identifier: Gillis, C. (2020). Prehabilitation for Enhanced Recovery After Colorectal Surgery (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

publisher:
Cumming School of Medicine
University of Calgary

contributor:
Fenton, Tanis R.
Gramlich, Leah M.
Culos-Reed, Susan Nicole
Sajobi, Tolulope T.

subject:
pre-surgery
preoperative
ERAS
prehabilitation
Epidemiology
Medicine and Surgery
Nutrition
Rehabilitation and Therapy

abstract: Background: Postoperative morbidity is largely the product of the preoperative condition of the patient, the quality of surgical care provided, and the degree of surgical stress elicited. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) minimizes surgical stress with standardized evidence-based perioperative care; yet the ERAS care elements focus mainly on the intra- and postoperative periods, which may not sufficiently enhance recovery if preoperative patient-related factors have not been modified before surgery. Prehabilitation programs aim to enhance recovery by targeting the preoperative condition of the patient.Methods: This dissertation includes four manuscripts that broadly contribute to the evidence that supports the hypothesis that the patient’s preoperative status modifies outcomes in colorectal surgery. Results: First, intermediately frail and frail patients with poor functional walking capacity before surgery suffer more postoperative complications than patients with better functional walking capacity. Second, nutrition prehabilitation, with and without exercise, reduces mean length of hospital stay by two days. Third, patient interviews suggest that patients support the idea of using prehabilitation to enhance their preoperative condition. Finally, the last manuscript offers methodological suggestions to measure and analyze external variables as a means of advancing the prehabilitation literature and further enhancing patient outcomes. Conclusion: The findings of this doctoral dissertation add to the growing body of evidence that the process of surgical recovery begins before surgery. Prehabilitation interventions can be applied to support better postoperative recoveries.


identifier: AlBakkar, A. (2014). Adaptive Simplified Neuro-Fuzzy Controller as Supplementary Stabilizer for SVC (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/24702

publisher:
Graduate Studies
University of Calgary
Calgary

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:
Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
Adaptive Control

abstract: A simplified version of an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Controller (ANFC) applied to a FACTS device, namely a Static VAr Compensator (SVC), is presented in this dissertation. The proposed Adaptive Simplified Neuro-Fuzzy Controller (ASNFC), used as a supplementary controller to damp power system oscillations, consists of a reduced number of input Membership Functions (MFs) and Consequent Parameters (CPs). Unlike the common techniques of using the generator speed or the power angle deviations as inputs to the controller, the input to the ASNFC is the power deviation at the bus where the SVC is located.  A Neuro Identifier is used to track the behaviour of the system in real-time and update the controller on-line. The effectiveness of the proposed controller is tested on a single machine infinite bus system, and a multi-machine system. Results of simulation studies demonstrate that the performance with the proposed ASNFC is practically the same as with ANFC, but with a smaller number of parameters to optimize that reduces computation time for real-time application. In addition, the proposed ASNFC is further tested on a physical model power system where the controller is applied to the generation unit. The results obtained indicate a successful implementation of the ASNFC in damping power system oscillations over the Conventional Power System Stabilizer (CPSS). Furthermore, similar dynamic performance is provided by the ASNFC, as compared to the detailed ANFC.


identifier: McGuigan, W. B. (1990). The Comparative sociology of Seymour Martin Lipset: an analysis and critique (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/13656

publisher:
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
vi, 223 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
HM 19 M395 1990
Lipset, Seymour Martin
Sociologists

abstract: Bibliography: p. 214-223.


identifier: Waatainen, P. J. (2022). Designing an Authentic Assessment of Elementary Citizenship Competency Through Real-World Democratic Deliberation (Unpublished doctorial thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

publisher:
Werklund School of Education
University of Calgary

contributor:
Chu, Man-Wai
Friesen, Sharon
Scott, David

subject:
design-based research
assessment
competency
situated learning
deliberation
citizenship
Education--Curriculum and Instruction
Education--Elementary
Education--Teacher Training
Education--Tests and Measurements

abstract: As education systems increasingly emphasize the development of competency, teachers need support in building their assessment literacy in how to design classroom assessments of competency. Teachers who aim to plan classroom assessment and instruction to support their students as they learn democracy together (Biesta & Lawy, 2006) will not find a cohesive, useful framework operationalizing what the citizenship competencies associated with this learning entail. In this design-based research study, a researcher and teachers designed and administered an authentic assessment (e.g., Gulikers et al., 2004; Koh & Luke, 2009) of citizenship competencies that grade 6 and 7 students may have developed in deliberating together as participants in a real-world public consultation process in their city. Data was collected through student self-assessments, artifacts of the design process, observation, and semi-structured interviews with students, teachers, and city representatives. Thematic analysis identified potential contributions to theory and practice from this first three-stage cycle of design in what will be a multi-cycle design process. The practical significance of this study is in the creation of an exemplar of practice and a graphic organizer, adapted from the conceptual framework, which together provide procedural scaffolding and provocations for discussion to help teachers develop their assessment literacy in designing authentic assessments of competency. Theoretical significance is in some promising contributions to our understanding of how citizenship competency might be operationalized for assessment. Findings included: a) the value of using a situated approach over a generic framework to operationalize what competency might entail in a real-world context b) the ability to prioritize and deliberate as potentially transferable citizenship competencies, c) the value of supportive task framing through graphic organizers and games in supporting young students in their authentic participation as citizens, and d) the capability of students as partners in conversations about the assessment of their competency. A contribution to the problem of practice was made in the design of an exemplar of practice and graphic organizer that are intended to be used as provocations and scaffolding for professional conversations about the design of authentic assessments of competency. Findings described in the exemplar of practice include: a) student reports of fairness and clarity of the assessment, b) the challenge of assessing student learning when socio-emotional dynamics impact student comfort in civic engagement with other students, c) the challenge of using a multi-pronged approach to assessment in a realistically busy classroom and teaching context, and d) the great value of exploring competency requirements in a real-world context before designing assessment and instruction. Recommendations are made to enhance use of authentic assessment strategies in teacher-education and teacher professional learning and to provide significantly more support for teachers in this work. Recommendations for future research include field-testing the exemplar of practice and graphic organizer with Bachelor of Education students, a second iteration of design with a new class in the next phase of the city public consultation process, and a study with a purpose to design an authentic assessment of citizenship competency in a high school context that requires grading.


identifier: Winistok, E. (2004). Impact of the fair gains program on it graduates' quality of life (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/19671

publisher:
Social Work
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
ix, 161 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 130-137
Some pages are in colour.


identifier: Perkins, T. J. (2019). Tracing Pathways and Decomposing Mechanisms in Ecology (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

publisher:
Arts
University of Calgary

contributor:
Waters, C. Kenneth
Ereshefsky, Marc
Delehanty, Megan

subject: Philosophy, Concepts, Ecology, Mechanism, Pathway

subject: Education--Philosophy of

subject: Education--Sciences

abstract: The term ‘mechanism’ is ubiquitous in biology. This has caused philosophers of biology to closely examine what mechanisms are. Many characteristics of mechanisms have been generated by philosophers calling their movement the New Mechanist Philosophy, with some proponents even going as far to say that biology is fundamentally a science of mechanisms. This means that the activity of biologists is organized around the discovery, investigation, and understanding of mechanisms and offering mechanistic explanations. But other terms are also employed by scientists, like ‘pathway.’ Carl Craver, a New Mechanist, claims that ‘mechanism’ can do the work of ‘pathway’ and equates these terms (2007, 3). However, this fundamentalist approach runs afoul of the messy conceptual practices that real scientists engage in. I examine a case from ecology where ecologists are engaged in conceptual practices, employing the terms ‘mechanism’ and ‘pathway’ in their explanation. What I learn from this case is that the terms are designating concepts, which are designating scientific explanations, or objects of scientific knowledge. Instead of equating these terms, I argue that for a better understanding of scientific practice, these concepts designated by terms are to be thought of as cognitive tools, aiding the scientists to achieve their aims.


identifier: Al-Otaibi, F. D. (2009). Kinetic studies of gas hydrate formation using in situ particle size analysis and raman spectroscopy (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/3199

contributor:
Bishnoi, Prithwi R.
Maini, Brij B.

format:
xviii, 201 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 151-167


identifier: Starkman, J. (1981). Multi-family infill housing (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/23885

title: Multi-family infill housing

publisher:
Environmental Design
University of Calgary
Calgary

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

subject:
HD 7287.6 C3 S72 1983 Fiche
Apartment houses - Alberta - Calgary
Architecture and society

abstract: Bibliography: last page

abstract: Contains 13 oversized drawings and 5 mounted photographs.


identifier: Foulds, L. A. (1997). Braided tales: Lives and stories of women in a northern Alberta reserve community (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/11082

format:
vii, 165 leaves
application/pdf

subject: Anthropology

abstract: Bibliography: p. 146 - 156.


identifier: Izzo, L. A. (1985). Spanish-language songs for teaching music: an analytical study (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12071

format:
x, 350 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: MT 32 I99 1987

subject: School music - Instruction and study

subject: Folk-songs, Spanish - Analysis, appreciation

subject: Ethnomusicology

subject: Folk-songs, Spanish

abstract: Bibliography: p. 120-134.


identifier: Boutillier, K. A. (1977). The P.R.C.I. Project: an evaluation of a consortium approach to the delivery of educational programs in a correctional setting (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/20415

format:
vi, <308> leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
Rehabilitation of criminals
Education of prisoners


identifier: Taabbodi, L. (2015). Transient Shape Factors for Thermal Flow Simulation in Fractured Reservoirs (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28512

subject:
Engineering--Petroleum
Dual-Porosity
Shape Factor
Fractured Reservoirs
Thermal Recovery
Transfer Function

abstract:
The simulation of naturally fractured reservoirs (NFRs) is an extremely daunting and challenging task.  The most important and difficult aspect of modeling a naturally fractured reservoir is the accurate estimation of the fluid exchange between matrix and surrounded fractures, which is modeled via a shape factor.

