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Title Isolation of Extracellular Proteins from Ophiostoma ulmi and their Effect on Tensile Properties of Thermoplastic Starch

Excerpt Starch-derived bioplastics are an inexpensive, renewable and environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics. Proteins secreted by Ophiostoma ulmi, were investigated for their application in bioplastic product. Proteins were isolated from fungal cultures by anion exchange chromatography and used to treat starch. Subsequently, plastic films were generated by solution casting, with glycerol as plasticizer. Tensile strength […]

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SDGs Affordable and Clean EnergyClimate Action

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Departments Cell and Systems Biology

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Title Elder Care in an Emergency Department: How does Disparity in Practice Come to be?

Excerpt Elderly patients in the Emergency Department (ED) receive a different level of care than younger patients. The ED disproportionately deploys resources to serve the needs of the younger patient population, a decision that appears to be mediated by the acuity of the patient’s condition as defined by the institution. This study will seek to examine […]

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Author Adam, Simon

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SDGs Gender Equality

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Keywords equality

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Title Travel Time Prediction Model for Regional Bus Transit

Excerpt Over the past decade, the popularity of regional bus services has grown in large North American cities owing to more people living in suburban areas and commuting to the Central Business District to work every day. Estimating journey time for regional buses is challenging because of the low frequencies and long commuting distances that typically […]

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Author Wong, Andrew Chun Kit

Advisor Shalaby, Amer Saïd ||Abdulhai, Baher

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SDGs Sustainable Cities and Communities

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Departments Civil Engineering

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Keywords cities*, urban

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Title Urban Cartographies: The Spanish Baroque City and the Contemporary Latin American City

Excerpt “Urban Cartographies: The Spanish Baroque City and the Contemporary Latin American City” examines baroque and postmodern narratives through the representation of urban life. This study argues that the baroque reflects the crisis posed by the encounter with the other in the new continent of America, while the postmodern is related to a crisis of knowledge. […]

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Author Cousté, Natalia Maria

Advisor Rupp, Stephen

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SDGs Sustainable Cities and Communities

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Departments Spanish

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Title Reluctant Relations: And Ethnography of ‘Outreach’ in a Post-apartheid City

Excerpt This dissertation focuses on performance, moral practice, and self-respect in an urban South African setting. Taking as its point of departure the emergence and rapid expansion, in the 1990s and 2000s, of an outreach organization I call Jesus People Pretoria (JPP), it discusses this NGO’s attempt to create a ‘moral community’ in the post-apartheid city […]

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Author deGelder, Mettje Christine

Advisor Lambek, Michael ||Sanders, Todd

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SDGs Climate ActionDecent Work and Economic GrowthGender Equality

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Sustainable Cities and Communities

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Departments Anthropology

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Keywords environment, equality, gender, labour, urban, worker

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Title Biogeochemical Defluoridation

Excerpt Fluoride in drinking water can lead to a crippling disease called fluorosis. As there is no cure for fluorosis, prevention is the only means of controlling the disease and research into fluoride remediation is critical. This work begins by providing a new approach to assessing fluoride remediation strategies using a combination of groundwater chemistry, saturation […]

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Author Evans-Tokaryk, Kerry

Advisor Ferris, F. Grant

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SDGs Clean Water and Sanitation

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Departments Geology

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Title A Social Theory of Knowledge

Excerpt We rely on science and other organized forms of inquiry to answer cardinal questions on issues varying from global warming and public health to the political economy. In my thesis, which is in the intersection of philosophy of science, social epistemology, and science and technology studies, I develop a social theory of knowledge that can […]

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Author Miller, Boaz

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Departments History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

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Keywords global warming

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Title Gifts of Rights?: A Legal History of Employment Pension Plans in Canada

Excerpt This thesis explores the role played by law in the current breakdown of the employment pension system, focusing on the legal status of pension plans within the employment relationship, and on the way lawmakers have defined, shaped and enforced employee pension rights. It traces the legal status of employment pensions from their 19th Century characterization […]

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Author Shilton, Elizabeth

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Keywords employment, rights

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Title Immigration, Literacy, and Mobility: A Critical Ethnographic Study of Well-educated Chinese Immigrants’ Trajectories in Canada

Excerpt This dissertation interrogates the deficit assumptions about English proficiency of skilled immigrants who were recruited by Canadian governments between the late 1990s and early 2000s. Through the lens of literacy as social practice, the eighteen-month ethnographic qualitative research explores the sequential experiences of settlement and economic integration of seven well-educated Chinese immigrant professionals. The analytical […]

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Author Wang, Lurong

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthQuality Education

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Keywords employment, inclusive

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Title Effect of Activity on Appetite, Food Intake and Net Energy Balance After a Glucose Drink in Normal Weight, Overweight and Obese Boys

Excerpt The effect of exercise (EXR) on food intake (FI), subjective appetite and net energy balance was investigated in normal weight (NW), overweight (OW) and obese (OB) boys. Each boy received in random order either a non-caloric sweetened control (CON) or glucose (GLU) drink after either EXR or sedentary activity. Normal weight and OW/OB boys exercised […]

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Author Tamam, Shlomi

Advisor Anderson, G. Harvey

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SDGs Zero Hunger

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Departments Nutritional Sciences

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Keywords food

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