identifier: Alexander, J. A. (2018). Plutarch's "De E apud Delphos": Translation and Commentary (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/34516

contributor:
Hume, James Rutherford
Toohey, Peter
Bertolín Cebrián, Reyes
Migotti, Mark

subject:
Plutarch's Morals
Greek Literature
Arithmology
Greek Religion
The Delphic oracle
Literature--Classical
History--Ancient

abstract: Plutarch’s Parallel Lives are well known; less so the essays and dialogues grouped into his omnibus Moralia. One of these essays, De E apud Delphos (“De E”), contains a discussion of the meaning of a votive object, in the form of the letter E, first offered by the seven Sages to the Delphian god. This translation, with its commentary, pays attention to technical matters discussed in the dialogue (number theory, the altar at Delos, the pentad, syllogistic logic, Being and Becoming) that have sometimes been neglected in other translations. It also comments on themes encountered in the dialogue (divination, divine aid and prophecy, and nostalgia). Plutarch’s description of the world at Delphi rewards the reader with insights into an intellectual, scientific, religious, and social world that has long departed.


identifier: Woronkiewicz, D. E. (1972). Structural study of two Australian tribes (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/18739

publisher:
University of Calgary
Calgary

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

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

subject: DU 122 T5 W65 1972

subject: Tiwi (Melville Island people) - Social life and customs

subject: Murngin (Australian tribe) - Social life and customs

abstract: Bibliography: p. 92-94.


identifier: Gerling, M. (2016). Refined Prognostication in Coronary Artery Disease Using Routine Laboratory Test Data (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27571

publisher:
Graduate Studies
University of Calgary
Calgary

contributor:
de Koning, Lawrence
James, Matthew
Naugler, Christopher
Wilton, Stephen

subject:
Epidemiology
Prognostication
Risk Score
coronary artery disease
Routine Laboratory Data
Vitamin D

abstract: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Numerous prognostic scores have been developed that rely on clinical information to predict risk of adverse outcomes and subsequently aid clinicians in determining appropriate intervention strategies. This thesis examines the ability of laboratory test data, including the complete blood count (CBC), electrolytes, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), and 25-OH vitamin D, to improve prognostic assessment in CAD patients beyond existing clinical risk factors. Although 25-OH vitamin D status was found to be inversely associated with mortality, it was neither associated with nor predictive of hospital readmission, and provided little additional prognostic information beyond existing risk factors. Conversely, a risk score derived from components of the CBC, electrolytes, and eGFR, in conjunction with age and sex, was strongly predictive of mortality, and led to considerable improvement in the ability to identify high-risk patients beyond existing risk factors.


identifier: Elahi, T. (2012). A generic execution management framework for long running jobs in grid environments (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4747

contributor:
Simmonds, Robert William John
Unger, Brian W.

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 188-202

abstract:
Over the last decade, the grid has emerged as a paradigm of distributed and collaborative computing focusing on the sharing of computational and storage resources spanning across geographical and organizational domains. Greater access to high-end computational facilities provides researchers fom a broad spectrum of domains an inexpensive option of carrying out sophisticated computational experiments. However, the inherent dynamics and heterogeneity of grid environments make the execution of resource and compute intensive applications a challenging task. Increasing fault tolerance by checkpointing and migrating jobs between resources requires significant expertise and intervention from users. Automation of such tasks can allow them to focus more on the scientific results and less on the technical details.
This thesis addresses the issues associated with management of execution of long running applications in grid environments. It presents a generic framework for automating execution of such applications. The framework is driven by a set of information models that capture knowledge about the resources and the applications. Crucial to the functioning of the framework is information on two application characteristics: the configurability, and the memory usage behaviour. Separate models are presented to encode knowledge of both of these characteristics. Use of a common representation of knowledge abstracts the heterogeneity of both the resources and the applications and makes the framework functional without the need to be tailored to any specific application.
Two important issues that need to be considered in managing job execution are the amount of memory required by the job and the wait time the job may experience on a specific resource. The framework presented in this thesis is equipped with mechanisms to address both of these issues. It is able to make estimations about the wait time for jobs with different resource requirements. A learning system has been designed as part of the framework to characterize the memory usage behaviour of application instances. The system facilitates execution management operations by providing accurate estimation of job's memory usage.


identifier: Lane, B. J. (2015). Cell Complexes: The Structure of Space and the Mathematics of Modularity (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25232

subject:
Computer Science
cell complex
developmental modeling
topological data structure

abstract:
The modeling of growing multicellular structures is of fundamental importance in investigating plant development. A distinctive feature of plants is that, with rare exceptions, cells do not move with respect to each other; the only differences in tissue topology are due to cell divisions. Corresponding features are found in other application domains, such as geometric modeling. Models from these diverse domains, taken together, constitute the field of developmental modeling. This dissertation is concerned with devising a mathematical and computational formalism for such modeling.
Examining simple examples of one-dimensional models shows that the mathematical structure of the cell complex is ideal for developmental modeling. The cell complex consists of mathematical cells of different dimensions, letting physical quantities of different inherent dimension sit in their proper place in the structure. A cell complex can be represented in an index-free manner, and topological operations on it, including the important case of cell division, can be effected in a local manner. Finally, the cell complex is built on neighbourhood relations which let developmental rules easily access values in neighbouring cells.
A novel data structure, the flip, records a single adjacency between cells in a cell complex; a flip table, the collection of all flips in the complex, is in turn sufficient to represent the complex itself. This representation is used to build the Cell Complex Framework, a C++ API which can be used for computational modeling of development in any number of dimensions. The framework provides basic operations such as iterating over a cell complex, adding, removing, dividing, and merging cells, and computing geometric information such as orientation, measure, and centroid. Some developmental models from the existing literature, in both two and three dimensions, are reproduced using the Cell Complex Framework, demonstrating its workability and expressiveness; these include both geometric models as well as models of biological systems. New models are also shown, including a model of turtle geometry on the surface of a 2D mesh and a three-dimensional model of the apex of the moss Physcomitrella patens.


identifier: Kryzhanivka, O. (2011). Posthuman flesh: fabricating the body (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4102

title: Posthuman flesh: fabricating the body

contributor:
Hushlak, Gerald
Woodrow, Paul

format:
iv, 68 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 55-56


identifier: Szanto, J. E. (2021). Singing Technique for Young Children in the Kodály Music Classroom: A Narrative Inquiry (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

publisher:
Arts
University of Calgary

contributor:
Bell, Adam Patrick
George, Angela
Welling, Miriam Joelle
Radford, Ronald Laurie Charles

subject: Kodály method, Kodály concept, Kodály system, qualitative music research, music education, vocal warm-ups, learning to sing, children, music classroom, solfège class, musicianship, voice methods, vocal pedagogy, singing technique

subject: Fine Arts

subject: Music

subject: Education

subject: Education--Adult and Continuing

subject: Education--Art

subject: Education--Curriculum and Instruction

subject: Education--Early Childhood

subject: Education--Elementary

subject: Education--Teacher Training

subject: Anthropology--Cultural

abstract: The aim of this work is to investigate singing practices and vocal pedagogy in the music classroom and the applications of these with the Kodály concept in the early childhood years. Stories of Kodály teachers whom I interviewed provide glimpses into the various applications (teaching techniques) of this method. Although the teaching philosophies originate from the 1940s-80s, singing remains in focus. It is clear from the narrative of Kodály teachers today that the application of the method has changed from its origin to relate to modern society to be more relevant to current contexts. How are today’s children different, if at all, from the ones who filled the music classrooms decades ago? Singing activities may not come readily to teachers and they start to dissipate from the early elementary music classes. Is there room to sing and play circle games with the efforts to sing throughout the music class in the early childhood years? Motivating and encouraging children to sing, through activities such as circle games, with healthy vocal habits leads me to the question, how do voice techniques fit into the musicianship classroom? I conducted interviews with music teachers to generate the summary of their narrative. In this qualitative research study, I summarized and translated my findings of the inquiry into a methodology that may serve as a practical guide for music teachers who wish to explore this method.


identifier: Chen, P. (2007). A planning proposal for the redevelopment of the Brentwood shopping area, Calgary (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/1464

publisher:
Environmental Design
University of Calgary
Calgary

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 114-117


identifier: Gordon, K. D. (1968). Industrial dispute settlement in Canada: the alternatives before us (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/16120

format:
145 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: HD 5328 G65 1968 Microfilm

subject: Labor disputes - Canada

subject: Arbitration, Industrial - Canada

subject: Mediation and conciliation, Industrial - Canada

abstract: Bibliography: p. 138-145.


identifier: Young, K. J. (2002). One camp: interface of the real and the unreal in children's environments (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/15484

publisher:
Environmental Design
Graduate Studies
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
iv, 121 leaves : ill. ; 22 cm.
application/pdf

subject: AC1 .T484 2002 Y68

abstract: Bibliography: p. 111-113.


identifier: Darko, E. (2019). A novel pH-adjusted water stationary phase for capillary gas chromatographic separations (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

title: A Novel pH-adjusted Water Stationary Phase for Capillary Gas Chromatographic Separations

publisher:
Science
University of Calgary

contributor:
Thurbide, Kevin B.
Kimura-Hara, Susana
Gailer, Jürgen G.