The main focuses of this dissertation are the characterization and understanding as to how shape factors are utilized for modeling non-isothermal, fracture-matrix fluid exchange in fractured reservoirs.  The intention of this research, therefore, is to achieve a better understanding of the matter exchanges between fractures and matrix blocks in a dual-porosity system by defining an appropriate transient matrix-fracture shape factor formulation that accounts for a multiphase flow system in thermal reservoir simulation of naturally fractured reservoirs.  A novel and more general technique are developed for the exchange of fluids between the matrix blocks and the surrounded fractures.  The concept of a new transient shape factor is introduced for non-isothermal, dual-porosity models and validated against the most current shape factor formulations.  In this study, the CMG STARS simulator is used to estimate and validate the proposed transient shape factor.  A MATLAB code is developed and coupled with the CMG STARS to compute transient shape factor (TSF).  This new technique describes the most appropriate way of treating a shape factor to capture the pertinent features of non-isothermal fluid flow in NFRs.  A robust transformation function (T.F) formulation is developed between the fractures and the matrix for a better representation of a dual-porosity system in thermal recovery.   The proposed transient shape factor (TSF) model is validated against a fine grid single porosity model and an historical field data to confirm the model capability for reproducing accurate physical processes and recovery mechanisms.  The results clearly demonstrate that a constant value of the shape factor (e.g., Kazemi’s formulation) cannot be used to predict the overall performance in dual-media systems due to invalid assumptions. The conclusions from this study clearly show that a suitable and accurate transfer transient shape factor is required for an appropriate modeling of a thermal recovery process in NFRs when using dual-porosity formulations.


identifier: Davis, G. M. (1985). An Examination of the physiological consequences of chest wall distortion in infants with croup (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/23474

format:
xiv, 91 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
RC 746 D38 1986
Croup
Respiratory organs - Diseases
Chest - Diseases

abstract: Bibliography: p. 81-91.


identifier: Xu, P. (2003). Remediation of diesel-contaminated soils using Fenton's reagent: a laboratory study (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/17876

contributor:
Achari, Gopal
Joshi, Ramesh C.

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 118-129


identifier: Robb, G. (2017). Urban Salvage Sculpture (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28600

title: Urban Salvage Sculpture

contributor:
Kostyniuk, Ronald
Rusted, Brian
Cahill, Susan
Cook, Ian

subject:
Art History
Fine Arts
Education--Art
Sculpture
Consumption
Salvage

abstract: This paper is a support paper for my thesis exhibition “Urban Salvage Sculpture”. Initially I discuss the relevance of art and the vital role it plays in human development and communication. I then move on to a description of the materials that I employ in my artwork followed by a chapter on methodology and mentors. This includes an analysis of some of the great artists who have used salvaged materials in their art practices. The latter half of the paper is a discussion about the role of the modern city and the theoretical and critical aspects of man’s modern consumptive lifestyle. The final chapter is a discussion of my artwork and how it  has been informed by my research over these past two years.


identifier: Chakraborty, M. (2017). Expanding Allergen-specific Tr-1 CD4+ T cells to treat Allergic Asthma (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26039

contributor:
Santamaria, Pere
Mody, Christopher
Newton, Robert
Giembycz, Mark

subject: Immunology

abstract: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the lungs, which is one of the most frequent chronic disease in industrialized nations. The associated morbidity and occasional mortality rates are secondary to an underlying dysfunction of the airway driven by immune-mediated inflammation. Our lab has been developing a nanoparticle based therapy to deliver antigen-specific peptide-major histocompatibility complex to treat autoimmunity, which triggers the induction and expansion of cognate autoregulatory CD4+ Tr1-like cells that suppresses the autoimmune response via secretion of anti-inflammatory cytokines such as IL-10 and TGF-β. We tested this therapeutic avenue in a chronic model of asthma in BALB/c mice, and found that the pMHC-NP therapy triggers allergen-specific Tr-1 cell formation and expansion that can suppress inflammation, promoting the resolution of airways hyper-responsiveness and airway remodeling. Asthma-relevant pMHC class II-coated NPs may therefore represent a viable alternative to current approaches to restore immune homeostasis in allergic individuals.


identifier: Trussler, N. E. (1971). Educational programs for Indian adults in Southern Alberta (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/20921

format:
ix, 136 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: LC 5254 T78 1971 Microfilm

subject: Adult education

subject: Indians of North America - Alberta - Education

abstract: Bibliography: p. 120-124.


identifier: Liew, P. X. (2010). Characterization of a sortase and its substrate from bacillus subtilis and its use to covalently anchor heterologous proteins on the surface of b. subtilis for cell surface display (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/3651

format:
xiv, 196 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 172-196
Some pages are in colour.


identifier: Harding, M. (2013). In Vivo Imaging of Neutrophil Responses to Localized S. aureus Infection (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26670

contributor:
Kubes, Paul
Zhang, Kunyan

subject: Microbiology Immunology Staphyloccus aureus Neutrophils

abstract: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a highly virulent, multidrug –resistant pathogen responsible for the majority of soft tissue infections. The role of neutrophils in S. aureus soft tissue infections is currently unclear. The objective of this thesis was to characterize early neutrophil recruitment to a localized MRSA infection.  Using spinning disk confocal microscopy, we developed a mouse model to visualize the behaviour of neutrophils in the skin following the introduction of an agarose bead embedded with GFP-expressing MRSA.  We observed significant neutrophil recruitment not only in the venules but also in the capillaries, which we showed to be mediated by the β2 and α4 integrins.  Blocking these integrins in mouse models increased capillary perfusion, reduced cell death at early time points, and altered lesion size during infection.  Understanding the contribution of neutrophils in MRSA soft tissue infection will help to elucidate novel therapeutic targets in these infections.


identifier: Everatt, D. L. (1980). The Social and emotional aspects of cleft lip and cleft palate: an adolescent perspective (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/20589

format:
vii, 29 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: Cleft palate - Psychological aspects

subject: Harelip

subject: Adolescent psychology

subject: Cleft palate services - Youth - Alberta - Calgary

abstract: Bibliography: p. 27-29. / Video-tape restricted, available in Comm. Media


identifier: Howe, T. (2010). An integrated framework for measuring project quality (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/137

format:
xi, 274 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 139-146


identifier: Dougherty, S. M. (1986). Optimal design of autocorrelation functions (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/22047

format:
ix, 69 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
QE 538.5 D68 1987
Seismic waves - Mathematical models
Autocorrelation (Statistics)

abstract: Bibliography: p. 60-64.


identifier: Hassam, Y. A. (1990). Perspectives on English as a second language programs for adults in Calgary (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/11137

format:
xii, 157 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: LC 5225 L42 H38 1990

subject: Adult education - Alberta - Calgary

subject: English language - Study and teaching as a second language - Alberta - Calgary

abstract: Bibliography: p. 142-150.


identifier: Tolani, O. (2013). An Examination of Risk Perceptions and Allocation Preferences in Public-Private Partnerships in Nigeria (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/24878

contributor:
Mintz, Jack
Wen, Jean-Francois

subject:
Business Administration--Management
Public Administration
Public-Private
Institutions
Agency Theory
Risk Perceptions
Risk Allocation
Contract Theory
Allocation Preferences
Nigeria
Developing Countries
Risk Management
Partnerships

abstract:
Risk perceptions and allocation preferences are important elements of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP); as the fundamental tension in any negotiation between the public and private sector in PPPs usually comes down to the question: who is responsible for managing a particular risk? Yet research literature suggests that these phenomena have not been adequately studied; hence they remained poorly understood. Particularly within the context of a developing country such as Nigeria: a complex country characterised by shifting socio-political and economic systems, yet bedevilled with huge infrastructure gap. This gap keeps widening especially with Nigeria’s burgeoning population, rapid urbanization, dysfunctional institutions and increasing fiscal pressures. This certainly makes the poignant case for a PPP as an alternative procurement method.
To shed light on these phenomena, the research expedition in this thesis empirically answers the following interrelated questions: How do private and public sector partner prefer risks to be shared (or allocated) in PPPs in Nigeria? Second, given that the initial disposition towards risk is the starting point for risk allocation in PPPs, are there significant differences in risk perceptions of different stakeholder groups involved in PPPs in Nigeria?
Research participants (spanning banking, construction, and public sector groups who were selected through a convenience sampling method) completed an online survey with Likert-type items within six months (i.e. between June and November 2011) to gauge probabilities of occurrence, risk impact and risk significance of 46 risk factors pertaining to PPP projects. As data did not meet the assumptions for parametric statistics, Mann-Whitney U tests were performed to evaluate the ranked differences in the variables (i.e. 46 risk factors) between private and public sector groups. This study dissects empirically the risk perceptions of stakeholders, confirming homogeneity in risk perceptions contrary to the heterogeneity prediction of agency theory. It was established that there were no significant ranked differences for perceptions of risk significance among various stakeholder groups. Therefore, with homogeneity in risk perceptions among PPP stakeholders (contrary to the theoretical heterogeneity prediction) it was argued that risks are likely to be allocated to the party best capable of managing them in Nigeria; thus PPPs could have a chance to succeed in the country in spite of its weak institutional conditions. The
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results further show that the three most important risk factors in Nigeria are: excessive contract variation, construction time delay and construction cost overrun.
Lastly, on risk allocation preferences, this study shows that 27 (59%) out of the 46 risk factors are preferred to be allocated to the private sector, while 8 (17%) risk factors are to be allocated to the public sector and 11 (24%) of the risk factors are to be equally shared between the private and public sectors.


identifier: Berenger, B. M. (2009). Involvement of cd14 in the inflammatory cytokine response to exoenzyme s from pseudomonas aeruginosa (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/3909

format:
ix, 110 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 87-110

abstract: A page is in colour.

