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Title Techno-economic and Environmental Assessments of Replacing Conventional Fossil Fuels: Oil Sands Industry Case Studies

Excerpt Conventional fossil fuels are widely used, however there are growing concerns about the security of their supply, volatility in their prices and the environmental impacts of their extraction and use. The objective of this research is to investigate the potential for replacing conventional fuels in various applications, focusing on the Alberta oil sands industry. Such […]

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SDGs Climate ActionIndustry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Title Fork Configuration Damper (FCDs) for Enhanced Dynamic Performance of High-rise Buildings

Excerpt The dynamic behaviour of high-rise buildings has become a critical design consideration as buildings are built taller and more slender. Large wind vibrations cause an increase in the lateral wind loads, but more importantly, they can be perceived by building occupants creating levels of discomfort ranging from minor annoyance to severe motion sickness. The current […]

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Author Montgomery, Michael S.

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Title Obesity among Pff-reserve First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples in Canada’s Provinces: Associated Factors and Secular Trends

Excerpt Aboriginal Canadians (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) have the highest prevalence of overweight and obesity compared to other ethnic groups in Canada. In order to assess the evolution of the problem over time and to understand potential risk factors, three studies were conducted using nationally-representative survey data. Direct comparisons between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians from […]

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Author Ng, Carmina

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SDGs Good Health and Well-BeingNo Poverty

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Title Selectively Transparent and Conducting Photonic Crystals and their Potential to Enhance the Performance of Thin-film Silicon-based Photovoltaics and Other Optoelectronic Devices

Excerpt The byproducts of human engineered energy production are increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations well above their natural levels and accompanied continual decline in the natural reserves of fossil fuels, necessitates the development of green energy alternatives. Solar energy is attractive because it is abundant, can be produced in remote locations and consumed on site. Specifically, thin-film […]

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Author O'Brien, Paul

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SDGs Affordable and Clean EnergyResponsible Consumption and Production

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Departments Materials Science and Engineering

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Keywords energy, production, solar

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Title Contradictions of Neoliberal Development Interventions and Market Transition in Northern Lao PDR

Excerpt This thesis examines the trajectory and role of development within the context of transition from a command to market economy, in a northern region of the Lao PDR. It looks at how the long-term effects of development interventions have contributed to a context of regional integration where the role of foreign investment and the private […]

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Author Polonyi, Anna Elizabeth

Advisor Luong, Hy Van

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SDGs Gender EqualityNo PovertyPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Departments Anthropology

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Keywords institution, poverty, women

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Title The History of International Food Safety Standards and the Codex alimentarius (1955-1995)

Excerpt Following the Second World War, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) teamed up to construct an international Codex Alimentarius (or “food code”) in 1962. Inspired by the work of its European predecessor, the Codex Europaeus, these two UN agencies assembled teams of health professionals, government civil servants, medical and […]

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Author Ramsingh, Brigit Lee Naida

Advisor Mazumdar, Pauline M. H. ||Dacome, Lucia

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SDGs Good Health and Well-BeingIndustry, Innovation and InfrastructureZero Hunger

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Departments History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

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Keywords agriculture, food, health, trade

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Title Temporal Variations in the Compliance of Gas Hydrate Formations

Excerpt Seafloor compliance is a non-intrusive geophysical method sensitive to the shear modulus of the sediments below the seafloor. A compliance analysis requires the computation of the frequency dependent transfer function between the vertical stress, produced at the seafloor by the ultra low frequency passive source-infra-gravity waves, and the resulting displacement, related to velocity through the […]

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Author Roach, Lisa Aretha Nyala

Advisor Edwards, R. Nigel

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SDGs Affordable and Clean EnergyClimate ActionLife Below Water

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Departments Physics

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Keywords climate, energy, greenhouse gas, ocean

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Title Re(art)iculating Empowerment: Cooperative Explorations with Community Development Workers in Pakistan

Excerpt Situated in the postcolonial modernizing discourse of development, many empowerment narratives tend to pre-identify, pre-construct and categorize community development workers/ mobilizers as empowered bodies, catalysts, and change agents. These bodies are expected to and are assumed will facilitate a transformation in oppressed peoples’ self image and belief’s about their rights and capabilities. Although feminist academics/activists […]

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Author Shama, Dossa

Advisor Kiran, Mirchandani

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGender EqualityPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Sustainable Cities and Communities

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Departments Adult Education and Counselling Psychology

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Keywords employment, rights, urban, women, worker

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Title Changing the System from Within: Three Phases of Human Rights Policy Struggles in an Urban Community College

Excerpt This case study documents the work of this researcher and others to transform oppressive ideologies and practices in an urban community college through human rights policy development and implementation. Analysis of policy processes examines how contestations of equity discourses by various organizational stakeholders influenced organizational constructions of equity as ideology, policy and practice. Policy struggles […]

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Author Singh, Samuel Chet

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Reduced InequalitiesSustainable Cities and Communities

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Departments Sociology and Equity Studies in Education

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Title A User Innovation Theory of the Numerus Clausus

Excerpt Limitations on the customizability of property rights (the numerus clausus principle) are a puzzling feature of the common law conception of property. An economic rationale, built upon 1) the pivotal role that rules of exclusion play in fostering user innovation, and 2) the role that psychological ownership plays in preventing recontracting around governance rules, is […]

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Author Theriault, Leah

Advisor Chapman, Bruce

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SDGs Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureLife on LandPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Keywords governance, innovation, land use

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Degrees SJD

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