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Item Open Access Fate of industrial nitrogen in an alluvial aquifer(2006) Savage, Gillian E.; Chu, Angus; Ryan, M. CathrynItem Open Access Rethinking Women Talk Back The View at 2018(2018-06) Hanington, CatherineThis Master’s thesis is in two parts: The main body of the thesis was completed in 1998 and the second part – a new Introduction and Epilogue – was completed 20 years later in 2018. My original research question was to explore the role of women’s educational experiences in schools of industrial design as a factor in explaining the low numbers of women practising industrial design. To explore this hypothesis, I embarked on a mixed-methods research project that involved qualitative interviews with women in three Canadian schools of Industrial Design: Carleton University in Ottawa, ON; Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, BC; and the University of Calgary in Calgary, AB. The result of the 1998 empirical investigation provided evidence that many women in these three schools of industrial design encountered a chilly climate in their studies that suggested that this was a contributing factor in their decision not to pursue active careers as practitioners in the field of industrial design. In the intervening twenty years, the percentage of women students in schools of industrial design has dramatically increased to represent 50% of the student body or higher, and yet the paucity of women practitioners remains much as it was in 1998. Recent statistics put the number of practising female industrial designers in North America still at between 5% and 25%. In 2016, I was re-admitted to the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary to revisit and update my original thesis from the 1990s. In a new Epilogue, I assessed both what has and has not changed in the relationship between industrial design education and industrial design professional practice in the last twenty years. In the profession itself, much has changed in terms of the application of new technologies and processes. As well, the profession has entered a period of introspection as to its purpose, practice and future and many have proposed a more socially responsible approach to design. Turning to schools of industrial design, while the curriculum has become more multi-disciplinary and technologically-focussed, feminist pedagogy and critique has made virtually no in-roads. In 2018, I must sadly report that the chilly climate for women in schools of industrial design remains much as it was in 1998. My general conclusion: Feminist scholars need to “rebuild” a body of feminist critique of industrial design as they did in the 1980s and 1990s – to undertake new empirical research of women’s experiences in industrial design education, to once again let women’s voices be heard.Item Open Access Strategies for increasing cycling in winter: A case study of Calgary(2007-01) Rueter, Demian; Levy, RichardIn North American Cities with a winter climate, the use of the bicycle drops dramatically during the winter season. The thesis of this research, is that the drop in ridership is not determined solely by climate. Climactic variables will likely always cause some effect, however, If bikeways are properly maintained and designed, the effect of the winter will be far less dramatic. A case study of the city of Calgary was conducted using a survey of cyclists to the Central Business District as the principal research instrument. This determines characteristics of winter cyclists and along with the literature review, provides the basis for a strategy to increase winter cycling in that city. Calgary retains a high number of winter cyclists compared with other Canadian municipalities, with 47% of cyclists commuting year round. Winter cyclists in Calgary tend to be male, located slightly closer to their destinations and tend to cycle because they believe it is faster than other modes of travel. The high number of cyclists retained is believed to be due to the existence of a high quality pathway that is cleared of snow, that directly links outlying communities with the Central Business District.Item Open Access Stunt double(2005) Hogard, Glen Lawrence; Markotic, NicoleItem Open Access Diet, activity budget, and ranging behavior in Lowe's Guenon (cercopithecus cambelli lowei) in Ghana(2005) Porter, Nicolette Daneen; Sicotte, PascaleItem Open Access Precise point positioning using un-differenced code and carrier phase observations(2005) Abdel-salam, Mohamed Abdel-tawwab; Gao, YangItem Open Access The efficacy of asset based community development in the educational context(2005) Koch, Jill Alison; Goddard, Tim J.Item Open Access Building international work experience into career development(2005) MacDonald, Susan Margaret; Arthur, NancyItem Open Access Exploring the relative and absolute presuppositions that guide and inform the practices of teachers who work with at-risk female adolescents(2005) Robertson, Leslie Dawn; Benson, GarthItem Open Access Physician-assisted suicide in antiquity(2005) Harms, Paul Jonathan; Toohey, PeterItem Open Access The association between social anxiety and social functioning in first episode psychosis(2005) Voges, Marcia A.; Addington, Jean; Hodgins, David C.Item Open Access A study of geography as a redactional principle in the Q sayings gospel(2005) Belcher, Helen; McCready, Wayne O.Item Open Access Mysterious ways: the experience of prayer as a healing resource during serious illness(2005) Dobson, Barbara L.; Dudley, Nancy Q.Item Open Access A network perspective of stakeholder relationships in the context of sustainable urban