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


identifier: Ikenouye, D. (2017). Teachers in the wild are pragmatic: An Integral Analysis of Teachers’ Perspectives on the Integration of Technology in Teaching (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27983

contributor:
Bohac Clarke, Veronika
Eaton, Sarah
Davis, Andrew
Friesen, Sharon
Donlevy, James
Redmond, Petrea

subject:
Education--Curriculum and Instruction
Education--Technology
technology
integration
curriculum
integral
methodological
pluralism
IMP

abstract:
The purpose of this study was to examine teachers’ integration of technology from multiple perspectives to gain a rich and contextualized understanding of how they genuinely use technology in the classroom. Four research questions were addressed in this study; (a) What influence does technology infrastructure have on teachers using technology? (b) What do teachers believe and think about technology? (c) What is the technological culture that teachers’ experience? (d) What is the influence of policies on teachers’ use of technology? Wilber’s Integral methodological pluralism was used as a framework to orient the study, to organize the research questions and to provide the conceptual framework for the research methodology.
	Teachers experience a lack of access to technology which proved to be a barrier to most. However, teachers with mature understanding of technology enabled student knowledge creation, successfully overcame these barriers. Teachers must navigate the changing technology connected classroom culture for students to experience academic success. Teachers struggle with policies that make the technology program of studies vague and without specific outcomes. However, a ministerial focus on technology to support the communication and creation of knowledge by students rather than on supporting teaching, encourages the development of mature technology integration.


identifier: Iacob, L. (2008). The survival strategies of the conservative party and the emergence of the inter-war political system in Romania (1918-1925) (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2076

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 133-135


identifier: Choy, S. C. (1974). Matrix method of analysis of variance (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/15709

title: Matrix method of analysis of variance

format:
v, 213 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
QA 279 C48 1974 Microfiche
Analysis of variance

abstract: Bibliography: p. 125.


identifier: Blaker, J. J. (2006). The characterization of nyctalopin (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/36

title: The characterization of nyctalopin

format:
xiii, 130 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 122-130


identifier: Warden, L. T. (1993). Gender as performance in the plays of Michel Trembley (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12420

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

subject: PS 9571 R46 1993

subject: Gender identity in literature

subject: Authors, Canadian (French) - Quebec (Province)

abstract: Bibliography: p. 94-98.


identifier: Grant, D. M. (2018). DNA Methylation Landscape of the Fibrinogen Gene Cluster in the Equine Embryo (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/33140

publisher:
Graduate Studies
Veterinary Medicine
University of Calgary
Calgary

contributor:
Klein, C.
Riabowol, Karl T.
Demetrick, Douglas James

subject:
Fibrinogen
Equine Embryo
Fixation
bisulphite sequencing
Genetics
Biology--Molecular
Veterinary Science

abstract: The initial weeks of equine pregnancy includes the unique phase of embryo mobility from day 9 until fixation on day 15. Fixation of the embryo to the uterine wall occurs before a microvillous attachment at ~day 40. Throughout the mobility period the equine embryo expresses and secretes fibrinogen, a protein best known for its involvement in the coagulation cascade and wound repair. The aim of this MSc project was to contribute to the characterization of conceptus-derived fibrinogen at the time of fixation. We confirmed early embryo expression in the absence of hepatic activity, as well as describe expression by the later fetal-placenta. We characterized DNA methylation across the fibrinogen gene cluster for equine liver, day 14 embryos, and endometrium. The methylation landscape of equine embryos is distinct from both liver and endometrium. However, in key regulatory regions the embryo and liver profiles were the same. The similarity to liver methylation in known regulatory regions supports fibrinogen expression by the embryo and suggests its involvement in gene regulation. In addition to our genetic characterization, we trialed various in vitro assays in an attempt to determine the possible role of fibrinogen at the embryo-maternal interface. Overall this study has contributed to our ongoing effort to provide context for the novel extra-hepatic expression of fibrinogen by the pre-implantation conceptus.


identifier: Morgan, D. G. (2000). Development of a logit choice model of trip generation for the city of Calgary (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14485

format:
ix, 222 leaves ; ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: HE 147.7 M67 2000

subject: Trip generation - Alberta - Calgary - Mathematical models

subject: Transportation - Alberta - Calgary - Planning - Mathematical models

subject: Logits

abstract: Bibliography: p. 188-190


identifier: Funk, G. (1994). A high efficiency linearized radio frequency power amplifier (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/22601

format:
xvi, 116 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
TK 7871.58 P6 F86 1994
Power amplifiers
Radio frequency modulation

abstract: Bibliography: p. 94-97.


identifier: Park, S. (2002). Genetic transformation and metabolic engineering of the papaveraceae (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/17134

format:
xxii, 187 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: AC1 .T484 2002 P375

abstract: Bibliography: p. 170-187.


identifier: Murdoch, R. J. (1981). CPR right of way redevelopment - Downtown Red Deer, Alberta (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/21092

format:
69 leaves : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: HT 169 C392 R45 1984

subject: City planning - Alberta

subject: Red Deer (Alta.) - City planning

subject: Central business districts - Alberta - Red Deer

abstract: Bibliography: p. 69.


identifier: Jones, N. A. (2006). Adjudicating the perpetrators of genocide: a preliminary investigation into the judicial response to genocide in Rwanda (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/673

format:
xii, 300 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 274-290


identifier: Stoakes, F. A. (1979). Sea level control of carbonate-shale deposition during progradational basin-filling: the upper Devonian Duvernay and Ireton Formations of Alberta, Canada (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/19984

format:
xxvii, 346 leaves : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

relation: Additional Copy: QE 471.15 C3 S86 1979G Geology

subject: QE 471.15 C3 S86 1979 Fiche

subject: Rocks, Carbonate

subject: Shale - Alberta

subject: Sedimentation and deposition - Alberta - Central region

subject: Geology, Stratigraphic - Devonian

abstract: Bibliography: p. 262-279.

abstract: Within basin-filling shales of the Frasnian Duvernay and Ireton Formations a number of inclined electric log markers indicate the presence of significant submarine topography durtng deposition. Log marker surfaces comprise a submarine hardground on the platform and upper foreslope, and may be traced into a thin carbonate-rich layer on the middle foreslope. Calciturbidites containing hardground-derived lithoclasts may directly overlie this layer, establishing the temporal equivalence of these two lithologies. These markers form in response to a relaxation in terrigenous sedimentation against a background of continuous carbonate deposition and may be considered essentially synchronous surfaces. The presence of time-synchronous stratigraphic markers allows precise depth estimates of lithofacies and biofacies ranges to be made. The broad topography of the marker surface defines the three major depositional settings of platform, slope and basin. Cored intervals may be related to their respective log marker and, based on the topographic position they occupy, be assigned a minimum quantitative depositional water depth. Five bathymetrically controlled lithofacies associations have been distinguished: (la) Open marine shale platform 0-35 m (lb) Open marine carbonate platform 0-25 m (2) Upper foreslope nodular limestones 30-55 m (31 Middle foreslope bioturbated shales 55-90 m (4) Toe of slope interbedded micritic limestone and calcareous shale 90-100 m (5) Dark bituminous limestone and shale> 100 m. Biofacies distribution reflects a tripartite layering of the water column probably reflecting levels of oxygenation: An aerobic zone with abundant calcareous fauna 0-45 m; a dysaerobic zone with abundant infauna 45-100 m; and anaerobic zone lacking any indigenous fauna below 100 m. Exact values vary as the basin develops and circulation patterns improve. Average values however differ significantly from those postulated in other studies of shale basins. Depositional slopes average 4-7 m/km (0.23 - 0.4°]. Log markers may be used to divide the Duvernay and Ireton Formations into a total of seven infonnal chronostratigraphic units termed depounits (DUI - CU7}. Depounits are broadly sigmoidal in cross-section and imbricated basinwards, their platform portions forming a stacked sequence of upward shoaling units in the east of the basin. They indicate that deposition tool place during a number of episodic rises in sea level. Growth of surrounding Leduc reefs took place at the same time as shale 5asin - filling.  A reciprocal pattern of sedimentation involving repeated sea level rise and still-stand characterizes and explains depositional patterns in this stratigraphic interval. During"high stands" carbonate deposition takes place, on reefs and in suitable water depths on the platform, in a predominantly vertical sense. During stillstands terrigenous sedimentation gradually becomes reesta5lished continuing basin-filling in a lateral sense. Significant carbonate platform deposition first took place with deposition of the Camrose Member which exhibits a shoaling upward sequence from a basal hardground and thins basinwards into shales of the upper foreslope. It is overlain by a thin shale break which thickens basinwards. This carbonate-shale couplet is the fullest lithologic expression of the reciprocal pattern of sedi mentation and may be used to explain depositional patterns in the laterally equivalent Grosmont Formation to the north and overlying Winter5urn Group to the west. Sedimentation patterns in the Western Canadian Frasnian cycle of onlap and offlap may be explained in terms of a reciprocal model of sedimentation involving episodic sea level rise and stillstand. The recognition of widespread submarine hardground surfaces provides the key to understanding the stratigraphic relations within, and evolution of, the East Shale Basin. Recognition of these surfaces in the Upper Devonian of Western Canada should allow a better understanding of stratigraphic relationships within the Frasnian cycle of onlap and offlap.


