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THE TRANSCRIPTOMIC PROFILES AND MARINE MIGRATION SUCCESS OF ATLANTIC SALMON SMOLTS (SALMO SALAR) FROM FIVE POPULATIONS IN CANADA
(2021-09-01)
Atlantic salmon smolts frequently experience high mortality during the marine phase of their migration, especially during the initial period after entering the sea. However, the mechanisms underlying marine mortality are ...
EFFECT OF COMBINED SHEAR, BENDING AND LOW AXIAL LOAD ON BEHAVIOR OF CONCRETE BEAMS REINFORCED WITH GLASS FIBER-REINFORCED POLYMER BARS
(2021-04-29)
This research's main objective was to investigate the effect of combined bending and shear behavior of the concrete beams reinforced with glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars subjected to low axial load less than 10% ...
Using Energy Storage to Maximize Wind and Solar Electricity Generators Effectiveness in Dispatchable Generation Replacement
(2021-08-31)
To aid in the replacement of fossil fuel-based electricity generation with renewable generation this thesis uses timestep wind and solar generation data with load data to determine the required storage demands for dispatchable ...
Sowing Utopia: Feminist Community in Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed
(2021-08-31)
The oeuvre of Octavia Butler refutes the notion of a stable, wholly equal utopia. Rather, she demonstrates in book series such as Patternist, Xenogenesis, and Parables that self-interested groups or individuals tend to ...
“The loveliest lies of all”: Death, Closure, and the Banishment Tale in Patrick McHale’s Over the Garden Wall
(2021-08-24)
This thesis is a poststructuralist examination of Patrick McHale’s Over the Garden Wall television miniseries and graphic novels Tome of the Unknown and Distillatoria (termed the “primary canon”) as a postmodern adaptation ...
RÉSISTANCE IDENTITAIRE DANS « BEAU TRAVAIL » DE CLAIRE DENIS : LE CADRE ET LE FANTÔME
(2021-01-07)
Claire Denis is well known for her mysterious films, which often provoke controversy, and for her broad choice of topics, even though her movies more often than not revolve around the same themes (solitude, identity, desire, ...
RALOXIFENE SENSITIZES GLIOBLASTOMA CELLS TO HYPOXIA -INDUCED DEATH THROUGH INHIBITION OF STRESS GRANULE DISSOLUTION
(2021-01-07)
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common primary malignant brain tumour and carries a uniformly poor prognosis. Despite aggressive therapy, median survival is only 14 months. Death typically results from treatment ...
Exposure: A Conceptual Framework for End Users Engagement Through Complexities-Driven Participatory Design for Patient-Facing Systems
(2021-08-23)
We compared two participatory design-based protocols: operational complexities-aware group versus operational complexities-unaware group. We found that when exposed to potential operational complexities, end users provided ...
An Examination of the Association Between Prostate Cancer, Lifestyle Factors and Mental Health Outcomes in a Matched Sample of Men from Atlantic Canada
(2021-07-06)
This cross-sectional study aims to examine the association between the presence or absence of a lifetime history of prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis and current mental health outcomes (anxiety and depression) among men in ...
A COMPARISON OF METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING CONFIDENCE SETS OF PHYLOGENETIC TREES USING MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD
(2021-04-07)
This thesis compares six phylogenetic tests, or equivalently, methods for con- structing confidence sets of phylogenetic trees : the Kishino-Hasegawa (KH) test statistic, Shimodaira–Hasegawa (SH), two versions of the ...