identifier: DiStefano, C. A. (1994). Viral city: effecting change from within (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/19726

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

subject: HT 169 C22 C327 1994

subject: City planning - Alberta - Calgary

subject: Community development - Alberta - Calgary

subject: Computers and civilization

abstract: Bibliography: p. 100-103.


identifier: Ip, C. K. (2016). Examining Mental Health Status and Mental Health Service Utilization by Visible Minority Immigrants in Canada: Adopting a Social Determinants of Health and Intersectionality Approach (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26020

publisher:
Graduate Studies
Social Work
University of Calgary
Calgary

contributor:
Shankar, Janki
Walsh, Christine
Lee, Yeonjung

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:
Social Work
Immigrants
Mental Health
Social Determinants of Health
Intersectionality
Visible Minority
Mental Health Service Utilization

abstract:
The number of visible minority immigrants to Canada is increasing rapidly. However, studies on mental health experiences associated with migration-related challenges are limited. Drawing on social determinants of health and intersectionality frameworks, this study investigated the relationship between social contextual factors and mental health outcomes (self-perceived mental health and life stress, and diagnosed mood and anxiety disorders) and mental health service utilization among visible minority immigrant adults in Canada. Data were drawn from the 2009-2010 Canadian Community Health Survey, which provided a sample of 5,870 visible minority immigrant adults aged 18 to 64 from 13 Canadian provinces and territories and a comparison group of 68,932 Canadian-born white adults. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to determine the relationship between socio-demographic factors and mental health outcomes and service use.

Analysis results revealed no significant differences in self-perceived mental health between visible minority immigrant and Canadian-born white adults. Within-group multivariate logistic regression modeling revealed that male gender, employed status, mid- or high-range household income, and strong sense of community belonging were recurring protective factors against poor mental health, while longer-term immigrant status was a recurring risk factor for visible minority immigrants. Analysis of interactions between correlates revealed that when compared to all other intersecting immigrant and Canadian-born social identities, middle-aged visible minority immigrant adults and visible minority immigrant adults with a mid-range household income were the combined social identities associated with poor perceived mental health, high perceived life stress, and diagnosed mood disorders. Visible minority immigrants with poor perceived mental health and high perceived life stress were less likely than Canadian-born adults to report using mental health services, but those with diagnosed mood or anxiety disorders were as likely as Canadian-born adults to have used services.

Despite some limitations, this study contributes to the current body of literature on ethno-cultural immigrant mental health by examining multiple mental health outcomes and help-seeking patterns using a social determinant of health perspective in the context of intersectionality, examining the combined effects of multiple social identities. The study results also challenge conventional assumptions about the “healthy immigrant effect” and “transitional effect” in visible minority immigrant’s mental health, contributing to a more complex understanding of this important issue.


identifier: Miles, F. A. (1984). A Study of the effectiveness of five methods of increasing counsellor utilization (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/11431

publisher:
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
xii, 156 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
LC 5219 M497 1985
Personnel service in adult education

abstract: Bibliography: p. 124-135.


identifier: Katcharov, M. (2013). Responsibility, History, and Authenticity (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27652

publisher:
Graduate Studies
University of Calgary
Calgary

subject:
Philosophy
Moral Responsibility
History
authenticity

abstract: There is a debate in the literature on free will and responsibility regarding whether responsibility is historical. The focus is on what makes one’s values, desires, beliefs, and other springs of action authentic or “truly one’s own”, and what effect, if any, past manipulation has on authenticity. In this thesis, I present and attempt to clarify fundamental concepts, and give a critical account of prominent theories and motivating cases. I propose constraints on theories of responsibility, including a generalized regress problem affecting “positive” historical theories, and argue for a characterization of springs on which springs of the same type are treated as identical. I conclude by presenting a sketch of a historical theory of responsibility which conforms to my proposed constraints.


identifier: Bates, S. L. (1996). Vagally-mediated regulation of intestinal glucose transport (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/11063

format:
ix, 94 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
QP 702 G56 B38 1996
Clucose - Metabolism
Intestine, Small
Vagus nerve

abstract: Bibliography: p. 86-93.


identifier: Vasudevan, R. (1977). Real-time on-line measurement of real and reactive power (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/23301

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

subject: TK 3091 V36 1977 Microfiche

subject: Electric power systems - Data processing

subject: Real-time data processing

subject: On-line data processing

abstract: Bibliography: p. 85.


identifier: Jones, T. (2014). Development and Microscaling of a Novel Glucose Biosensor for Application in a Minimally Invasive Sampling Platform (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25644

contributor:
Mintchev, Martin
Birss, Viola
Kaler, Karan

subject:
Biochemistry
Engineering--Biomedical
Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
Biomedical Engineering
Glucose Bionsensors
Electronic Mosquito
diabetes mellitus
Glucose Oxidase

abstract:
Diabetes Mellitus is approaching epidemic proportions in North America and many regions in the world. Current treatment involves self-monitoring of blood glucose levels by analysis of a blood sample obtained by "finger-pricking". This suffers from non-compliance, and samples at a rate much lower than the Shannon frequency of blood glucose levels. The e-Mosquito provides near-painless sampling, is apply-and-forget, and provides a higher sampling rate.

This thesis concerns miniaturiziation of a novel glucose transducer, for integration in the e-Mosquito, that consists of iridium and glucose oxidase on a gold electrode, and which obeys Michaelis-Menten kinetics and were characterized using their Imax and Km values. The sensor includes this transducer, a micropotentiostat, a power supply, and an ADC that communicates with the e-Mosquito microprocessor.

Testing of the transducer showed current densities of 250-400 uA/cm2, though with high inter-transducer variability. The potentiostat was also characterized and demonstrated to have adequate sensitivity and bandwidth.

abstract: indefinite


identifier: Johnson, L. A. (2011). Dna-induced spermidine synthesis in pseudomonas aeruginosa (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4199

format:
xiv, 154 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 141-154


identifier: DuVal, G. R. (1982). Reason and morality, again (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/23360

title: Reason and morality, again

format:
v, 115 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
BJ 84 E5 D88 1984
Ends and means
Ethics
Reason
Rationalism

abstract: Bibliography: p. 113-115.


identifier: Imaniyan, D. (2020). Integrated Design of Complex Mechanical Products Considering Modeling, Simulation and Optimization Aspects (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

publisher:
Schulich School of Engineering
University of Calgary

contributor:
Xue, Deyi
Li, Simon
Yanushkevich, Svetlana N.

subject:
Complex mechanical product
Modeling
Simulation
Optimization
Conceptual design
Detailed design
Engineering--Mechanical

abstract: The presently developed computer-based design systems are not effective for design of complex mechanical products when multiple tools and methods in different schemes have to be employed at different design stages. In this research, a new integrated framework has been introduced for the design of complex mechanical products considering modeling, simulation/evaluation, and optimization aspects. An integrated system for design of complex mechanical products has also been developed. In this system, first a hybrid scheme is introduced for integrated modeling of complex mechanical products considering conceptual design and detailed design stages. In conceptual design, the generic product considering different design solution candidates is modeled in an AND-OR tree. Specific design candidates modeled by AND trees are created from the generic AND-OR tree through tree-based search. The geometric descriptions in a design candidate are then converted into and associated with the geometric model in a CAD system for detailed design. Second, a hybrid simulation method is developed for evaluating different product aspects with different simulation tools that are integrated through the hybrid modeling scheme. Simulations with geometric descriptions are conducted by analysis functions of the CAD system for detailed design. Simulations with non-geometric descriptions are conducted by the knowledge-based systems for conceptual design. Third, a hybrid optimization method is developed to identify the optimal design of the complex mechanical product. For each design candidate, parameter optimization is conducted to obtain the optimal parameter values. The optimal design solution is identified from all design candidates through configuration optimization. The integrated complex mechanical product design system has been implemented using C# and SOLIDWORKS. Various user interfaces were developed for conducting design activities in modeling, simulation/evaluation and optimization aspects. Communication between the symbolic model in conceptual design and the CAD model in detailed design was achieved through TCP/IP client-server structure and SOLIDWORKS API. A case study has been developed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the newly-introduced design approach.


