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Lipid class specific production of EPA and DHA in Phytoplankton Dinoflagellate Heterocapsa Triquetra
Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) with a range of health benefits. Phytoplankton are the primary marine producers of EPA and DHA through the process ... -
PERIOPERATIVE PROCESS AND OUTCOME INDICATORS FOR PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA IN A TERTIARY CARE INSTITUTION: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY
Background: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is a deadly disease with variable treatment practices and quality of care between healthcare systems. Processes of care may be used to describe the quality of care provided ... -
THE HURDLES OF MEDIATING WITH HUMANITARIAN LENS: AN EXPLORATION OF THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY AND DEVELOPMENT’S FAILED SOUTH SUDAN 2015 PEACE AGREEMENT
This thesis examines IGAD humanitarian focused mediation in the South Sudanese conflict that blames the warring parties entirely for failing to end the war. It particularly looks at mediation strategies deployed by IGAD ... -
An Elementary Account of Flat 2-Functors
A set-valued functor is “flat” if its tensor product extension is finite-limit preserving. Such a functor is flat if, and only if, its category of elements is filtered. Analogously, a category-valued 2-functor on a 2-category ... -
Ecological Modernization and Canada's Energy Debate: Reconciling Economic, Environmental, and Political Agendas?
Like many modern industrialized nations, Canada is grappling with the need to maintain a stable, growing economy and to take meaningful action on climate change by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This is particularly ... -
ROLE OF CO-OPERATIVES IN FACILITATING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS: AN EXPERIENCE FROM NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require concerted effort throughout societies everywhere. Although co-operatives, as community-embedded local organizations, have been promoted in advancing SDGs, ... -
FUNCTIONAL RETINAL GANGLION CELL ACTIVITY FOLLOWING LIGHT-INDUCED RETINAL DAMAGE IN MICE
The scotopic threshold response (STR) of the electroretinogram (ERG) is thought to measure inner retinal function, specifically retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). However, the degree to which the STR is masked by the larger ... -
Medicine & Power: Authority and British Caribbean Medical Practitioners, 1750-1823
In the late eighteenth-century on British Caribbean Plantations, there were dynamic groups of medical practitioners operating within the same physical space. The plantation healthcare system was made up of white doctors ... -
LE SOURIRE FRANÇAIS DE POE : POE ET SES CONTES HUMORISTIQUES DANS LA PRESSE EN FRANCE – 1875-1899
During the nineteenth century critics and researchers of Edgar Poe, much as they still do today, often focused solely on the tales of ratiocination, horror, and science, particularly through the study of the translations ... -
Investigation of the Effect of Speed Ratio on Workpiece Surface Topography in Cylindrical Plunge Grinding using Grooved and Non-Grooved Grinding Wheels
This work explores the effect of integer and non-integer speed ratios on surface topography in cylindrical plunge grinding with grooved and non-grooved grinding wheels. For this investigation, an extensive experimental ... -
Risky Play: Exploring Perspectives of Parents in Ontario
The aim of this study was to contribute to the understanding of parental attitudes regarding risky play, and to understand how parents negotiate between safety and risk in their child’s play. This project used mixed methods ... -
Study the Effect of Interface Friction on the Behaviour of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Piles under Axial Loads
Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites provide potential alternatives for overcoming interface problems between conventional piling materials (wood, concrete, and steel) and soil. FRP composites are corrosion resistant, ... -
Development of a Technique for Sub-nm Measurements of 1-D Motion and its Application to MEMS
This thesis examines the development and testing of a new algorithm for measuring rectilinear displacements in Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), however the algorithm could easily be applied to other applications. ... -
Diegetic Music and Identity in Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness (1989)
My thesis examines the functions of five diegetic songs, “Along the Songhua River,” “Red Dragonfly,” “Lorelei,” “Wagon Song,” and “Spring Flower,” in Hou Hsiao- hsien’s film, A City of Sadness (1989). This cinematic work ... -
Synthesis and Characterization of Ni-P-W coating on copper substrate
Nickel phosphorus coating is widely used in various industrial applications, due to its excellent corrosion and wear resistance properties. The coating can be further improved by the addition of various elements to form ... -
Grassroots Peacebuilding in Colombia: Layers of Peacebuilding and Their Intersections
This thesis discusses the role of grassroots organizations in peacebuilding at multiple levels of society. It also examines the challenges and potential of elite-level peacebuilding, looking specifically at the case of ... -
INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOUSEHOLD FOOD INSECURITY AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG NOVA SCOTIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
Background: Education is a fundamental determinant of health, and as such, good academic performance of children has instrumental importance for their health. Household food insecurity, given its association with poor ... -
A NOVEL EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CRUDE OIL DEHYDRATION USING MICROWAVE ENERGY UNDER ELECTROSTATIC FIELD
In this study, microwave energy was introduced simultaneously with electrostatic field to investigate the efficiency of the coalescence process in crude oil emulsions as a hybridized technique for oil/water dehydration. ... -
Anglo-Canadian Modernists in Transit[ion]: Collectivity and Identity in Mid-Century Canadian Modernist Travel Writing
In the 1940s, A.M. Klein, Patrick Anderson, P.K. Page, and John Glassco contrib-uted to co-edited periodicals, socialized together to various degrees, and enjoyed healthy debates about what constituted modern poetry, what ... -
SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION OF MICROSCOPIC BLOOD IMAGE DATA USING SELF-TRAINING TO AUGMENT SMALL TRAINING SETS AND ITS APPLICATION FOR COUNTING CELLS
Semantic segmentation is a computer vision task of assigning a label describing the content to each pixel in an image. There has been a lot of progress in this area using deep neural networks with an encoder-decoder ...
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