identifier: Archibald, J. (2013). Bridging Implementation Gaps: Building Complete Communities Around Light Rail Stations in Calgary (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25163

publisher:
Environmental Design
Graduate Studies
University of Calgary
Calgary

subject:
Urban and Regional Planning
Transit Oriented Development
Station Area Communities
Complete Communities
Urban Planning
Community Planning Process
Implementation
Community Evaluation
Smart Growth

abstract: This study examines challenges associated with the implementation of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Station Area Communities (SAC) in Calgary, Canada. It defines the Community Planning Process (CPP) as a cycle with five stages: Vision, Plans, Implementation, Evaluation and Feedback where the communication of Evaluation outcomes (Feedback) loops back to inform the next cycle and improve future physical and functional outcomes. The research takes a two-pronged approach: (1) SWOT Analysis of Calgary’s municipal practice within the CPP with respect to TOD which includes a review of the literature, a review of Calgary’s city-level TOD policy and interviews with key informants to assess implementation gaps; and (2) Development and implementation of a TOD Community Evaluation Framework (CEF) which is informed by a review of the literature, a review of Calgary’s local-level TOD policy and participant observation in order to determine the level of success of TOD SACs. The CEF defines five evaluation categories: Intensity, Key Elements, Pedestrian Focus, Mix of Uses and Place and was used to analyze three Calgary SACs: Bridgeland, Sunnyside and Westbrook. Within Calgary’s municipal practice, it was found that community evaluation and feedback are often overlooked altogether. At the local level, Intensity, Mix of Uses and Place categories score consistently lower across the case study communities. It is recommended that the City implement a community evaluation system that provides feedback to decision makers within the CPP and that implementation efforts focus on attracting residents and jobs while encouraging mixed use projects and place-making efforts.


identifier: McCoy, W. F. (1982). Fouling biofilm development in a tubular flow system (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14407

publisher:
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
xvi, 237 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

rights: University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.

subject:
TP 363 M18 1982
Heat exchangers - Fouling
Fouling organisms
Fouling
Surfaces (Technology)

abstract: Bibliography: p. 97-107.

abstract:
Fouling biofilm development in a completely mixed tubular recycle reactor was studied. The geometry, materials and operation of the recycle circuit were designed to simulate conditions in industrial heat exchangers. The sampling system allowed direct (brightfield, epifluorescence, scanning electron and transmission electron photomicroscopy) and indirect (increased fluid frictional resistance, organic carbon, polysaccharide, adenosine triphosphate and deoxyribonucleic acid) observations of biofilms.
Mixed culture biofilms were developed at two different fluid velocities. Biofilm accumulation on corrosion- resistant materials progressed in a sigmoidal fashion; biofilm accumulation on a corrosion susceptible metal was linear with time. Biofilms initially consisted of a monolayer of bacillary bacteria. Filamentous bacterial cells were invariably present in more fully developed biofilms. Fouling (increased fluid frictional resistance) always began after filamentous bacteria became a permanent part of the biofilm. Biofilms developed during low velocity runs were less dense (and had filamentous cells sooner) than biofilms developed during high velocity runs. Fouling biofilms were dynamic filamentous matrixes. Changes in the fluid frictional resistance were explained in terms of the appearance of the filamentous biofilm matrix.
A technique is described that was effective in biofilm removal. The process is a practical approach to the problem of biofilm control in tubular heat exchanger systems. Rapid external cool-down of the metal tubular flow biofilm sampler (Robbins device) resulted in significant reductions in biofouling.
Pure culture Pseudomonas sp. biofilm development was studied. Filamentous growth of sessile Pseudomonas sp. occurred. In liquid culture media, however, the organism grows as short bacillary rods. Accumulation of biomass by filamentous (but not bacillary) Pseudomonas sp. biofilms resulted in increased fluid frictional resistance. The biomass accumulation rate of filamentous biofilms was almost three times greater than the biomass accumulation rate of bacillary biofilms.
The growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was characterized in nutrient broth batch cultures. Filamentous growth of P. aeruginosa strain MUCOID occurred because of a rapid shift-down in the log exponential growth rate.
Pure culture Sphaerotilus natans biofilm development was studied. The filamentous growth of the organism caused fouling. The increase in fluid frictional resistance was directly proportional to the increase in adherent biomass. The growth of the biofilm was a linear function with time.


identifier: Jayasinghe, P. (2009). Analysis of energy utilization by an urban center: application to the city of Calgary (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2751

format:
xiv, 144 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 133-139


identifier: Huang, X. (2017). Emission Measurement of Air Pollutants from CNG-gasoline Bi-fuel Vehicles (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25877

publisher:
Graduate Studies
University of Calgary
Calgary

contributor:
Du, Ke
Cheng, Frank
Xue, Deyi
Siegler, Hector

subject:
Engineering--Environmental
motor vehicle emission
CNG
bi-fuel vehicles

abstract: The estimation of emission factors (EFs) is the basis of accurate emission inventory. However, the EFs of air pollutants for motor vehicles vary under different operating conditions, which will cause uncertainty in developing emission inventory. Natural gas (NG), considered as a “cleaner” fuel than gasoline, is increasingly being used to reduce combustion emissions, but the information is scarce about how much emission reduction can be achieved for motor vehicles burning NG (NGVs) under real road driving conditions, which is necessary for evaluating the environmental benefits for NGVs. In this thesis, on-board measurements of the emissions from nine bi-fuel vehicles were conducted under different operating conditions on the real road. A comparative study was performed for the EFs of carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) for each operating condition when the vehicles using gasoline or compressed NG (CNG) as fuel.


identifier: Wierzbicki, T. (2004). Gene expression and leukocyte recruitment in IL-4- and IL-13-stimulated HUVEC (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/13541

format:
xix, 119 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 96-119


identifier: Whittaker, Brittney. (2017). What is best for Canada?: An Analysis of the Regulation of E-commerce through Multilateral Trade Agreements, (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

title: What is best for Canada? An Analysis of the Regulation of E-commerce through Multilateral Trade Agreements

publisher:
Graduate Studies
The School of Public Policy
University of Calgary

abstract: The use of the internet has grown drastically worldwide since the late 1990s. Increasingly the internet is being used to engage in electronic commerce (e-commerce), especially trade across borders. As this is a relatively new policy area with such a huge emergence, governments globally are attempting to regulate it while taking different approaches. However, it is becoming more clear that there needs to be some level of international coordination to ensure that the ecommerce market remains The use of the internet has grown drastically worldwide since the late 1990s. Increasingly the internet is being used to engage in electronic commerce (e-commerce), especially trade across borders. As this is a relatively new policy area with such a huge emergence, governments globally are attempting to regulate it while taking different approaches. However, it is becoming more clear that there needs to be some level of international coordination to ensure that the ecommerce market remains open and can grow without barriers. Currently Canada has numerous e-commerce policies and regulations that are out of date and not reflective of the modern crossborder nature of e-commerce. Additionally, Canada is not taking advantage of trade agreements to address e-commerce issues faced by Canadian consumers and businesses. As Canada begins NAFTA re-negotiations now is an important time to determine what provisions should be included in future trade deals, as well as create strong domestic policies. Based on the qualitative analysis completed in this capstone there is a three pronged approach that should be adopted by Canadian policymakers. Firstly, Canadian domestic trade policy should be updated, using the policies from the European Union and the United States as references, to better reflect the current e-commerce trade environment. These updated policies should subsequently be reflected in trade agreements. Secondly, multilateral trade agreements should be utilized to better promote Canadian e-commerce priorities, specifically consumer protection and security. Finally, within trade agreements Canada should call for more commitment and adherence to already existing framework from international bodies. Multilateral trade agreements provide the ideal platform to address global e-commerce issues, and Canada is well positioned to be at the forefront of these discussions. open and can grow without barriers. Currently Canada has numerous e-commerce policies and regulations that are out of date and not reflective of the modern crossborder nature of e-commerce. Additionally, Canada is not taking advantage of trade agreements to address e-commerce issues faced by Canadian consumers and businesses. As Canada begins NAFTA re-negotiations now is an important time to determine what provisions should be included in future trade deals, as well as create strong domestic policies. Based on the qualitative analysis completed in this capstone there is a three pronged approach that should be adopted by Canadian policymakers. Firstly, Canadian domestic trade policy should be updated, using the policies from the European Union and the United States as references, to better reflect the current e-commerce trade environment. These updated policies should subsequently be reflected in trade agreements. Secondly, multilateral trade agreements should be utilized to better promote Canadian e-commerce priorities, specifically consumer protection and security. Finally, within trade agreements Canada should call for more commitment and adherence to already existing framework from international bodies. Multilateral trade agreements provide the ideal platform to address global e-commerce issues, and Canada is well positioned to be at the forefront of these discussions.


identifier: Hutton, S. G. (1966). Behaviour in flexure of concrete beams containing tensioned and non-tensioned reinforcement (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/11785

publisher:
Engineering
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
xiv, 176 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
TA 683.5 B3 H86 1966 Microfilm
Concrete beams
Reinforced concrete construction

abstract: Bibliography: p. 134-135.


identifier: Schmidt, A. R. (1970). Homolysis versus heterolysis in the decomposition of Chromium (III) complexes (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/15951

format:
86 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
QD 181 C7 S34 1969
Chromium

abstract: Bibliography: p. 82-82.


identifier: Yim, C. (2019). Organic Sulfur-Bearing Species as Subsurface Carbon Storage Vectors (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

publisher:
Science
University of Calgary

contributor:
Larter, S. R.
Huang, Haiping
Snowden, L. R.
Tutolo, Benjamin M.