identifier: Kim, W. (2004). Physiological differentiation in swarming salmonella (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/18591

format:
xiv, 287 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 267-287

abstract: Swarming behaviour in bacteria has been traditionally described as a surface motility phenotype observed on laboratory media. Swarming motility is a collective behaviour of groups of bacterial cells, and unlike the classic swimming motility in broth, vegetative cells must first differentiate into elongated and hyperflagellated swarmer cells. The extent of the morphological changes associated with swarmer differentiation can vary significantly between different organisms. Recent studies indicate that swarmer differentiation represents much more than a motility phenotype, as several clinically important attributes are co-regulated with swarming. In this work, I demonstrate that swarmer differentiation in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is coupled to elevated resistance to a wide variety of structurally and functionally distinct classes of antibiotics. One mechanism of resistance was directly attributed to the up-regulation of the pmrHFIJKLM operon, and evidence was presented that other mechanisms are likely associated. Adaptive antibiotic resistance in the absence of overt selection suggests that swarmer differentiation may reflect the organism's adaptation to the host environment; not due to antibiotic use, but to the role of host-derived cationic peptides and resident microflora-derived colicins and toxic metabolites that shape the intestinal ecosystem. Proteomic analyses revealed that migrating swarmer cells are metabolically differentiated compared to the vegetative swimmer cells grown in the same nutrient environment. Furthermore, once the cells have differentiated, the swarmers remain in this physiological state under conditions that do not promote the initial differentiation. The permeability of the swarmers' outer membrane was predicted to be relatively reduced, which in part accounts for the multiple antibiotic resistance phenotype. Moreover, the bacterium's capacity to override some of the classic paradigms of metabolic regulation, established in aqueous environments, represents a unique physiological response by the pathogen that may be advantageous in polymicrobial environments such as the host. In addition, cellcell signalling systems were differentially regulated, suggesting that the differentiated cells are also primed to respond to the presence of other organisms and its own increasing population. An experimental model system was developed to measure spatiotemporal gene expression patterns to study gene regulation in the context of transitions between cellular states.


identifier: Myles, J. D. (1996). Management options for reducing releases to the environment from triethylene glycol dehydrators (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/22870

publisher:
Environmental Design
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
vi, <135> leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 6-1 - 6-9.


identifier: Fladmark, K. R. (1974). A Paleoecological model for northwest coast prehistory (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/23934

format:
xi, 319 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: F 5816 F52 1974 Microfiche

subject: British Columbia - Antiquities

subject: Indians of North America - British Columbia - Antiquities

abstract: Bibliography: p. 299-319.

abstract: The evolution of the Northwest Coast cultural pattern is discussed in terms of changing energy availability through periods of environmental instability and quasi-stability. Evidence is presented for the simultaneous occurrenc e of two different archaeolo gica l traditions along the Northwest Coast between about 10,000 and 5,000 B.P. The first is characterized by a blade-andcore technology and de-emphasis of bifacial flaking. Site areas are associated with raised beaches and distributed along the whole coast north of central Queen Charlotte Sound . To the south, particularly on the lower Fraser and Columbia Rivers there occurs contemporaneously an entirely different tradition characterized by large leaf-shaped bifaces and a lack of a true blade-and-core technology. The distributional break between the two traditions corresponds precisely with the zero-isobar separating sea-level s significantly higher than present north of central Queen Charlotte Sound, and sea-levels significantly lower to the south. It is suggested that this correlation reflects the divergent effects of higher and lower sea-levels on the coastal environment and corresponding divergence of cultural adaptive strategies. The blade-and-core tradition probably represents a long-standing cultural adaptation to the inter-tidal and general marine resources of the sub-arctic Pacific region, with the southern tradition more heavily based on riverine and terrestrial resources. The rapid efflorescence of large semi-permanent settlements, art and wealth objects, and other features typical of ethnographic coastal cultures, 5,000 B.P. correlates with the stabilization of sea-level at about the present position along most of the coast at this time. It is suggested that gradient maturation of the river systems following coastline stabilization allowed the establishment of the massive and dependable salmon runs on which the dense and semi-sedentary populations of the ethnographic Northwest Coast were based.


identifier: Balasubramanian, R. (1974). An Iterative finite element method for viscous flow (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/16899

format:
xiii, 174 leaves : ill ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
TA 357 B336 1974 Microfiche
Fluid dynamics
Finite element method

abstract: Bibliography: p. 123-131.


identifier: Patenaude, T. R. (2014). Decolonizing the Story of Art in Canada: A Storied Approach to Art for an Intercultural, More-Than-Human World (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25532

publisher:
Arts
Graduate Studies
University of Calgary
Calgary

contributor:
Pannekoek, Frits
Mitchell, David

subject:
Art History
History--Canadian
Native American Studies
Canadian
Art
History
Indigenous
Story
nature
human-ecology
Cross-Cultural

abstract: The master narrative dominating the field of Canadian art history has continually privileged Eurocentric, colonialist ways of knowing. Many art historians and critics have called for a new story, but nothing to date has been proposed. This dissertation marks the first attempt at re-envisioning the story of art in Canada. It enacts a broader and deeper context of cross-cultural and social-ecological relationships for our art encounters. I discuss conventional cross-cultural approaches to art in Canada and then develop a new approach that I call the storied approach. This approach acknowledges that our art and how we talk about it is, and occurs first within the context of, a story. The storied approach takes seriously that stories animate our lives. It recognizes the performative power of art, and not just its representational quality. It recognizes the phenomenological root of art and story not as the social world alone, but as our more-than-human world within which we circulate. And it draws on the most salient features of postcolonial criticism, while also acknowledging contributions from our colonial past (and present). In this vein, I interweave story and other voices complementing that of the conventional art historian’s/critic’s while, first, bringing the storied approach to bear on the art and criticism of Lucius O’Brien, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, and Paul-Émile Borduas. This is not because I consider these three to be the most important artists in Canada, but because these artists have already been privileged as central figures in the current story of Canadian art. Second, I open up the discussion further by attending to the art experiences of various members of an art audience. This allows the stories unfurling through our artworks to breathe in everyday life—the ultimate “story” of art in Canada—from the ground up, here. This larger, living story, we find, is and always has been an indigenously oriented one. European art practices and ideologies have been and are animated by, and nested within, this indigenously oriented story of here, not the other way around.


identifier: Ma, J. (2021). Essays on Urban Economics (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

title: Essays on Urban Economics

publisher:
Arts
University of Calgary

contributor:
Whalley, Alexander
Muehlenbachs, Lucija
Staubli, Stephan
David Walls, William
Oguzoglu, Umut

subject:
Economics
Urban and Regional Planning
Engineering--Environmental

abstract: This dissertation includes three essays exploring topics related to Urban Economics. Using advanced empirical methodologies, I examine the effects of traffic pricing policies and rider-hailing services on traffic and air quality. Chapter 1 investigates the traffic and environmental impact of traffic pricing policy. This paper estimates the heterogeneous effect of the London congestion charging scheme (CCZ) on the traffic by vehicles with different pollution intensities and ambient air quality within the Greater London Area. The implementation of such a policy effectively reduces the traffic flows from less-polluted vehicles, like private cars by roughly 16% inside central London. However, about 25% more trips by polluting vehicles (light and heavy goods vehicles) are induced from this traffic charge. About 28% and 18% drops in NO and NO2 emissions are detected following CCZ order. PM2:5 reduces slightly by 6% after the charge. Chapter 2 examines the effects of the air pollution charge on traffic by vehicle types. Compared to the congestion charge, air pollution pricing specifically targets highly polluting vehicles, such as heavy trucks. This paper estimates the heterogeneous effect of the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) on highway traffic volume in the Greater London Area (GLA). The introduction of LEZ leads to about an 11% drop in overall traffic. However, the response to air pollution charges varies across different vehicle groups. Following the enactment of LEZ, traffic by light goods vehicle (LGV) decreases by roughly 14% while traffic of heavy good vehicle (HGV) increases by 18%. Chapter 3 studies the impact of ride-hailing services on the traffic of different automobiles. This paper studies the effect of such a service on traffic using a natural experiment created by the abrupt exit of Uber from London. Adopting the difference-in-difference approach with granular traffic data, my study finds an overall drop of 13.2% in average traffic volume and an increase of 21.2% in average traffic speed following the suspension order of Uber in London. For other transit modes, the evidence in support of a rise of 13.7% in public traffic and 19.6% in private-hire traffic is found after the temporary exit of Uber.


identifier: Pasveer, K. A. (1994). The role of relationships in the development of dysphoria (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/11934

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

subject:
RC 537 P37 1994
Depression, Mental
Women - Mental health
Interpersonal relations
Parent and child

abstract: Bibliography: p. 91-105.


identifier: Wang, X. (2016). Discovering Relationships between Reservoir Properties and Production Data for CHOPS Using Data Mining Methods (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25718

contributor:
Mahinpey, Nader
Wang, Xin
Dong, Mingzhe
Chen, Shengnan (Nancy)

subject:
Computer Science
Engineering--Petroleum
CHOPS
Wormholes
Data Mining Methods
Weka
Gain Ratio

abstract:
Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) produces sand, and greatly contributes to primary oil recovery. It’s generally believed that wormholes, resulting from sand flow, enhance oil recovery in this process. However, due to complexity and variability, it’s difficult for wormhole models to precisely describe how wormholes develop within the formation.
In this study, we regard wormholes as an integral black box. We apply data mining methods to explore how the reservoir attributes influence the CHOPS wells production. Gain ratio is used to rank and select the most important attributes for oil production. For overall oil production performance, cumulative porosity, cumulative oil saturation, effective thickness, and average shale content are the most important and relevant attributes. Decision trees constructed by C4.5 algorithm provide details of how to classify oil production instances according to reservoir attributes. All the correctly classified rates are over 55%, which is reliable accuracy in our results.


identifier: McPhail, B. M. (1992). A Statist perspective on federal-provincial relations: control of Canadian telecommunication (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/16180

format:
x, 377 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
HE 7815 M2325 1992
Telecommunication policy - Canada
Telecommunication policy - Alberta
Federal-provincial relations - Canada

abstract: Bibliography: p. 334-351.


