of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The prototype is based on the AR.Drone SDK navigation example and incorporates software code from a Physical Measurement Calculator. This case study examines and compares the software quality of the software components prior to reuse and … Lire la suite
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2016 — Compassionate Arts as a Spiritual Care Technology for Cancer Patients Interpreting the Lived ExperienceRésumé
Identity is at risk in people facing a life altering illness such as cancer because of challenges to interpersonal relationships, physical functions, lifestyle routines, existential life views, and disempowering healthcare and cultural discourses, all of which may bring social isolation. The purpose of this research study was to understand the lived experience of eight co-researchers, women with breast cancer, ages 28-68, participating in a hospital based art studio program. Previous long-term studio participants with cancer voiced their stories prior to, and outside the context of this research study. The project was inspired by and grounded in respect for multiple realities … Lire la suite
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2016 — Heavy-Tailed Crack Distribution Families and ApplicationsRésumé
The heavy-tailedness and right-skewness are two typical features of loss data resulting from catastrophic natural phenomena such as severe weather events and earthquakes. In this thesis, we consider a new class of heavy-tailed crack distribution families as an extension of the three-parameter Gaussian crack distribution (Volodin and Dzhungurova, 2000) of which the right tail lacks exibility to t heavy-tailed observations. Several key distributional properties of the generalized crack distribution (Leiva et al., 2010, Bae and Volodin, 2014) are discussed with a particular emphasis on the tail behavior. The theoretical tail relationships between the auxiliary distribution and the resulting crack distribution … Lire la suite
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2016 — Development of an Integrated Hydro-Climatic Systems Analysis Framework and its Application to the Athabasca River Basin, CanadaRésumé
Climate change has profound impacts on regional hydrological characteristics in large unregulated continental river basins (LUCRiBs) such as the Athabaasca River Basin (ARB), Canada. A systematic analysis of these impacts is confronted with many challenges. For instance, the performances of general circulation models (GCMs) vary with many factors, e.g. climate variables, geographic locations, temporal scales, and evaluation measures. Mesoscale atmospheric features can barely be provided by coarse-resolution GCMs. Filling this gap by statistical downscaling is further challenged by redundant computations, resulting from spatial climatic similarities, and the complexities of data uncertainties, nonlinear correspondences, normality prerequisites, and multivariate dependencies. Climatic projection … Lire la suite
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2016 — Construction of Asymptotic Confidence Ellipse for Pathogen Parameters of Beta-Poisson Dose-Response ModelRésumé
Beta-Poisson dose-response model is a popular parametric dose response model which is extensively applied in Microbial risk area. The advantage of Beta-Poisson dose-response model is that it is a model which can consider the change in the risk. The change is possibly happened because of human responses diversity, pathogen competence diversity, or the interaction between them. In our project, we divide it by two parts. The rst part is the Theoretical Part. We will nd we cannot use the Method of Moments and Maximum Likelihood Estimation directly to create the Con dence Ellipse for simultaneous estimation of Beta-Poisson dose-response model … Lire la suite
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2016 — Geochemical and paleo-geothermal Studies of the basinal fluids in the Athabasca Basin - Implications for unconformity-related uranium mineralizationRésumé
The Athabasca Basin and its crystalline basement host the largest high-grade unconformity-related uranium deposits in the world. It is generally agreed that the mineralizing fluids were basinal brines of evaporitic seawater origin, which became enriched in U and Ca through fluid-rock interactions. However, it remains controversial whether these metals were extracted from the basin or the basement, and what driving forces were responsible for fluid flows. A good understanding of the composition and temperature of the basinal fluids before they entered the sites of mineralization is important in order to address these problems. Detrailed petrographic, geochemical, fluid-inclusion, and illite geothermometric … Lire la suite
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2016 — Indigenous Professionals' Experiences of Interprofessional Collaboration in Health ContextsRésumé
This qualitative study explores Indigenous experiences of interprofessional collaboration in health settings within Saskatchewan. The study adopts a transformative phenomenological approach, using a critical theory perspective, to generate rich descriptions of the experiences of five Indigenous professionals in multidisciplinary practice. Data was collected through interviews with each participant and a reflective journal and field notes completed by the researcher. Study findings highlight Indigenous ways of knowing; multiple meanings of the term professional; dynamics of power and status; relationships required for collaboration; policy and program factors impacting collaboration; and the suggestions offered by study participants to create a way forward. This … Lire la suite
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2016 — SedleyRésumé
“Sedley” is a collection of original regionalist poetry set in a contemporary Saskatchewan town of the same name. It focuses on the people who reside in the community, the landscape that surrounds it, and the speaker’s interactions with both. The speaker grew up in the town, and has an ambivalent relationship with it: she loves aspects of the place—the Prairies, for instance— but she also wants to leave and seek out new experiences. The community itself is changing. It is evolving from a rural farming community to a commuter town. These are poems that mourn Sedley, and celebrate it. Lire la suite
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2016 — Carbon Dioxide Absorption into Aqueous Ammonia in a Hollow Fiber Membrane ContactorRésumé