subject:
Carbon Capture and Storage
Negative Emissions
Negative Emissions Technology
Carbon Sequestration
Organic Geochemistry
Decarbonization
Education--Sciences
Biogeochemistry
Geochemistry
Geology

abstract: To tackle climate change issues, this study investigates whether residual biomass can be converted to a suitable form for permanent subsurface sequestration. Natural sulfurization processes in sedimentary organic matter are investigated as mechanisms to generate biologically refractory water-soluble organic molecules. Such molecular vectors could be sequestered in shallow, saline, contaminated aquifers through solubility trapping. Sulfur-rich oils were analyzed with gas chromatography mass spectrometry and Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry to reveal molecular compositions of complex organosulfur compounds in such oils. Sulfurized compounds including C20-28, C35 and C40 species were detected with double bond equivalent values suggesting the occurrence of sulfurized lipids. Laboratory sulfurization experiments on lipids yielded products with up to 7 sulfur atoms, which suggests labile biomolecules can be altered to biologically refractory molecules. Biodegradation resistance and water solubility estimates of various model compounds show sulfinyl functional groups improves water solubility and biodegradation resistance of molecules.


identifier: Webber, J. C. (1969). Quantum statistical properties of light (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/15491

title: Quantum statistical properties of light

format:
v, 102 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
QC 476.2 W45 1968 Microfilm
Quantum optics

abstract: Bibliography: p. 100-102.


identifier: Ruminski, J. (2013). Southern Pride and Yankee Presence: The Limits of Confederate Loyalty in Civil War Mississippi, 1860-1865 (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27836

publisher:
Arts
Graduate Studies
University of Calgary
Calgary

subject:
History--Modern
History--Modern
History--Modern
History--United States
Mississippi
South
Civil War
Loyalty
Nationalism
Desertion
Contraband

abstract: This study uses Mississippi from 1860 to 1865 as a case-study of Confederate nationalism. It employs interdisciplinary literature on the concept of loyalty to explore how multiple allegiances influenced people during the Civil War. Historians have generally viewed Confederate nationalism as weak or strong, with white southerners either united or divided in their desire for Confederate independence. This study breaks this impasse by viewing Mississippians through the lens of different, co-existing loyalties that in specific circumstances indicated neither popular support for nor rejection of the Confederacy. It focuses on wartime activities like swearing the Federal oath, illicit trade with the Union army, and Confederate desertion to show how Mississippians acted on co-existent loyalty layers to self, family, and friend-networks that were distinct from national allegiances. Although the Confederate government espoused an all-consuming nationalism, the evidence presented in this study demonstrates the limited control that the Confederacy, the Union, and, by implication, most modern nation states, exerted over their subjects. This study also explores the relationship between race and loyalty. It demonstrates how an internal war between slaveholders, who expected slaves to only express servile loyalty to their masters, and slaves, who resisted white authority by acting on loyalties to self, family, neighborhood, and nation, revealed a struggle over the racial hierarchy that demonstrated continuity between the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras.


identifier: Cervatiuc, A. (1999). El punto de vista en las adaptaciones filmicas de don quijote (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/11798

format:
vii ; 109 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: PQ6353 .C437 1999

subject: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.

subject: Spanish literature--video and film adaptations.

subject: Motion pictures and literature

subject: Film adaptations--history and criticism

subject: Point of view (Literature)

abstract: Bibliography: p. 104-109


identifier: Marchetto, S. (2001). Tune in, turn on, go punk: American punk counterculture, 1968-1985 (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/15837

format:
vii, 144 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: AC1 .T484 2001 M373

abstract: Bibliography: p. 124-133.


identifier: Pasolli, K. (2012). Clarifying the complexity: rethinking studies of variation in child care policy (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4720

contributor:
Young, Lisa
Franceschet, Susan

format:
vii, 112 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 106-112

abstract: Includes copy of ethics approval.  Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.

abstract: This thesis argues that existing accounts of variation in child care policy fail to systematically address, define, and measure the ways in which child care policy arrangements vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Comparative studies of child care policy rely on broad or general descriptions of variation in child care policy that fail to provide a systematic comparative framework for understanding the extent, nature, and complexity of this variation. Drawing on comparative data measuring child care in the Canadian provinces, and a qualitative case study of child care policy in Alberta, I argue that child care policy arrangements display many inconsistencies and conflicting ideas that cannot be easily described and classified. This finding has important implications for the methods and theories used to describe and understand variation in child care policy.


identifier: Hall, J. (2022). Disdyakis Triacontahedron Discrete Global Grid System (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

contributor:
Samavati, Faramarz
Runions, Adam
Stefanakis, Emmanuel

subject: Computer Science

abstract:
The amount of information collected about the Earth has become extremely large. With this information comes the demand for integration, processing, visualization and distribution of this data so that it can be leveraged to solve real‑world problems. To address this issue, a carefully designed information structure is needed to store all of the information about the Earth in a convenient format such that one can easily use it to solve a wide variety of problems. In this thesis, we explore the idea of creating a Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) using a Disdyakis Triacontahedron (DT) as the initial polyhedron. We have adapted a simple, closed‑form, equal‑area projection to reduce distortion and speed up queries. We have also derived an efficient, closed‑form inverse for this projection that can be used in important DGGS queries. The resulting construction is indexed using an atlas of connectivity maps. Using some simple modular arithmetic, we can then address point to cell, neighborhood and hierarchical queries on the grid, allowing for these queries to be performed in constant time. We have evaluated the angular distortion created by our DGGS by comparing it to a traditional
icosahedron DGGS using a similar projection. We demonstrate that our grid reduces angular distortion while allowing for real‑time rendering of data across the globe.


identifier: Irwin, H. T. (2004). An exploration of attachment and phonological processing (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14590

format:
ix, 129 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 86-98

abstract: Some pages are in colour.

abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between attachment security and phonological processing skills of young children. The Attachment Doll Play tool was the projective instrument used to assess the internal working models and attachment security of 48 five- and six- year-olds. Based on story narratives, children were classified as either secure (confident), avoidant (casual), ambivalent (busy), or disorganized (frightened). Attachment classifications were compared to levels of phonological processing using the Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (C-TOPP). The main findings indicated that: 1) the classification distribution replicated previous attachment classification research, with the exception of the original Attachment Doll Play study (Solomon, George, & de Jong, 1995), 2) inter-rater reliability of this study was better than the original Attachment Doll Play study, and 3) there was a statistically significant difference between lower phonological processing scores and children classified as insecurely attached (F(2,41) = 4.4, .Q = .02]. In sum, results from this study suggest that attachment plays an important role in the development of phonological processing skills in young children and the Attachment Doll Play is a promising tool for assessing the internal working models of young children.


identifier: Oldfield, M. A. (1990). The electronic cottage - boon or bane for women?: mothers of small children doing clerical work at home and the implications of their experience for public policy (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/443

publisher:
Environmental Design
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
vi, 140 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 126-140.


identifier: Tayal, M. J. (1975). The Abyssinian expedition, 1867-1868 (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/17747

title: The Abyssinian expedition, 1867-1868

format:
<173> leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: DT 386.3 T38 1975 Microfiche

subject: Abyssinian Expedition, 1867-1868

subject: Great Britain - Foreign relations - France

subject: France - Foreign relations - Great Britain

abstract: Bibliography: p. 166-172.


identifier: Williamson, W. J. (2015). The Case of the Disappearing/Appearing Slow Learner:An Interpretive Mystery (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28022

subject:
Education--Special
slow learner
Hermeneutics
hard-boiled mystery
Disability Studies
Gadamer
Heidegger
Foucault
Derrida
Inclusion
Alberta
learning disability

abstract: This thesis explored the topic of the categorization of and programming for students named, through intellectual assessment and/or documented school failure, as “slow learners”. Written as a fictionalized hard-boiled detective story instead of adopting a more traditional thesis format, the thesis drew on the author’s experiential data, primary sources, and interviews with students, teachers, administrators, and curriculum leaders and the interpretive lenses of disability studies, including disability history, and hermeneutics. It explored assumptions contained in the slow learner label and the resourcing and accommodation practices, and their lack, that flow from this and other educational labels. Emergent themes included the harmful consequences of sorting individuals by measured intelligence scores, and the notion that the complexity of human learning for any student is greater than the slow learner label, or any educational label can contain. Paradoxically, even as these themes emerged, the actual teaching practices in many programs for slow learners, in their concreteness, in their freedom from constraints such as standardized testing, and in their use of inquiry methods, were reported as beneficial to these students and potentially to other students as well. When similar methods were used in non-segregated classrooms that included students named as slow learners, most students were reported to be engaged and successful. In this vein, broader educational reform measures that might be potentially helpful in helping make schools more inclusive for the students currently labelled slow learners were also examined. This thesis recommended the use of inclusive approaches in classrooms at the site-based level as well as continued scrutiny and reform of the institutional barriers at the school, district, and provincial levels that contribute to the production of slow learners.


identifier: Willms, K. (2008). Endangered borders: environmental activism in three works of Canadian creative non-fiction (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/1802

format:
vi, 108 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 104-108


identifier: Heitman, S. J. (2012). Economic Evaluation of Colorectal Cancer Screening for Average Risk Individuals (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/18635

publisher:
Graduate Studies
Medicine
University of Calgary
Calgary


identifier: Scaia, M. (2003). Understanding the experience of adolescent motherhood, 1939-2001 (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/22452

publisher:
Nursing
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
viii, 137 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 119-130


identifier: Mitsch, M. J. (1995). Organisation and regulation of the fixG operon of Rhizobium leguminosarum (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12714

format:
x, 120 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
QR 82 R45 M58 1995
Rhizobium leguminosarum

abstract: Bibliography: p. 85-97.