subject:
Gas chromatography
Water stationary phase
Ionizable compounds
Education--Sciences

abstract: In this thesis, a novel pH-adjusted water stationary phase coated on a stainless steel column was investigated, characterized, and compared to other conventional columns in capillary gas chromatography (GC). The pH-adjusted water stationary phase was applied to the analysis of both organic bases and acids. The analysis of organic bases and acids on a regular pH 7 water phase is impossible to achieve due to the poor peak shapes and elution properties that result. However, these compounds readily eluted and separated well when pH 11.5 and 2.2 water stationary phase coatings are employed respectively. In the basic and acidic conditions, analytes are neutralized and are observed to produce good peak shapes even for analyte masses down to about 5ng. By comparison, analyses on a conventional non-polar capillary GC column yield more peak tailing and only analyte masses of 1 μg or higher are normally observed. Through carefully altering the pH, it is found that the selectivity between analytes can be potentially further enhanced if their respective pKa values differ sufficiently. The analysis of different pharmaceutical and petroleum samples containing organic bases and acids are demonstrated and are neatly simplified and improved using the pH-adjusted water stationary phase. Separations are also quite reproducible and provide low RSD values for the developed technique. In related work, a dynamic stationary phase switching technique was also studied and characterized for use in analytical separations involving complex mixtures. The study showed the ability to dynamically and externally control ionisable analyte retention and selectivity in GC. By first trapping these analytes, they could later be eluted on demand. Accordingly, organic bases and acids were reproducibly analyzed with much improved selectivity and resolution over other compounds. Further, by employing a triple column system, it was demonstrated that separation of hydrocarbons in complex matrices such as gasoline was achieved alongside a similar selective analysis of organic bases/acids. These results for organic acids and bases indicate that the use of a pH-adjusted water stationary phase approach can potentially offer unique and beneficial selectivity for such analytes in GC separations.


identifier: Gross, W. E. (2003). Dependence of hummingbird movement within inflorescences on the spatial arrangement of flowers (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/23862

format:
x, 121 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: AC1 .T484 2003 G76

abstract: Bibliography: p. 113-121


identifier: Desjardins, S. (1990). On some gauge-invariant perterbation methods and their application to gravitational waves (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/16654

format:
vi, 66 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
QC 760 D48 1990
Gauge invariance
Gravitational radiation

abstract: Bibliography: p. 63-65.


identifier: Speelman, J. D. (1978). Megaspore palynology and paleoecology, Foremost formation (Upper Cretaceous), southeastern Alberta (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/22185

format:
x, 114 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

relation: Additional Copy: QE 924 S62 1978G GEOLOGY

subject:
QE 924 S62 1978 Microfiche
Palynology - Alberta
Paleoecology - Alberta
Paleobotany - Alberta
Paleobotany - Cretaceous

abstract: Bibliography: p. 88-97.


identifier: Eastick, R. R. (1989). Phase behaviour and viscosity of bitumen fractions saturated with CO2 (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/13925

format:
xiv, 128 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
TP 692.4 B5 E38 1989
Bitumen - Viscosity

abstract: Bibliography: p. 118-122.


identifier: Larijani, L. (2022). Absence of p21 expression sensitizes iPSCs to iCaspase9 induced apoptosis while not impacting ability to participate in exogenous cartilage repair (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

title: Absence of p21 Expression Sensitizes iPSCs to iCaspase9 Induced Apoptosis While Not Impacting Ability to Participate in Exogenous Cartilage Repair

publisher:
Cumming School of Medicine
University of Calgary

contributor:
Rancourt, Derrick
Krawetz, Roman
Childs, Sarah J.
Bob, Argiropoulos

subject:
iPSC
iCaspas9
Suicide gene
Chondrogenesis
Cartilage
Drug screening
Epigenetics
Biology--Cell
Genetics
Biology--Molecular

abstract: p21 is a multifunctional protein that is critical to the control cellular proliferation and plays a number of other functions in the cell. In the nucleus, p21 functions as a tumour suppressor, while in the cytoplasm, phosphorylated p21 functions as a proto-oncogene and can also suppress apoptosis. Because p21 deficiency has been linked to increased tissue regeneration, in this thesis, I sought to investigate if p21 mutations can improve the regenerative capacity of induced pluripotent stem cells in a cellular therapy approach for cartilage injuries in mice. However, because p21 is a tumor suppressor and its loss can result in tumorigenesis, I employed the inducible Caspase9 cell suicide system to purge iPSCs through forced apoptosis. In vitro, iCaspase9-mediated cell death resulted in a statistically significant increase in the apoptosis rate in p21-/- iPSCs compared to p21+/+ iPSCs (wild-type). RNA sequencing was undertaken to determine which pathways are involved in p21 mediated apoptosis. Increased expression of 41 apoptotic and 6 healing-related genes were observed in p21-/- iPSCs compared to wildtype. In vitro chondrogenesis of p21-/- iPSCs showed an increase in chondrogenic genes relative to the wild-type cells. When these iPSCs were transplanted into a focal cartilage injury in mice, ectopic cartilage formation was observed. Neither tumors, nor ectopic cartilage formation was observed in mice that were treated with CID drug to induce iCasp9 mediated apoptosis. Finally, I performed a drug screen to discover compounds that promote apoptosis with iCasp9. In addition to identifying several epigenetic drugs that promoted iCasp9 function in vitro, I also demonstrated that p21 inhibitors could phenocopy the enhanced iCasp9 mediate cell killing seen previously in the p21 mutant iPSCs. Overall, my findings indicate that p21 does play a role in protecting iPSCs from apoptosis and its downregulation can be exploited to increase cell-suicide approach effectiveness. I was also able to demonstrate that iPSCs can induce robust cartilage repair in mice regardless of the expression of p21. Therefore, modulation of p21 warrants further research to determine if exploiting this protein can be used in iPSC clinical trials safely in the future.


identifier: Tobin, L. (2015). Women's Attention as a Function of Body Dissatisfaction and Images of Thin Models: An Eye-Tracking Study (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28720

subject:
Psychology--Clinical
Body Image
Attentional Bias
Thin Media

abstract: To gain insight into cognitive underpinnings of body dissatisfaction, we compared attentional biases in body-dissatisfied and body-satisfied women, as well as the influence of thin media images on attention. Women (42 body-dissatisfied and 40 body-satisfied) completed a paradigm measuring attention to fat- and thin-related words via eye gaze, both before and after exposure to images of thin models. Participants self-reported on height, weight, and body dissatisfaction. Body-dissatisfied women paid more attention to weight words (both fat and thin) than body-satisfied women. Exposure to thin model images did not affect attention to weight words. Body mass index was related to attention to fat words only prior to image exposure. Our findings suggest that body-dissatisfied women display an attentional bias to weight words but not in the direction predicted by the cognitive model of eating disorders, and that brief exposures to models do not affect the attentional biases.


identifier: Ramaliu, A. (2003). Identifying trends in the participation of ethno-cultural minorities in health care policy over a decade (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/13985

format:
xii, 192 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 168-182


identifier: Gutiérrez Oseguera, A. (2021). Investigation on how to improve oil recovery from the Chicontepec paleochannel: a giant unconventional petroleum reservoir in Mexico (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

title: Investigation on How to Improve Oil Recovery from the Chicontepec Paleochannel: A Giant Unconventional Petroleum Reservoir in Mexico

publisher:
Schulich School of Engineering
University of Calgary

contributor:
Aguilera, Roberto
Moore, Robert Gordon
Mehta, Sudarshan A

subject: Mexican reservoir

subject: Chicontepec

subject: Formation evaluation

subject: Dual-porosity

subject: Tight oil sandstone

subject: Unconventional naturally fractured reservoir

subject: Petrophysics

subject: Well testing

subject: Engineering

subject: Engineering--Petroleum

abstract: The Chicontepec paleochannel contains an unconventional tight oil sandstone also characterized by natural fractures. Chicontepec ranks worldwide as a giant reservoir with volumes of original-oil-in-place (OOIP) ranging between 137,300 and 59,000 MMbbls. As of 2020 cumulative oil recovery was 340.38 MMbbls, which is a significant volume by normal standards. However, for Chicontepec this represents only 0.32 to 0.75% of the OOIP, truly an insignificant percent recovery. The fact that almost all the oil is being left in this unconventional reservoir provides the key motivation for the research developed in this thesis: Finding a practical economic means of increasing oil production rates and recovery from Chicontepec. Since nearly every available method in the oil and gas industry has been tried in the past in Chicontepec to increase oil recovery with limited success despite large investments, this thesis concentrated on developing novel but realistic models with a view to increase Chicontepec oil recovery. The following new methods were developed 1)	A dual porosity petrophysical model for shaly sandstones that contain natural fractures. 2) A dual porosity well testing model for horizontal wells penetrating an unconventional naturally fractured reservoir. 3) A practical means of integrating the dual porosity petrophysical and well testing models. 4) A means of integrating actual available oil production data with the 3 items mentioned above. It is concluded that the novel methodology developed in this thesis has the potential to increase oil recovery from Chicontepec. This is significant as a mere 1% increase in oil recovery corresponds to 1,373MM or 590 MMbbls, depending on the OOIP used for the calculation. Any one of these two volumes is larger than the cumulative oil produced in Chicontepec up to the year 2020 (340.38 MMbbls). And based on results of this study the increase in percent recovery could be larger.