tourism(2005) Timur, Seldjan; Getz, Donald P.This research studied how sustainable tourism policies could best be developed and ultimately implemented in urban tourism destinations. To achieve this goal, the study examined how the concept of sustainable tourism was interpreted in urban destinations, and analyzed the existing pattern of relationships among urban tourism destination stakeholders to determine roles and potential influences of legitimate and powerful stakeholders in tourism policymaking. The sample of this research included three clusters - industry, host environment and community, and government authorities - in three cities. The study was conducted in two stages. The first stage used a qualitative and the second stage used a quantitative methodology. Interviews and a survey instrument were used to gather data in the qualitative and quantitative stages respectively. The study employed both network analysis and statistical analyses to examine the data. The relationships among destination stakeholders were analyzed through network analysis. This tool offered a new way of studying tourism destination stakeholder interactions. The network analysis determined a basic structure of how tourism functions in cities and also identified the most important, important and unimportant stakeholders within a tourism network. The Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) were the most central stakeholders across tourism networks. The structural position of DMOs suggested that they could carry significant roles in tourism policymaking. This study also contributed to theoretical advancement in sustainable urban tourism by providing perspectives of various destination stakeholders on the sustainable tourism concept in the context of urban destinations. A policy framework in which sustainable tourism development can be achieved is introduced. This framework is developed by identifying legitimate and powerful stakeholders of tourism planning, development or policy formulation through stakeholder analysis, and by balancing the diverse goals and interests of destination stakeholders through stakeholder management process. The way stakeholder perspective is used in this study contributed to the development of stakeholder theory not only by applying it in a policy domain but also analyzing multiple and interdependent stakeholder interactions rather than dyadic stakeholder relationships. The framework proposed in this study could also help narrow the "policy gap" in destinations by incorporating tourism planning and development to the DMOs' mandate.Item Open Access Study of lower-hybrid cavities detected by the GEODESIC and OEDIPUS-C sounding rocket missions(2005) Bock, Benjamin John Jude; Knudsen, David J.LHCs are structures in our upper ionosphere embedded within regions of strong plasma wave activity, referred to as auroral hiss. Heating inside these cavities (up to 50 times the ambient temperature) is contained within long, thin (rv 20 m across), cylindrically-shaped density depletions (up to tens of percent) aligned along the geomagnetic field. Trapped within these cavities are enhanced plasma waves, believed to be responsible for transversely accelerated ions (TAis). In this thesis we investigate a new depletion mechanism by which the particles are ejected transverse to the magnetic field , which predicts density enhancements at the cavity boundaries. These enhancement have been observed and cataloged for the first time as a part of this thesis. We find peak wave intensity does not occur at the cavity center but instead coincides with the maximum density gradient of the cavity. This result we hope will lead to a theory of the electromagnetic wave enhancements within LHCs. Using a new, high time-resolution instrument developed at the University of Calgary, we calculate the average energy of the TAis and find a moderate positive correlation between the heating region width and the maximum average energy reached by the TAis, suggesting that large LHCs dump more energy into the TAis.Item Open Access Situating power, knowledge, and subjectivity: the case of radical women of colour in higher education(2005) Jaffer, Rozmin; Phelan, AnneItem Open Access The effect of high-intensity interval training on stroke volume and endurance performance in trained endurance athletes(2005) McGillivray, Meegan Anne; Smith, David J.This study compared the effects of two training protocols, high intensity (HIT) and low intensity training (LIT) on cardiovascular and performance adaptations. Twelve male cyclists (V02 max 61.7±3.6 mL·ki1 ·min-1) completed an HIT or LIT, volume-matched periodized training plan. Maximum stroke volume increased for all subjects following long duration training and decreased with HIT and LIT (p=0.002). V0 max and 2 maximum cardiac output did not change. Lactate minimum power output increased 5% following duration training, and then a further 9% (275 to 297W) with HIT but not LIT. Peak aerobic power output increased from 425W to 460W with HIT, 405W to 425W for the LIT group with taper. Time trial performance increased linearly for both groups (p < 0.001). The data demonstrates that HIT does not change maximal cardiac output when following long duration training, and time trial perItem Open Access A computational random access memory (RAM) architecture for real-time video motion tracking(2003) Sayed, Mohammed Sharaf Ismail; Badawy, WaelItem Open Access Du tragique: métamorphoses sociales et catharsis collective chez Ahmadou Kourouma(2005) Lassi, Étienne-Marie; Tcheuyap, AlexieItem Open Access Hidden point bar method for high-precision industrial surveys(2005) Paul, Bijoy; Teskey, William F.