identifier: Vilaysane, A. (2014). NLRP3 in Renal Injury and Inflammation (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27108

title: NLRP3 in Renal Injury and Inflammation

subject: Immunology NLRP3 Inflammasome kidney

abstract:
Renal cell injury, death and inflammation are hallmarks of chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Unresolved inflammation can chronically damage renal tissue resulting in fibrosis and kidney
failure. The Nlrp3 inflammasome has been implicated in the innate immune response to cellular
injury and represents a potentially important pathway in the pathogenesis of CKD. The central
hypothesis of this thesis is that NLRP3 plays a significant role in renal inflammation and chronic
renal injury. In a mouse model of progressive renal injury and fibrosis (unilateral ureteral
obstruction, UUO), Nlrp3 expression and inflammasome activation were increased in injured
kidneys. Compared to wild-type counterparts, Nlrp3-/-mice undergoing UUO displayed reduced
renal injury, fibrosis and inflammatory cytokine levels confirming an important role for Nlrp3 in
experimental kidney disease. Bone marrow chimeras in the UUO model indicated that in
addition to its inflammasome-forming capabilities in leukocytes, Nlrp3 may play a novel role in
the renal epithelial compartment. Indeed, Nlrp3 expression was found in both human and mouse
primary tubular epithelial cells. Unlike the inflammasome-forming capability of Nlrp3 in
macrophages, renal tubular epithelial cells lacked the components of the inflammasome
including caspase-1 and its substrate IL-1β. Rather, Nlrp3 primarily regulated caspase-8
activation and apoptosis in these cells. Experiments to elucidate the mechanism of Nlrp3-
regulated caspase-8 activation and apoptosis suggested the involvement of Asc, but not
inflammatory cytokines, caspase-1 or caspase-11. Furthermore, Nlrp3-/- tubular epithelial cells
were found to have impaired mitochondrial ROS production that was linked to decreased
caspase-8 activation during apoptosis. Taken together, results from this thesis identify a
significant and multidimensional role for Nlrp3 in the pathogenesis of kidney disease. First,
Nlrp3 inflammasome activation in macrophages releases cytokines such as IL-1β and IL-18 that
cause renal inflammation, fibrosis and tubular epithelial cell apoptosis. Second, Nlrp3 expressed
in tubular epithelial cells displays an intrinsic inflammasome-independent function to regulate
caspase-8, mitochondrial ROS and apoptosis. These data identify Nlrp3 as an important player in
renal injury and potential therapeutic target for CKD.


identifier: Maklad, M. S. (1978). On Model building from operating records (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/16314

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

subject:
QA 402 M33 1978 Microfiche
System analysis
Mathematical models

abstract: Bibliography: p. 98-102.


identifier: Nugent, A. E. (2002). Feminism and populism on the Canadian prairies (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14146

format:
vii, 141 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: AC1 .T484 2002 N84

abstract: Bibliography: p. 125-141.


identifier: Zhang, W. (1995). Efficient exact parallel matrix inversion (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/20687

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

subject: QA 76.58 Z47 1995

subject: Parallel processing (Electronic computers)

subject: Matrices - Data processing

subject: Computer algorithms

abstract: Bibliography: p. 115-119.


identifier: Kahn, J. G. (1996). Prehistoric stone tool use and manufacture at the Ha'atuatua Dune site, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12899

format:
xiii, 382 l;eaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
GN 799 T6 K34 1996
Stone implements - Marquesas Islands
Tools, Prehistoric - Marquesas Islands
Marquesas Islands - Antiquities

abstract: Bibliography: p. 302-332.


identifier: Crumrine, M. (2001). Best for baby: Women's reflections on breastfeeding and the return to paid work (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14299

format:
vii, 104 leaves ; ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: AC1 .T484 2001 C78

abstract: Bibliography: p. 94-99


identifier: McKim, M. (1972). Stimulus change and the performance of learning-disordered children on a discrimination task (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/22116

format:
ix, 73 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
BF 435 M22 1972 Film
Mental deficiency
Child study

abstract: Bibliography: p. 50-54.


identifier: Itani, A. (1986). Modeling and transient performance analysis of power systems with voltage and frequency dependant loads, including inertia (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/21199

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

subject: TK 2785 I724 1987

subject: Electric motors, Induction - Mathematical models

subject: Electric generators - Alternating current - Mathematical models

subject: Electric power systems - Mathematical models

subject: Inertia (Mechanics)

abstract: Bibliography: p. 129-130.


identifier: Carruthers, P. A. (1987). Postpartum depression in native women (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/19439

title: Postpartum depression in native women

creator: Carruthers, Patricia A. (Patricia Ann), 1948-

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

subject: RG 852 C35 1988

subject: Postpartum depression

subject: Indians of North America - Women - Alberta - History

abstract: Bibliography: p. 101-110.


identifier: Thingsted, A. (2003). Strategies and decision-making for direct visitor use management in western Canadian parks (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/24448

format:
xiv, 181 leaves : ill. 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 158-169


identifier: Auch, K. (2012). Urban augmentation: [code]ifying socially constructed space in the urban realm (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4854

format:
viii, 84 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 67-68

abstract: Thesis is in colour.

abstract: Missing signature page.

abstract:
For many cities around the world, the urban context remains the location that produces social and cultural identities of a city. However, as a victim of various controls and neutralized urban spaces, the public urban realm is increasingly underutilized. Public spaces no longer offer a stage of social opportunity but "render the individual as a passive body within urban space, rather than an active creator or participant" (Shaw, 2009, p. 1). This method of social cleansing is problematic in that it negatively affects the overall capacity of a city to be inclusive.
The true democratic nature of the public urban realm relies on several factors including social inclusion. As a landscape of possibility and open-endedness, inclusive public infrastructure encourages a diverse social mix that transforms the lifeless quality of the public urban realm into a stage for social and cultural activity. This quality to the public urban realm ensures that a climate of multiple social and cultural identities is encouraged.
This Master's Degree Project (MOP), codifies socially constructed space within the contemporary city, and highlights a framework of socially inclusive, public infrastructure that redefines the public urban realm. This project serves a larger investigation into the complexities of the public urban realm and offers a broader understanding into this network. Furthermore, this research confirms that the suppression of healthy social and cultural interaction within public space lays culprit to an abandonment of a city's sense of place and identity.


identifier: Malcolm, D. J. (1973). A Nonlinear theory of sandwich shells (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/18507

title: A Nonlinear theory of sandwich shells

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

subject:
TA 660 S5 M35 1973 Microfilm
Shells (Engineering)
Sandwich construction

abstract: Bibliography: p. 118-125.


identifier: Tipton, K. (2017). Rental housing and urban property: The archaeological and social analysis of insulae in Roman Ostia from the 1st to the mid-4th century CE. (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27629

contributor:
Hughes, Lisa
Olson, Kelly
Humphrey, John
Driediger-Murphy, Lindsay
Oetelaar, Gerald

subject:
Archaeology
roman housing
toilets
rental housing
urban property
roman law
roman society
roman archaeology

abstract: Rental housing was abundant in the Roman city. Evidence for this form of housing is found in almost every structural type: horrea, terme, balnea, insulae, etc. It stands to reason that the evidence for the relationship between the owners or operators of the buildings and the tenants would be visible in the archaeological record. The insulae of Ostia Antica confirm this suggestion through the amenity of upper floor toilets. Repairs to these features and their late addition to structures substantiate how important they were to the buildings’ function. Furthermore, they establish that there was a binding contractual relationship between those who owned/operated the buildings and their tenants. The legal texts, mainly found in the Digest of Justinian, provide very little corroborating evidence regarding these features. However, they do clarify that the contracts were reciprocal, under obligatio, and unique to each tenant, most likely because the agreement was verbal. The jurists were often circuitous when considering the rental housing contract, most likely embracing the fact that the dominus dictated the terms. Within the ambiguity of the contracts, the physical evidence of the upper floor toilets and their maintenance is situated, demonstrating not all rentals were a run-down derelict mess and that the tenants had some ability to enforce their right to use and enjoy their home. The reaction from those who owned and operated the buildings was to place the upper floor toilets in a stairway or corridor, a space outside of the living quarters, but still accessible for tenants and maintenance. There were many purposes for owning and participating in the urban housing market. Many times this property would have been mortgaged to raise funds for further investments or to secure a political position and even as housing for clientele, which suggests that these buildings were kept in good working order for more reasons than for the tenant’s use, but for property value and assessment. The image of rental housing and urban property in Ostia Antica is one of integration among a diverse collection of structures, which demonstrates coordination, progress and a genuine interest from those who participated in it.