identifier: McAvoy, E. (2009). The role of CD14 in lipopolysaccharide induced leukocyte recruitment (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2736

format:
xiv, 147 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 128-147
Some pages are in colour


identifier: Droucker, D. (2013). Behaviour and Language Development in Infants at Risk for ASD: The Role of Early Attention Preferences and Early Language Development (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25103

contributor:
Curtin, Suzanne
Schwartz, Kelly

subject:
Education--Early Childhood
Psychology--Clinical
Psychology--Developmental
Infant development
Autism
Langauge

abstract: The diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) cluster around communicative, linguistic, and social deficits (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994).  Identification of impairments associated with ASD relies on children’s explicit behaviours, which only emerge reliably after the first year of life (De Giacomo & Fombonne, 1998).  Thus, data on earlier social attention, language development, and ASD behaviours in children with ASD are limited.  In this dissertation, I examine how early perceptual biases and ASD-like behaviours relate to language skills in a high-risk cohort of infant siblings of children with ASD (SIBS-A) and a low-risk cohort of infants siblings of typically developing children (SIBS-TD).  Chapter 2 investigates whether biases to infant-directed (ID) speech and faces differ between SIBS-A and infant siblings of typically developing children (SIBS-TD), and to what extent early differences may be predictive of language skills and risk group membership.  In this study, we found that both infant groups preferred ID to adult-directed (AD) speech and preferred faces to checkerboards; however, the magnitude of the preference was smaller in SIBS-A.  SIBS-TD demonstrated higher expressive vocabulary than SIBS-A at 18 months.  Vocabulary size correlated with early speech preferences, suggesting that a preference for ID speech early in development may facilitate later expressive language.  Finally, infants’ preference for faces contributed to determining group membership.  Chapter 3 explores vocabulary development and ASD-related behaviours, and whether these skills are associated with one another and differ between high-risk and typically developing infants.  Results from this study demonstrated that SIBS-A exhibited lower expressive vocabulary at 12 and 18 months as compared with SIBS-TD.  SIBS-A additionally demonstrated significantly more ASD-like behaviours that were also more severe in nature at 18 months.  Moreover, expressive and receptive vocabularies were significantly correlated with ASD behaviours.  The findings of these studies suggest that infants at heightened risk of ASD differ from SIBS-TD in their preferences for ID speech and faces, as well as vocabulary skills and ASD behaviours early in childhood.  These early linguistic and behavioural differences may underlie deficits in later language development and social communication and have important implications for research examining early detection measures for ASD.


identifier: Grumbach, R. (2007). A legal strategy to revise the approved South Saskatchewan River Basin management plan (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/1135

format:
xi, 111 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: No bibliography.

abstract: The Approved South Saskatchewan River Basin Management Plan (SSRBMP) is a multiphased example of a regional watershed plan recommended by Alberta's Water for Life Strategy. The purpose of this water management plan is to resolve water management issues. There are several challenges for implementation of this plan, including: (1) almost full allocation of the water supply in the Bow and Oldman rivers without commitments to instream flow needs, (2) limited available scientific information for making predictions on the adverse impacts from incremental withdrawal and the benefits of incremental flow restoration, and (3) demand for water is expected to exceed the supply of water when existing licenses, a commitment to protect the aquatic environment, and future growth are factored together. There are tools within the Water Act and the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act to implement the goal ofreliable quality water supplies and aquatic ecosystem protection. The precautionary principle may be used to aid in the interpretation of statutory provisions in favour of environmental protection.


identifier: Kroeker, W. I. (1986). Integrated environmental support for silicon compilation of digital filters (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12697

format:
x, 98 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: TK 7874 K74 1986

subject: Integrated circuits - Very large scale integration

subject: Domain structure

subject: Digital filters (Mathematics)

abstract: Bibliography: p. 87-94


identifier: Swan, J. L. (2019). The technical hypothesis of motivational interviewing: An examination of change language in traditional and computer-based MI for disordered gamblers (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

title: The Technical Hypothesis of Motivational Interviewing: An Examination of Change Language in Traditional and Computer-based MI for Disordered Gamblers

publisher:
Arts
University of Calgary

contributor:
Hodgins, David Carson
McGrath, Daniel S.
Currie, Shawn R.
Mudry, Tanya E.
Goldstein, Abby L.

subject: Gambling disorder, gambling, addiction, motivational interviewing, brief interventions, longitudinal, repeated measures

subject: Psychology--Clinical

abstract: Background: Motivational interviewing (MI) has shown promise as a brief treatment for disordered gamblers. The technical hypothesis of MI purports that MI-consistent therapist behaviours result in greater change language on the part of the client, which in turn leads to a more favourable outcome. The present research builds on existing literature examining client change language as the mechanism by which MI promotes behaviour change among disordered gamblers in telephone MIs (Study 1), a web-based MI program (Study 2), and in a controlled, computerized task (Study 3). Method: Transcription and coding of 50 brief MIs with disordered gamblers and path analyses was used to examine the links between therapist and client behaviours and outcome (Study 1). Multiple regression was used to examine 45 transcripts from the web-based program (Study 2). Linear mixed models were used to examine the effect of a brief, controlled, MI-consistent task on 335 participants’ self-reported importance and confidence of gambling-related behaviour change. Results: Results broadly supported previous findings that therapist MI-consistent behaviours were significantly associated with higher rates of both sustain and change language. Commitment language did not significantly predict outcome; however, the relationship between outcome and the proportion of change to sustain language approached significance. For the web-based program, only the negative relationship between participants’ sustain language and outcome approached significance. The controlled task in Study 3 did not significantly affect participant outcome; all conditions reported changes in importance, confidence, and gambling behaviour. Conclusions: Implications for treatment of disordered gambling, web-based treatments, and future research in MI are discussed.


identifier: Iliadis, A. (1983). Time domain analysis of a current source inverter supplying an induction motor (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/16336

format:
xv, 216 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
TK 2785 I44 1986
Electric motors, Induction
Electric machinery, Induction
Electric inverters

abstract: Bibliography: p. 214-216.


identifier: Diskin, K. M. (2006). Effects of a single session motivational intervention on problem gambling behaviour (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/304

format:
x, 166 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 85-90


identifier: Latremouille, J. (2014). Feasting on Whispers: Life Writing Towards a Pedagogy of Kinship (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26169

contributor:
Jardine, David
Seidel, Jackie

subject:
Education--Curriculum and Instruction
Education--Philosophy of
Life Writing
Ecopedagogy
Storytelling
Hermeneutics
Kinship
Metaphor
Education

abstract: This work of life writing seeks to question the overpowering myths of progress, competition and domination that continue to story the educational landscape. In exploring the possibilities of metaphor as a possible response to these dominant myths, this collection of narrative and poetic pieces dwells within the relational truths of metaphor and poetic language that are often hidden in the dominant expository language of academia.  In the context of Heidegger’s (1977) notion of “language [as] the house of Being” (p. 217), the principles of hermeneutics, Indigenous knowledges and ecological pedagogy come together to explore some of the possibilities for metaphorical modes of Being. This work delves into the ways in which the work of life writing might break down the language of isolation and invite teachers and students into scholarly conversations of kinship —with our cultural and educational traditions, our histories, our topics of study, the more-than-human world, and each other.


identifier: Mahana, P. N. (1987). Simulation of hydraulic network dynamics on parallel computers (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/19986

format:
xv, 263 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: QA 76.6 M34 1987

subject: Parallel processing (Electronic computers)

subject: Microprocessors - Programming

abstract: Bibliography: p. 257-263.


identifier: Mehina, N. (2021). The influence of non-inhibitory concentrations of purified pyocin S2 on Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

contributor:
Storey, Douglas
Storey, Douglas
DeVinney, Rebekah
Parkins, Michael
Harrison, Joe

subject:
Science
Microbiology
Molecular
Bacteria
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Virulence
Bacteriocin
Subinhibitory
Interstrain interactions
Pyocin
Pyocin S2
Resistance
Education--Sciences
Microbiology
Biology--Molecular

abstract: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen whose impacts are primarily in clinical settings. It is possible for multiple P. aeruginosa strains to be involved in an infection and each strain can diverge into many morphotypes. Intraspecies interactions between strains and morphotypes leads to a complex environment involving both beneficial and antagonistic interactions. S-type pyocins are bacteriocin proteins produced by P. aeruginosa that can inhibit closely related strains. Previously, we observed a P. aeruginosa isolate using S-type pyocins to decrease the virulence of other isolates in a Drosophila melanogaster model. We have reason to believe that this decrease in virulence may not only be because of the direct inhibition of the target isolates but additionally from a reduction in their virulence factor production. As a result, we hypothesized that P. aeruginosa isolates use S- pyocins to influence the overall virulence of microbial communities by decreasing the virulence factor production of target bacteria. In the current study, we purified a DNase S-type pyocin, S2, and used a variety of virulence assays to show that subinhibitory concentrations of this pyocin alter the virulence factor production of target P. aeruginosa isolates. In doing so, we also demonstrated that the effects of S2 on virulence factor production can vary for different strains. We further explored the interactions between S2 and target bacteria by demonstrating how one isolate was able to gain resistance towards S2. Using genetic sequencing, we identified mutations that treatment with S2 is selecting for which may account for this resistance and explored how these changes may explain the altered virulence factor production displayed by this isolate. From the results of this work, we shed new light upon the reactions of surrounding strains to S2 production and proposed a potential novel mechanism of resistance against this pyocin.


