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Investigating the role of the anaerobic protist Blastocystis in the gut microbiome by metagenomic analysis
(2021-05-05)
Blastocystis are amongst the most prevalent microbial eukaryotes inhabiting the gastrointestinal tracts of mammals. A bioinformatic workflow was developed to detect Blastocystis in gut metagenomic data and applied to 996 ...
Breakfast Timing and Frequency as a Predictor of Incident Coronary Artery Disease in Older Adults:The Cardiovascular Health Study
(2021-08-27)
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a leading cause of disease burden worldwide, particularly in older adults. Previous studies indicate that the timing and frequency of meals, particularly breakfast, may have metabolic ...
Exploring the Utility of Fenton Processes in Wastewater Treatment
(2021-08-20)
Fenton processes have been widely studied in environmental and biological systems. However, their underlying mechanisms are ambiguous. This research attempted to better understand these mechanisms. It was determined that ...
Harmonic Analysis On Affine Groups: Generalized Continuous Wavelet Transforms
(2021-08-18)
The set of all invertible affine transformations of a two dimensional real vector space forms a locally compact group G2 that is isomorphic to the semi-direct product group formed when GL2(R) acts on R2 in the obvious ...
Where to Start? Developing Injury Prevention Priority Scores for Traumatic Injury Resulting in Hospitalization or Death Among Canadians
(2021-09-14)
Background: Given limited resources, it is essential to determine which mechanisms of injury (MOI) should be prioritized for injury prevention. We developed objective, Injury Prevention Priority Scores (IPPS) for the ...
Unravelling the Mechanisms of Exciton Transport in Natural Light Harvesting Systems
(2021-08-30)
Photosynthetic organisms contain light harvesting complexes comprised of pigments that absorb sunlight as electronic excitations. In this work, the transfer of this exci- tation energy in four natural light harvesting ...
Monsters in our Midst? Examining the Construction of Sex Offenders in Canadian Policy and Media
(2021-06-02)
In Canada, like elsewhere, surveillance tools have been increasingly used by the state to keep track of sex offenders. One such tool in Canada is the National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR). Understanding the complexity of ...
Hydrological Restoration of a Drained Peatland
(2021-08-09)
The historical drainage activities in Big Meadow Bog on Brier Island, Nova Scotia have altered the hydrologic regime and physical characteristics of the wetland complex. The high ecological value of BMB, due to populations ...
DESIGN OF FUZZY LOGIC-BASED INTEGRATED ADAPTIVE DECAYED BRAIN EMOTIONAL LEARNING NETWORKS FOR ONLINE TIME SERIES PREDICTION
(2021-07-15)
The emotional neural network (ENN) is a new field in artificial intelligence systems (AISs). Although ENN was proven in control applications and successfully solved several control problems, it still suffers severe technical ...
Women and Children First: Intimate Partner Violence, Children's Well-Being & Child Labour in Ecuador
(2021-07-12)
This dissertation examines the relationship between women’s ownership of economic resources, beliefs, values and childhood experiences of violence and intimate partner violence, the relationship between household chores ...