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No Girls Allowed: How incels.is Operates as a Gendered Discursive Space
(Arts, University of Calgary, 2023-01-19)Incel is a short term used to reference involuntary celibates, a group once created to afford lonely people a place to exist without judgement, but now, co-opted into an ideologically motivated extremist community, existing ... -
A Multi-Purpose Continuum Robot for Minimally Invasive Surgery
(Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, 2023-01-25)This thesis is about ''A Multi-Purpose Continuum Robot for Minimally Invasive surgery'' which consists of five chapters. It starts with an Introduction and Literature Review that studies some of the most famous surgical ... -
Phoretic Phenomena of Colloidal Particles in a Dead-end Pore Microfluidic Channel
(Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, 2023-01-27)Colloidal particles can be manipulated under the gradient of an external field to transport them in the system toward desired locations. The motion of colloidal particles resulting from an imposed or self-generated ... -
Corner flow advancement in porous media
(Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, 2023-01-27)Preferential wetting of solids by one fluid can induce capillary driven flows in two phase fluid systems. The existence of geometrical inhomogeneities in the form of surface roughness can increase the curvature of the ... -
An Assessment of Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Genomic Diversity and Structure in Western Canada to Guide Species Conservation and Management
(Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, 2023-01-26)Human-induced environmental change is one of the biggest threats to global biological diversity, and the resulting environmental conditions have made it increasingly difficult for species to adapt and survive. The use of ... -
Spirits in the Gutters: The British Invasion and the Haunting of the Twentieth Century
(Arts, University of Calgary, 2023-01-27)In this dissertation, I analyze the significant artistic and literary shifts initiated in mainstream US superhero comics by the British Invasion authors Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis (among others), and argue ... -
Evaluation and Optimization of Weather Networks in Athabasca Oil Sands Region
(Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, 2023-01-26)The monitoring of weather is required for climate studies, research, and forecasting. For the monitoring purpose, three networks of 19 stations i.e., Water Quantity Program (WQP), Meteorological ... -
Intercultural Musical Creation Drawing on the Theory and Practice of Turkish Models
(Arts, University of Calgary, 2023-01-25)This study creates a new collaborative space among diverse cultures, driven by Turkish music models, and using aspects of the related rule-based improvisatory genre and process known as taksim. My work draws on historical ... -
Using Machine Learning Towards Decision Support for Refractory Epilepsy Cases
(Science, University of Calgary, 2023-01-25)Between 0.5% to 1.0% of people in North America suffer from epilepsy, and around 30% of patients are drug-resistant. Some drug-resistant patients are candidates for surgery and up to 60% to 70% of patients who undergo ... -
Electrical and Optogenetic Stimulation of Sympathetic Neurons to Stabilize Blood Pressure after Acute Spinal Cord Injury
(Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 2023-01-30)Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a life-changing condition that results in permanent motor disability and autonomic dysfunction. Acute blood pressure instability is associated with poor long term neurological recovery. Despite ...