identifier: Garner, N. M. (2020). Elucidating the chemistry of particulate and chlorinated nitrates in the troposphere through method development, and chamber and field studies (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

publisher:
Science
University of Calgary

contributor:
Osthoff, Hans D.
Gailer, Jürgen G.
Thurbide, Kevin B.
Wieser, Michael E.
Bertram, Timothy H.

subject:
Chemistry
Analytical
Environmental
Atmospheric Chemistry
Nitryl chloride
ClNO2
Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry
CIMS
Cavity Ring-down Spectroscopy
TD-CRDS
Particulate nitrates
Smog chamber
Atmospheric Sciences
Chemistry--Analytical
Engineering--Chemical

abstract: This thesis explores the chemistry of chlorinated and particulate nitrogen oxides in the troposphere which can impact the budgets of atmospheric oxidants and aerosol. Mixing ratios of nitryl chloride (ClNO2) were measured by chemical ionization mass spectrometry (CIMS) during the ORCA campaign in July 2015 on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Mean ClNO2 mixing ratios were small (< 10 pptv) with a maximum of 46 pptv, in part due to low precursor concentrations, i.e., of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone, and large nitrate radical sinks, e.g., titration by monoterpenes. Concentrations of ClNO2 were enhanced in air masses with elevated NO2 concentrations that had resided over the ocean, demonstrating the potential of ClNO2 to affect radical budgets in remote environments. The potential loss of ClNO2 by uptake on inorganic and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) was investigated in a newly constructed smog chamber. Uptake probabilities (γ) were determined by box modeling constrained to measured ClNO2 mixing ratios and SMPS derived aerosol surface area. An upper limit of γ< 4x10-4 was determined for (NH4)2SO4 and NH4HSO4 aerosol, but larger values were needed for monoterpene derived SOA, i.e., γ=(8+/-2)x10-4. Uptake of ClNO2 on SOA reduces its lifetime and impact on nitrogen oxide and chlorine budgets downwind of coastal areas where marine and continental air masses combine. A method to quantify NH4NO3 and NaNO3 aerosol by thermal dissociation cavity ring-down spectroscopy (TD-CRDS) was developed. At inlet temperatures of 540 °C and 620 °C, respectively, scatter plots of SMPS volume distribution data and TD-CRDS mixing ratios correlated (r2>0.9) with unity slopes in laboratory experiments. Sample ambient air measurements in Calgary, AB in August 2018 showed the presence of particulate organic nitrates at inlet temperatures < 350 °C (consistent with smog chamber experiments with limonene SOA) and of inorganic nitrate aerosol, demonstrating the potential of TD-CRDS for ambient particulate measurements.


identifier: Talmo, T. K. (1975). Numerical solutions of some free boundary problems (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/23194

format:
x, 85 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
QA 401 T35 1975 Microfiche
Approximation theory
Calculus of variations
Quadratic programming

abstract: Bibliography: p. 84-85.


identifier: Solomon, M. B. (2015). Managing the Medicalization of Madness: A Narrative Analysis of Personal Stories about Mental Illness Online (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26823

subject:
Mass Communications
Communication
Narrative
Mental Illness
Madness
Medicalization
Internet
Health Communications

abstract: Emancipatory in spirit this thesis asserts personal narratives are an essential and active contributor to the development of meanings in discourse about mental illness and they have an influential role managing medicalization. The medicalization of madness is increasingly contested as people describe and explain how medical approaches and definitions of mental illness at best fail to adequately account for personal experiences of distress, and at worst are the cause of increased physical and psychological trauma. This thesis examines personal narratives posted publicly on medical, social care, and activist websites by organizations and individuals offering support and information about mental illness, community care options, psychiatric survivorship, activism and advocacy. Initial reviews indicated personal stories are included on websites by organizations and individuals with differing views, either for or against medical approaches, suggesting narratives are valued as a way to support or challenge various perspectives on medical approaches to mental illness. In this thesis the objective is not to determine which view is correct or truthful, rather it is to examine how people manage discourse about mental illness as it relates to their personal experiences, whether they identify as health care consumers, patients, ex-patients, or psychiatric survivors. Drawing on Habermas’s (1987) Theory of Communicative Action and Fairclough’s (1992) Social Theory of Discourse this thesis conceptualizes personal narratives as discursive practices and active sites where meaning is negotiated as people work to express lifeworld experiences in ways that fit with, yet challenge system discourses about mental illness. Using Gubrium and Holstein’s (2009) methodology of Narrative Ethnography the analysis identifies and examines personal stories about what it’s like being a patient, how social relationships matter, and why recovery is personal. The analysis shows people manage medicalization of their experiences in their stories by making meaningful connections between personal experiences and discourse about mental illness via a narrative practice (introduced here) called narrative bridging. To accomplish this people use narrative strategies of resisting, re-informing, and reinforcing discourse about mental illness, and it is through these strategies and the consequences of narrative bridging that medicalization is managed in personal narratives.


identifier: Frei, R. E. (1988). Gene expression in the bovine preimplantation embryo (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/13806

format:
xii, 117 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
SF 201 F73 1988
Cattle - Embryos - Physiology

abstract: Bibliography: p. 106-115.


identifier: Mann, M. (1994). A critique of pure cognition: imagery and the sensuous (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/23442

format:
vi, 105 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: BF 311 P943 M36 1994

subject: Pylyshyn, Zenon W., 1937- Computation and cognition

subject: Cognition

subject: Imagery (Psychology)

abstract: Bibliography: p. 99-105.


identifier: Swinson, D. B. (1961). Variations in extensive air showers (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/13878

title: Variations in extensive air showers

format:
viii, 65 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
QC 485 S95 1961 Microfilm
Cosmic rays

abstract: Bibliography: p. 64-65.


identifier: Barrett, D. (2010). Rich inheritances: pedagogy and playwrighting (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/3878

format:
iv, 150 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 146-150


identifier: Wilson, G. N. (2013). High Speed Navigation of UGVs in Rough Unknown Terrains (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26369

subject:
Electronics and Electrical
Mechanical
Robotics
Unmanned Ground Vehicles
Terrain Assessment
Terrain Identificaiton
Speed Selection

abstract:
The traversal of rough a priori unknown terrain by an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) at high-speed requires the assessment of terrain in front of the vehicle as well as algorithms to select a speed based on the identified terrain. Current techniques are either susceptible to miss-classification, do not address the challenge of speed selection, or have not been experimentally tested.
This thesis proposes a geometric terrain identification technique where a range sensor captures a 3D terrain point cloud and uses the standard deviation of the terrain point elevations to determine a roughness score. Using this roughness score three methods were proposed in this thesis to select a fast but safe allowable speed for a UGV based on predicting the force the terrain will exert on the UGV while driving. These methods were experimentally tested on rough outdoor terrain to demonstrate and compare their performance.


identifier: Ogunsolu, M. O. (2012). Optimal valuation of natural gas storage (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4626

format:
viii, 87 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 85-87

abstract:
This thesis focuses on the valuation of natural gas storage. We investigate the peculiar behavior of gas prices including the distribution of log returns, mean reversion and seaÂsonality. We then model natural gas spot prices as a two-factor stochastic differential equation with mean reversion and seasonality properly accounted for in the model. These characteristics are common to commodities ( electricity, gas, agricultural products), unÂlike other financial assets (for example stocks, bonds etc.) whose availability and usage are not seasonal in nature and whose prices do not tend to revert back to an average long term mean. In addition, we also exploit the relationship between spot prices and futures prices to model and calibrate natural gas price spot and futures prices.
Using the two-factor gas price model, we model the value of a gas storage as a stochastic control problem [8]. The timing optionality of the gas storage problem makes it similar to a constrained American option on the inter-temporal spread of gas prices. This problem can be solved by extending the Least Squares Monte Carlo (LSM) approach of Longstaff and Schwartz (2001) for pricing early exercise options [20].


identifier: Heard, B. J. (2011). Early molecular changes quantified in the ovine stifle joint two weeks post anterior cruciate ligament autograft surgery (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4205

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

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 106-112
A few pages are in colour.