identifier: Slack, B. (2022). A comparison of online gamblers, offline gamblers, and mixed mode gamblers on gambling and substance use (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

title: A Comparison of Online Gamblers, Offline Gamblers, and Mixed Mode Gamblers on Gambling and Substance Use

contributor:
McGrath, Daniel
Ellard, John
Hodgins, David
Smith, Jacqueline

subject:
gambling
substance use
Education--Social Sciences
Psychology--Behavioral
Psychology--Cognitive
Psychology--Experimental

abstract: The rise in online gambling has led to greater research focus being directed toward the relationship between gambling modality and gambling behaviour. Such attention is warranted, given the significant increase in people turning to online gambling. It is currently known that mixed-mode gamblers (i.e., those who gamble online and offline) demonstrate the highest rate of disordered gambling and gambling frequency. Alcohol use has also been shown to be higher in mixed-mode gamblers, which presents a concern given the effects of alcohol on gambling behaviour. Further, mental health concerns have been shown to differ across gambling modalities. While research has begun to investigate gambling modality, more studies are required to better understand the relationship between gambling modality, substance use, and gambling behaviour. The present study explored the relationship between gambling modality, gambling behaviour, and substance use outcomes in greater depth. Specifically, 303 online, mixed-mode, and offline gamblers were surveyed on patterns of substance use, mental health concerns, and gambling severity, behaviour, and motives. Exploratory analyses were also conducted to investigate the role of COVID-19 in self-reported migration to online gambling. It was found that mixed-mode and online gambling are associated with greater gambling severity, frequency, and substance use. Further, scores on a gambling motives questionnaire were found to differ across gambling modality. Finally, results indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic influenced gambling behaviour, such that many participants self-reported migrating to online gambling. Overall, the results of this study suggest that a relationship exists between gambling modality, substance use, and gambling behaviour.


identifier: Zverina, M. (2014). Men's and Women's Abuse Talk in Group Therapy: A Discourse Analysis (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26881

contributor:
Stam, Henderikus
Radtke, Lorraine

subject:
Psychology--Clinical
discourse analysis
Intimate partner abuse
Group therapy

abstract: The creation of therapy groups for men who have been victims of intimate partner abuse, at times controversial, has led to a call for a contextualized understanding of men’s and women’s victimization. The nature, severity, and consequences of abuse are thought to be different for abused men compared to abused women.  This project uses a discursive approach to examine how men and women participating in victim therapy groups construct and negotiate abuse accounts and their responses to abuse. My own and other previous research suggests that men in victim therapy groups must shore up their status as victim.  This thesis attempts to answer how negotiations of abuse accounts compare between men’s and women’s therapy groups and how responses to abuse accounts compare between the men’s and women’s therapy groups.  Two of the Calgary Counselling Centre’s 14-week therapy groups were analyzed using the theoretical and methodological discourse analytic approach: “A Turn for the Better” group for abused men, and “You Are Not Alone” group for abused women. Archived video recordings of these groups were transcribed and analyzed. The women’s and men’s constructions of abuse and the process of negotiating appropriate responses to abuse were qualitatively different. First, the men engaged in extensive rhetorical strategies to position themselves as abused, while the women oriented to safety and protection and their victim status was assumed. Second, the men negotiated the gendered dilemma of responding appropriately to a woman’s aggression without being aggressive in turn, while all women’s responses were constructed as appropriate given their function of protection. Third, for the women, the topic to which everyone oriented, both facilitators and group members, was safety. I also analyzed the therapeutic process in terms of facilitators negotiating men’s accountability for aggression, while women held themselves responsible for morally questionable acts which facilitators tended to endorse as resistance. I address how this study contributes to gender relevance in the therapeutic process of abused men and women, the existing exploratory literature on men’s abuse and therapy, and future clinical practice.


identifier: Woodhead, H. R. (1969). Some aspects of torsion in reinforced concrete beams (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/20313

publisher:
Engineering
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
xvii, 106 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
TA 683.5 B3 W64 1969 Microfilm
Concrete beams
Reinforced concrete construction

abstract: Bibliography: p. 103-106.


identifier: Alexander Lynch, T. (2007). Vibrio parahaemolyticus: interactions with the host epithelium (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/1077

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

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 144-161
Some pages are in colour.


identifier: Aardoom, A. (2007). Dancing with horses: the experience of the dynamics between horse and human that facilitates psychological and/or spiritual growth (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/1078

format:
x, 303 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 215-231

abstract: Some pages are in colour.

abstract: The purpose of this research was to look at the experience of psychological and/or spiritual growth as a result of interacting with horses. A second element of interest was to look at the underlying dynamics in the relationship between horse and human that facilitate this growth process. This research is qualitative and based on interviews with six co-creators as well as the researcher's experience. The methodology used was a combination of heuristics and a newly developed methodology based on chaos and complexity theories. It was found that the experience of growth was very much like the story of the universal and mythological hero, as described by Joseph Campbell (l 949). Participants embarked on a challenging journey with horses oflearning and connecting. The learning was how to build cooperative relationships with horses but also with others, with God and with themselves. The connecting was related to connecting with self, other, nature and God. The dynamics found in the relationship between horse and rider are mutual relationship, which incorporates communication, bonding and projection. Within this mutual relationship, the horse may take on the following roles: horse as friend, teacher, therapist, role model, healer, parent (mother and father), saviour and ally. A horse was also found to be a metaphor for self, shadow self, Divine/God, other, mirror, connector, instinct and meditation. Experience with a horse could also function as an analogy for relationships and life situations. The creative synthesis was based on the Vedic Horse Sacrifice and adapted to the findings of this research. The meaning of the Horse Sacrifice is the horse representing the universe and lower self of Brahman, which is sacrificed for renewal.


identifier: Nelson, M. W. (2018). Middle School Principals’ Understandings and Practices of Instructional Leadership (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB doi:10.11575/PRISM/32844

publisher:
Graduate Studies
Werklund School of Education
University of Calgary
Calgary

contributor:
Spencer, Brenda L.
Brandon, James Edward
Burns, Amy M.
Donlevy, James Kent
Viczko, Melody

subject:
Instructional Leadership
Middle school
Leadership
Education--Administration

abstract: The purpose of this case study was to gain insight into how experienced middle school principals understand the concept of instructional leadership and, further, perceive their enactments of instructional leadership to build the instructional capacity of the teachers in their schools. Research into instructional leadership indicates that school principals contribute indirectly to school effectiveness and student achievement through actions (practices) that influence the type and quality of instruction in schools and classrooms; however, there is limited research on this topic that is specific to leadership in middle schools. The study used qualitative case study methodology involving semi-structured interviews with five experienced middle school principals, all from a large, urban public school district in Alberta. The findings of this inquiry revealed six key themes. Middle school principals in this study: (a) have a strong theoretical understanding of leadership for learning, (b) define their practices of instructional leadership through shared leadership, PLC structures, and a focus on relationships, (c) perceive their practices of instructional leadership to include developing leadership capacity of others, (d) share beliefs and understandings, and enact practices of instructional leadership that are strongly influenced by a specific body of leadership literature that is promoted through district-led professional learning initiatives, (e) believe there are contextual differences that impact not just their leadership generally, but their instructional leadership, and (f) have a sophisticated theoretical understanding of instructional leadership and leadership for learning; however, they struggle to provide evidence of how their practices impact teachers’ instructional capacity and student learning. The findings of my study contribute to the growing body of knowledge related to instructional leadership, especially as it focuses on middle schools.


identifier: Burt, J. (2014). Defining Topologically Oriented Transmembrane Helix Contacts in Integral Membrane Protein EmrE by a Modified Two-Hybrid Approach (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25539

subject:
Biochemistry
EmrE
Integral Membrane Protein
Protein Structure
Transmembrane Helices
Bacterial Two-Hybrid
Miller Assay

abstract: Study of integral membrane proteins is comparatively difficult in comparison to soluble proteins, requiring more specialized techniques. Here is presented an application of the Bacterial Adenylate Cyclase Two-Hybrid (BACTH) method to study oligomerization in membrane proteins applied to model integral membrane multidrug transporter EmrE. The system was unable to observe dimerization between full length monomers of EmrE, likely due to the preferential antiparallel nature of EmrE dimers. Further studies required large numbers of samples, so the Miller assay was adapted to work in a small volume microtitre plate format. Using this new higher throughput assay, constructs of individual EmrE transmembrane helices (TMH) were utilized to perform contact mapping of EmrE dimer structure. The results were compiled to construct a transmembrane helix interaction structure. This structure obtained is novel and identifies inconsistencies from previous studies.


identifier: McPhee, D. J. (1986). Synthesis and reactions of 4-azasteroidal alkylating agents: approaches to related 5-azasteroids (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/11384

format:
xix, 203 leaves : 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
QD 415 M243 1987
Steroids
Chemical reactions
Alkylation

abstract: Bibliography: p. 178-203.


identifier: Tyler, M. E. (1988). Adaptation and transfer of remote sensing technology to a native tribal group for resource management (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/21673

format:
xvii, 397 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
Kitksan Indians
Wet'suwet'en Indians
Land use management - Remote sensing
Wilderness areas - Remote sensing

abstract: Bibliography: p. 379-397.


identifier: Demke, G. J. (1974). Supply of natural gas in ALberta (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14674

title: Supply of natural gas in ALberta

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

subject:
HD 9581 C34 D45 1974 Microfiche
Gas, Natural - Alberta
Power resources - Alberta

abstract: Bibliography: p.63.