identifier: Galarneau, J. (2014). French-Immersion and Mathematical Achievement: A Comparative Study (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26225

subject:
Education--Bilingual and Multicultural
Education--Mathematics
Mathematics
Achievement
french-immersion

abstract: This study investigates the perception that French immersion students perform differently from students from the regular non-immersion programme.  More specifically, this study investigates this idea using mathematics as a means to compare the two groups (French immersion and non-immersion).  It also investigates the possible differences between students from either programmes in characteristics ranging from socioeconomic backgrounds to participation rates in organized sports and extra-curricular activities.  The purpose of this study is to understand what could possibly be behind the previous claims that French immersion students perform better than non-immersion students in an academic setting.  The study sheds light on the potential differences and demonstrates the idea that no single factor can explain the phenomenon of academic achievement and of differences.  Although the findings were inconclusive as to whether or not French immersion students perform at a higher level than their non-immersion counterparts in mathematics, the findings still help us understand student patterns and some of the factors associated with both French immersion and academic achievement in mathematics and in general.


identifier: Kenny, B. G. (2005). Strategic responses to sustainable development in the Canadian oil and gas industry (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2449

format:
xvi, 345 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
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abstract: Bibliography: p. 289-306

abstract: The purpose of this research is to explore the social and environmental forces affecting oil and gas producers in Canada today, and the strategic firm level and industry level responses. The research examines two leading Canadian firms in detailed case studies, as well as range of industry participants and their industry association, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. The research addresses aspects of firm level strategy and competitive advantage that are emerging as the socio-political environment has become more complex and salient to firms. Limitations to previous research are addressed in the areas of theories of the firm, stakeholder theory, and law. The main findings are that the firm level competencies and resources must be viewed in the context of both natural resource scarcity and social resource scarcity. Furthermore, firms and institutions require dynamic networks extending beyond the industry structure if they are to succeed in interpreting and responding to the business environment. Those networks involve not only the exchange of knowledge, but a challenging of assumptions, or "reflexive" sense-making, much like that advocated by legal theory in the field of reflexive law. This research presents a model of stakeholders and knowledge creation that incorporates reflexive management processes. This research also presents models of "interests-based" firms driven by the need for legitimacy, and new views regarding value creation in a natural and social resource constrained environment.


title: The Impact of Shared and Personal Devices on Collaborative Process and Performance

publisher:
Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo

abstract: Yes


identifier: Brouwer, A. (1972). Client evaluation of a public day care service (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/22468

format:
ix, 108 leaves ; 30 cm.
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subject: HV 861 C32 C342 1972 Microfilm

subject: Day nurseries - Alberta - Calgary

subject: Foster day care - Research - Calgary

subject: Bowness-Montgomery Day Care Association, Calgary

abstract: Bibliography: p. 99-103.


identifier: Toh, A. K. (1994). Artificial neural network flux estimation for field oriented control (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/18185

format:
xv, 129 leaves ; 30 cm.
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subject: TK 2785 T63 1994

subject: Field orientation principle (Electric engineering)

subject: Neural networks (Computer science)

subject: Electric motors, Induction

subject: Rotors - Testing

subject: Vector control

abstract: Bibliography: p. 91-94.


identifier: Cowan, R. W. (1974). Investigation of the validity of four self-concept instruments (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14158

format:
vii, 92 leaves ; 30 cm.
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subject:
BF 723 I56 C68 1974 Microfiche
Identity
Self-evaluation
Self-respect
Self-acceptance
Personality assessment

abstract: Bibliography: p. 73-82.


identifier: Wong, Y. K. (1999). An analytical examination of the autoignition process in gas fuelled compression-ignition engines in the presence of recycled exhaust products (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/20801

format:
xviii, 356 leaves ; ill. ; 30 cm.
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subject:
TJ 797 W66 1999
Diesel motor - Combustion
Diesel motor exhaust gas.
Gas as fuel
Fuel--Testing.
Methane
Hydrogen

abstract: Bibliography: p. 322-343


identifier: Ganesan, S. (2019). Role of diacylglycerol in the cellular response to lysophosphatidylcholine analogues (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

contributor:
Zaremberg, Vanina
Prenner, Elmar J.
Ro, Dae Kyun

subject: lysophosphatidylcholine , antitumor lipids, diacylglycerol, lipid metabolism

subject: Biology

subject: Biology--Cell

subject: Biochemistry

abstract: Diacylglycerol (DAG) is a key signaling lipid and intermediate in lipid metabolism. Our knowledge of DAG distribution in cell membranes is limited. Using the C1 domain from mammalian PKCδ and PKD, we monitored the localization of yeast cytosolic-facing pools of DAG for the very first time and investigated alteration in distribution in response to conditions where DAG levels were known to be altered. Two main pools were monitored over time using DAG sensors. One stable pool was associated with vacuolar membranes and a second temporal pool was localized to sites of polarized growth. Dynamic changes in DAG distribution were observed during resumption of growth from stationary phase, when DAG is used to support phospholipid synthesis for membrane proliferation. Vacuolar membranes experienced constant morphological changes displaying DAG enriched microdomains co-existing with liquid-disordered areas demarcated by Vph1. Formation of these domains was dependent on TAG lipolysis. DAG domains and puncta were closely connected to lipid droplets and our findings suggest that DAG could link lipid droplets and tubular ER upon growth resumption from stationary phase. DAG polarization was regulated by DAG to PA conversion upon TAG mobilization, phosphatidylserine synthesis/traffic and sphingolipid synthesis in the Golgi. We also investigated another condition where DAG accumulates, which is in cells treated with the lysophosphatidylcholine analogue edelfosine. We hypothesized that by manipulating levels of PA and DAG, cells confer resistance to edelfosine, possibly due to mislocalized PA and DAG which prevent cellular response to edelfosine. Experiment where PA and DAG levels were manipulated clearly support a protective role of PA in the response to edelfosine. Interestingly, edelfosine induced drastic change in the localization of DAG. A synthetic genetic array analysis pointed to endocytic and retrograde trafficking proteins as key players in modulating DAG distribution. Many of these trafficking mutants were also resistant to edelfosine, suggesting mislocalization of DAG is advantageous in the presence of edelfosine. In addition, a putative lipase Ydr444w and the PI4P phosphatase Sac1 were also identified as novel regulators of DAG homeostasis. An up-to-date map of the spatiotemporal distribution of the cytosolic pools of DAG in yeast emerged from this body of work.


identifier: Round, S. (2013). The Cause of Anisotropy in Symmetrically Cubic Almandine and Spessartine Garnet (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28023

subject: Geology Mineralogy Inorganic garnet Anisotropy Spessartine Almandine birefringence

abstract:
The origin of optical anisotropy in garnet has been an unanswered question for over a century.  Previous studies have hypothesized birefringence to be related to large scale twinning, the inclusion of OH groups within the tetrahedral site, cation ordering of the dodecahedral and octahedral sites and strain leading to cubic symmetry violations.  This thesis addresses previous hypotheses and suggests a new solution to the problem of anisotropy in almandine and spessartine garnet;  the presence of multiple structural intergrowths within the crystal structure causing strain, resulting from a mismatch within the structure at the boundary of each phase.  This hypothesis satisfies the possible presence of optical birefringence while maintaining a cubic symmetry of space group Ia d.
	Four samples were studied:  one almandine and three spessartine garnets.  The techniques used to solve the above mentioned question include electron microprobe analysis (EMPA) and synchrotron high-resolution powder X-ray diffraction (HRPXRD).  The composition and general formula of each sample was obtained from EMPA analyses.  The almandine from Tanzania is Alm56Prp23Sps9Grs7, {Fe1.68Mg0.70Ca0.29Mn0.28}Σ=2.95[Al1.92Fe0.14]Σ=2.06(Si2.94Al0.06)Σ=3.00O12, the spessartine from Loliondo, Tanzania is Sps60Prp27, {Mn1.97Mg0.82Ca0.11}Σ=2.90[Al1.89Mn0.12Fe0.08]Σ=2.10(Si2.90Al0.11)Σ=3.00O12, the spessartine from Colorado, USA is Sps73Alm18, {Mn2.20Fe0.60Mg0.05Ca0.03}Σ=2.87[Al1.86Fe0.24Ti0.02]Σ=2.13(Si2.85Al0.15)Σ=3.00O12, and the spessartine from California, USA is Sps90Alm8, {Mn2.70Fe0.24}Σ=2.94[Al1.98Mn0.08Ti0.01]Σ=2.06(Si2.94Al0.06)Σ=3.00O12.
	The results gathered from HRPXRD indicate the presence of two structural intergrowths within each of the four samples, results of the most dominant phase for each are as follows:  almandine from Tanzania χ2 = 2.341, R(F2) = 0.0337, a = 11.56114(2)Å, weight % = 54.4(2), sof X(Fe) = 0.769(2), Y(Al) = 0.917(3), Y(Si) = 0.875(3), average <X-O> = 2.3085Å, Y-O = 1.894(2)Å, and Z-O = 1.6366(9)Å;  spessartine from Loliondo, Tanzania has χ2 = 4.114, R(F2) = 0.0466, a = 11.59829(2)Å, weight % = 62.8(2), sof X(Mn) = 0.802(2), Y(Al) = 0.937(3), Z(Si) = 0.918(3), average <X-O> = 2.3207Å, Y-O = 1.898(2)Å, and Z-O = 1.638(2)Å;  spessartine from Ruby Mountain, Colorado, USA has χ2 = 2.997, R(F2) = 0.0888, a = 11.60696(2)Å, weight % = 97.5(1), sof X(Mn) = 0.949(3), Y(Al) = 0.965(4), Z(Si) = 0.916(3), average <X-O> = 2.3212Å, Y-O = 1.895(2)Å, and Z-O = 1.643(2)Å;  spessartine from Ramona, San Diego County, California, USA has χ2 = 1.303, R(F2) = 0.0367, a = 11.61331(6)Å, weight % = 62.12(8), sof X(Mn) = 0.942(1), Y(Al) = 0.936(2), Z(Si) = 0.919(2), average <X-O> = 2.3257Å,
Y-O = 1.8976(6)Å, and Z-O = 1.6395(6)Å.  Each of the four samples contain two cubic structural intergrowths that have differing structural parameters, the mismatch between the two structural phases causes strain within the crystal and results in optical birefringence of symmetrically cubic garnet minerals.