identifier: Liu, J. (2020). Immigrants as Settlement Workers: An Inquiry into their Experiences of Work and Workplace Learning at Immigrant Service Agencies in Canada (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

publisher:
Werklund School of Education
University of Calgary

contributor:
Guo, Shibao
Groen, Janet Elizabeth
Simmons, Marlon

subject: Racialized immigrants, transition to work, workplace learning, immigrant settlement workers, immigrant service agencies, intersectionality, institutional ethnography

subject: Education--Adult and Continuing

abstract: My research investigates the transition to work and workplace learning experiences of immigrant settlement workers (ISWs) at immigrant service agencies (ISAs) in Canada. Informed by intersectionality and institutional ethnography (IE), I investigate how ISWs’ labour market integration and learning at work are constructed in institutional relations, organizing and shaping the coordination of individuals’ standpoint at local sites. In examining ISWs’ transition to work, I first trace the trajectory of immigrants becoming ISWs and then analyze how race, gender, and class intersect and shape their experiences of seeking employment in institutional complexes between governmental organizations, employment institutions, and ISAs. In exploring ISWs’ workplace learning in ISAs, I analyze ISWs’ emerging learning opportunities in formal and non-formal settings and how their learning can be situated in cultural and relational contexts. More importantly, my research scrutinizes how textual ruling power is translocally developed and distributed to mould ISWs’ daily practices in the workplace. Eighteen ISWs were interviewed from three different ISAs in Western Canada. Based on findings from life history interviews and analysis of various governmental and organizational documents, my investigation reveals three major components of ISWs’ transition to work and workplace learning experiences. First, in deconstructing the institutional complexes, I found that credential assessment organizations deny and devalue immigrants’ qualifications and work skills as irrelevant, filterable, and neglectable. Moreover, labour market hiring acts as a second filtering mechanism that strains immigrant’s previous credentials and professional skills as different, deficient, or dubious. These institutional complexes are perpetuated by the intersectional identities of race, gender, and class and hooked into translocal social relations that coordinate and shape immigrant’s daily practices of labour market integration in the local setting. Second, in adopting the concept of workplace subjectivity, I identified three kinds of ISW subjectivity in the workplace. First, constructive subjectivity emphasizes how immigrants’ life histories and their prior learning and working are deemed to be social assets that enrich and enhance ISAs’ services to newcomers. Professional subjectivity integrates ISWs’ subjective knowledge from formal, non-formal, and informal learning into their personal histories with objective knowledge, constructing individualized knowledge acquisition and creation. And Cultural subjectivity is the negotiated sense of self that emerges through ISWs’ workplace interactions with colleagues and clients from different cultural backgrounds. My analysis of cultural subjectivity reveals the importance of power relations in the ISA workplace and the effect of those relations on ISWs in terms of their yielding aspects of their own self-culture in order to assume Canadian normative workplace values, on the one hand, and imposing cultural discrimination against certain social groups, on the other. Third, by unpacking the idea of outcomes measurement in the ISA workplace—with a focus on the key concepts of IE and Foucault’s governmentality—I find that outcomes measurement has become a technology of power, an essential workplace knowledge that produces ideal ISWs, who are self-caring, self-regulated, self-accountable, adaptable, and productive. This production process manifests textual ruling relations in workers’ pedagogical learning, textual-mediated learning, and relational learning, thus establishing in them certain ways of thinking, doing, and acting. Participating in, interacting with, and practicing the textual objectives of outcomes measurement legitimizes ISAs as an apparatus for the reinforcement of governmental ruling power, neglecting ISWs’ learning intentionality and autonomy in the workplace.


identifier: Adams, P. J. (1991). The earl gray centre: A developmental school (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/20950

format:
x, 114 leaves ; ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 88-96


identifier: Haddad, F. (1998). Osmotic-hydraulic swelling in marine shale (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14710

format:
xiii, 242 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
TA455 .S4 H33 1998
Shale--Effect of water on.
Clay--Moisture.
Swelling soils.
Soil-structure interaction.
Osmosis.

abstract: Bibliography: p. 179-183


identifier: Freeman, W. J. (2014). Gestural Kinesthesis and Conducting: New Methods and Approaches to Teaching and Evaluating Gesture (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26300

subject:
Music
Education--Music
Education--Teacher Training
Conducting
Pedagogy
Motion Capture Technology

abstract:
Emblematic conducting performance involves the practice of significant non-verbal gestures to convey a musical interpretation that supports a homogeneous relationship of gesture and sound.  The complex theories of audiovisual perception and the dynamic relationship that exists between a conductor and an ensemble is a fascinating topic worthy of exploration.  New methods and approaches to teaching and evaluating gesture are beneficial and further the technical development of undergraduate conductors.  Non-traditional learning sessions designed to improve goal-directed actions and the perceptual understanding of emblems involved the use of motion capture technology and body mind flow exercises.
This investigation compiled data acquired from participant interviews and self-evaluations.  Feedback collected from a chamber ensemble and an expert panel helped to validate the usefulness of the pedagogies.  Gesture reviews that utilized point-light videos and corresponding sound moments and emblem identification tests helped strengthen each conductor’s self-awareness and sonic-object familiarity in an unbiased manner.  Emblem practices addressed in training helped the conductors to improve the expressivity and specificity of their gestures.  Interaction with motion capture technology, hands-on performance of march-style excerpts and body mind flow exercises raised the contextual focus the conductors applied to their movement executions.


identifier: McDermid, J. (1982). Lyric technique as narrative structure in Michael Ondaatje (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/18665

format:
vii, 258 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: PS 8566 N32 Z8 1982

subject: Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- - Criticism and interpretation

abstract: Bibliography: p. 255-258.


identifier: Su, K. Y. (2000). Hubble space telescope observations of proto-planetary nebulae (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/19670

format:
xii, 294 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
QB855.5 .S8 2000
Hubble Space Telescope (Spacecraft)
Planetary nebulae
Imaging systems in astronomy

abstract: Bibliography: p. 274-286.


identifier: Ramos Fandino, I. (2021). Lost in Translation: The (Unseen) Experiences of International Graduate Students and Families (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

contributor:
Banerjee, Pallavi
Lightman, Naomi
Guo, Shibao

subject:
migration
international student
work
family
gender
race
Sociology

abstract: Despite the regular inflow of international graduate students (IGS), who contribute 21 billion dollars annually to the Canadian economy (Government of Canada, 2019), most research on migration in Canada focuses primarily on economic immigrants and refugees. Little to no research explores the lives of graduate students who exist in a liminal space between immigrants and visitors while having fewer rights and opportunities than students with Canadian citizenship. Even more invisible are the experiences of family lives of graduate students. My research fills this gap by qualitatively examining the experiences of 26 IGS and the experiences of 12 spouses of IGS at the University of Calgary. To gain a better understanding of how this population is supported on-campus, I also interviewed university staff who directly support international students. Considering how gender, race, citizenship, and family composition affect these experiences, I analyze potential singularities in the international student experience that include students’ and spouses’ access to networks, (re)division of labour in the household, and changes in the family. I also analyze the impact of race and citizenship status on IGS’s ability to achieve what I have termed in my thesis as substantive legal positionality. I argue that IGS and the families of IGS experience gendered and racialized effects at the individual and institutional level, that prevent them from accessing full membership within the university and greater community. I also utilize the concept of the ideal worker to understand how IGS and their families are impacted by the ideal-student worker notion,


identifier: Fairie, P. (2007). God only knows: the Canadian Catholic voter in a comparative context (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/901

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 90-95


identifier: Wolfe, M. A. (1994). A phenomenological critique of human presence in simulated worlds: a communications basis for virtual reality (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/11210

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

subject:
QA 76.9 H85 W65 1994
Virtual reality
Communication
Human-computer interaction
Phenomenology

abstract: Bibliography: p. 156-162.


identifier: Kliner, J. T. (2005). Determination of synthetic hydrate content in sand specimens using dielectrics (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/22166

format:
xix, 132 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 120-129


identifier: Salama, D. (2006). Monitoring of hydrocarbon solvents: heavy oil interactions using computed assisted tomography (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/257

format:
xx, 183 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 176-183
Some pages are in colour.


identifier: McDougall, A. D. (2011). The politics of protection and extraction: a study of the origins and development of state power in Latin America (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4671

contributor:
Randall, Stephen J.
Policzer, Pablo

format:
x, 421 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 389-410


identifier: Nwaroh, C. (2019). The Effect of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on GABA and Glx in Children During Motor Learning (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

contributor:
Harris, Ashley D.
Kirton, Adam
Bray, Signe L.
Condliffe, Elizabeth G.
Dunn, Jeffrey F.

subject: magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS)

subject: GABA

subject: Glutmate

subject: transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

subject: GABA-edited MRS

subject: Neuroscience

abstract: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a form of non-invasive brain stimulation that safely modulates brain activity. Several studies have shown that anodal tDCS of the primary motor cortex (M1) facilitates motor learning and plasticity but there is little information about the underlying mechanisms. Additionally, studies have shown that tDCS can affect local levels of GABA and glutamate both of which are associated with skill acquisition and plasticity. This study aimed to quantify changes in GABA and Glx in response to 5 consecutive days of anodal tDCS or high definition tDCS targeting the M1 in children. Our results suggest HD-tDCS elicits a neurochemical response that is different from anodal tDCS despite resulting in similar motor enhancements. Additionally, we identified a relationship between left sensorimotor cortex GABA and improvements in motor performance. Overall, our results suggest that the developing brain responds differently to tDCS when compared to adult literature.