identifier: Ghandorah, S. (2015). Characteristics of Donor-Specific anti-HLA Antibodies (DSA) Impacting different Renal Allograft Outcomes (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25256

contributor:
Berka, Noureddine
Khan, Faisal

subject:
Immunology
Kidney Transplantation
antibody
rejection

abstract: AMR is the major complication of renal transplantation that significantly affects the allograft survival. Complement fixation of Donor specific anti-HLA antibodies is the hallmark of AMR. Different methods have been developed to detect harmful DSAs. However, not all DSAs have the same detrimental effect, as different antibody characteristics (timing, specificity, strength, and complement-fixing ability) might trigger distinct immune responses. Here, we assessed DSA characteristics in renal transplant patients. Thirty-nine patients with de novo DSA were analyzed for the DSA MFI values, C1q positivity and IgG subclasses. IgG1 was the predominant IgG subclass (49.4%), followed by IgG3 (24.7%), IgG2 (16%), and IgG4 (9.9%). Among DSA characteristics, DSA MFI and IgG1 subclass were strongly correlated with C1q positivity (p= 0.01 and p= 0.009, respectively). Further studies are needed to investigate the clinical relevance of high MFI DSA and IgG1 subclass in improving the utility of the C1q assay in predicting graft outcomes.


identifier: Brackenbury, J. A. (1978). Moral education and the Alberta social studies curriculum (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/18347

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

subject:
H 62.5 C3 B72 1978 Microfiche
Social sciences - Study and teaching
Moral education - Alberta

abstract: Bibliography: p. 83-85.


identifier: Landa, S. (2007). The experience of loneliness in seniors: a qualitative descriptive study (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/1019

publisher:
Nursing
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
viii, 96 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 81-88


identifier: Cheung, J. (2007). Social work with Chinese characteristics: a study of the indigenization of social work education in China from a perspective of chaos theory (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/891

publisher:
Social Work
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
xiii, 250 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 218-235
Some pages are in colour.


identifier: Mikhael, W. B. (1970). System identification using impulse excitation (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14845

contributor:
Comer, David J.
Stein, Richard A.

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

subject:
TJ 212 M535 1970 Microfilm
Automatic control
Systems engineering

abstract: Bibliography: p. 117-119.


identifier: Devauld, W. (2013). Monte Carlo Methods for Derivative Pricing of Stochastic Volatility Models Driven by Fractional Brownian Motion (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27003

subject:
Mathematics
Mathematics
Stochastic Volatility
Monte Carlo
European Options
Lookback Options
Variance Swaps
fractional Brownian Motion
Stochastic Variance

abstract: We model asset prices with stochastic volatilities driven by fractional Brownian motion. Price paths and their endpoints are used to obtain a Monte Carlo value estimate of vanilla european options, lookback options as well as variance swaps. Underlying models for price movements are driven by stochastic volatility models driven by fractional Brownian motion with H > 1/2 . These models exhibit a strong autocorrelation in volatility evolution. The models considered are fractional Ornstein Uhlenbeck,  fractional Cox-Ingersoll-Ross, fractional Continuous GARCH(1,1) and fractional Heston.


identifier: Leew, Blake. (2017). Regulatory Burden for Builders: Government's Effect on Housing Supply and Prices. (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

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

abstract:
Having an affordable place to live is a key ingredient for a prosperous and healthy life. Unfortunately for many people, housing is becoming harder and harder to afford, with some markets in Canada priced out of reach for entire generations of middle-income citizens. Affordable rental housing is also very difficult to come by, especially for people towards the bottom of the income distribution. Canada's rental stock of housing is old and deteriorated, with very little development or maintenance of this class of housing over the past 30 years.
Governments at all levels affect housing in a variety of ways, and governments and citizens alike should be concerned about the extra cost added to housing through regulatory burden as well as other policies that limit new housing supply. Municipal governments add to the cost of housing through fees and levies and limit supply through zoning laws. This creates a fiscal externality on upper levels of government, since housing becomes less affordable and social spending requirements increase for provincial and federal governments.
Provincial governments also interfere with the housing market. Land transfer taxes make land more expensive, and rent controls discourage investment in new rental housing developments. Vacancy and foreign buyer taxes are implemented in order to try to add supply to the rental market and limit speculative demand. Carbon taxes make building supplies—especially the key building ingredient of concrete—more expensive.


identifier: Williams, C. D. (1996). Predictors of juvenile recidivism: a study of young offenders who have attended a wilderness based program (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/11943

format:
ix, 131 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
HV 6049 W56 1996
Recidivism
Juvenile delinquents - Rehabilitation
Juvenile delinquents - Services for

abstract: Bibliography: p. 115-119.


identifier: Sekhon, B. (2019). Maternal adverse childhood experiences and infant DNA methylation: Examining an epigenetic biomarker of intergenerational risk (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

title: Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Infant DNA Methylation: Examining an Epigenetic Biomarker of Intergenerational Risk

publisher:
Nursing
University of Calgary

contributor:
Letourneau, Nicole Lyn
Kobor, Michael S.
Giesbrecht, Gerald
Madigan, Sheri L.

subject:
Genetics
Neuroscience
Human Development
Mental Health
Nursing
Psychology--Developmental

abstract: While “nature" and "nurture" are often viewed as opposing influences on human development, epigenetics is one area of study investigating how these influences work together. Until recently, transmission of intergenerational risk to human development has centred on claims of genetic inheritance, or the persistence of poor social environments such as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), across generations. Stress occurring during gestation, that affects both the fetus and mother, has also been proposed as a method of transmitting intergenerational risk to offspring. New evidence in animal models suggests that “preconception stress” may also predict DNA methylation (DNAm; one component of epigenetics) in offspring, potentially impacting developmental health outcomes. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the association between human mothers’ preconception stress and differential DNAm patterns in their biological infants. A secondary analysis was conducted, utilizing data obtained from the Fetal Programming (FetalPro) cohort study, a sub-set of participants in the Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition (APrON) study. APrON study participants were voluntary, and all pregnant women were over 16-years-old and before 22 weeks of gestation at enrolment. Measures included mothers’ scores on the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) questionnaire, mental health during pregnancy including the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and the Symptom Checklist 90 Revised, as well as demographics. Epigenetic data were obtained from buccal epithelial cell (BEC) samples collected from mothers’ 3-month-old infants. Cellular DNA were processed with the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 Bead Chip to investigate DNAm. Relationships were investigated using regression modelling with the Limma function in R-package. Results showed a strong relationship between mothers’ total ACE score and differential DNAm patterning in their infants at eight epigenetic sites out of over 450,000 sites investigated. These findings have implications for the study of DNAm patterning as a biomarker for the transfer of preconception stress in humans and suggest a role for epigenetics in the transfer of intergenerational trauma.


identifier: Attewell, V. (2013). Exploring Cyber-Based Dating Aggression in Adolescent Romantic Relationships: Past, Present, and Future (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26082

subject: Social Adolescent Dating Relationships Cyber-Aggression

abstract: The present study examined adolescents’ perpetration of Cyber-Based Dating Aggression (CBDA) in current, past, and potential future romantic relationships. The sample included 39 males and 47 females. Results revealed that, on average, CBDA occurred in 22.7% of relationships and that Monitoring was the subtype of CBDA that adolescents reported the most. Results also revealed that there was a significant gender difference in the perpetration of Relational CBDA from those adolescents reporting on past relationships. Moreover, there were significant positive correlations between CBDA and traditional adolescent dating aggression (i.e., face-to-face aggression), meaning that both of these types of aggression tended to co-occur in the same relationship. Lastly, length of relationship and relationship satisfaction did not significantly predict any subtype of CBDA in current and past relationships, however these variables significantly predicted Monitoring CBDA in future romantic relationships. Interpretations of these findings and suggestions for future research are provided.


identifier: Acock, M. E. (1981). A predicational approach to topicalization and clefting (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/20006

format:
vi, 170 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: P 291 A33 1981 Fiche

subject: Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

subject: Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)

abstract: Bibliography: p. 168-170.


identifier: Gerber, B. (2012). Horses, entertainment and sport: animal rights at the Calgary Stampede (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4909

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 189-204

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

abstract: In a society where questions regarding animal rights are on the rise, people are increasingly aware of the oppressive use of animals. A 'contested' view of animals has recently become the subject of sociological inquiry. Addressing the 'problematic' role of horses in modem society, this study seeks to develop an in-depth understanding of how questions of 'use' or 'abuse' have been woven into the Calgary Stampede, as illustrated by the vast Canadian media coverage annually. Specifically, this project utilized a systematic content analysis of three Canadian newspapers, combined with individual interviews with key individuals involved in the horse-use debate. Using a figurational approach, this study explores how this debate is historically situated, and how broader societal trends regarding the treatment of animals have impacted the acceptance of chuckwagon racing and rodeo as 'sports', and how various rule changes have been implemented to legitimize these events in contemporary Canadian society.


identifier: Vickers, T. (2002). Intramolecular heck reactions with dihydropyrans: synthesis of (=/-)-Curcumene ether (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/23185

publisher:
Graduate Studies
Science
University of Calgary
Calgary

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 104-108


identifier: Li, L. (2016). Multi Sensor-Multi Mode Integration for Indoor Navigation with Smartphones (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27040

contributor:
Lachapelle, Gérard
Lin, Tao
El-Sheimy, Naser
Kattan, Lina

subject:
Geotechnology
Indoor Navigation
Complementary integration
Kalman Filter

abstract:
Indoor navigation is now used in many applications. For enhanced positioning accuracy indoors, this thesis develops the strategies and algorithms for multiple navigational integration modes coupled with multi-sensors fusion in smartphones. The sensors consist of an INS-magnetometer triad and a pressure sensor, in addition to WiFi signals. The main focus is to make full use of the complementary features of different sensors and different navigation modes to improve accuracy. One of the sensors, namely pressure sensor, complements the limitations of PDR and WiFi by extending the position dimension from 2D to 3D.