identifier: Adams, F. (2017). Capsule endoscopy versus standard of care in obscure gastrointestinal bleeding: A randomized controlled trial (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25206

contributor:
Hilsden, Robert J
Dube, Jeanne Catherine
Kaplan, Gil
McGregor, Elizabeth SE

subject: Epidemiology

subject: Iron deficiency anemia

subject: obscure occult gastrointestinal bleeding

subject: capsule endoscopy

abstract:
Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is a common problem worldwide. The initial workup usually involves performing a bidirectional endoscopy. When negative, the small bowel could be the source of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding presenting as IDA. The next best diagnostic test is uncertain.
Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is a non-invasive new technology that allows examination of the entire small bowel.
Methods: We designed a randomized controlled pilot study to outline the challenges for conducting a full randomized controlled trial (RCT) to determine if WCE should be first-line investigation in such cases. 109 patients were enrolled; 55 intervention (WCE) & 54 controls (standard of care) (SC).
Results: Two-years post-randomization there was no difference in anemia between the two groups.
Conclusion: Few methodological hurdles for conducting a full RCT were identified.


identifier: Lu, F. (2010). Electrokinetic transport in heterogeneous micro and nano-channels (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/3732

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xvi, 136 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
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abstract: Bibliography: p. 122-136


identifier: Damaraju, S. (2014). The Role of Cell Communication and 3D Cell-Matrix Environment in a Stem Cell-Based Tissue Engineering Strategy for Bone Repair (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28321

subject:
Engineering--Biomedical
Mineralization
Embryonic stem cells
Cell differentiation
Confined compression
Gap Junctions
Nitric oxide production

abstract:
The use of stem cells for the repair of bone and cartilage is a primary research interest in modern tissue engineering strategies. The goal of this doctoral thesis was to investigate the role of cell communication and mechanical stimulation in a 3D tissue engineered construct, and to determine whether this construct could be optimized for bone healing. It is well established that there is an interconnected relationship between connexin-containing gap junctions, cadherins, and integrins in cell communication and the ability of cells to respond to mechanical stimulation. The specific aim of this project was to determine the role of connexin containing gap junctions and confined compression on the biosynthetic activity of embryonic
stem cells stimulated to form osteoblasts in a 3D collagen-I scaffold. Results from this project showed that this construct could be optimized for bone repair and cell differentiation could be accelerated by applying mechanical stimulation to cells at an early state of differentiation. This could be further enhanced with the application of a nitric oxide donor. As well, cell communication and the presence of functional connexin-43 gap junctions was required for lineage determination of these cells and to initiate mineralization within the construct. The necessity for cell communication was such that cells were not able to recover their function following communication inhibition. It was shown that dissociation between connexin-43 and integrin  α5β1 occurred under communication impairment and could be slightly restored
with the application of nitric oxide. Thus, in order for osteoblasts to perceive a mechanical stimulus and initiate mineralization of the matrix in response, functional gap junctions and their association to integrins are required to guide cell fate and function. Under impairment of cell function, nitric oxide can be used as an exogenous factor to refocus differentiation and rescue cell function. Overall, this project helps to bridge in-vivo fracture research with basic
stem cell biology, and provides an understanding of the importance of cell communication and 3-dimensional cell-matrix environment in the healing process of bone.


identifier: Rabanca, B. R. (2003). Arguing for private property: a criticism of special right-based arguments (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/15811

format:
v, 118 leaves ; 30 cm.
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abstract: Bibliography: p. 116-118


identifier: Hernandez-Marin, E. (2010). Redox reactions, epr and mcd parameters of molybdenum-containing enzymes: a density functional theory study (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/3587

format:
xiii, 166 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 156-166
Some pages are in colour.


identifier: Hughson, E. A. (1973). Visual demonstration, verbal instruction, and the developmentally handicapped (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/11341

format:
ix, 77 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: LC 4602 H83 1973 Microfiche

subject: Mentally handicapped children - Language

subject: Developmentally handicapped

subject: Verbal perception

subject: Visual perception

abstract: Bibliography: p. 67-70.


identifier: Dick, D. H. (1980). Reunion with birth families: adult adoptees in search of roots (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14375

format:
vi, 80 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
Adoptees - Identification
Birthparents

abstract: Bibliography: p. 77-80.


identifier: Spence, B. R. (1997). Sedimentology and diagenesis of the basal quartz formation, Calgary, Alberta (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/23551

format:
xiv, 220 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: QE686 .S64 1997A

subject: Additonal Copy: QE686 .S64 1997 - Geology Library

subject: Geology, Stratigraphic - Cretaceous

subject: Formations (Geology) - Alberta

subject: Geology - Alberta

subject: Diagenesis - Alberta

abstract: Bibliography: p. 161-171.


identifier: Heerema, J. (2017). Pitch Estimation of Musical Signals (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27363

title: Pitch Estimation of Musical Signals

contributor:
Parker, James Robert
Eggermont, Jos Jan
Kopp, Gail Diane
Keenan, Thomas Patrick
Bell, Donald Munro
Osborn, Wendy Kathleen

subject: Music

subject: Neuroscience

subject: Audiology

subject: Computer Science

subject: Engineering--Biomedical

subject: Psychology--Cognitive

subject: Musical Pitch Perception

subject: Pitch Vibrato Perception

subject: Musical Pitch Estimation

subject: Musical Pitch

subject: Digital Signal Processing

subject: Joint Time-Frequency Domain Signal Analysis

subject: Music Education

subject: Musical Pitch Feedback

subject: Neurophysiology of Pitch Perception

subject: Mobile Software

subject: iOS Software

abstract:
Can a computer algorithm assess musical pitch with results analogous to those of a trained human musician? This thesis attempts to answer that question by demonstration.
It starts by examining the nature of pitch, and human spectrotemporal perception of music.
In pitch vibrato, the frequency varies up and down over time, usually sinusoidally. At vibrato frequencies over about 4Hz, most listeners perceive pitch vibrato tones as having a single pitch. However, few controlled studies have been conducted to explore the question of just what that pitch is.
A software tool was developed to generate arbitrary pitch vibrato tones, and administer controlled pitch matching tests.
With respect to the longstanding debate as to whether pitch perception is based on spectral or temporal mechanisms, some support was found for temporal neural coding being the primary, but not singular pitch detection mechanism.
A novel method for detecting musical pitch is demonstrated, based on spectrotemporal analysis of the signal.
A Fourier analysis algorithm infers perceived pitch from the distance between the harmonics that are present in the signal. A weighted voting technique was developed to assess inter-peak distances, and merge candidate distances where possible. Individual spectral peaks are also considered in the weighting process. A technique developed at CERN for interpolating Fourier analysis results is applied to musical signals for the first time.
The temporal analysis algorithm improves on the author’s previous research by adding a new confidence metric, which improves octave resolution. It also uses a weighted voting technique similar to the one used by the Fourier analysis algorithm.
A confidence metric is used to select from multiple algorithms. The resulting algorithm improves on previously published methods for estimating musical pitch in several ways: improved accuracy, improved immunity to octave errors, improved ability to follow transient pitch changes, and improved frequency range.
The algorithm was validated against the extensive instrumental recording library at the University of Iowa, and against a small set of vocal recordings.
A case study methodology was used to assess the experimental software tool’s potential for use as an educational tool.


identifier: Rehal, S. (2011). Characterization of the prostaglandin pathway in mesenteric lymphatic vessels in physiological conditions and experimental ileitis (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4636

format:
xiii, 126 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
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abstract: Bibliography: p. 111-126

abstract: Some pages are in colour.

abstract: Includes copy of animal protocol approval.  Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.


identifier: Montesdeoca M., C. (1978). A Sequential solution approach for three-phase areal simulators (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/20190

format:
xi, 108 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: TN 871 M627 1978 Microfiche

subject: Oil reservoir engineering - Mathematical models

subject: Oil reservoir engineering - Simulation methods

subject: Reservoir oil pressure

abstract: Bibliography: p. 82-85.


identifier: Langelier, D. M. (2018). The Role of Exercise on Masculinity, Body Image, and Quality of Life in Men with Prostate Cancer. A Mixed Methods Study (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

title: The Role of Exercise on Masculinity, Body Image, and Quality of Life in Men with Prostate Cancer. A Mixed Methods Study.