identifier: Tran, T. A. (2005). Space-time coding and interference cancellation for wireless communications (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2396

format:
xxi, 189 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 178-189


identifier: Hazaymeh, K. (2016). Development of a Remote Sensing-Based Agriculture Monitoring Drought Index and Its Application Over Semi-Arid Region (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25672

contributor:
Hassan, Quazi
Islam, Tanvir
Blais, Rodrigue
He, Jianxun
Nowicki, Edwin

subject:
Physical Geography
Remote Sensing
Chemistry--Agricultural
Remote Sensing
Landsat-8
Image Fusion

abstract: Agricultural drought is a natural disaster that usually occurs when the available water content goes below the optimal needs of the proper growth of plants during its growing season. It has enormous impacts on economic, environmental, and social sectors. In this study, our overall objective was to develop a fully remote sensing-based method for monitoring agricultural drought conditions and evaluate its performance over a semi-arid heterogeneous rainfed agricultural dominant landscape in Jordan. In general, remote sensing data having both high spatial and temporal resolutions would be required for evaluating agricultural drought conditions, as usually agriculture land cover would be relatively heterogeneous and small in size, while drought could occur during critical short time periods i.e., few days or weeks during the growing season. However, due to different technical and cost issues such high spatio-temporal remote sensing data are still unavailable. Thus, we opted to develop a spatio-temporal image-fusion model (STI-FM) to generate synthetic Landsat-8 like data with 30 m spatial and 8 day temporal resolutions upon combining regular Landsat-8 (having 30 m spatial with 16 day temporal resolutions) with moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS)-based 8-day composite data having 250-1000 m spatial resolutions. Then, we used these fused data in developing the agricultural drought monitoring index (ADI) as a combination of three uncorrelated remote sensing-based agricultural drought related variables [i.e., normalized difference water index (NDWI), visible and shortwave drought index (VSDI), and land surface temperature (LST)]. Results showed that the proposed STI-FM was able to produce synthetic Landsat-8 data with strong accuracy (i.e., r2 were in the range 0.71 to 0.90). The evaluation of agricultural drought conditions over the study area using the proposed remote sensing-based agricultural drought index showed high agreements such as 85% overall accuracy and 78% Kappa-values, when compared to ground based 8-day standardised precipitation index (SPI) values. These strong results demonstrated that the proposed methods would be great in monitoring agricultural drought conditions at agricultural field scale (i.e., high spatial resolution) and short time periods (i.e., high temporal resolution).


identifier: Smit, M. G. (1994). Quality of life issues: head and neck cancer (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12731

format:
xii, 209 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
RC 262 S65 1994
Cancer - Patients
Quality of life
Cancer - Social aspects
Cancer - Psychological aspects
Head - Cancer
Neck - Cancer

abstract: Bibliography: p. 155-169.

abstract:
Head and neck cancer and its treatment can present major problems for a person
and his/ her family as a result of meaningful functional and structural alterations.
Current treatment plans are chosen with a primary goal of prolonging survival. lnduding infonnation of a patient's quality of life (QOL), hovvever, is becoming rrore widely recognized as a vital contributor to making appropriate treatment choices. Since there is no absolute "gold standard" to ad as a yardstick to measure QOL, the meaning of an assessment is open to some conjecture.
This pilot study involved the participation of 22 cancer patients \Nho had been treated for head and neck cancer within the past two years at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary, Alberta. A self-adninistered questionnaire based on the European Organization for Research into the Treatment of Cancer is currently recognized as an instrument validated to measure QOL of cancer patients. The purpose of this study was to discuss current QOL issues for head and neck cancer patients; and to explore the reliability and validity of an Ear, Nose and Throat cancer-specific module designed to be administered with the EORTC QLQ-C30. The SCL-90-R and POMS vvere used to compare psychological mood states to QOL.


identifier: MacKinnon, D. J. (2006). 'I am alone in this world': the identities of Marie Rose Smith (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/617

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 137-149


identifier: Van Ham, J. M. (2003). The critical success factors for the commercial application of emerging alternative energy technologies (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/17661

format:
vii, 269 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 184-193


identifier: Nigus, G. M. (2022). Ethnoarchaeology of the Incense Trade in Tigray, northern highland Ethiopia (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

contributor:
Lyons, Diane
Kooyman, Brian
Wilson, Warren
Yessenova, Saulesh
Cunningham, Jerimy

subject:
ethnoarchaeology
political economy
incense trade
Tigray, Ethiopia
Archaeology

abstract: Since ancient times, frankincense and myrrh have been traded across Northeast Africa, the Near East and circulated through the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and Mediterranean Sea. The incense trade is almost invisible, and little is known of how incense was produced, distributed, and consumed within ancient states and how incense was integrated into local and regional political economies.  This dissertation  is an ethnoarchaeological investigation of the political economy of the contemporary incense trade in the Central and Northwestern Zones of Tigray Regional State, northern highland Ethiopia. Significantly, there are both elite and non-elite incense trades in this region. The elite trade of frankincense is controlled by government sanctioned international and parastatal companies that use non-mechanized production, processing, and distribution practices.  Frankincense is targeted for international consumers but also supplies the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church within the country. Women form the largest labor sector processing frankincense, but they also trade, produce, distribute, and consume non-elite luxury aromatic plant materials for daily household rituals using different incense burners than those found in the church. While the contemporary and ancient incense trades cannot be considered as identical, the contemporary trade provides insights into how incense production and trade are integrated into the regional political economy and how the trade reproduces class and gender inequities that have deep historic roots. Anthropologists must consider international incense trade more broadly, including at the levels of local production and consumption, and by considering the role of this trade in the production and reproduction of social inequalities and power structures at all social scales. The study also provides a cost-effective method for African researchers to identify incense residue.


identifier: Reuter, B. K. (1999). Pathogenesis of NSAID-induced intestinal toxicity: studies in healthy rats and rats with colitis (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12270

format:
xiii, 235 leaves ; ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: RM405.5 .R48 1999

subject: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents

subject: Intestines--effect of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents on

subject: Gastrointestinal system--research

subject: Rats - Physiology

subject: Colitis.

abstract: Bibliography: p. 197-234


identifier: Tan, L. (1987). An Investigation of smoking policies in the workplace (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/13993

format:
viii, 145 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
HF 5549.5 S55 T36 1987
Smoking in the workplace
Work environment

abstract: Bibliography: p. 136-145.


identifier: Woodhead, H. R. (1973). A Study of prestressed concrete under combined loading (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/22376

format:
xxii, <265> : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
TA 440 W66 1972 Microfilm
Prestressed concrete - Testing

abstract: Bibliography: p. 222-227.


identifier: White, M. (2009). Pearls in black settings: shifting meanings and contexts of northern widowhood, 1860-1915 (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/3075

format:
vii, 135 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 129-135


identifier: Aboushousha, R. (2015). Activation of the Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid-1 (TRPV1) channel mediates Extracellular Signal Regulated Kinase (ERK) phosphorylation via Beta-arrestin-2 signaling (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/24691

subject: Pharmacology TRPV1 Beta-arrestin ERK

abstract: The Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) channel plays a pivotal role in pain sensation and transduction under physiological and pathophysiological conditions. Recent work highlighted a possible role for β-arrestin-2, a scaffolding protein that mediates G-protein coupled receptor desensitization, in channel regulation. Interestingly, β-arrestin-2 also acts as a signaling scaffold for the MAPK (ERK1/2) pathway which was described as an important nociceptive marker. In this thesis, several experimental approaches were employed to investigate TRPV1 signaling and to characterize whether β-arrestin-2 as well as ERK play a role downstream of channel activation. The work presented here describes for the first time a unique β-arrestin-2 signaling pathway following TRPV1 channel activation. In particular, we found that calcium influx through TRPV1 channels induced translocation of β-arrestin-2 from the cytosol to the nucleus. In addition, we showed that TRPV1 activation elicited ERK phosphorylation in a β-arrestin-2-dependent manner. Our data suggest that the signaling cascade starts with calcium influx through TRPV1 channels that activates protein kinase C (PKC) and induces its translocation to the plasma membrane. The activation of PKC was necessary for ERK activation as well as β-arrestin-2 nuclear translocation. While this work is the first to describe β-arrestin-2 nuclear translocation downstream of TRPV1 stimulation, the functional relevance of this translocation is yet-to-be unveiled. Given the crucial role of TRPV1 in nociception, understanding its signaling as well as the mechanisms by which the channel is modulated may pave the way to develop a novel class of analgesics.


identifier: Chen, K. (2002). Creep and creep recovery of old high performance concrete (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/22556

format:
xiii, 71 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: AC1 .T484 2002 C44

abstract: Bibliography: p. 64-65.