identifier: Sherritt, R. G. (1991). Modelling the movement of solids through flighted rotating drums (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/11123

format:
xix, 200 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
QA 845 S44 1991
Rational motion - Research

abstract: Bibliography: p. 145-147.


identifier: Lakhani, R. (2012). An effective way to use photovoltaics in California: a case of life cycle costing and land use footprinting (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/5033

format:
xi, 124 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 102-117

abstract: Some pages are in colour.

abstract: Includes copy of copyright permissions.  Original copies with original Partial Copyright Licence.

abstract: A framework that can be used to estimate, evaluate, and compare life cycle costs, land use footprints, and land use impacts of photovoltaic (PV) systems is developed and applied. The framework provides insights into the trade-offs between costs, land quantities required, and consequent land use impacts across the various options of implementing photovoltaic systems. In the current research, the life cycle costs of PV systems include installation, operating and maintenance, replacement, land, and, capital costs of transmission lines. The land use footprint is defined as the total quantity of land required by the PV system throughout its life, and includes land for siting the PV installation (in the case of ground mounted systems) and for transmission right-of-way where applicable. The land use impacts, in this research are monetized, and include the values of the loss of naturalness and the loss of potential carbon sink.


identifier: Ginter, A. F. (1991). Cooperative garbage collectors using smart pointers in the C++ programming language (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/16359

format:
ix, 121 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
QA 76.73 C153 G56 1991
C++ (Computer program language)
Garbage collection (Computer science)

abstract: Bibliography: p. 97-103.


identifier: Huang, X. (2015). Application of Dilation-Recompaction Model in Hydraulic Fracturing Simulation (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/24959

contributor:
Gates, Ian
Chen, Shengnan

subject:
Engineering--Petroleum
Hydraulic Fracturing Simulation

abstract: Production of unconventional oil and gas resources has played a significant role on the global energy supply, of which tight oil and gas reservoirs are drawing greater focus. The key enabler behind tight oil and gas production has been multi-stage hydraulic fracturing along extended reach horizontal wells. Despite many advances in multistage fracturing, it still remains unclear how to model the hydraulic fracturing process to provide the basis to optimize and predict the properties of fracture networks and associated enhancement of fluid production. This is especially difficult since it is not possible to directly image the fracture network since the length scales of the network can be relatively small. In typical reservoir simulation practice, the conventional way to represent the hydraulic fracture is to place transverse plane around the horizontal well – this means that the user has prescribed the orientation and length scale of the fracture before the simulation has started. In the research documented here, we explore a dynamic fracturing approach that uses a dilation-recompaction model in a reservoir simulator to model hydraulic fracturing. The key strength of the approach is that the geometry and length scale of the fracture is not prescribed a priori. This means that the model can be relatively easily constructed and matched to field data. The results of the simulation show that dilation-recompaction model is capable of modeling the hydraulic fracturing process prior to the flow-back and production. The oil, gas, and water rates of the model are well matched to the field data and the extent of the fractured zone predicted by the model is reasonable.  A sensitivity analysis using the history-matched model reveals that the design of hydraulic fracturing operation suggests that a larger number of stages and fracture fluid volume injected will raise oil and gas rates, but it remains unclear if the incremental oil and gas will provide enough revenues to offset the additional costs from increases of stages and fluid injection volume.


identifier: Wilson, B. A. (1990). An Alternate method of incorporating topographic ancillary data into a spectral classification procedure (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/5140

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

subject: Topographic surveying

abstract: Bibliography: p. 117-124.


identifier: Whitney, B. (1996). Ideological barriers to abortion access in Calgary (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14413

publisher:
Social Work
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
viii, 177 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
HQ 767.5 C2 W45 1996
Abortion - Alberta - Calgary
Abortion services - Alberta - Calgary
Abortion counseling - Alberta - Calgary

abstract: Bibliography: p. 144-161.

abstract:
Family planning and abortion services are provided in Canada under the auspices of three levels of legislative decision makers. This in turn impacts direct service providers and the women who require their services. These policies and the theories that support them are examined for their underlying belief systems. The voices of women who require abortion services are heard in illustrating the impact of
policy on individual lives. Using a variety of sources, it is concluded that the patriarchal and liberal democratic ideologies of policy makers at all levels impede access to abortion services as one method of birth limitation. The document concludes with a discussion of the possible impact of restricted abortion services on a broader variety of social
services in Canada.


identifier: Gilson, N. (1998). Monitoring indicators of ecosystem integrity on the Ann and Sandy Cross conservation area (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/17586

format:
xi, 172 leaves ; ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 164-172


identifier: Naumann, A. J. (1994). Real time control of manufacturing cells utilizing fuzzy logic part dispatching (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/22197

format:
xiii, 188 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
TJ 217.7 N38 1994
Real-time control
Process control
Flexible manufacturing systems
Manufacturing cells
Fuzzy logic

abstract: Bibliography: p. 171-177.


identifier: Lovesey, O. (1989). The Clerical character in George Eliot's fiction (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12184

format:
vi, 325 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: PR 4689 L68 1989

subject: Eliot, George, 1819-1880 - Characters

subject: Eliot, George, 1819-1880 - Criticism and interpretation

abstract: Bibliography: p. 310-325.


identifier: Huang, C. (1994). China's urban childhood education during the cultural revolution, 1966-1976 (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/17628

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

subject: LA 1131.82 H83 1994

subject: Education - China - History - 20th century

subject: Educational change - China - History - 20th century

subject: Education and state - China - History - 20th century

subject: China - History - Cultural revolution, 1966-1969

abstract: Bibliography: p. 280-292.


identifier: ElSeify, M. O. (2010). Interaction between ridges and truncated conical offshore structures (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/3613

format:
xxii, 246 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 235-243


identifier: Ottosen, M. (1988). Synthesis of lupane geomarkers (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/13086

title: Synthesis of lupane geomarkers

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

subject:
QE 516.5 O78 1988
Organic geochemistry

abstract: Bibliography: p. 105-111.


identifier: Maa, D. (1976). Queuing systems in discrete time (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/16431

title: Queuing systems in discrete time

format:
xii, 173 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
T 57.9 M32 1975 Microfiche
Queuing theory
Discrete-time systems

abstract: Bibliography: p. 141-147.


identifier: De Maria, G. (1978). United States-Arabian Gulf relations: 1971-1975 (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12741

format:
vi, 125 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: DS 63.2 U5 D435 1978 Fiche

subject: Near East - Foreign relations - United States

subject: United States - Foreign relations - Near East

abstract: Bibliography: p. 105-114.


identifier: O'Neill, G. (2013). The Influence of Self-Efficacy on Principals' Capacity to Lead in Low Socioeconomic Status Schools (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28217

subject:
Education--Administration
Administration
Social Sciences
Psychology

abstract:
School leaders have the responsibility to exercise leadership that results in success for students.  However, low socioeconomic status (SES) schools are complex environments for leading, teaching, and learning which presents unique challenges for principals.  Teachers frequently face tougher challenges than their counterparts in other schools due to many students presenting with academic and emotional problems, disengagement with school activities, and/or mental health issues which result in low achievement and behavioral concerns.  Many students are also lacking in the essential basic resources, namely, food, clothing, physical and psychological safety, and emotional support.  In many cases, parents are disengaged from school life and fail to provide the necessary supports for their children.  This is turn creates a negative perception by teachers toward parents as they feel that parents do not value education, which reinforces students’ disengagement and problematic behavior.  The capability of staff to provide academic and emotional support for low SES students is perceived by principals as necessary conditions for school success.  Principals exercise leadership by managing the school but their fundamental goal is to promote student achievement through the provision of professional growth of their teachers and by influencing the school environment to ensure greater opportunities for educational success.  Time constraints caused by school-based issues involving students, staff, and parents often limit principals’ instructional leadership capacity.  These constraining factors on instructional leadership engender stress and feelings of failure which impact principals’ resilience and self-efficacy, which in turn, deleteriously influences their leadership agency.  However, principals react differently to school stressors as a result of their unique knowledge, skills, and attributes.  It is the combination of the personal factors of the principal and their particular context that influences leadership action to create optimal conditions for change.  This convergence of these factors leads to an examination of leadership in these highly multifaceted contexts, to discover where difficulties may exist for leaders in sustaining high self-efficacy and resilience which are requisite for effective leadership.
This research study investigated the influences on principals’ self-efficacy and resilience in low SES schools.  This study encompassed four topics of interest conceptualized within the framework of Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory, a range of leadership theories, and relevant theories of change and change agency: the context of low socioeconomic status schools, leadership, self-efficacy, and resilience.  The research design was underpinned by the pragmatic paradigm and encompassed a two phase, mixed method approach utilizing questionnaires and interviews with principals in low SES schools across the province of Alberta, Canada.  Four major themes emerged in this study which indicated that principals in low SES schools were influenced by:
•	the tensions they experienced in managing their competing leadership responsibilities;
•	their teachers’ pedagogical expertise and relational acumen;
•	the imperative to partner with and forge strong relationships with their community to better meet the needs of their students; and
•	their capacity to employ appropriate coping strategies that promoted resilience, enabling them to persist in the face of these challenging environments.
A new model, the Quadratic Pathways Model, was conceptualized from these findings.  This model was designed to identify and enhance the influences on principals’ self-efficacy and resilience in low socioeconomic status schools.  This model is aimed at informing system leaders’ policies and approaches in more effectively supporting their principals within these challenging school contexts.  Additionally, an expanded definition of instructional leadership is proposed.