publisher:
Kinesiology
University of Calgary

contributor:
Culos-Reed, Susan Nicole
Bridel, William
Cormie, Prue
Grant, Christopher
Reuther, J. Dean

subject:
physical activity
masculinity
motivation
prostatic neoplasms
self concept
body image
exercise
Education--Health
Education--Physical
Education--Sciences
Rehabilitation and Therapy
Psychology--Behavioral
Psychology--Clinical

abstract: Early research supports exercise in its role to improve masculinity and body image changes that may result from treatment; however, studies to date have largely examined limited treatment groups (i.e., those receiving androgen deprivation therapy) and did not include men from across the exercise spectrum. Following a systematic review of the literature, we implemented a mixed methodology approach to gather both quantitative and qualitative information surrounding men’s sense of masculinity, body image and quality of life in prostate cancer survivors with analysis based on degree of exercise participation. Participants included prostate cancer patients undergoing more diverse treatment protocols and aimed to include men from across the exercise spectrum, from active to inactive. Males completed a set of psychosocial surveys with a sub-selection of men from both groups participating in semi-structured, one-on-one interviews with the primary author. Aerobically active men demonstrated higher masculinity, and quality of life scores regardless of prior androgen deprivation treatment. Emergent themes relating to masculinity and exercise could be classified based upon the primary coping mechanisms of competition, control, rationalization, social connectedness, acceptance, optimism, and withdrawal. The results of these studies support the benefit of exercise on masculinity and quality of life regardless of their prior treatment; however, there did appear to be differences in the coping strategies and motivational factors behind the coping strategies based on exercise level. By understanding the relative value men place on masculinity and body image based on their activity level and the degree to which men feel exercise influences these traits, clinician-researchers may be able to individualize exercise programming and provide education to increase exercise participation amongst both groups.


identifier: Nicholls, C. D. (2006). UV-inducible alternative splicing of PIG3 (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/197

contributor:
Beattie, Tara L.
Robbins, Stephen

format:
xvi, 166 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 140-156

abstract: A copy of the thesis on CD-Rom is included.


identifier: Roberts, M. (2011). Level set volume segmentation using programmable graphics hardware (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4179

format:
xiii, 83 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
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abstract:
Bibliography: p. 60-66
Many pages are in colour.


identifier: Nassar, N. (2007). A (w/o) microemulsion approach for in-situ preparation of high concentrations of colloidal metal oxide nanoparticles (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2569

format:
xv, 155 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
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abstract: Bibliography: p. 120-135

abstract: Control over nanopa1ticle size 1s a key factor which labels a given nanoparticle preparation technique successful. When organic reactions are mediated by ultradispersed catalysts the concentration of the colloidal nanocatalysts and their stability become key factors as well. Ultradispersed metal oxide nanoparticles have applications as heterogeneous catalysts for organic reactions, and were recently demonstrated as effective H2S(gl absorbents. The catalytic activity and absorption effectiveness of metal oxide nanoparticles depend primarily on their surface area, which in turn, is dictated by their size, colloidal concentration and stability. This work presents a water-in-oil (w/o) microemulsion approach for in-situ preparation of ultradispersed metal oxide/hydroxide nanoparticles, namely: iron and copper and discusses the effect of different (w/o) microemulsion variables on their stability and highest possible time-invariant colloidal concentration (nanoparticle uptake). The concentration of the stabilized metal oxides corresponded to the nanoparticle uptake. In-situ preparation of colloidal catalysts and absorbents minimizes aggregation associated with storage and transportation. Much higher surface area per unit mass of nanoparticles and per unit volume of the colloidal suspension than reported in the literature was obtained. The following trends in the colloidal concentration were common for the (w/o) microemulsion system and the heavy oil matrix. An optimum water to surfactant mole ratio, R, was found for which a maximum nanoparticle uptake was obtained. Nanoparticle uptake increased linearly with the surfactant concentration and displayed a power function with the precursor salt concentration. A mathematical model based on correlations for water uptake by Winsor type II microemulsions accurately accounted for the effect of the aforementioned variables on the nanoparticle uptake by the microemulsions. Furthermore, the in-situ microemulsion approach developed in the first part was applied for in-situ preparation of effective H2Scgl colloidal absorbents within heavy oil matrix. H2 Scgl is a by-product of insitu heavy oil upgrading with potential negative impact on underground water. In this work, preliminarily evaluations of the effectiveness of the in-situ prepared colloidal iron oxide/hydroxide in heavy oil matrix for the absorption of H2 S(gJ was conducted successfully.


identifier: Carew, P. F. (1973). A systems approach to the development of guidance and counselling services in Sierra Leone secondary schools (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/20434

format:
ix, 138 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
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subject: LB 1620.5 C35 1973 Microfiche

subject: Personnel service in secondary education

subject: Education, Secondary - Sierra Leone

subject: Counseling

subject: Vocational guidance

abstract: Bibliography; p. 115-122.


identifier: Liu, A. (2022). Stabilization of Magnetite Nanofluid and its Transport in Porous Media (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

publisher:
Schulich School of Engineering
University of Calgary

contributor:
Bryant, Steven
Lawton, Donald
Kantzas, Apostolos
Clarkson, Christopher

subject:
Magnetic nanoparticles
Subsurface monitoring
Electricity and Magnetism
Engineering--Chemical
Materials Science

abstract: The objective of the research is to test the transportability of magnetic (magnetite, Fe3O4) nanoparticles in porous media and evaluate its application as a subsurface monitoring tool. The unique properties of magnetic nanoparticles make them a strong contrast agent against reservoir rocks and fluids as they exhibit a high magnetic response. Nanoparticles can be potentially applied to carbon capture and storage projects for monitoring the containment of CO2 underground. A stable nanofluid dispersion must be attained to facilitate long distance transport of nanoparticles in porous media. Achieving a stabilized nanofluid is a major challenge since nanoparticles have a tendency to aggregate due to their high surface energy. The principles of surface/colloidal chemistry and electric double layer are applied for the selection of surfactants to achieve stabilized nanofluid dispersions. For nanoparticle applications in subsurface, the salinity of reservoir water needs to be considered. The dispersion of nanoparticles is first achieved in DI water before establishing a nanofluid in the presence of high salinity. In DI water, the two surfactants that successfully dispersed the nanoparticles are CTAB (positively charged) and SDBS (negatively charged). In a saline environment, it is found that nanoparticles are destabilized and agglomerated immediately due to compressing electric double layer. Stabilized nanofluid is obtained in 6wt% KCl by combining DDBSA and non-ionic NP-9 as the dispersants. Nanofluid injection experiments are conducted to test the transport of nanoparticles in porous media. The injection test is coupled with the Bartington MS2C core logging sensor to track in-situ real-time transport by measuring the volumetric magnetic susceptibility of the nanoparticles. Experiments are conducted in 3 Phases: Phase 1 in high permeability sandpacks, Phase 2 in limestone cores with moderate/low permeability, and Phase 3 in sandstone cores which is the most representative of a CO2 sequestration reservoir. This research provides methodologies in achieving stable nanofluid dispersion in both DI water and brine as well as establishing in-situ real-time transport monitoring of nanoparticles in different types of porous media.


identifier: Weckl, E. (1979). Die Marchen Hermann Hesses in ihrer tiefenpsychologischen Struktur im Hinblick auf Novalis (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/20360

format:
[vii], 104 leaves ; 30 cm.
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subject: PT 2617 E85 Z949 1979 Fiche

subject: Hess, Hermann, 1877-1962 - Criticism and interpretation

subject: Novalis, 1772-1801

abstract: Bibliography: p. 102-104.


identifier: Andrews, F. (2012). A study of hockey in Canadian drama (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4836

title: A study of hockey in Canadian drama

format:
v, 105 leaves ; 30 cm.
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abstract: Bibliography: p. 96-103

abstract:
This thesis explores the game of hockey as portrayed in Canadian Drama, and introduces Hockey Drama as a unique new sub-genre. It highlights characters from Canadian plays directly or indirectly involved with the game and discusses the impacts of hockey on their lives. This study also examines the use of hockey as a dramatic device in Canadian Drama, namely as a symbol of struggle and conflict.
Canadian Hockey Drama productions date back to the late 1960's, and include: Theatre for Young Audiences, Bilingual Drama, Musicals and Shakespeare Adaptations. This study outlines the myriad ways in which Hockey Drama has been employed by playwrights to broach socio-politically relevant Canadian issues.


identifier: Kinakin, B. (1997). The use of fluorescence in situ hybridization on human sperm: the effect of donor age on frequency of aneuploidy (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/15567

format:
x, 75 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
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subject:
QH461.K56 1997
Aneuploidy
Sex chromosome abnormalities
Human beings - Spermatoza
Spermatoza

abstract: Bibliography: p. 61-69.


identifier: Burke, M. J. (2000). The synthesis and application of 6-aminospiro[4.4]nonan-1-ol as a chiral auxiliary for diastereoselective diels-alder reactions (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/17511

format:
xix, 128 leaves ; ill. ; 30 cm.
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subject:
QD481 .B87 2000
Chirality
Enantiomers
Diels-Alder reaction

abstract: Bibliography: p. 119-128.


identifier: Matsalla, L. J. (1988). Cognitive factors in maternal-child interactions (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12932

format:
ix, 217 leaves ; 30 cm.
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subject:
HQ 759 M38 1988
Mothers - Attitudes
Mother and child

abstract: Bibliography: p. 117-139.


identifier: Powers, D. P. (2014). Characterization and Asphaltene Precipitation Modeling of Native and Reacted Crude Oils (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25258

subject: Engineering--Chemical Asphaltenes precipitation Petroleum

abstract:
The prediction and mitigation of asphaltene precipitation is an ongoing issue in upstream operations with native oils and in refinery processes of fluids from thermocracking and hydrocracking processes. Asphaltenes can precipitate with changes in pressure, temperature and composition, promoting problems with deposition and fouling during crude oil operations. Fouling problems are a key concern in the oil industry because of their associated cost due to shut downs that decrease production and increase cost for maintenance for cleaning or replacing equipment. Hence, reliable methods are needed to predict asphaltene precipitation at different conditions during upstream and downstream crude oil operations.