Chemical absorption has been considered as a promising technology for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture from different industrial waste gases. However, this technology has not been widely commercialized due to its high capital and operational costs, especially the cost for solvent regeneration. Studies have been focused on developing more efficient gas/liquid contactors or superior solvents that require less energy for regeneration. Aqueous ammonia (NH3) has been recently studied as a CO2 absorption solvent in many traditional gas/liquid contactors due to its lower cost and low energy requirement for solvent regeneration compared to traditional amine solutions. Since membrane contactors offer more advantages … Lire la suite
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2016 — The Therapeutic Benefit of Expressive Writing for Posttraumatic Symptoms: A Ramdomized Controlled Trial of Emotional Moderators and Writing ModalityRésumé
Expressive writing is a therapeutic intervention requiring individuals to write about distressing events and their emotional responses to these experiences (Pennebaker & Beall, 1986). The use of expressive writing has improved behavioural, physiological, and psychological outcomes in many populations, including individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; Baikie & Wilhelm, 2005). Greater self-disclosure on such writing tasks has been associated with higher perceived benefits and helpfulness (Brewin & Lennard, 1999). Researchers have investigated how expressive writing protocols can be utilized online to increase levels of self-disclosure when writing about traumatic experiences and, consequently, improve PTSD symptom outcomes. Researchers have not yet … Lire la suite
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2016 — Modeling, Simulation and Experimental Validation of a New Rigorous Desorber Model for Low Temperature Catalytic Desorption of CO2-Loaded Amine Solvents over Solid Acid CatalystsRésumé
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) have gained tremendous attention amongst policy makers, researchers and engineers in response to the increasing fears for climate change which is caused by increased amounts of greenhouse gases (GHGs) being emitted into the atmosphere. This is in an effort to decarbonize fossil fuels, especially coal, in order to make them environmentally sustainable while allowing these fuels to contribute to the global energy mix. Due to its maturity, post-combustion capture by chemical absorption, has been the technology focus to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from combustion flue gases emanating from fossil fuel-based power plants. In this work, … Lire la suite
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2016 — Development and Effectiveness of a Brief Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Training Group for Bariatric PatientsRésumé
A brief dialectical behaviour therapy skills training (DBT-ST) group for bariatric candidates was developed and evaluated as an adjunctive intervention to bariatric surgery in the pre-surgical period to facilitate improved weight loss and address associated psychopathology. It was anticipated that a brief DBT-ST group would be an innovative adjunctive intervention for this patient population as standard DBT and variations of DBT-ST have been shown to be effective interventions for disorders characterized by emotion dysregulation such as binge eating disorder, a disorder often seen in bariatric populations. Two separate studies were conducted. The purpose of Study One was to adapt DBT-ST … Lire la suite
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2016 — "all alongingly the way": Ontology and Longing in bpNichol's The MartyrologyRésumé
bpNichol’s (1944-1988) long poem, The Martyrology (published between 1972 and, posthumously, 1993), is a work that is comprised of text, illustrations, and musical notations. Its sheer length, both in time of composition and page range, as well as its reach, in its thematic inclusion and incorporated written styles, constitute its demanding and comprehensive form. Critics have neglected to examine the poem as a work preoccupied with the philosophy of ontology—the study of being—through a literary mode of longing. Instead, The Martyrology is treated as a work that is substantiated by history and mythology, as opposed to the ubiquitous theme of … Lire la suite
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2016 — Simplifying D-Separation and M-Separation in Bayesian NetworksRésumé
Many di erent platforms, techniques, and concepts can be employed while modeling and reasoning with Bayesian networks (BNs). A problem domain is modeled initially as a directed acyclic graph (DAG), denoted B, and the strengths of relationships are quanti ed by conditional probability tables (CPTs). Testing whether two sets X and Z of variables are conditionally independent given another set Y of variables is fundamental to BN modeling and inference. There are two well-known methods, called d-separation and m-separation, for this task. The founder of BNs suggested d-separation as a method for testing independen- cies. The crux of the linear … Lire la suite
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2016 — Exploring Therapist Behaviours in Therapist-Assisted Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Mixed Methods AnalysisRésumé
Empirical support for the use of Therapist-Assisted Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TAICBT) for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) has been rapidly growing. Research has generally supported the inclusion of therapeutic guidance in TAICBT; however, the specific role of the internet therapist is yet to be well understood. The current study aimed to enhance understanding of the nature of therapistassistance by examining: 1) therapist behaviours in emails sent to clients treated with TAICBT for GAD and the extent to which these qualitatively overlap with behaviours described in face-to-face therapy; and 2) if therapist behaviours in the current study (using … Lire la suite
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2016 — An Experimental Study of Carbon Dioxide Dissolution into a Light Crude OilRésumé
Carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolution into a heavy oil has been extensively investigated as an effective solvent-based enhanced heavy oil recovery method for several decades. However, fewer attempts have been made to study CO2 dissolution into a light crude oil mainly because of possible occurrence of density-driven natural convection in the CO2- saturated light crude oil phase. The primary objective of this thesis is to experimentally study the phase behaviour of a Bakken light crude oil‒CO2 system and the complex mass-transfer process of CO2 dissolution into the light crude oil. First, a series of PVT tests were conducted to measure CO2 … Lire la suite
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2016 — Geo-Coordinated Parallel Coordinates (GCPC): A Case Study of Environmental Data AnalysisRésumé
The large number of environmental problems faced by society in recent years has driven researchers to collect and study massive amounts of environmental data. Such environmental datasets are often high dimensional and heterogeneous in nature, with complex temporal and geospatial relations. The ability to understand and extract meaningful information from such datasets is an essential step for effective decision making. However, reasoning about the data and discovering knowledge in environmental datasets is a challenging problem due to the complexity of the data. The goal of this research is to investigate techniques to support exploration and analysis of environmental data. Such … Lire la suite
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2016 — "Fighting the Wrong War": Radical Pacifists and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement, 1962-1964Résumé
The Vietnam antiwar movement developed in stages that reflected the escalation of American involvement in South Vietnam. Between 1962 and 1964 radical pacifist leaders responded to this escalation by questioning the legitimacy of an American military presence in South Vietnam, identifying the issues of supporting a troubled national government that allegedly failed to meet its commitments to social justice, and challenging the foundational Cold War policies that defined American involvement in Southeast Asia. Through their collected response, the radical pacifists concluded that America’s military intervention against Communism in South Vietnam could not succeed because of the political, social, and economic … Lire la suite
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2016 — Maintenance Policy Selection Using Fuzzy FMEA and Key Performance IndicatorsRésumé
For decades, maintenance management has been applied in diverse industries to maximize the equipment productivity through maintenance planning, maintenance control, and several improvements regarding to economical features. In maintenance management, Maintenance Policy Selection (MPS) has a key role in determining a proper maintenance strategy based on the real equipment condition. This study is intended to address the concept of Maintenance Policy Selection (MPS) by proposing an approach to improve current maintenance selection methods. Further, an integrated three-step model is introduced for MPS using Fuzzy Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FFMEA) and Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP). In the first step, … Lire la suite
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2016 — The Caregiver Program: How Social Relations of Childcare are Reconfigured to the Detriment of Canadian WomenRésumé
A gendered lens helps highlight the underlying asymmetrical power relations within the economy for marginalized groups. Using a feminist political economy (FPE) approach under a critical realist paradigm, it is argued that the Caregiver Program (CP) reconstructs social relations of childcare, thereby creating gender, race, and class divisions. This reconfiguration is examined in past domestic work immigration and childcare policies to demonstrate escalating neoliberal ideals. The theoretical framework provided by a feminist analysis of social reproduction helps uncover how the CP supports privatization, individualization, familialization, and commoditization. The consequences of these transformations are grave, which includes upholding the gendered division … Lire la suite
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2016 — Collision Free and Energitaclly Optimized Motion Planning of Manipulators in Partially-Known Environment Using Modified D* Life AlgorithmRésumé
Robotics is a relatively young field of studies in modern technology and it has tremendously grown during the past fifty years. Manipulators are categorized as a group of robots designed to accomplish the manipulation tasks without direct contact by a human. Generating an optimized algorithm to transform high-level motion tasks to low-level description that are understandable by the robots, including manipulators, has been one of the most interesting problems in this field. Motion planning in robotics, is referred to the process of breaking down a desired movement task into discrete motions in order to satisfy some specific criteria and optimize … Lire la suite
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2016 — The pollination biology of Haskap (Lonicera caerulea L.: Caprifoliaceae): floral traits and pollinator performance of a new Saskatchewan fruit crop.Résumé
Haskap (Lonicera caerulea L.) is an early flowering fruiting shrub native to northern regions of Europe, Asia and North America. Commercial growth began in Europe and Asia over a century ago, but it has only recently been cultivated in North America. It is self-incompatible, and requires insect pollinators in order to set fruit; however, very little is currently known about its pollination biology, including associated pollinators and important floral characteristics. My research compared the pollinating performance of three groups of bees on Haskap: commercial Apis mellifera and Osmia lignaria, and wild Bombus spp. I found that Bombus queens had the … Lire la suite
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2016 — Pain Communication in Couples with Chronic PainRésumé
Having a partner with chronic pain (CP) can lead to relationship strain. In couples, poor verbal or non-verbal communication about pain is associated with increased disability (Cano, Johansen, & Geisser, 2004), mental health issues (Kiecolt-Glaser & Newton, 2001), and negative emotions in partners (Miaskowski, Zimmer, Barret, Dibble, & Wallhagen, 1997). There is limited research directly examining pain communication in couples as pain is occurring. Existing CP research in couples has mostly been based on retrospection and self-report, and such research has tended to not include both partners. This investigation was designed to extend our understanding of pain communication in couples. … Lire la suite