identifier: Bailey, S. F. (2007). Spatial patterns in herbivore-producer systems: the effects of intrinsic and extrinsic processes (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/1370

format:
ix, 118 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 82-92
Some pages are in colour.


identifier: Getiro, D. R. (2005). Self-protection against crime: testing theoretical perspectives (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/140

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 79-85


identifier: Brewer, Z. A. (2018). Carried in Common: Blame, Responsibility, and the Body in Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War Novels (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/20269

publisher:
Arts
Graduate Studies
University of Calgary
Calgary

contributor:
Clarke, Michael Tavel
Moran, Brendan
Camara, Anthony

subject:
Tim O'Brien
Vietnam War Literature
Object-Oriented Ontology
New Materialism
Ethics
Moral Responsibility
Thing Theory
Literature--Modern
Literature--American
Philosophy

abstract: Guilt and blame are two significant thematic concerns for Tim O’Brien in his Vietnam war novels Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried.  However, both novels depict characters who interact with a vibrant world of ambient things which have a remarkable ability to effect change and influence the actions of the humans who nominally control them.  Under the theoretical rubric of Object-Oriented Ontology (including the scholarship of Graham Harman, Bill Brown, Jane Bennett, and Karen Barad), this project challenges the uniqueness of human agency in the world while also considering the dubiousness of assigning singular blame and responsibility to human agents acting within a network of causal actors.  While the majority of readings of O’Brien take a post-colonial position or investigate the author’s construction of truth through metafictional literary practices, this approach takes a broader view of O’Brien’s literary world, and the place of the human agent within it.


identifier: Aechtner, T. (2008). "One in worship": the anthropological investigation of an African dispora christian community (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2048

format:
x, 197 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 182-197

abstract: Some pages are in colour.

abstract: This thesis investigates an African diaspora Christian community in Calgary, Alberta, to examine the role of the church within Canada's new burgeoning African population. Using social scientific methods this study answers three pertinent questions: 1. How does this particular community relate to the comprehensive African diaspora?; 2. How does the theory and praxis of this African diaspora church correlate with worldwide and African Christianity?; and, 3. What is the role and significance of the church within Canada's African diaspora? Employing the diffusion of innovations as a guide, this study investigates the success of Pentecostalism across the continent and within the African diaspora; multiplying African conceptions of the Prosperity Gospel, demonic forces, power, church services, gender, and a missional and marketing focus. Additionally, it will be demonstrated that the church also serves to cultivate a thriving Christian PanAfricanism, while providing an avenue by which to deal with discrimination.


identifier: Snider, E. L. (1967). Level of living for an urban area: Calgary (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/16298

format:
82 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
Cost and standard of living
City and town life

abstract: Bibliography: p. 57-74.

abstract:
The purpose of the thesis was to establish a level-living index for an urban coIIIIllunity in order to clarify the concept and function of class. Level. of living refers here to the status which a person or family occupies with reference to the ownership of types of goods.
The criteri9n used in the selection of the sample was gross family income. Two geographically, socially and economically divergent areas were sampled in the City of Calgary with one hundred and thirty-five single-family dwellings in each sample.
The interview schedule was de??igned to obtain information on the possession or nonpossession of certain household amenities, cultural amenities and the condition of certain of those facilities. A Guttman scaling technique was applied to the data. Error of reproducibility for all scales obtained was ninety percent. A discussion of each scale and the implication of the study for the measurement of social class and urban blight is given.


identifier: Roberts, S. (2009). The potential of child participation in national parks planning (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2933

format:
xi, 121 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 111-115
Some pages are in colour.


identifier: McGillivray, J. (2022). Swaps in energy commodities markets (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

title: Swaps in Energy Commodities Markets

contributor:
Swishchuk, Anatoliy
Swishchuk, Anatoliy
Badescu, Alexandru
Ware, Antony

subject:
commodities
swap
correlation
covariance
volatility
variance
heston
vasicek
schwartz
GARCH
CIR
options
derivative
continuous time
Education--Finance
Education--Mathematics

abstract: In this paper, we discuss and value variance, volatility, covariance, and correlation swaps in the Vasicek, Schwartz one-factor, and Heston models using a continuous-time regime. The data used is primarily 2019 natural gas and crude oil futures closing prices due to the liquidity and size of the options market in the commodity energy sector. We derive approximations for covariance and correlation swap fair strikes in the Heston model following the continuous time regime, using the discrete regime for reference. We check the accuracy of our approximation using simulated error distributions of the calibrated parameters from the CIR component of the Heston model. We present the effect of varied parameters on the value of the fair strikes for covariance and correlation swaps. Finally, we evaluate the fair strikes of covariance and correlation swaps using three different approximations, yielding values and error bounds of dramatically varying sizes, demonstrating the limitations of the GARCH(1,1) calibration of the Heston model.


identifier: Galinsky, G. (1994). Air-independent diesel combustion noise: an investigation into the effects of various synthetic intake mixtures (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/20964

format:
xv, 132 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
TJ 797 G35 1994
Diesel motor - Combustion
Diesel motor - Noise
Noise - Measurement

abstract: Bibliography: p. 121-127.


identifier: Fried, S. L. (2009). The development of an alternate instrument to measure game performance in female minor ice hockey players (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/3217

publisher:
Kinesiology
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
viii, 153 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 109-115


identifier: Krupa, G. J. (1971). Investigation of student perceptions of the junior high school semester system (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/13385

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

subject:
LB 1623 K77 1971 Microfilm
Junior high schools
School year
Education, Secondary - Curricula
Semester system

abstract: Bibliography: p. 113-118.


identifier: Katunzi, N. B. (1988). Implementing education for self-reliance through the community school in Tanzania (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/21821

format:
xvii, 365 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
LB 2820 K38 1988
Community schools - Tanzania

abstract: Bibliography: p. 337-347.


identifier: Waiguru, M. M. (2011). Development of a geotechnical asset management system (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4048

contributor:
Cowe Falls, Lynne
Wong, Ronald C. K.

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

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 103-107
Some pages are in colour.


identifier: Jeong, H. (2022). Mediated film tourists’ experiences: navigating Anne with an E-inspired travelogues on social media (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

title: Mediated Film Tourists’ Experiences: Navigating Anne with an E-inspired Travelogues on Social Media

contributor:
Tepperman, Charles
Shepherd, Tamara
Taylor, Gregory

subject:
Film tourism
Tourist gaze
Social media
Anne of Green Gables
Anne with an E
Prince Edward Island
Media fandom
Cinema
Mass Communications

abstract: This thesis explores film tourists’ experiences associated with a popular Canadian TV series, Anne with an E (2017-2019). Situating Anne with an E in the narrative of L.M. Montgomery's original text, Anne of Green Gables, this research follows the trajectory of Anne-inspired trips to Prince Edward Island and Anne with an E filming locations. It draws upon Urry and Larsen’s arguments (2011) on “tourist gaze” to understand the tourists’ practices in actual places (film locations) and virtual places (online). Within this framework, this research focuses on film tourists’ experiences to illuminate their performative and embodied practices. Visual and social features are central to this study, so it pays particular attention to Anne with an E film tourists’ mediation on YouTube and Instagram due to their visual and social user experience. By analyzing the travel accounts from the platforms, this research demonstrates how film tourists reflected Anne-text in their embodied experiences, and how their mediation facilitated the fans’ re-engagement with the text.


identifier: Paukert, G. W. (1982). Geophysical study of Precambrian basement fault structure and related cretaceous stratigraphic variation in southern Alberta (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/20794

format:
x, 114 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

relation: Additional Copy: QE 606.5 C2 P37 1982G Geology

subject: QE 605.5 C2 P37 1982

subject: Faults (Geology) - Alberta - Claresholm area

subject: Gravity anomalies - Alberta - Claresholm area

subject: Geophysics - Alberta - Claresholm area

abstract: Bibliography: p. 101-103.