The modified regular solution approach (RSM) has been successfully applied to predict asphaltene precipitation from native oils or upstream processes. This approach requires mole fractions, molar volumes, and solubility parameters for the pseudo-components representing the crude oil mixture. The pseudo-components used in the RSM, based on a solubility fractionation method (modified ASTM D4124 technique), are namely saturates, aromatics, resins, and asphaltenes (SARA). SARA fractionation applies to heavy oils and bitumens which do not have significant amounts of volatile compounds distillable at atmospheric pressure.  However, the reactions in refinery processes convert a significant amount of the bitumen and heavy oil into lighter compounds creating a significant amount of distillables in the product streams. These reactions also alter the chemical structure of the crude oil and, therefore, the properties and correlations used in the RSM must be modified for these oils.

The objective of this thesis is to characterize several native and reacted oils and develop a general model for asphaltene precipitation from both native and reacted oils using the standard SARA characterization method for the heavy fraction and distillation assays for the lighter fraction of the oils. The oils investigated included native, thermocracked (in situ converted and visbreaker samples), and hydrocracked samples.

Each of the distillable fractions and SARA fractions were characterized in detail to identify the changes with reaction in comparison with native oils and to estimate the properties required for the regular solution model. Properties including densities, molecular weight, and solubilities were measured for the SAR fractions. Asphaltenes tend to self-associate and form nano-aggregates and, therefore, a more detailed characterization was required to determine the asphaltene property distributions. Molecular weight and density distributions of asphaltenes in toluene were obtained from a previous study. Solubility parameter distributions were determined by fitting the RSM to asphaltene precipitation yield data measured for “pure” asphaltenes in mixtures of n-heptane and toluene (heptol). Yield data was also measured for the heavy fractions of the oils and whole oils diluted with n-heptane and used to tune the model.

The updated model is applicable to both native and reacted oils and includes a new correlation for the solubility parameter of the distillables as a function of their boiling point, and new asphaltene density and solubility parameter correlations, as a function of mass fraction and molecular weight, respectively. The required input data are: a distillation assay of the oil, SARA assay of the non-distillable residue, and density of the asphaltenes. Distillables, if present, are represented with 5 pseudo-components which are added to the SARA characterization.  The density and molecular weight of the saturates, aromatics and Resins (SAR) fractions can be estimated from average values from this study. The asphaltene nano-aggregate molecular weight distribution in the crude oil cannot be measured or estimated a priori and is represented with a gamma distribution which requires the average molecular weight of asphaltenes nano-aggregates and the distribution shape factor. The two unknown molecular weight distribution parameters are found by tuning the model to fit the heavy oil (or heavy fraction) solubility data. Once the model is tuned to fit the solubility data of the heavy fraction of the oil, the model predicts the whole crude oil (distillables + SARA) stability.

The model and the property correlations developed in this project can potentially be implemented in a simulation software to predict asphaltene precipitation for different crude oil samples. A predictive model for asphaltene precipitation is an important tool for production and refinery engineers to find operating conditions that avoid asphaltene precipitation and the consequent lost production and increased costs from fouling and plugging of production and refinery equipment.  Additionally, the characterization data for the pseudo-components of native and reacted oils can be used to develop models for other fluid modeling applications including property correlations and fouling models.


identifier: Harpur, L. L. (1991). Visual search and similarity effects as a function of age and exposure duration (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12659

format:
ix, 119 leaves ; 30 cm.
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subject:
QP 475 H37 1991
Vision - Testing
Aging

abstract: Bibliography: p. 107-117.


identifier: Henry, A. M. (2004). Sub-cul-ture [sub kulcher] (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/23626

title: Sub-cul-ture [sub kulcher]

format:
iv, 80 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
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abstract:
Bibliography: p. 76-80
Some pages are in colour.
Thesis is oversized.


identifier: Wyld, K. W. (2017). The Lived Experience of Moral Distress for Nephrology Nurses Who Care for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28234

publisher:
Graduate Studies
Nursing
University of Calgary
Calgary

contributor:
Raffin Bouchal, Shelley
Ewashen, Carol
Storch, Janet
Starzomski, Rosalie

subject:
Nursing
Nursing Ethics
Nephrology
Moral Distress
Renal
Chronic Kidney Disease

abstract:
The research focus is to investigate the lived experience of moral distress for registered nurses who
care for patients with chronic kidney disease. Incidence of chronic kidney disease is growing in
Canada, and retaining skilled nephrology nurses is essential. As the disease progresses, and the
patient and family suffer losses, the nurse accompanies them on their journey. The concept of
moral distress has been investigated within several areas of nursing but there are few research
studies focusing solely on nephrology. Guided by the philosophy of Husserl with analysis
supported by Giorgi’s method, constituents and essences were rendered from the findings. The
relational ethics theory was used as a structural framework. The purpose of this research is to
extend a voice to nephrology nurses, and contribute to a moral community. The findings from this
research will offer a thematic structure for understanding the lived experience of moral distress for
nephrology nurses.


identifier: Haghshenas, B. (2017). Modeling Storage and Flow of Fluids in Shale Reservoirs (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26951

contributor:
Chen, Shengnan
Clarkson, Christopher R.
Hill, Josephine
Marriott, Robert
Bentley, Laurence Robert
Plaksina, Tatyana
Javadpour, Farzam

subject:
Engineering--Petroleum
Shale Reservoir
Storage
Transport

abstract:
Recent development of shale gas reservoirs has led to a revolution in the global energy market. The shale gas industry has expanded rapidly through the application of new drilling and completion technologies, particularly horizontal wells completed in multiple hydraulic fracture stages. While these technologies play a critical role enabling economical production from these resources, uncertainty in the understanding of basic shale gas reservoir properties, and methods used to characterize them, has led to inefficiencies in shale gas resource development.
This thesis addresses uncertainties in the characterization of fluid storage and transport mechanisms in shales, and uses new methods for characterization in exploring enhanced recovery options for shale-hosted hydrocarbons.  The primary gas storage mechanisms in organic-rich shales are free gas storage and adsorption; however, there is a significant amount of uncertainty in modeling these storage mechanisms in shale.  Of the adsorption models tested, the simplified local density (SLD) model was found to be the most useful for shale gas storage estimation.  The model was used not only for adsorption modeling, but also to rigorously correct free gas storage calculations for the presence of adsorbed phase volume.  Further, the SLD model was used to predict changes in fluid behaviour within the confined pore space of shale reservoirs.
An important contribution of this thesis is the estimation of gas storage and transport parameters from shale reservoir drill cuttings.  Low-pressure (N2 and CO2) adsorption data was collected on “artificial” (crushed rock) shale cuttings, and used, in combination with the SLD model to predict high-pressure/high-temperature adsorption of hydrocarbons.  Further, adsorption rate data, collected on small masses of artificial cuttings, combined with sophisticated numerical modeling which takes into account the physics of gas storage and transport through shale, was used to estimate shale gas diffusivity/permeability.
Finally, the importance of hydrocarbon adsorption and diffusivity for predicting hydrocarbon liquid recovery after CO2 injection was investigated. A history-matched (flowback data) multi-fractured horizontal well completed in a tight liquid-rich reservoir was used as a starting point for sensitivities using CO2 injection.  Unique to this study, fluid compositions as a function of depth in the reservoir were available.  Simulation of CO2 huff-n-puff schemes using this calibrated model demonstrated that inclusion of adsorption/diffusion effects has an important impact on hydrocarbon liquid recovery.


identifier: Abdrakhimova, P. (2020). Improving groundwater flow model parametrization techniques (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

contributor:
Bentley, Laurence R.
Hayashi, Masaki
Cey, Edwin E.
Hassanzadeh, Hassan
Ferguson, Grant A. G.