A centralized Kalman filter is designed and implemented for the proposed integration strategies including PDR and INS, WiFi and INS, as well as combination of PDR, WiFi and INS. Extensive indoor tests conducted in various buildings are used to evaluate the above strategies. Related navigation performance metrics are evaluated and inter-compared and their error statistics are summarized.


identifier: Van Ham, C. J. (1981). The effect of the gas distributor design on the air flotation of fine oil in water emulsions (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/11563

format:
xviii, 174 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
Oil separators
Emulsions

abstract: Bibliography: p. 120-123.


identifier: Joyce, H. A. (2004). Carnivalizing conservatism: a Bakhtinian analysis of Hanif Kureishi, Pat Barker and Zadie Smith in the context of the post-Thatcher era (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12316

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 136-144

abstract: Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith and Pat Barker engage with the changing shape of late twentieth-century Britain through their simultaneous engagement with conservative and magic realist discourses. Recognizing the pervasiveness of Margaret Thatcher's legacies in the post-Thatcher era, the three authors challenge conservative discourses through magic realist narrative strands that expose the homogenizing effects of Thatcherite nationalism. Homi K. Bhabha's discursive engagement with nation in conjunction with his conception of a hybrid third space, extended in my modem reading of M. M. Bakhtin, is extremely relevant to a critical reading of their texts. While Kureishi, Barker and Smith emphasize the denaturalizing effects of magic realist or carnivalesque moments, their texts also stress discursive overlap and in doing so recall Bakhtin's recognition of the interrelatedness of time and space. The interplay between alternate and official discourses, if read in the context of chronotopic layering, suggests a reevaluation of the concept of 'nation.' By acknowledging the interpenetration of alternative and conservative discourses, Kureishi, Barker and Smith re-form "Britishness."


identifier: Kamhuka, L. N. (2008). Geomapping Influenza in the Calgary Health Region (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/20002

publisher:
Graduate Studies
Medicine
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
xiv, 206 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 170-186


identifier: Obaid, H. (2014). Receptor Cross-Talk in the Biology & Therapeutics Of Pediatric Rhabdoid Brain Tumors (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27554

subject:
Oncology
Receptor Cross-Talk
Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor

abstract: Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (ATRT) is a highly malignant brain tumor that usually affects very young children and typically causes death, despite very aggressive treatment. The biological properties contributing to tumor aggressiveness and resistance to common chemotherapeutic agents are currently unknown. Previous studies have shown the activation of Insulin like growth factor-I receptor (IGF-1R) in ATRT tumor specimens and cell lines. Additionally, angiogenesis is an established physiological mechanism that supports the survival and progression of brain tumors. Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) signaling pathway is a major regulator of angiogenesis in brain tumors. We hypothesized that molecular interactions may exist between these two signaling pathways. Our findings show evidence for a novel IGF-1R/VEGFR-2 cross-talk in response to IGF-I mediated activation.  Furthermore, we show evidence that the inhibition of IGF-1R/VEGFR-2 pathways by the small molecule inhibitors lead inhibition of cell migration properties and the initiation of apoptosis. Overall, the data generated in this set of studies present a framework to evaluate and utilize the receptor cross talk pathways to identify novel treatment approaches for ATRT in the future.


identifier: Gulati, A. (2011). Fourier reconstruction of signal (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14579

title: Fourier reconstruction of signal

format:
vii, 79 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 74-79.
Many pages are in colour.


identifier: Clermont, C. A. (2019). Making Sense of Sensor Data for Recreational and Competitive Runners: Detecting Typical and Atypical Running Biomechanics (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

publisher:
Kinesiology
University of Calgary

contributor:
Ferber, Reed
Bouyer, Laurent
Duffett-Leger, Linda A.
Hettinga, Blayne A.
MacMullan, Paul A.

subject:
Biomechanics
Running
Wearable Technology
Gait Analysis
Education--Health
Education--Technology

abstract: Running-related injuries can result from a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors (e.g., running biomechanics, performance level, fatigue). Unfortunately, running biomechanics research has traditionally been performed in the lab. Therefore, the main objectives of this thesis were to establish novel methods to quantify typical running biomechanics for competitive and recreational runners and identify atypical changes due to fatigue and muscle soreness from a marathon race. In Chapter Three, it was found that competitive and recreational runners can be classified with greater than 80% accuracy using machine learning and lower-limb kinematic data. The translation of these methods to wearable sensor data can improve the generalizability of these findings. Therefore, in Chapter Four, centre of mass (CoM) acceleration data was used to classify competitive and recreational runners in sex-specific subgroups with greater than 80%. Thus, these experiments sought to establish specific subgroup running gait patterns both inside and out of the laboratory setting. Chapter Five expanded upon these findings and used a commercially-available wearable sensor and new statistical methods to detect alterations in subject-specific running biomechanics over the course of a fatigue-inducing marathon race. The culmination of these studies was Chapter Six wherein CoM acceleration data identified subject-specific typical running patterns prior to the marathon and determined whether fatigue-induced changes in gait patterns persist in the days following the race. The findings indicated an atypical shift in the runners’ CoM motion toward the mediolateral axis with only two days of recovery. In conclusion, it is evident that wearable sensor data, signal processing, and sophisticated analyses can be used to detect typical and atypical running biomechanics that may be associated with changes in performance and/or potential heightened risks of injury.


identifier: Cronk, P. N. (1977). Interpretive study of the University of Calgary's Effective Writing Program (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/21193

format:
ix, 133 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: University of Calgary. Effective Writing Program

subject: Writing

subject: Penmanship - Remedial teaching

abstract: Bibliography: p. 108-113.


identifier: Mian, R. (2016). The Working Alliance in Young Women with a Self-Reported History of Childhood Abuse (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28426

contributor:
Cairns, Sharon
Alderson, Kevin
Estefan, Andrew

subject:
Educational Psychology
Psychology
Working Alliance
childhood abuse
qualitative
ECIT

abstract: This research explored what people with a history of childhood physical/sexual abuse perceived to have helped or hindered the formation of a therapeutic alliance in counselling. Using the methodology of the enhanced critical incident technique, 10 participants were interviewed about what helped or hindered their building a strong working alliance, as well as what factors they wish had been present. From these interviews, 17 categories were generated. The seven helping categories were: (a) Counsellor’s skills or approach was effective, (b) Facilitated communication, (c) Counsellor was personable, (d) Counsellor was a woman, (e) Personal characteristics of the counsellor, (f) Trust/Non-judgement and (g) Accessibility. The seven hindering categories were (a) Not offering solutions or follow-up, (b) Unsuitable or incompatible interpersonal style, (c) Therapeutic approach or skills were not a fit, (d) Did not facilitate communication, (e) Lack of understanding, (f) Disrespect, and (g) Having to change counsellors. The three wish list item categories were (a) Facilitate communication more, (b) Incorporate wellness factors, and (c) More accessible. These categories are discussed in relation to the literature on both the working alliance and childhood abuse. Recommendations for counselling professionals are offered based on the findings and the scholarly literature.


identifier: Atkinson, P. (2005). Tall building: layering a built city (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/5183

title: Tall building: layering a built city

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


identifier: Hoehn, N. C. (2018). Maternal mental health and child allostatic load in rural Nicaragua (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB doi:10.11575/PRISM/32962

contributor:
Wilson, Warren M.
Krentz, Hartmut B.
Madigan, Sheri L.

subject:
Allostatic Load
Maternal Mental Health
Global Mental Health
Anthropology
Anthropology--Physical
Health Sciences
Human Development
Mental Health
Public Health
Psychology--Physiological

abstract: Approximately 25% of individuals worldwide will experience a common mental disorder (CMD) in their lifetime, and previous studies have suggested that poor maternal mental health (MMH) is associated with negative child health and development outcomes. However, these studies use individual markers to represent overall child health status. An allostatic load (AL) index may provide a better understanding of overall health status by pooling together multiple markers of intermediary risk to poor health outcomes. Here, I tested for an association between the following variables in a cross-sectional sample of maternal-child dyads from rural Nicaragua: 1) MMH and individual child health measures. 2) MMH and a child AL index. Multiple regression analyses found no significant relationships between MMH and any of the outcome measures. However, a high prevalence of probable cases of CMDs (30.9%) was documented among mothers, indicating that mental health should be prioritized by local and regional health interventions.