identifier: Sahli, H. (2016). MEMS-based Aided Inertial Navigation System for Small Diameter Pipelines (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26878

contributor:
El-Sheimy, Naser
Tarbouchi, Mohammed
Gao, Yang
Noureldin, Aboelmagd
El-Badry, Mamdouh

subject:
Engineering--Industrial
Engineering--Petroleum
Geotechnology
Inertial Navigation
Pipeline
Pipeline Inspection Gauge
Pigging
Kalman Filter
EKF
PLJ

abstract:
Pipeline Inspection Gauges (pigs) have been used for many years to perform various maintenance operations in oil and gas pipelines. Different pipeline parameters can be inspected during the pig journey. Although, pigs uses many sensors to detect the required pipeline parameters, matching these data with the corresponding pipeline location is considered a very important parameter that needs to be estimated.
High-end, tactical-grade Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) are used in pigging applications to locate the detected problems of pipeline using other sensors, and to reconstruct the trajectories of the pig. These IMUs are accurate; however, their high cost and large sizes limit their use in small diameter pipelines.
Calibration would improve the accuracy of the uncertainties that exist in sensor errors behavior. However, intensive calibration would also increase the cost of using IMUs. Therefore, another way to improve the accuracy is used by augmenting IMU with aided sensors (i.e. odometers).
This thesis describes a new methodology for the use of low-cost IMUs using an extended Kalman filter (EKF) and the pipeline junctions to increase the navigation parameters’ accuracy and to reduce the total RMS errors even during the unavailability of Above Ground Markers (AGMs). The results of this new proposed method using micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) based IMU revealed that the position RMS errors were reduced by approximately 85% of the standard EKF solution. Therefore, this approach will enable the mapping of small diameter pipelines, which was not possible before.


identifier: Harvey, W. A. (1972). Measurement of audience generated noise during classroom film presentations (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/17236

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

subject:
BF 205 N6 H36 1972 Microfilm
Noise - Psychology
Attention
Learning, Psychology of

abstract: Bibliography: p. 62-63.


identifier: Hauck, J. A. (1997). Hand preference in children with autism (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/18324

title: Hand preference in children with autism

format:
xiii, 193 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
RJ506 .A9 H38 1997
Autism
Autistic children
Left- and right-handedness

abstract: Bibliography: p.109-119.


identifier: Gao, S. (2014). Community Structure, Inference and Network-Based Markers (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25365

subject: Computer Science

subject: bioinformatics, computational biology, networks, biomarkers

abstract:
In the core of system biology, it is believed that molecules within the cell act collaboratively
in an organized behavior. Researchers are studying the interactions and mainly concentrate
on identifying malfunctioning molecules as potential disease biomarkers. Thus, a network has
become an important means to represent biological systems, and network approaches have
shown substantial promise due to the simplicity in data representation and associated rich
analytical apparatus. Generally speaking, the workflow of a computational system biology
study means: 1.) Investigating certain elements of biological networks and their interactions,
which depends on the purpose of the study. 2.) Collecting experimental high-throughput and
genome-wide data and integrating computational methods to analyze the data and validate
findings. In this thesis, we frame the investigations by first asking a system biology question,
and then provide computational means to answer the question.

My thesis consists of three major interrelated components, as the title suggests, we first
study the network structure by a novel strategy of bridging together social and biological
networks based on our argument that there exist a strong analogy between humans and
molecules. As social network analysis is gaining popularity in modeling real world problems,
the task of applying the social network model concepts and notions to biological data is
still one of the most attractive research problems to be addressed. We design computational
means to find community structures and design efficient algorithms to dynamically analyze
gene boundaries using geometric convexity. Our approach contributes to the new branch of
applying social network mechanisms in biological data analysis, leading to new data mining
strategies implied by witnessing social behaviors in gene expression analysis.

Further into the topology study of biological networks, we investigate the relationship
between the multi-scalability of community structures of metabolic networks and the distributional effect of network motifs, i.e., the inference problem. We observe several patterns
through studying three organisms, including the effect of directionality of networks, homogeneity of motif-enriched communities, and motif type-specific distributions across scales.
We also provide methods to quantify motif influence under the community context. Overall,
our work suggests that the theoretic evolvability of modularity tightly correlates with motif
distributional effect and vice versa. In this regard, we design computational tools to analyze
community structure of very large networks of arbitrary types. The Multi-scale Community
Finder (MCF) is the first tool in this area.

Finally we arrive at the question of how to design efficient bio-markers for complex
diseases, e.g., cancer. First, it is important to understand the complexity of cancer. We
believe that to understand individualized gene behavior across patients, relational status of
genes needs to be considered because complex disease phenotype is often caused by cascaded
failures of genetic interactions in cancer cells. We implement a framework to quantify the
molecular heterogeneity of tumors from gene-gene relational perspective using co-expression
networks and interactome data. Next, we present a method to reverse engineer integrative
gene networks. The main advantage of our method is the integration of different quantitative
and qualitative data sets in order to reconstruct a multiplex network, without necessarily
imposing data constraints, such as each genomic datum needs to have the same number of
entities. Another advantage of our method is that from the integrated networks, predictions
can be made by propagating beliefs from seed nodes representing known knowledge. Thus,
we combine data integration and network-based prediction into a single framework. We
demonstrate our method through case studies using breast cancer data. Our approaches
present promising results and new ways of thinking and mining complex genomic datasets.

Overall, this thesis presents a comprehensive study of biological networks and the novel
application of computational means to implement the biomarker detection problem in the
era of big genomic data. Finally it is important to highlight the fact that our study considers
the challenges due to data heterogeneity and the diversity in the sources producing the data.


identifier: Madduma-Bandarage, R. D. K. (2020). Design and Analysis of Routing and Scheduling Algorithms for Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

creator: Madduma-Bandarage, Rajith Delanka Karunaratne

contributor:
Messier, Geoffrey G.
Fapojuwo, Abraham O.
Sesay, Abu B.
Krishnamurthy, Diwakar

subject:
Wireless Sensor Networks
Routing and Scheduling
Engineering--Electronics and Electrical

abstract: The oil and refinery industry has greatly benefited from process automation with Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSNs). However, the requirements are particularly strict in these environments. Network designers expect the reachability of all nodes throughout the operation. Depending on the application and stability requirements, they expect a certain end-to-end latency level. Since nodes are battery powered, it is necessary to optimize energy consumption. Thus, reliability, latency, and energy-efficiency are major concerns for IWSNs. Deployment of low-cost sensor nodes makes these networks error-prone. Due to the harsh environment, nodes are difficult to access, and it takes time to detect, isolate, and repair node failures. Thus, the impact of node failures on network performance must be assessed. This thesis designs an efficient routing/scheduling algorithm to improve the performance of IWSNs. The proposed routing algorithm, Frame Level Optimized Reliable Graph (FLO-RG), is a graph routing algorithm, which consists of primary and backup paths. A Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is introduced to reduce the wasted energy of idle listening in backup slots. A petroleum refinery wireless sensor network model complying with WirelessHART/ ISA100.11a industrial standards is developed using the ns-3 package to evaluate the proposed FLO-RG algorithm with recent existing algorithms on the post-failure/ pre-repair scenario. Based on the results, the FLO-RG algorithm performs well on reliability, latency, energy-efficiency domains, and makes a better compromise between reliability and energy-efficiency. This thesis also investigates the impact of engineering guidelines and best practices on the performance results.


identifier: Wei, X. (2016). Novel Approach to Identify and Localize Chemical Leakages in Pipelines (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27129

contributor:
Park, Simon
Ramirez-Serrano, Alejandro
Park, Simon
Ramirez-Serrano, Alejandro
Li, Leping
Wang, Xin

subject:
Engineering--Chemical
Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
Engineering--Environmental
Engineering--Industrial
Engineering--Mechanical
Psychology--Developmental
Pipeline
Chemical Sensor
Leak detection
Electronics
Sensing system
Conductive Mesh
Sprayon
Leak localization

abstract:
This study investigates a novel approach for identifying and localizing chemical leakages utilizing mesh-based electronic instruments and surface coating techniques.
The proposed leak detection system includes one or more layers of flexible mesh electrodes formed by discrete conductive/nonconductive filaments. It is wrapped on top of the 3D structure needing to be monitored and coated with nano-composite based sensing material. The hydrocarbon sensing is performed by the chemiresistive properties of the sensing material coated on top of the filaments. During the monitoring, whenever the structure experiences changes in the hydrocarbon concentration level to which it is exposed, the sensing material will capture the changes and convert them to resistive changes. The conductive filaments in the mesh will then transmit the electrical signals gathered from the coating to the onsite electronic system. This electronic system is able to perform early stage data processing such as scanning, driving, calibrating and remote communication.


identifier: Remesat, D. (2003). The evaluation of out-of-level trays for the improvement of industry guidelines (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/18266

publisher:
Engineering
University of Calgary
Calgary

contributor:
Svrcek, William Y.
Chuang, Karl

format:
xv, 142 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 66-69


identifier: Tuck, T. A. (2019). Antioxidant Activity and Proton Coupled Electron Transfer Processes in Conformationally Restricted Naphthalene peri-Dichalcogenides (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

contributor:
Back, Thomas George
Sutherland, Todd C.
Ling, Changchun
Welch, Gregory C.

subject: Antioxidant Selenium Chemistry Chemistry--Organic Engineering--Chemical

abstract: Conformationally restricted naphthalene peri-dichalcogenides are powerful mimetics of the selenoenzyme glutathione peroxidase (GPx), and form charge transfer complexes with the electron acceptor tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ). More recently, the Back group has discovered that these molecules display unusual NMR behaviour. This thesis describes a thorough investigation into this NMR behaviour, which is attributed to a proton-coupled electron transfer process (PCET) between the dichalcogenide and its own conjugate acid to form a radical and a radical cation. Evidence supporting this conclusion comes from NMR experiments, EPR spectroscopy, reversibility with sodium dithionite, as well as computational results. Most conformationally restricted naphthalene peri-diselenides synthesized thus far have poor water solublity, a major limitation to serve as GPx mimetics. The second part of this thesis will describe attempts to alleviate this issue by describing the synthesis and GPx like activity of more polar conformationally restricted naphthalene peri-diselenides.