identifier: Wensveen, R. (2019). The Practical Uses and Benefits of ePortfolios (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

contributor:
Winchester, Ian
Patterson, Margaret
Jacobsen, Michele
Kawalilak, Colleen
McLean, Scott
Carter, Lorraine

subject:
Skills Gap
Employment
Knowledge Portfolio
ePortfolio
Workforce Development
Workplace Training
Competency
Credential
Certification
Prior Learning
Survey
Interview
College
University
Lifelong Learning
Continuing Education
Education
Employer
Work Experience
LinkedIn
Labour
Marketability
resume
Curriculum Vitae
Education--Administration
Education--Adult and Continuing
Education--Vocational
Economics--Commerce-Business

abstract: ePortfolios are a rapidly emerging, powerful, and iterative form for capturing student work including accredited evidence for lifelong learning in both academic and professional contexts. The purpose of this research is to determine if and how ePortfolios can serve as a foundation for individuals to obtain, or enhance opportunities toward, meaningful employment. The question that directs this undertaking is: What are the practical uses and benefits of ePortfolios for employment purposes among undergraduate and continuing education students? The research is addressed through a mixed methods research approach through the use of a survey to collect both quantitative and qualitative data, as well as semi-structured interviews. The results identify the perceptions students have regarding ePortfolios in showcasing their skills and knowledge, and potentially improving their employment opportunities. The responses indicate participants believe ePortfolios provide both direct and in-direct employment leads and opportunities, and they have had positive experiences that influence their motivation to create and maintain an ePortfolio. Participants also believe ePortfolios will play an ongoing and integral role in helping to seek or obtain employment, and in enhancing or augmenting the résumé or curriculum vitae, but not replacing it. On this basis, it is recommended that all graduates seeking employment have an ePortfolio and that Universities promote and encourage ePortfolio use among students by integrating ePortfolios into the curriculum. Continuing Education should develop a short ePortfolio development course and ePortfolio users should ensure they are maximizing the full features that the ePortfolio can provide. Future research into employer perceptions of ePortfolios is also recommended.


identifier: Marrelli, G. C. (1995). Policy change and voter realignment in Mexico, 1982-1994 (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12637

format:
ix, 107 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: JL 1292 M37 1995

subject: Voting - Mexico

subject: Mexico - Politics and government - 1970-1988

subject: Mexico - Politics and government - 1988-

subject: Partido Revolucionario Institucional

abstract: Bibliography: p. 102-107.


identifier: Wong, H. (2001). Bacterial receptor binding regions on human lactoferrin and bovine transferrin (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/21253

publisher:
Graduate Studies
Medicine
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
xiv, 240 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
QP552 .T7 W66 2001
Transferrin
Lactoferrin
Ligand binding (Biochemistry)
Pathogenic bacteria
Iron proteins
Protein binding

abstract: Bibliography: p . 215-235.


identifier: Addabor, E. A. (2005). The regulation of transnational corporations: an assessment of the alternatives and the role of multilateral development banks (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/146

publisher:
Law
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
ix, 195 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 165-195


identifier: Luu, H. F. (2004). Voluntary environmental initiatives and environmental management: toward a cooperative approach for the future (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14472

format:
ix, 413 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 378-408


identifier: Ross, T. (2003). Exploring articulation capabilities in new technology ventures (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14319

publisher:
Graduate Studies
Haskayne School of Business
University of Calgary
Calgary

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 90-94


identifier: Heron, R. M. (1971). Theory of signal detectability: comparison of the binary decision and confidence rating methods, with recommendations for highway research in pattern recognition (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/11666

format:
xiv, 127 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
BF 237 H45 1971
Perception
Psychology, Physiological
Traffic safety
Highway research

abstract: Bibliography: p. 124-127.


identifier: More, K. D. (2009). Predicting patient outcome of non-operative treatment for a chronic rotator cuff tear (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/3250

publisher:
Kinesiology
University of Calgary
Calgary

contributor:
Mohtadi, Nicholas G. H.
Boorman, Richard

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 84-93


identifier: Hasan, M. (2018). Balanced Multiresolution in Multilevel Focus+Context Visualization (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/32845

publisher:
Graduate Studies
Science
University of Calgary
Calgary

contributor:
Samavati, Faramarz
Costa Sousa, Mário
Mudur, Sudhir Pandurang
Gavrilova, Marina L.
Jacob, Christian J.
Katz, Larry

subject:
focus+context visualization
contextual close-up
symmetric extension
antisymmetric extension
multiresolution
reverse subdivision
balanced decomposition
perfect reconstruction
lossless reconstruction
balanced wavelet transform
balanced integer wavelet transform
Education--Mathematics
Computer Science
Engineering--Electronics and Electrical

abstract: Given a set of symmetric/antisymmetric filter vectors containing only regular multiresolution filters, the method we present in this thesis can establish a balanced multiresolution (BMR) scheme for images, allowing their balanced decomposition and subsequent perfect reconstruction without the use of any extraordinary boundary filters. We define balanced multiresolution such that it allows balanced decomposition i.e. decomposition of a high-resolution image into a low-resolution image and corresponding details of equal size. Several applications of such a decomposition result in a balanced wavelet transform (BWT) that makes on-demand reconstruction of regions of interest (ROIs) efficient in both computational load and implementation aspects. We find such decomposition and perfect reconstruction based on an appropriate combination of symmetric/antisymmetric extensions near the image and detail boundaries. In our method, exploiting such extensions correlates to performing sample (pixel/voxel) split operations. We demonstrate our general approach for some commonly used symmetric/antisymmetric multiresolution filters. We also show the application of such a balanced multiresolution scheme in constructing an interactive multilevel focus+context visualization framework for the navigation and exploration of large-scale 2D and 3D images. Typically, the given filters are floating-point values, so our BWTs reversibly map integers to floating-point i.e. real values. We extend our balanced multiresolution framework further to construct reversible integer-to-integer BWTs from a given symmetric/antisymmetric decomposition filter vector of width less or equal to four. In our approach, we adjust the linear combination of fine samples suggested by the given decomposition vector using optimal sample split operations in combination with a rounding operation. Such adjustments translate an affine integer combination of fine samples to obtain an integer coarse sample, which closely approximates the floating-point coarse sample suggested by the given decomposition filter vector. The associated translation vectors give us the detail samples. Furthermore, when necessary, we construct every other detail sample differently in order to ensure local perfect reconstruction. Compared to their integer-to-real counterparts, the resulting reversible integer-to-integer BWTs occupy less memory, offer better compressibility, and do not require sample quantization for rendering purposes.


identifier: Simpson, E. H. (1993). Professional identity of counselling and counselling psychology in Canada (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/23358

format:
x, 126 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
BF 637 C6 S565 1993
Counseling - Canada

abstract: Bibliography: p. 97-103.


identifier: Wall, L. (2016). Living in an Artistic Labour Market: The Experiences of Gig Musicians in Calgary (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26776

contributor:
McCoy, Liza
Taylor, Gregory
Patterson, Matt

subject:
Anthropology--Cultural
musician labour markets
cultural studies
ethnographic interviews

abstract: Musicians who perform for pay are seen in every city in the world, but the work of musicians is rarely framed as a practice which warrants sociological attention. Instead, popular culture discourse systematically focuses on the work of musicians by talking about individual artists, their ingenuity and their inspirations. People may view musicians as professionals, but this profession is rarely understood as a practice which has many layers and nuances. This study provides such an understanding by asking musicians who play gigs for a living in Calgary about what they do to survive as artists. Through in-depth interviews with sixteen individuals and ethnographic analysis of the various activities that musicians do, this study reveals the diversity of orientations and ways in which musicians do musician work, and the profoundly important social context in which musicians are able to sustain themselves as cultural workers.


identifier: Meadows, L. A. (1999). How primary care physicians in Calgary perceive the management of change in the health care system (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/19155

format:
x, 110 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: RA450 .A3 M43 1999A

subject: Additional Copy: RA450 .A3 M43 1999 in the Business Library, reserve collection

subject: Health care reform--Alberta

subject: Medical policy--Alberta

subject: Primary care--medicine--Alberta

subject: Physicians (general practice)--Alberta--attitudes

subject: Physicians (general practice)--Alberta--job satisfaction

abstract: Bibliography: p. 84-90


identifier: Fisher, C. (2002). Coping in Cardenas, Cuba: the meaning of a 'special period' (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/17122

format:
xiii, 165 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: AC1 .T484 2002 F547

abstract: Bibliography: p. 122-127.


identifier: Brown, C. R. (2007). Characteristics of solids removal and clogging processes in two types of permeable pavement (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/1274

format:
xii, 171 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 138-145


identifier: Yan, L. (2003). Seismic imaging and migration velocity analysis of Alberta Foothills structural data sets (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/13946

format:
xvi, 198 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 188-198


identifier: Boomer, M. E. (1970). The Family in the Rezeau novels of Herve Bazin (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12621

format:
83 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
PQ 2615 E7724 Z58 1970 Microfilm
Bazin, Herve, 1911-

abstract: Bibliography: p. 80-83.


identifier: Fell, J. S. (1996). Rebellion and the quest for social revolution in Latin America: the case of Guatemala in the 1960's (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/23616

format:
viii, 145 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: F 1466.5 F45 1996

subject: Guatemala - History - 1945-1985

subject: Guatemala - Politics and government - 1945-1985

abstract: Bibliography: p. 137-145.


identifier: Varughese, K. A. (2019). Performance of Steel Braced Frame Reinforced with Shape Memory Alloy Wires (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

publisher:
Schulich School of Engineering
University of Calgary

contributor:
El-Hacha, Rafaat
Shrive, Nigel
Federico, Salvatore

subject:
Structural engineering
shape memory alloy
NiTi
seismic engineering
pseudoelastic
self-centring
Engineering

abstract: Shape memory alloys have just recently made their way into structural design, and through studies have proved to be quite effective in increasing a structure’s strength and performance. This thesis focuses on the research performed on concentrically braced steel frames reinforced with nickel-titanium (NiTi) shape memory alloy (SMA) wires for use as a seismic resistance force system. The main objective of this research was to design an innovative self-centring system that had the ability to dissipate energy and undergo large deformations that would occur during large earthquake motions. Three frames were designed and tested; one control steel braced frame and two SMA-reinforced steel braced frames. Examination of the systems under a free vibration test and a quasi-static cyclic test was conducted to study the effect the SMA wires had on the behaviour of the braced frames. Initial test results showed that the SMA braced frame had significant re-centring capabilities, and a potential for moderate energy dissipation. Investigation of the anchorage connection showed that the wires slipped out of their anchorage prematurely. With the improved system, it was concluded that the SMA-reinforced frame attained a significantly greater energy dissipation ability, self-centring response, and overall an enhanced performance than the conventional steel braced frame.


