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Using TDA to Partially Replace Coarse Aggregates in Concrete Mixtures

El Naggar, Abdelmoneim; Sadeghian, Pedram; El Naggar, Hany (Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), 2019-06-12)

Applications utilizing rubberized concrete have grown substantially in the last decade as an answer for the scrape tires stockpiling problems and its associated environmental issues. Though rubberized concrete mixtures ...

Using the Dalhousie University Archives

Barrett, Creighton (2015-09-24)

Item is a presentation on using the Dalhousie University Archives given to Dr. Jerry Bannister's ASSC 1200 / HIST 1900 students on September 24, 2015. The presentation introduces the Dalhousie Libraries and the University ...

USING THE DYNAMIC GAS DISENGAGEMENT TECHNIQUE TO CHARACTERIZE GAS/LIQUID CONTACTING IN MICROBUBBLE-AERATED COLUMNS

Leng, Rong (2021-12-14)

Gas-liquid contacting plays a significant role in the chemical, petrochemical, mineral processing, and biochemical industries, where it is encountered in a wide range of operations. Generally, high volumetric mass transfer ...

Using The Nitrification Inhibitor 3, 5-dimethylpyrazole To Determine Net Nitrogen Mineralization and Denitrification Rates Simultaneously At Varying Water Contents

Spence, Jennifer (2017-03-31)

An investigation of the use of a nitrification inhibitor (NI) to simultaneously measure the rates of net nitrogen (N) mineralization, as an accumulation of ammonium (NH4+), and denitrification, as a loss of nitrate (NO3-) ...

Using the Sustainable Livelihood Approach to inform the development of a multispecies fishery management plan

Gauthier, Alanna M (2011-10-18)

The Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation would like to develop a livelihood fishery to sustain a moderate livelihood. The Sustainable Livelihood Framework guided the identification of challenges and opportunities that the Paqtnkek ...

USING THE ZEBRAFISH MODEL TO DETERMINE THE ROLE OF THE HACE1 TUMOUR SUPPRESSOR IN NORMAL DEVELOPMENT AND TUMOURIGENESIS

McDonald, Lindsay (2011-12-19)

HACE1 is a tumour suppressor gene located at human chromosome 6q21. HACE1 is downregulated in Wilms’ tumour as well as several other human cancers. Its role in normal development remains unknown. The zebrafish has established ...

Using the Zebrafish to Investigate the Role of the NUP98-NSD1 Oncogene and Loss of NUP98 in High-Risk Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Filiaggi, Corey (2018-09-28)

Many genetic mutations lead to acute myeloid leukemia (AML), including the translocation NUP98-NSD1 (NND1), which is found primarily in pediatric AML and causes high-risk disease. There is currently no animal model of the ...

Using the δ18O-Salinity Relationship to Identify Freshwater Inputs to a North Atlantic Estuary

Kerrigan, Elizabeth (2015-05-01)

The δ18O-Salinity relationship allows us to define distinct end members in Bedford Basin, a system supplied by the North Atlantic Ocean. An isotopic analysis was performed on water in and around Bedford Basin to resolve ...

USING TIME SERIES AND MULTIVARIATE TECHNIQUES TO ANALYZE CHANGES IN THE OCEAN NITROGEN CYCLE THROUGHOUT HISTORY

Fay, David (2014-08-25)

Nitrogen is a limiting resource in marine ecosystems that directly impacts the productivity of marine life. Values of δ15N extracted from down core sediments are used as a proxy measure of nitrogen in past marine ...

USING TOUCH GESTURES TO RECORD AND RECOGNIZE EMOTIONS

BinHannan, Nabil (2017-04-05)

In this thesis, we explore how people use touchscreens to express emotional intensity, and whether these intensities can be understood by oneself later or by others. We conducted a four-week participatory-design activity ...

Using Visual Analytics and Interpretability Strategies to Understand the Impact of Input Variables on Indexes derived from Municipality (Urban) Data Sets

Dhakshinamoorthy, Balaji (2020-04-29)

Composite indices have been widely used in several domains as a measure to describe abstract concepts through the combination of variables. The current approaches for index creation and analysis do not have a comprehensive ...

Using Vocal Behaviour to Reform the Conservation of Canada Warblers (Wilsonia canadensis)

Cummings, Gregory (2011-03)

The Canada Warbler (Wilsonia canadensis) is a declining neotropical migratory songbird that breeds in Canada and the USA and winters in South America. Between 1968 and 2007, its abundance declined an estimated 4.5% per ...

Using yeast genetics to understand the roles of phosphatidylcholine synthesis in the regulation of cell growth and death.

Howe, Alicia G. (Dalhousie University, 2005)

Using Zebrafish Xenotransplantation To Study Ewing's Sarcoma And Investigate The Role Of Y-Box Binding Protein 1 In Metastasis

Veinotte, Chansey (2015-05-05)

The most unfavourable prognostic factor for Ewing’s sarcoma (ES) is the presence of metastases. To date, a viable cancer model for ES metastasis has not been developed. Models for ES are crucial to uncovering the key ...

Usnic acid and copper toxicity in aposymbiotically grown lichen photobiont Trebouxia erici

Bud'ova, J.; Backor, M.; Backorova, M.; Zidzik, J. (Balaban Publishers, 2006)

Utilising Bioportal to map terms in the Canada Vigilance Adverse Reaction Online Database to various terminologies and to identify the ideal terminology to supplement MedDRA to aid in Pharmacovigilance activities.

Thandavan, Rahul (2017-08-18)

The Canada Vigilance Program is Health Canada’s post marketing surveillance program that collects and analyzes data related to the adverse events of health products that are marketed in Canada. Health Canada periodically ...