identifier: Finch, D. A. (1985). Turner Valley oilfield development, 1914-1945 (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/16342

creator: Finch, David A. A. (David Alexander Anderson), 1956-

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

subject: HD 9574 C33 A533 1986

subject: Petroleum industry and trade - Alberta - Turner Valley - History

subject: Oil fields - Alberta - Turner Valley - History

abstract: Bibliography: p. 169-172.


identifier: Cahill, A. (2019). Respect and Mistrust: Kennedy, Israel, and Dimona (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

contributor:
Ferris, John Robert
Randall, Stephen J.
Keren, Michael Gillon
Chastko, Paul A.
Keeley, James F.
Bercuson, David Jay
Dowty, Alan

subject: Nuclear proliferation; Israel; American Foreign Relations; Nuclear weapons

subject: History--United States

abstract: This dissertation is an examination of American-Israeli relations through the lens of American nonproliferation policy, pertaining to the Israeli nuclear program known as Dimona. President John F. Kennedy held a favourable view of Israel; he admired the Jewish state as it fit neatly within his worldview of a nation worth supporting in the Cold War. Kennedy’s dominant priority of nonproliferation, stopping the Israelis from developing a nuclear program, overruled this positive view of Israel. For the first two years of his Presidency, 1961 and 1962, Kennedy tolerated Israeli behaviour and maintained a positive view of Israel. By 1963, he adopted one of the firmest stands of any President against Israel, notably the most severe approach to Dimona. Due to troubling intelligence, he no longer trusted the Israelis regarding their nuclear intentions and confronted them accordingly. This study investigates this clash of presidential priorities. It delves deeper than existing scholarship into why Kennedy chose his specific course of action in 1963 and how this confrontation affected bilateral relations. It argues that though Kennedy and the United States “won” the diplomatic standoff on Dimona, the Israelis outsmarted their counterparts and ultimately achieved their aims. Despite Kennedy’s sustained concern and the deployment of nearly all means at his disposal, he and the Americans “lost” the war on Israeli nuclear proliferation. The dissertation concludes that though Dimona constituted a serious diplomatic rift, decisive actions by Kennedy and equally astute measures by Levi Eshkol and skilled Israeli diplomats guaranteed that the American-Israeli special relationship continued. Despite Kennedy’s best efforts, coordinated deception and organized Israeli diplomacy ensured the Americans never truly deciphered the extent of Israeli nuclear progress. This case study of Israeli nuclear proliferation best exemplifies how Kennedy and the United States responded to potential proliferation threats at a key juncture in the Cold War.


identifier: Bagdan, B. (1991). Cardiovascular regulation by the paraventricular nucleus (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/11259

format:
xii, 95 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
QP 383.7 B34 1991
Hypothalamus
Cardiovascular system

abstract: Bibliography: p. 85-95.


identifier: Lejeune, M. (2018). Climate Change and Range Expansion of Protostrongylid Nematodes in the Canadian Arctic (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/33061

publisher:
Graduate Studies
Veterinary Medicine
University of Calgary
Calgary

contributor:
Kutz, Susan
Checkley, Sylvia L.
Massolo, Alessandro
Lejeune, Manigandan

subject:
arctic parasitology
protostrongylid
muskox lungworm
arctic climate change
muskoxen
caribou
morphological diagnosis
Ecology
Parasitology

abstract: Through this doctoral research, I aimed to determine the diversity, distribution and abundances of protostrongylids in muskoxen and caribou from several sites in Subarctic and Arctic Canada and investigate the northward range expansion of Umingmakstrongylus pallikuukensis and Varestrongylus eleguneniensis in relation to Arctic warming. I first developed morphological keys to differentiate the first stage larvae (L1) of U. pallikuukensis, V. eleguneniensis and Parelaphostrongylus andersoni. This enabled me to identify L1 to the species level and determine the intensity of infections. Secondly, I analyzed over 1600 muskox and caribou fecal samples, and 40 muskox lung samples to determine the diversity, distribution and abundance patterns of protostrongylids. I found that the diversity and abundance of protostrongylids varied geographically. Both U. pallikuukensis and V. eleguneniensis had expanded their ranges and increased in abundance on Victoria Island between 2013 and 2017, with U. pallikuukensis expanding its range faster than V. eleguneniensis. I also detected P. andersoni in the Dolphin and Union caribou herd. In the third part of the study, I determined the important life cycle parameters for U. pallikuukensis and V. eleguneniensis through lab experiments. I demonstrated that V. eleguneniensis has higher thermal requirements for larval development inside the intermediate host, a shorter prepatent and patent period, and lower fecundity than U. pallikuukensis. Based on these findings I hypothesized that higher thermal requirements and lower fecundity might be limiting the rate and extent of range expansion for V. eleguneniensis. Finally, to map the thermal niches of U. pallikuukensis and V. eleguneniensis from 1980 through to 2017, I parametrized a process-based mechanistic model (Degree-day model) using data derived from the lab experiments, the literature, and high-resolution temperature data from a regional climate model. Models indicated a substantial expansion in the zones of climatic suitability for both parasites during the study period with the realized niches of both parasites lagging behind the expansion of their thermal niches. This work contributes to the field of Arctic parasitology by providing simple and effective diagnostic tools for protostrongylids, and adding to the present knowledge on diversity, distribution, abundance as well as ecology of protostrongylid nematodes. Finally, by using a multifaceted approach to investigate the patterns of parasite emergence in the Arctic, this study contributes to the overall understanding of disease emergence in a rapidly changing ecosystem.


identifier: Harris, J. L. (1990). The Impact of stimulus type and response delay haptic processing asymmetries (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/16487

format:
xi, 184 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
QP 451 H37 1990
Touch - Research

abstract: Bibliography: p. 121-136.


identifier: Nicol, J. E. (2011). Corporate social responsibility and employee engagement: a justice perspective (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4423

format:
xix, 282 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 131-145


identifier: Swerhun, S. R. (1981). Guidelines for bicultural education of minority group children in Alberta (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/16206

format:
viii, 148 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: LC 3734.2 A3 S82 1983 Fiche

subject: Children of minorities - Education - Alberta

subject: Minorities - Education - Alberta

abstract: Bibliography: p. 131-148.


identifier: Spears, L. (2001). Development of an instrument to investigate site-based management as a vehicle for school improvement (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/15512

format:
xi, 194 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
AC1 .T484 2001 S658
School-based management
Organizational learning
Educational change

abstract: Bibliography: p. 172-179.


identifier: Korsbrek, E. B. (2011). Balance rehabilitation in multiple sclerosis: effect of a commercially available virtual reality based videogame (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4056

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 90-107

abstract: Some pages are in colour.

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


identifier: Djuraskovic, I. (2014). Interrupted Journeys: The Experiences of Refugee Women in Counselling (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26618

subject:
Mental Health
Refugees
Refugee resettlement
Refugee counselling
Refugee therapy

abstract:
Although the mental health of refugees has been a focus of researchers for some time now, refugee transitions and refugee counselling are underrepresented and often neglected topics in the counselling literature in Canada.  The practice of multicultural therapy with refugees continues to focus on a medical model and psychological issues that refugees face in pre-, trans-, and post –resettlement contexts.  Within the current landscape of refugee counselling, very little research exists about refugees’ counselling needs as conceptualized from refugees’ perspective.  This heuristic inquiry explored the stories of 6 refugees and their experiences of counselling in Canada.  Based on the stories of the 6 co-researchers, 4 main categories emerged: (a) counselling process, (b) counsellor factors, (c) therapeutic relationship, and (d) client outcomes.  Contributions to the academic and professional literature are highlighted.  Implications and recommendations for future research and practice are identified and discussed.
	In response to the growing need to identify the effective counselling practices for refugees, this heuristic research focused on exploring the refugees’ lived experiences of counselling.  This research also focused on capturing refugees’ voices about the factors that contribute to successful/unsuccessful counselling engagement and outcomes.  It aimed to increase understanding of how refugees’ pre-, trans-, and post-migration experiences influence their resettlement and adaptation, and subsequent counselling needs.