identifier: Milligan, M. S. (1996). Postinjury marriage to spinal chord injured men: women's perspectives on making a commitment (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/18769

format:
x, 202 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
HQ1036 .M55 1996
Handicapped - Marriage
Handicapped - Family relationships

abstract: Bibliography: p. 182-192.


identifier: Landals, A. J. (2008). The Lake Minnewanka site: patterns in late pleistocene use of the Alberta Rocky Mountains (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2012

format:
xv, 382 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 333-362

abstract: Some pages are in colour.

abstract:
A five year excavation program at the Lake Minnewanka site, near Banff, Alberta (totaling 87 square meters) yielded 26 occupations, including eight, well defined, well stratified occupation floors, dating between 10,000 and 10,800 radiocarbon years before present (ea. 11,300 to 13,150 calibrated years B.P.). Individual floors were sealed by a rapidly deposited blanket of aeolian loess. Some of the oldest floors in the site contained the remains of mountain sheep, hearths, red ochre, and pieces esquillées associated with small, enigmatic, blade-like flakes. Slightly later floors exhibited quite different patterns of lithic reduction and raw material preference, more typical of plains Paleolndians. The concordance with some aspects of the Vermilion Lakes site (Fedje et al. 1995) is striking, verifying the presence of at least two closely subsequent early cultural traditions, typified by very different patterns of raw material use and reduction strategies. The earliest groups at both sites were hunting mountain sheep in the expanded alpine zone during the cold, dry Younger Dryas climatic interval.

The ice-free corridor has been increasingly portrayed as a desolate waste, incapable of allowing the passage of humans until after populations were established south of the ice (Dixon 2001, Mandryk et al. 2001, Stanford and Bradley 2002). However, recent study of mountain sheep genetics (Loehr et al. 2006) indicates the existence of at least two cryptic refugia that supported populations of mountain sheep within the ice-free corridor throughout the last ice age. Deglaciation permitted a rapid expansion of sheep into newly available, highly productive ranges. A consideration of the calibrated radiocarbon dates suggests that the "late" dates for Pleistocene sites within the ice-free corridor has been somewhat exaggerated. This evaluation suggests that the corridor was a suitable route for migration coetaneous with the current earliest known Alaskan Complexes. This does not negate the potential of the coastal route for migration, nor is the possibility for earlier human occupation obviated. It simply seems as though the ice-free corridor should not yet be discounted as a potentially important variable in the first peopling equation.


identifier: Kaufman, D. (1967). Cardiovascular change and gradients of mental work under two conditions of physiological activation (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/11083

subject:
QP 111 K37 1967
Heart
Psychology, Physiological

abstract: Bibliography: p. 46-48.


identifier: White, J. S. (2009). "What do they want me to say?": a qualitative analysis of the use of the essay question in medical school admissions (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2738

format:
x, 214 leaves :  ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 203-212


identifier: West, A. (2017). Clinical Simulation-Based Assessment in Respiratory Therapy Education (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25334

contributor:
Parchoma, Gale
Koh, Kim
Kim, Beaumie
Sharma, Nishan

subject:
Education
Education--Higher
Education--Technology
Education--Vocational
Health Sciences
Education
Rehabilitation and Therapy
Simulation
Assessment
Networked Learning
Ontological Security
Fidelity
Respiratory Therapy

abstract:
The manuscripts that comprise this dissertation collectively investigate clinical simulation-based assessment in respiratory therapy education.  Clinical simulation, characterized by debriefing that engages learners in self- and collaborative peer-assessment in addition to formative instructor assessment, is a well-established set of practices in respiratory therapy education.  Contextual factors within the profession of respiratory therapy in Canada, in particular its regulatory environment, are prompting a move from using formative debriefing sessions that support learning in simulation, to employing high-stakes testing intended to assess entry-to-practice competencies. There exists a need for the profession to consider how environmental factors, including externally derived requirements, may ultimately impact the effectiveness of simulation-based learning environments.
It is proposed that several important social elements of the clinical simulation-based learning environment, including trust, ontological security, and fidelity, may be at risk in the face of the evolving assessment practices in health professions education. As an at once undertheorized yet highly technologically enhanced and connected approach to learning, a shift towards socio-cultural perspectives on clinical simulation assessment, research, and practice is needed to better understand the social phenomena inherent in clinical simulation. This shift can benefit from the adoption of networked learning theory to encourage deeper understanding of the interrelationships that exist among sociomaterial dimensions of clinical simulation.
The findings of a qualitative case study are presented, examining the experiences of respiratory therapy students in clinical simulation learning environments where comparable instructional designs are characterized by differences between two important assessment approaches used in the field: formative debriefing for learning and summative debriefing for high-stakes testing. The findings indicate that social aspects of participants’ experiences in clinical simulation are characterized by: their comfort levels, their senses of ontological security, and their degrees of immersion in the simulation. Each of these experiential dimensions were impacted in some manner by the assessment design, a phenomenon that was further modulated by individuals’ self-reflexive capacity. These phenomena appear to coalesce to impact learners’ perceptions of their own performance in the clinical simulation context, which was also related to the approach to assessment built into in the instructional design.


identifier: Delaloye, N. (2017). An Exploration of Deference Behaviours Exhibited within the Paediatric Resuscitation Environment (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/24890

contributor:
Gilfoyle, Elaine
Oddone Paolucci, Elizabeth
Ellaway, Rachel
Kassam, Aliya

subject:
Education
Education
deference
medical education
hierarchy

abstract: Healthcare professionals’ deference to physician expertise has been observed across a variety of clinical settings. Although such behaviour often results in appropriate and efficient patient care, deference can become detrimental when an inappropriate order or action goes unchallenged. This study aimed to identify the underlying factors influencing deference behaviours exhibited within the paediatric resuscitation environment. Through a three-phase study design and thematic analysis approach informed by principles of grounded theory, six overarching factors were found to influence deference behaviours: factors located outside the resuscitation environment, factors located inside the resuscitation environment, individual characteristics, mental state and experience, cognition, and motivation. Together these six factors were found to influence deference and its associated actions and responses (obedience, conformity, compromise, and rejection). The identification of these factors and this novel understanding of deference could potentially guide healthcare professionals, educators, and researchers in the development of strategies to mitigate instances of compromised patient care.x


identifier: Damiani, R. (2008). Implementing sustainable community policy: an evaluation of the sustainable suburbs study (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2853

format:
xi, 167 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 120-125
Missing signature page.


identifier: Shajari, S. (2020). Development of Multifunctional Polymer Nanocomposites with Hybrid Structures for Fabrication of Stretchable Strain Sensing and Wearable Electronic Devices (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

contributor:
Sudak, Sudak, Leszek Jozef
Sundararaj, Uttandaraman
Kim, Keekyoung
Dalton, Colin
Roberts, Edward P.  L.
Naguib, Hani E.

subject:
Stretchable strain sensor
Wearable sensor
Health monitoring
Flexible electronics
Wearable electronics
Polymer nanocomposite
Electromechanical
Human motion detection
Remote Sensing
Health Care Management
Chemistry--Polymer
Engineering
Engineering--Biomedical
Engineering--Chemical
Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
Materials Science
Engineering--Mechanical

abstract:
Stretchable and flexible electronics have been proposed and practiced as promising alternatives to traditional rigid electronics for the next generation of smart devices in the fields of biomedicine, soft robotics, and energy harvesting. Particularly, the next generation of personal portable devices for remote health assessment requires wearable and attachable smart systems. Examples of these monitoring devices are stretchable and skin-mountable strain sensors for human motion detections, sport activities monitoring, soft robotics, and entertainment technology. Several requirements such as high stretchability, flexibility, a wide working strain ranges, durability, fast response, easy signal collections are considered for wearable sensing systems. Polymer nanocomposites are well established in wearable fashion due to their light weight, flexibility, deformability and easy processing. In this thesis, unique processing techniques were employed to develop novel filler network structures in polymers to improve electrical conductivity and mechanical properties and electromechanical properties and thus strain sensing performances.  One dimensional (1D) nanofillers such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs), silver nanowires (AgNWs) and stainless steel fibers (SSFs) were employed due to their effective network connections in polymers. Developing effective filler network structures in polymers even facilitated reducing electrical and strain sensing percolations. In this regard, firstly, a new double percolated network was introduced in CNT combined with fluoroelastomer FKM using an internal melt-mixing process. The two percolation networks provided wide range of low to high stretchability with high sensitivities. High strain sensing of more than 200% with high sensitivity or gauge factor (GF) of greater than 8×(10)^3 was achieved. Very long AgNWs (70-100 µm) with high aspect ratio of >500 and high conductivity of (10)^5 S.cm-1 were synthesized via a modified polyol process. Novel 3D hybrid network structures of AgNWs with CNTs in fluoroelastomer FKM including bridging and shell like structures were developed using optimized solution processing techniques such as solution mixing and layer by layer assembly (LBLA) methods. These hybrid network morphologies led to high conductivity of 2× (10)^5 S. m-1, ultra-high stretchability of up to 300% with ultra-high sensitivity at GF of 2× (10)^6. In LBLA method, only small hybrid nanofiller loadings of 0.88 wt% were employed for ultra-thin sensing elements with less than 10 µm in thickness. Compared to the recent stretchable strain sensors based on polymer nanocomposites reported in the literature, this is the best reported combination of strain sensing performances including stretchability, sensitivity and conductivity in thin film structures and using low filler concentrations. Moreover, the hierarchical hybrid network of SSFs and CNTs in polypropylene (PP) was developed via an internal melt-mixing process. This synergistic network structure in a semicrystalline polymer contributed to the simultaneous enhanced EMI shielding effectiveness (SE) of 57.4 dB and mechanical properties such as strain to failure at 3.5 vol% hybrid filler concentrations. The hybrid nanocomposite with SSFs and CNTs in PP is a good coating candidate to protect the sensor signals by 99.99% from any interference by electromagnetic (EM) waves in the X-band freq.
The reliability and usability of wearable sensors made from CNT/FKM nanocomposites was verified for human motion monitoring and as flexible interconnectors for fabricating stretchable light emitting diodes (LEDs) circuits. These inexpensive and simple fabrication techniques satisfy the new demands for cost-effective and high performance flexible and wearable electronics.