subject:
hydrogeology
groundwater recharge
groundwater modeling
specific storage
pumping test inversion
Geology
Hydrology

abstract: Numerical modeling of groundwater flow is a powerful tool that can assist in hydrogeological analysis and understanding of groundwater system behavior. However, its results are highly dependent on the proper model parameterization (often, at least partially achieved through calibration). The situation is further complicated in transient groundwater models requiring calibration of the additional parameters such as specific storage in addition to standard hydraulic conductivity. Another complication of the transient modelling is a need to define transient boundary conditions. In settings with seasonal recharge variations, the spatial and temporal variation in the recharge boundary conditions becomes an important part of the problem setting. Simultaneous calibration of hydrogeological properties (hydraulic conductivity, specific storage) and recharge is a challenging problem prone to non-uniqueness: similar model results achieved by different combinations of recharge, specific storage and transmissivity. The objective of this study is to improve hydrogeological model parametrization, with the focus on hydrogeological properties governing groundwater system response to transient forcing. It highlights multiple ways of estimating specific storage, which allows to provide better constraints for the calibration problem. In particular, it proposes a new method of specific storage estimation using seismic velocities and compares it with the results of conventional pumping test analysis and analysis of a water level response to atmospheric pressure fluctuations and Earth tides. The resulting values of specific storage have shown reasonable agreement between methods for a sandstone unit of the Paskapoo Formation: the estimates from seismic velocity and water level analyses ranged from 1.25∙10-5 1/m to 1.6∙10-5 1/m, while the specific storage estimate from pumping test was 4.6∙10-5 1/m. This finding suggests that seismic velocity method can be used to evaluate spatial variation of specific storage or to augment the inversion as a part of parameter constraints or regularization term. This study also identified multiple avenues of extracting additional information about aquifers from conventional datasets in order to further reduce the uncertainty. The proposed new framework uses integration of multiple methods for inversion of pumping test in a heterogeneous aquifer. Its application at the study site has shown that the flow from the aquitards bounding the aquifer are a major component of a flow budget during even multi-day pumping test highlighting the limitations of extrapolating pumping test results to long-term transient response without accounting for aquifer geometry and properties of the bounding units. In addition, this study investigated sensitivity of modeled groundwater levels to transient recharge properties. The spatially-variable transient recharge was generated by Versatile Soil Moisture Budget (VSMB) model based on atmospheric forcing and was applied as a specified flux to the upper boundary of a watershed-scale 3-D groundwater model. The model reasonably replicated both observed groundwater level dynamics and 10-year mean baseflow of 20.54 mm/a (modeled recharge value was 23.84 mm/a). It was demonstrated that both seasonal groundwater level rise and long-term trends simultaneously reflect magnitude and timing of the recharge; seasonal propagation of a recharge pulse through the aquifer was dependent on hydraulic diffusivity (a ratio of hydraulic conductivity to specific storage). These findings imply that a detailed transient recharge signal is needed for both forward and inverse groundwater modeling.


identifier: Gonzalez, J. M. (2000). Canadian mining multinationals in the Andean region: a study of environmental management systems (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/22237

format:
xiv, 314 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
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subject: TD195 .M5 G66 2000

subject: Mineral industries - Environmental aspects - Andes Region

subject: International business enterprises - Andes Region

subject: Corporations, Canadian

subject: Environmental management

subject: Sustainable development

abstract: Bibliography: p. 293-305.


identifier: Metcalfe, J. L. (1994). Negotiating collective identity in the Calgary Women's Movement: a new social movements perspective (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/20811

format:
vii, 162 leaves ; 30 cm.
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subject:
HQ 1460 C3 M48 1994
Feminism - Alberta - Calgary
Women - Alberta - Calgary

abstract: Bibliography: p. 149-157.


identifier: Tamblyn, C. V. (2008). An empirical examination of the effects of endogenous growth on exhaustible resource prices (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2027

format:
vii, 61 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
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abstract: Bibliography: p. 35-37

abstract: This paper examines the role that technological change plays in the price paths of natural resource commodities. The theory of endogenous technological change suggests that the more important a resource is in the world economy, the more likely there will be innovation. The hypothesis tested in this paper is that periods of price declines for natural  resources and minerals is induced by endogenous technical change. The nature of the relationship between prices and the share in the world economy is complicated by the fact that the resources price appears in both the growth rate of the price and the share of the world economy. This forces us to deal with the "reflection" problem in econometrics.  Once this is done, we find that there is indeed a negative correlation between the rate of growth of prices and the share of the resource in the world economy.


identifier: Chiste, K. B. (1991). A Rhetorical analysis of political discourse: the first ministers' conference on aboriginal constitutional matters (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/15905

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ix, 245 leaves ; 30 cm.
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subject: E 92 C44 1991

subject: Indians of North America - Canada - Government relations - 1934-

subject: Indians of North America - Canada - Constitutional law

subject: Canada - Constitution - Amendments

abstract: Bibliography: p. 236-240.

abstract: The four First Ministers' Conferences on Aboriginal Constitutional Matters held between 1983 and 1987 were widely judged to have failed, in that no agreement was reached on entrenching a constitutional amendment on self-government. However, the conferences did serve successfully as a forum in which aboriginal spokesmen could polish and promulgate what I term the "counter-discourse" on aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state. This dissertation offers an analysis of the new discourse's rhetorical power, as well as its stark contrasts with traditional "Western" thinking about the role of native peoples in contemporary society. The Western discourse sees native peoples as a disadvantaged element in a multi-cultural state; it is a political discourse oriented toward the future. The counterdiscourse, however, is rooted in the past and sees native peoples as the same "nations" they were centuries ago. In many ways the counter-discourse is reminiscent of poetry rather than politics, of myth rather than history; it has a visionary quality. Communication between proponents of the Western discourse and the counter one is difficult indeed, as their first principles conflict. Although a "historical" analysis of the counter-discourse renders some of its· claims problematic, this discourse nevertheless has had a significant political impact; it informs the outlook of most of the current generation of native leaders. While the linear course of history has largely eclipsed the native population of Canada, the discourse of vision provides them a means by which to fight the passage of time and recapture their political importance. The counter-discourse is a weapon constructed of language, expressing a vision whose dialectic with material reality has yet to unfold but whose influence is continuing to grow.


identifier: Galas, C. M. (1980). Soft x-ray observations of four supernova remnants (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/16032

format:
xiv, 245 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
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subject:
QB 472 G34 1980 Fiche
X-ray astronomy
Supernovae

abstract: Bibliography: p. 223-242.


identifier: Moore, S. K. (2006). Women, nature and hermeneutic inquiry (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/377

title: Women, nature and hermeneutic inquiry

format:
xiii, 203 leaves ; 30 cm.
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abstract: Bibliography: p. 199-203


identifier: Cann, B. C. (2018). Lithofacies Determination in the Willesden Green and South Pembina Duvernay Formation: Creation, Characterization, and Correlation (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

contributor:
Lines, Laurence R.
Meyer, Rudi
Clarkson, Christopher R.

subject:
Duvernay Formation
Lithofacies
Sedimentology
Petrophysics
Elastic Properties
Brittleness
Geochemistry
Source Rock
Rock-eval
Geochemistry
Geology
Geophysics

abstract: This study proposes a set of lithofacies in the Southern West Shale Basin of the Duvernay Formation that characterize variation at core and thin section scales, correlate with conventional well logs and can be further related to geochemical data, elastic properties, elastic property-based brittleness indices, mineralogical brittleness indices, and basic source rock data. A sedimentological assessment of seven wells was performed and the resultant data used to define the proposed lithofacies. The lithofacies relate to natural lithological subdivisions seen in the core. Colour was successfully utilized as one of the primary lithofacies characteristics and has resulted in a substantial degree of correlatability with conventional well logs and source rock data and a more moderate degree of correlatability with elastic properties and geochemical data. It is proposed that these lithofacies display a predictable and logical progression of environmental change within the Duvernay Formation that can be related to cyclical deposition and sequences in a restricted basin with a stratified water column that is affected by variations in energy, oxygenation, and most probably sea level. The relationship between primary lithofacies and conventional well logs indicates that by utilizing the gamma ray log as the principal lithological indicator, and density porosity, neutron porosity, sonic and PE (photoelectric factor) logs in situations of uncertainty, the lithofacies can be extrapolated using conventional well logs. Based on statistical analysis, 75% of the time Defined gamma ray cut-offs for the most common lithofacies in the Duvernay Formation can predict the lithofacies and the trends in the other logs should be applied in association with gamma ray cut-offs to confirm determined lithofacies and to help determine lithofacies in situations of uncertainty. Source rock data that includes S1 (Amount of free hydrocarbon), S2 (remaining hydrocarbon generating potential) and TOC (total organic carbon) correlate well with the lithofacies and these reservoir characteristics may be extrapolated utilizing the defined primary lithofacies. Geochemical data shows the connectivity of disparate facies as the same component parts are present in all facies while their percentages vary. This encourages an interpretation of connected cyclical deposition driven by sequences. Trends in average values can be related to the primary lithofacies and these primary lithofacies are interpreted to represent the sequence of changing depositional conditions. Even though trends in geochemical data are observed substantial overlap between facies occurs. Geochemical variance within a given facies is attributed to shorter lived fluctuations in depositional conditions. Trends seen in elastic properties are mostly tied to geochemical variations in the matrix that include clay, TOC and micrite; however, recrystallized carbonate appears to have a large influence when present. Quartz and carbonate silts and carbonate fossil fragments appear to have a much more negligible effect on elastic properties. Unexpectedly the combined effect of increased organic matter and clay appears to lower Poisson’s ratio, and this requires further study. Only some brittleness indices display trends related to lithofacies and these can lack in consistency. Different brittleness indices are responding to different properties of the rock, and all could be successful in different situations. These properties primarily appear to include high Young’s modulus, low Poisson’s ratio, high clay fraction, and organic matter percentage. It appears that when choosing brittleness determination methods in this area of the Duvernay Formation, and potentially in other unconventional source rock hydrocarbon plays, careful consideration of the properties of the formation and the type of response desired is required, and perhaps several methods could be applied concurrently. The correlativity of the lithofacies with various data types and their probable relationship with depositional conditions validates the application of them within this area of the Duvernay Formation; and, an application of colour as a primary lithofacies characteristic may be effective when interpreting or correlating other source rock shales deposited in a restricted basin that once probably contained a stratified water column.


identifier: Tacon, C. E. (2011). Regulation of rhinovirus-induced matrix metalloproteinase-9 production in airway epithelium (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/3769

contributor:
Proud, David
Leigh, Richard

format:
xiv, 247 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
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abstract:
Bibliography: p. 193-247.
A few pages are in colour.


identifier: Brady, A. K. (2012). Coral spawning synchronicity: the role of ciradian genes in circalunar rhythms (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/5080

format:
xiv, 248 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 198-242
Many pages are in colour.