Keywords: refugees, refugee resettlement, refugee counselling, refugee therapy


identifier: Wasil, B. I. (2004). Current practice and knowledge of postpartum depression: Alberta physicians' survey (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14655

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 93-106


identifier: Hlewka, K. B. (2003). Path_ (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12185

title: Path_

format:
20, 129 leaves : ill. ; 37 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 126-127


identifier: Kita, E. M. (2011). Class 3 semaphorins and retinal ganglion cell development (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4192

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

abstract:
Bibliography: p. 145-154
Some pages are in colour.


identifier: Yang, Q. (2014). Metamodeling methods and their direct methanol fuel cell applications (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26887

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

subject:
Energy
Engineering--Mechanical
Metamodeling
Sampling
Optimization
Direct methanol fuel cells

abstract:
Direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) have emerged in recent years as potential power sources for portable electronic devices due to the high energy density of methanol and low power requirements of the portable electronic devices. Fuel cell system modeling plays an important role in the design of DMFC systems. Despite the progress in modeling of DMFCs, most of these models considered only some of the key operating parameters with overly simplified geometric shapes. In addition, since extensive simulations are usually required in design and control of DMFC systems, advanced modeling tools with high computation quality and efficiency are expected. This research focuses on study of adaptive metamodeling methods and applications of these methods in modeling and design of DMFC systems.
    A semi-empirical model is developed to build the relationships between all important operating parameters and DMFC performance measures. Coefficients of this semi-empirical model are obtained through experiments and data fitting. The semi-empirical model provides a basis to identify the optimal operating parameters of the DMFC system considering different power requirements. In addition, adaptive metamodeling has been employed to describe the electrochemical relationships in a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) based DMFC model to study influences of both geometric parameters and operating parameters on DMFC performance. The CFD-based DMFC model can be used in optimal design of geometric parameters and optimal control of operating parameters.
    Metamodeling methods, which were initially developed as “surrogates” of the expensive simulation process, can be used to model the relationship between input and output parameters in DMFC systems. Influences of two factors, noise level and initial sample size, on quality of adaptive metamodeling considering different metamodel schemes and test functions are studied in this work. Guidelines have been developed for selection of the proper adaptive metamodeling methods. In addition, a new sampling method namely weighted sequential sampling (WSS) method is introduced in this research to improve the accuracy of adaptive metamodeling considering influences of sample quality measures in both input and output parameter spaces. Quality of the global optimization can be improved based on the metamodel built using the WSS method.


identifier: Morton, R. T. (1999). Low temperature separation of hydrogen and methane in SSF membranes (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/18093

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

subject:
TP156 .M67 1999
Separation (Technology)
Separators (Machines)
Membranes (Technology)
Membrane separation.

abstract: Bibliography: p. 148-151.


identifier: Ma, W. H. (2010). Stress corrosion cracking in 316 austenitic stainless steel in a dilute nacl solution at a moderately elevated temperature (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/3372

format:
xiv, 197 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 155-165


identifier: Bishundayal, D. (2012). Exploring the intersectionality of gender, morality and ethics in transformational leadership in higher education (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4587

format:
xv, 314 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 246-295


identifier: Kennedy, M. A. (1979). Coke ovens of Crowsnest Pass (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14480

title: Coke ovens of Crowsnest Pass

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

subject: TP 336 K44 1979 Microfiche

subject: Coke ovens

subject: Coke industry - Alberta - Crowsnest Pass

abstract: Bibliography: p. 118-130.


identifier: Keough, N. (2005). From Inidicators to Action: The Contribution of the Sustainable Calgary Community Sustainability Indicator Initiative to Sustainability Praxis (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/18811


identifier: Racher, F. E. (2003). Accessing health services: the experience of elderly rural couples (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/21984

publisher:
Nursing
University of Calgary
Calgary

contributor:
Vollman, Ardene Louise Robinson
Thomlinson, Elizabeth

format:
viii, 191 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

abstract: Bibliography: p. 169-184

abstract: The goal of elderly rural couples is to continue in their shared existence and remain together in a home of their choosing for as long as they believe they can manage. Couples identified access to health services among the resources contributing to the achievement of that goal. Six elderly couples residing in their own homes in rural communities of less than 3000 people in southwestern Manitoba participated in conjoint conversational interviews to describe in detail and give meaning to their personal experiences in accessing health services. The research approach was based upon the phenomenological methodology of Max van Manen (1997). The couple was the unit of inquiry, the couple experience the focus of interest and the conjoint interview the method of research. During a series of interviews over a seven-month period, the couples ' conversations and stories described their lives, providing insight into their experiences in accessing health services and other resources, their long-term dyadic relationships, the issues of daily living that they encountered during their interdependent lives, and their adaptability, decision-making and problem-solving capacities as they managed the changes and challenges that influenced their worlds. A descriptive theoretical couple-environment reciprocity framework for adaptation to change resulted. The decision-making and problem-solving processes used by the couples were identified as significant to the reciprocity and adaptation. Refocusing from individual spousal caregivers or care receivers to the couple as a unit has implications for creative and more appropriate program planning and policy development. The better nurses and other health professionals are able to describe and understand elderly rural couples and their access to health services, their struggles to remain together, and their decision-making and problem-solving practices, the better able they will be to provide care and support to them, plan programs and services with them, conduct research to answer questions of importance to them, and contribute to the development of healthy public policies that sustain rural seniors ' autonomy and quality of life.


identifier: Donihee, J. (2002). Returning wildlife management to local control in the Northwest Territories (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/14195

publisher:
Graduate Studies
Law
University of Calgary
Calgary

format:
viii, 244 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: AC1 .T484 2002 D66

subject: Additional copy: KF8210 .H85 D66 2002 (Law)

abstract: Bibliography: p. 231-244


identifier: McLeod, M. M. (1972). Verbal communication and the developmentally handicapped (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/16422

publisher:
University of Calgary
Calgary

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

subject:
LC 4602 M16 1972 Microfilm
Mentally handicapped - Language
Recollection (Psychology)
Developmentally disabled
Oral communication

abstract: Bibliography: p. 51-52.


identifier: Radtke, J. L. (2012). Stories of hope: conversations with aboriginal women who have experienced incarceration (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27883

publisher:
Graduate Studies
Nursing
University of Calgary
Calgary

subject: Nursing Hope Aboriginal Women Incarceration

abstract: The purpose of this research study was to explore the meaning of hope for Aboriginal women who have experienced incarceration and to offer an opportunity for their voices to emerge. Conversations with six Aboriginal women provided descriptions of how hope influenced their lives before, during, and after incarceration. van Manen’s (1990) phenomenological research design guided this study together with a feminist perspective. The colonization and assimilation of First Nations people by Canada’s early settlers changed the fabric of their lives and created an inherent burden that is distressingly evident to this day. Aboriginal women, once respected and valued, struggle daily to meet the demands of a society that has oppressed them for decades. Yet, somehow, these brave women have found the strength, resilience, and survival skills to meet another day. This thesis presents their stories and discusses the underlying themes as well as the implications for nursing and future research.


identifier: Simpson, G. P. (1999). Sulfate reduction and fluid chemistry of the devonial leduc and nisku formations in south-central Alberta (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/13085

format:
xiv, 228 leaves ; ill. ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject: TN870.515 .S56 1999

subject: Additional Copy: TN870.515 .S56 1999 (Gallagher)

subject: Geochemistry

subject: Oil field brines

subject: Petrology

subject: Hydrogen sulphide

abstract: Bibliography: 218-228.


identifier: Card, C. (2007). Empathy: do differences exist across the years of undergraduate and postgraduate medical training? (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/1382

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 54-58


identifier: Hadavandsiri, Z. (2020). Concrete Damage Inspection by Classification of Terrestrial Laser Scanner Point Clouds (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

contributor:
Lichti, Derek D.
Shahbazi, Mozhdeh M.
Dawson, Peter C.

subject:
Remote Sensing
Statistics
Computer Science

abstract: Concrete structures endure damage and deterioration when subjected to human activities and natural hazards. Early detection of damage on concrete structures is vital to counter the side effects deriving from damage and to allow timely maintenance procedures. This thesis presents a novel approach for high-precision detection of damage on concrete surfaces using terrestrial laser scanner point clouds (PCs). At first, an unsupervised approach is developed that utilizes a robust version of principal component analysis (PCA) classification in order to distinguish between structural damage and outliers present in the data. Numerical simulations are conducted to develop a systematic point-wise defect classifier that automatically diagnoses the location of surface damage on the investigated region. The developed method examined on two real datasets, demonstrate the validity of the proposed systematic framework for reliable detection of damage of any type which makes roughness as small as 1 cm or larger on the surface of concrete structures captured with any laser-scanning PC with a minimum spatial resolution of 5 mm point spacing. At second, a supervised approach is developed that employs the outcome of the primary unsupervised classifier in order to accurately annotate the training data without the need for manual labeling. One flume of an aqueduct dataset was used for training the system. This machine learning-based model relies on a support vector machine (SVM) algorithm to train a point-wise defect classifier for locating the concrete damage. This yields an average classification precision and F1-score of 97.33% showing the potential of using machine learning for concrete damage detection. The performance of the prediction model was evaluated on three real datasets. The prediction model can successfully mirror the high performance of the unsupervised method used in the training process. In addition, by exploiting a more extensive variety of geometric features and skipping the intensive computation of the robust PCA, it outperforms the unsupervised classifier in terms of model performance and computational efficiency, respectively. Consequently, the properly trained machine learning system provides reliable diagnosis of the health conditions of large concrete structures that are not computationally feasible to be inspected by the primary unsupervised classifier.


identifier: Bridgewater, G. S. (1991). The environmental impact assessment of policy in canada (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/16140

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

abstract: Bibliography: p. 155-159


identifier: Lacey, W. D. (1995). Adolescent-family and friend negotiation of moral meaning (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/24220

format:
ix, 148 leaves ; 30 cm.
application/pdf

subject:
BF 724.3 M54 L33 1995
Moral development
Ethics
Cognition in adolescence
Social interaction
Parent and teenager

abstract: Bibliography: p. 131-137.