identifier: Gabruck, D. (2006). Se representer entre deux cultures: l'autorepresentation de la femme artiste en litterature et en peinture (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/919

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

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 205-233
Some pages are in colour.


identifier: Holodinsky, J. (2015). Mapping Current Adult Intensive Care Unit Patient Care Rounding Practices (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26828

subject:
Medicine and Surgery
Rounds

abstract:
Effective communication is essential for high quality patient care; within the ICU the
majority of health care provider communication occurs during patient care rounds. While
several best practices for rounds have been proposed it is unclear if they are being used in
Canadian adult Intensive Care Units (ICU). The objective of this thesis was to describe
current rounding practices in a sample of Canadian adult ICUs. A prospective
observational study consisting of a national survey and follow up interviews was
undertaken. ICU rounding practices were found to be heterogeneous across the country
and overall self-rated rounding quality was high, but several opportunities for
improvement were highlighted. This thesis proposes five recommendations for rounding
practices: defining participants and roles, managing interruptions, further study on patient
and family involvement, streamlining teaching during rounds, and creating an objective
metric to assess rounding quality. A structured tool for use during ICU rounds is also
proposed.


identifier: Cleaver, J. A. (1996). Waiting "backstage": the transformation of social relations among waitstaff and management in the casual restaurant industry through the introduction of rational management techniques (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/15236

format:
vii, 198 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
TX 911.3 M27 C54 1996
Restaurants - Management
Waiters and waitresses
Food service employees

abstract: Bibliography: p. 193-198.


identifier: Sheng, Y. (1994). Electrorotation measurement on plant protoplasts (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/24412

format:
xxi, 161 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: QK 725 S49 1994

subject: Plant cells and tissues - Electric properties - Measurement

subject: Plant protoplasts - Electric properties - Measurement

subject: Polarization (Electricity)

subject: Plant cytochemistry

subject: Bioelectrochemistry

abstract: Bibliography: p. 143-155.


identifier: Valge, E. L. (1996). Women's experiences of in-home recovery following a myocardial infarction and/or coronary artery bypass graft surgery (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/17963

publisher:
Nursing
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
x, 185 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
RT120 .H65 M35 1996
Home care services
Home nursing
Women patients

abstract: Bibliography: p. 167-176.


identifier: Murray, G. C. (1992). The house of double exposure (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12546

title: The house of double exposure

format:
iv, 63 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
NA 2543 M37 M87 1992
Mass media and architecture

abstract: Bibliography: p. <63>.


identifier: Gereluk, D. (1998). Voice, choice and power: Contested spaces in charter schools (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/13701

format:
vii, 151 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: LB2806.36 .G47 1998

subject: Additional Copy: 370 EDC 1998 GER in the Doucette Education Library

subject: Charter schools--Alberta.

subject: School choice - Alberta

abstract: Bibliography: p. 127-151.


identifier: Dlin, D. (1980). Violence between couples: a pilot project (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/19640

format:
ix, 126 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
Social surveys - Alberta - Calgary
Conjugal violence - Alberta
Wife abuse
Abused wives

abstract: Bibliography: p. 110-116.


identifier: Simspon, P. (2014). The effects of structured variation in nectar standing crop on currency choice and optimal foraging by bumble bees (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28119

subject: Ecology Behavior foraging Nectar

abstract: Foragers commonly exploit patchy habitats in which resource abundance can vary within and among patches. Studies measuring resource variation tend to consider only single sources of variation, so the extent of structured resource variation and how it impacts foraging animals are unclear. A survey of nectar abundance in five plant species revealed the spectrum from only within- to solely among-plant variation. Captive bumble bees (Bombus impatiens) confronted with an increasing component of among-inflorescence nectar variation departed inflorescences in manners that diverged increasingly from expectations of the Marginal Value Theorem (MVT). Bees apparently assess inflorescence quality on a per-patch basis, changing their exploitation behavior in response to poor or rewarding inflorescences as expected from a speed-accuracy trade-off, rather than maximizing their overall average return rate. This quantitative test of the MVT demonstrates the need to incorporate responses to variation within patches in models of forager behavior.


identifier: Ali, S. (2001). Molecular mechanisms of eosinophil: recruitment to breast carcinoma sites (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/16646

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

subject: AC1 .T484 2001 A45

abstract: Bibliography: p. 124-140.


identifier: Paulson, M. J. (1976). Differences in self-disclosure patterns between a group of maladjusted and a group of adjusted male adolescents (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/20992

format:
ix, 74 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
BF 724 P37 1976 Microfiche
Adolescent boys
Self-disclosure

abstract: Bibliography: p. 68-74.


identifier: Kotarski, K. (2009). Buying prevention: the evolution of cooperattive threat reduction from policy innovation to international regime (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2760

format:
vii, 162 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 150-162


identifier: Mellor, B. E. (2006). Radical shift: a grounded theory approach to midlife career change of professionals (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/721

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 168-172

abstract: There has been a modest amount of current academic research that has explored the family, situational, lifestyle, demographic, motivational, and/or life course factors that influence people in midlife to change professions. The findings expressed in this study came about through the use of an inductive grounded theory approach to analyze semi-structured interviews with former lawyers and educators who left their professions and are now engaged in unrelated careers. Major findings include: the motivations for why people leave their first careers; the link between the professional, personal, and family spheres of one 's life; the importance of spousal support and security; the transitional process undergone; the consequences of a career change on the family; and the types of new careers that were pursued. Overall, this study discusses how the lines between work, leisure, family, and lifestyle are blurred when people are successful in the proactive pursuit of a new and desirable career.


identifier: Jabbari, S. (2016). A Theoretical Framework for Seismic Time-lapse Difference AVO Analysis with Validation on Physical Modelling and Field Data (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25055

contributor:
Innanen, Kristopher A. H.
Krebes, Edward S.
Lines, Laurence R.
Wieser, Michael
Malcolm, Alison E.

subject: Geophysics

subject: Perturbation or scattering theory

subject: Time-lapse monitoring

subject: Time-lapse amplitude variation with offset (AVO) analysis

subject: Nonlinearity

subject: P-P sections

subject: Converted wave

subject: Shear wave

subject: physical modeling

subject: Field data

subject: The baseline and monitor surveys

abstract:
Perturbation theory has been widely used in many applications in seismology, more recently for time-lapse problems. We have formulated a scheme for modeling linear and nonlinear elastic time-lapse difference amplitude variation with offset data. We have expressed this framework as an expansion in orders of the baseline interface properties and time-lapse changes from the time of the baseline survey to the time of the monitor survey. We have examined our formulation with the numerical data used in literature for real time-lapse data. The results indicated to the first order that our framework is in agreement with Landrø’s linear approximation. The higher order terms represented corrections appropriate for large P- and S-wave velocities and density contrasts in the reservoir from the time of the baseline survey to the time of the monitor survey.
A physical modeling data set was acquired simulating a time-lapse problem to validate our theoretical results. Plexiglas, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and phenolic slabs were used as proxy materials to simulate the cap rock and reservoir at the time of the baseline and monitor surveys, respectively. Reflected amplitudes were picked and corrected for geometric spreading, emergence angle, free surface, transmission loss, and radiation patterns. Our results indicated that higher order expansion terms, involving products of elastic time-lapse perturbation and baseline medium perturbation, matched laboratory data with significantly reduced error in comparison with linearized forms. We have concluded that in many plausible time-lapse scenarios, the increase in accuracy associated with higher order corrections that we observed enhanced the time-lapse modeling.
In conjunction with Talisman Energy Inc. part of Repsol Group, a multicomponent time-lapse seismic data set, which was acquired during hydraulic fracturing of two horizontal wells in the unconventional Montney Reservoir at Pouce Coupe Field in the Peace River area, has been used to validate derived linear and nonlinear theoretical results for the time-lapse AVO. The results show that the nonlinear components of the difference data interpretation scheme do not contribute significantly to estimate time-lapse AVO difference. This is consistent with the fact that the Pouce Coupe data set has a low baseline contrast and a low time-lapse contrast.