identifier: Amankwah, E. K. (2007). Etiology of sporadic endometrial cancer characterized by microsatellite instability (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/13802

publisher:
Medicine
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
xii, 364 leaves: ills.
xii, 364 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 215-242


identifier: Mason, J. C. (2009). Exploratory case study: experience with a game programming assignment in an introductory computer science classroom (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/3003

contributor:
Jacobsen, D. Michele
Kremer, Robert

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 69-76


identifier: Hove, P. H. (1988). Buddhist causality and emptiness: a comparative stydy of the Nikayas and Nagarjuna (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14028

format:
xiii, 211 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
BQ 4240 H68 1988
Buddhism
Causation (Buddhism)
Sunyata

abstract: Bibliography: p. 195-211.


identifier: Sherley, K. R. (2008). X-ray crystallography, nucleotide binding, and kinetic studies of human atp-specific succinyl-coa synthetase (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2332

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

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 151-157
Some page are in colour


identifier: Mistal, M. (2013). Life and Grief in the Classroom (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26757

title: Life and Grief in the Classroom

subject:
General
Guidance and Counseling
Health
General
General
General
General
General
General
General
General
General
General
General
General
General
General
General
General
grief
bereavement
Relationships
cancer
suicide
self-study
death

abstract: This research explores the lifeworld of grief in teaching and learning. Guided by my own story of teaching while living through the process of my mother’s dying and my bereavement, I question my knowing about how this might affect the relationships between myself and my students within the classroom. Such understandings moved beyond the boundaries of my own story, into the depth of the lifeworld of the classroom as a student in my school was lost to suicide. Reflecting on how these events affected my life as a teacher as well as the pedagogical space of my classroom, I ask: what are we to do in the midst of pain and suffering in the classroom? I want to understand and explore deeply how grief is dealt within individual and collective lives and how it might manifest itself in the daily life of school.


identifier: Mellan, C. (2014). Exploring American Metaphysicals in Medical Discourse (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26077

subject:
Religion--History of
Anthropology--Medical and Forensic
Psychology
Spirituality
Contemporary Spirituality
Metaphysicals
Medical Discourse
Early Psychology
Humanistic Psychology
Metaphysics

abstract:
This thesis explores the use of spirituality in mainstream medical discourse. Both discourse analysis and socio-historical analysis are applied to understand how spirituality is used in medicine and the ways in which medical professionals construct its meaning and application in the areas of practice, research, and training.
Through socio-historical analysis this thesis regards the construction of spirituality and its various influences beginning in the mid to late nineteenth century that help shape its use today in the medical discourse. As a result of the influences, various connotations arise within each of the sub-discourses in medicine. This variation leads to the construction of medicine’s own adaptation of spirituality, as Medical Spirituality.
Criticism arises when incongruences within the medical discourse are further analyzed. Further study of the construction and use of spirituality in medicine is encouraged, most especially, with an open dialogue between the field of religious studies and the discipline of medicine.


identifier: Watts, J. A. (2006). The calculus on subcartesian spaces (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/542

title: The calculus on subcartesian spaces

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 107-108


identifier: Shore, B. M. (1971). Outward location bias in selective perception (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/15550

format:
x, 296 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
BF 241 S54 1971 Microfilm
Visual perception

abstract: Bibliography: p. 148-159.

abstract: This study seeks to identify a dimension of outward location bias in visual selective perception, to develop valid measures of this bias, and to measure the extent to which this bias can be predicted by measures of field-independence, intelligence, and creativity. Persons demonstrating outward location bias are defined as those responding to relatively outwardly located visual cues in two-dimensional displays. The five tests developed require different types of responses, such as cancelling letters and checking-off lists of items after viewing slides. The sample consisted of 375 grade eight boys and girls in two Calgary junior high schools. The tests were found to be reliable. Four of them presented problems of interpretation, since the effects of responding to centrally or inwardly located cues were difficult to overcome. Their intercorrelations were low. A multivariate stepdown regression analysis permitted the conclusion that the scores on the test battery could be predicted from nonverbal measures of cognitive functioning, as hypothesized, though not for all the predictor tests used. Two supplementary conclusions are that the relations found tend to be task-specific, and that outward location bias cannot be adequately considered in isolation from other stimulus and subject characteristics, for example, the role of verbalization in responding to nonverbal cues. Implications are cited for the understanding of the relations between perceptual and intellectual variables, and for the design of instructional materials and settings.


identifier: Vo, S. T. (2001). Duff water balance in the Canadian boreal forest (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/22926

format:
xiv, 106 leaves ; ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: AC1 .T484 2001 V6

abstract: Bibliography: p. 96-104.


identifier: Supina, A. L. (2008). The prevalence and associated risks of concurrent use of cholinestrerase inhibitors, antipsychotic and/or anticholinergic medications in patients with alzheimer's disease (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2874

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 180-204


identifier: Taylor, J. C. (1988). Bone in the mouth (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/23319

title: Bone in the mouth

format:
vii, 442 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: PS 8553 R37 B66 1988


identifier: de Jong, E. W. (1984). Economic diversification and development for the province of Alberta: a systemic approach (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/18486

format:
[iv], vi, 310 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 297-310.

abstract: This study investigates alternative approaches the Government of Alberta might employ to diversify the economic structure of the province. It is argued that Albertans are largely dependent on the social and economic benefits derived from the Province's agriculture and energy industries to maintain their accustomed standard of living, and that the initiatives undertaken by the public sector over the past 30 years have not substantially reduced that dependence. After a review and evaluation of the concepts, theories and analytical methods developed (in the field of regional planning) to stimulate economic diversification and development, as well as a review and critique of past federal and provincial government efforts in this regard, the normative position is taken that future government intervention should stem from a "holistic" view of the economic diversification and development process. In line with this view of the topic, the study outlines the elements of a systemic approach to economic diversification and development for the Province of Alberta. Its key features relate to the formation of institutional systems designed to: (1) improve intergovernmental and interdepartmental coordination in the formulation and management of economic diversification and development initiatives so as to increase their overall effectiveness; (2) stimulate the creation and expansion of innovative businesses in the province; (3) generate the development, application and commercialization of new products and technologies by locally-owned and operated businesses; (4) expand foreign and domestic markets served by local firms; and (5), facilitate widespread public participation in community-based economic development projects.


identifier: Dutton, D. E. (2009). An exploration of the motivation and experience of contingent academic faculty in a university setting (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2957

format:
xii, 175 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 143-165


identifier: Whitsitt, E. (2017). Prospects for Unity in International Economic Law (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27464

publisher:
Graduate Studies
Law
University of Calgary
Calgary

contributor:
Bankes, Nigel
Bjorklund, Andrea
Brown, Catherine
Quesnel, Alicia
Saunders, Owen

subject: Law International Trade Investment Adjudication Unity Fragmentation

abstract: This study is an intervention into a conversation, which began in the late 1990s, about the increasingly fragmented nature of international law. Within that discussion, relatively little is said of the relationship between the international trade and international investment law regimes. It is within this analytical space that my intervention is placed. The adjudicators in both systems play a crucial role in defining the relationship between these branches of international economic law. This thesis focuses on the role that adjudicators play in the continuing conversation about the relationship between the international trade and international investment law regimes. Unlike other studies on the intersection between these two regimes, this thesis examines the extent to which the international trade and international investment law regimes are uniting through the process of adjudication.


identifier: Wasilewski, J. E. (2009). Hello...hello: interpreting a strangely familiar world (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2643

publisher:
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
vii, 60 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 48-50
Some pages are in colour


identifier: Ng, C. (2018). Evaluation Metrics for Haptic Hand Controllers used in Robotic Neurosurgery Considering User Preference (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/5425

publisher:
Graduate Studies
Schulich School of Engineering
University of Calgary
Calgary

contributor:
Sun, Qiao
Zareinia, Kourosh
Enns, Van
Ghasemloonia, Ahmad
Radmanesh, Ahmad

subject:
Robotics
Neurosurgery
Haptics
Biomedical
Mechanical Design
Education--Sciences
Medicine and Surgery
Engineering
Engineering--Mechanical
Robotics

abstract:
In robot assisted surgery, haptic hand controllers are used as an interface between the human oper- ator and a robot manipulator operating on the patient. A well designed haptic hand controller gives users the confidence by allowing the operator to maneuver with ease.

There is a desire to translate qualitative preferences to quantifiable design considerations for a hand controller. A teleoperated task related to neurosurgery with three groups of participants and four 6 DOF commercial hand controllers was conducted. Quantitative performance metrics in terms of user effort, motion smoothness, and workspace was evaluated along with qualitative data from questionnaire response. Results provided insights for future designs.

A new method for controlling actuation and feedback for bipolar forceps was prototyped and showed improved perception of stiffness and confidence in a user based psychometric experiment. This showed the feasibility and benefits of having the actual tool as part of the hand controller.


identifier: Kassab, M. S. (2007). Enhancing the energy-efficient design of office buildings using a based-simulation design support system (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/1719

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 136-144


identifier: Geeraert, B. L. (2020). Late Childhood Refinements of White Matter Microstructure and Links to Reading (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

publisher:
Science
University of Calgary

contributor:
Lebel, Catherine A.
Frayne, Richard
Yeates, Keith Owen

subject:
Reading
Neuroscience
Human Development
Engineering--Biomedical

abstract: Late childhood and adolescence is a fascinating period of brain development where many sophisticated cognitive skills such as reading are refined. Complex functions like reading are performed by networks of cortical regions connected by white matter tracts. White matter development and links to reading have been well-studied using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), but DTI lacks both specificity and accuracy. The tensor model is simultaneously sensitive to many white matter microstructural features, and cannot account for complex fiber architecture. Neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI), inhomogeneous magnetization transfer (ihMT), and multicomponent driven equilibrium single-pulse observation of T1 and T2 (mcDESPOT) have increased specificity to individual aspects of white matter microstructure. This study sought to leverage advanced imaging methods to build upon the foundation of DTI-based investigations of white matter development and links to reading. Our first aim was to compare the sensitivity of mcDESPOT and ihMT myelin markers to DTI measures, as no previous studies have evaluated the practicality of these techniques in the human brain. Next, we applied NODDI, ihMT, and mcDESPOT alongside DTI to describe development of white matter microstructure during late childhood and adolescence. Finally, white matter microstructure was linked to reading through a cross-sectional principal component analysis and investigations of longitudinal changes in white matter and reading. In this way we identified key components of white matter microstructure and linked microstructural development to reading acquisition. This study has shed new light on the microstructural nuances of white matter development and cognitive refinements occurring during late childhood and adolescence.


identifier: Campbell, J. J. (1979). Belief and interpretation (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12307

title: Belief and interpretation

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

subject:
BD 215 C34 1979 Fiche
Belief and doubt
Reference (Philosophy)
Cognition
Languages - Philosophy

abstract: Bibliography: p. 116-119.


identifier: Freedman, G. A. (1973). Ultra narrow-band communication system (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/18539

title: Ultra narrow-band communication system

format:
xxi, 236 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
TK 5101 F74 1973 Microfilm
Telecommunication
Data transmission systems

abstract: Bibliography: p. 230-231.


identifier: Shafaghat, A. (2016). Depressurization Dynamic Modeling and Effect on Flare Flame Distortion (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25558

publisher:
Graduate Studies
University of Calgary
Calgary

contributor:
De Visscher, Alex Andre Hugo
Foley, Michael William
Nassar, Nashaat

subject:
Engineering--Chemical
Chemical Engineering

abstract: The aim of equipment depressurization in an upset operation is to maintain the internal pressure of the vessels and piping below the rupture pressure, as the material ultimate tensile strength decreases with temperature tolerance beyond the acceptable limit. Depressurizing also causes to decrease the extent and duration of leaks that may occur as a result of mechanical failure. In the case of ignition and fire, a depressurization system can limit the fuel supply to the fire. In addition, the main objective of the pressure relief facilities is to keep personnel safe as well as equipment exposed to overpressure conditions that happen during process upsets. This thesis is intended to examine the modeling of depressurization in different scenarios, evaluate flare flame distortion and heat radiation as the most important consequences of this event, and consequently offer some recommendations for the design of any gas plant that has potential for overpressure.


identifier: Carvalho, W. I. (2000). Structural changes of unipennate skeletal muscle during isometric contractions (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/17397

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

subject:
QP321 .C375 2000
Musculoskeletal system--physiology
Muscles
Muscle contraction

abstract: Bibliography: p. 54-58


identifier: Aizenman, R. (1968). Re-evaluation of the third Chartist movement (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/17188

format:
402 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: HD 8396 A39 1968

subject: Chartism

subject: Great Britain - Social conditions

subject: Labor and laboring classes - Great Britain - History

subject: France - History - February Revolution, 1848

abstract: Bibliography: p. 362-391.


identifier: Ngo, H. V. (2011). The unravelling of identities and belonging: criminal gang involvement of youth from immigrant families (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4027

format:
xvi, 452 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 386-425

abstract: This dissertation study was a response to community concerns about youth gangs in Calgary. It aimed to achieve theoretical understanding of criminal gang involvement of youth from immigrant families, and to develop a collaborative, practical framework to support high risk youth. lnformed by participatory action research and grounded theory, the inquiry process involved an interplay of theoretical development and participation of community stakeholders in group reflection and action. The analysis of the experiences of predominantly male participants (29 males, l female) resulted in a grounded theory of unravelling identities and belonging. According to the proposed theory, some youth from immigrant families became involved in criminal gang activity as a result of the unravelling of their self-concept, Canadian identity, ethnic identity and sense of belonging. Such unravelling occurred as the youth experienced gradual disintegration in their relationships with family, school and community. The analysis further unearthed complex pathways of youth from immigrant families towards criminal gang involvement. The gang involved participants either directly experienced pre-migration vulnerabilities or were indirectly impacted by their parents' pre-migration histories. Their life experiences in Canada involved gradual disintegration of their interactions with their families , schools and communities. Subsequently, the participants experienced crises of identities and belonging, which propelled them towards forming friendships with other socially disconnected peers. They became involved in social cliques, and progressed towards membership in criminal gangs. Drawing upon recommendations from the community stakeholders, this dissertation offers a practical framework for supporting high risk youth from immigrant families. The framework is guided by a set of principles that focus on development amongst youth from i1mnigrant families of a positive sense of identity, and of equity, multi-sectoral involvement, coordination and collaboration, multiple approaches to youth services, addressing multiple needs with multiple interventions, and timeliness and responsiveness as criteria for community stakeholders and service providers. It focuses on prevention, and offers concrete strategies for home-based, school-based and community-based support for youth. The dissertation addresses the implications of the study with respect to theoretical development, research, public discourse, policy development, and practice and service development. The findings of the study have made valuable theoretical and practical contributions to addressing the involvement of youth from immigrant families in criminal gangs.


identifier: Azam, S. (2017). Visual Aesthetics for Person Identification and Gender Recognition (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28647

contributor:
Gavrilova, Marina
Alim, Usman
Parker, James Robert

subject:
Computer Science
Aesthetics
Biometrics
Gender
Identification

abstract:
Visual aesthetics of a person is the set of visual preferences that makes an image appear more favorably. Recently, research emerged that utilized visual aesthetic cues of favorite images for person identification. All recent methods have relatively low identification rates (below 73%) due to the lack of discriminative visual features. In this thesis, we resolve this problem and introduce an efficient person identification method that achieves 84% identification rate. We also introduce a discriminative visual pattern and propose a novel method for gender recognition using a person's favorite images. The proposed gender recognition method demonstrates 91.20% accuracy in distinguishing males' and females' aesthetics on a Flickr database. Applications of
thesis  findings to biometric research, forensics and recommender systems are discussed in the concluding section.


identifier: Wills, R. (1963). Effects of specific solvation on kinetic activation parameters of some benzyl halides in binary solvent mixtures (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/18487

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

subject:
QD 281 S6 W54 1963
Solvolysis
Chemical reaction, rate of
Benzene
Halides

abstract: Bibliography: p. 88-89.


identifier: Alhomadi, A. A. (2018). An Assessment Tool for Measuring and Enhancing Innovation in Construction Projects. (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/9358

contributor:
Jergeas, George Farage
Ruwanpura, Janaka
Lozon, Jim

subject:
innovation
Innovation measurement
Innovation in Construction Projects
Construction Innovation
Engineering--Civil

abstract: Innovation is essential to maintaining competitiveness, improving performance, increasing national economic growth, and contributing to a knowledge-based economy. The construction industry is one of the leading economic contributors in today’s societies. However, the industry is fragmented, diverse, and challenged with a constantly changing business environment and increasing complexity and sophistication. By investing in innovations, the industry seeks to promote performance and sustain competitiveness. The construction industry is mainly project-based, and project level innovation plays a key role in enhancing the performance of project-based companies. The main objective of this research, therefore, was to holistically investigate the factors influencing innovation processes and their diffusion outputs in the construction project context and develop an assessment tool that can help firms measure and benchmark innovation levels on construction projects. A multiphase mixed methods design was conducted, where the different phases interrelate to address the main research objective. The research design encompassed three main sequential phases. The first phase involved the collection and analysis of qualitative data using semi-structured interviews and an exploratory survey. This was followed by a development phase of translating the qualitative findings into a quantitative questionnaire instrument. Then the quantitative phase involved administering the developed instrument to a representative sample in Canada to measure the extent of innovation within the construction projects. The analysis of the quantitative data entailed several statistical procedures, particularly, exploratory factor analysis, scales reliability analysis, and multiple regression analysis. As a result, factor influencing innovation process and their outputs were examined, their prevalence within the context of construction projects was measured, and key factors and their relationships were identified. A construction project innovation assessment tool (CPIAT) was developed based on a synthesis of the results from the previous phases with 13 rigorous innovation indicators. Furthermore, the CPIAT was applied on two different construction projects and showed consistency and efficiency in meaningfully benchmarking construction projects’ innovation.