The Vault: Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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This collection is the result of a joint project between the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Libraries and Cultural Resources which provides Graduate students with the opportunity to archive their thesis with University Archives in our digital repository.
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Environment, Risk, and Ideology: The critical theory of the Frankfurt School and Ulrich Beck
(Arts, University of Calgary, 2019-08-20)This thesis examines the social theories of Ulrich Beck and the first generation of the Frankfurt School to spur a debate on social transformation and environmental risk. In particular, this confrontation explores a key ... -
The Development of Immunoreagents to Detect for a Cellular Immune Response
(Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, 2019-08-20)Cell mediated immunity (CMI) is the adaptive T-cell-mediated defense mechanism against pathogens. Oftentimes, by assessing lymphocyte counts and/or cytokine profiles, the presence of an infection can be detected. While ... -
Student Nurses’ Perception of Preceptors’ Authentic Leadership Effect on Self-Efficacy
(Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, 2019-08-19)The study examined the relationship between final year nursing students’ perceptions of preceptor authentic leadership and self-efficacy. Nursing students are required to engage in a preceptorship experience at the end of ... -
Attentional Bias in Non-Smokers Who Use an Electronic Cigarette
(Arts, University of Calgary, 2019-08-19)Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have been gaining popularity in recent years and are now being used in large numbers by youth who smoke tobacco cigarettes as well as among youths who do not smoke. Previous research ... -
CHESS: Changes in Hormones with Exposure to Student Stress
(Kinesiology, University of Calgary, 2019-08-20)Salivary cortisol levels measure the acute stress response and this daily measurement occurs in two phases: the cortisol awakening response (CAR; 30 minutes after waking) and the diurnal cortisol response (the slope of the ... -
Strongly Linearizable Implementations of Fundamental Primitives
(Science, University of Calgary, 2019-08-20)Linearizability is the gold standard of correctness conditions for shared memory algorithms, and historically has been considered the practical equivalent of atomicity. However, it has been shown [1] that replacing atomic ... -
Processes of Care for Medically Fragile Infants on an Inpatient Pediatric Unit: A Grounded Theory Study
(Nursing, University of Calgary, 2019-08-16)Today, increasing numbers of Medically Fragile Infants (MFI) born with severe, life-threatening illnesses are surviving the neonatal period due to medical and technological advancements in care. Such infants require long-term ... -
Comparison of convolutional neural networks with matched-filtering for detection of induced seismicity
(Science, University of Calgary, 2019-08-19)The problem of extracting weak earthquake signals from continuous waveforms data recorded by networks of seismic sensors, referred to as earthquake detection, is a challenging and critical task in seismology. Waveform ... -
Smudging the Cystem; Rejecting the Politics of Traditionalism and Settler-Homonationalism
(Arts, University of Calgary, 2019-08-19)This is a study of LGBTQ2 Indigenous identity and politics in colonial Canada. Scholars of Indigenous politics have recently focused on the importance of interrogating the sexualized and heteronormative landscape of settler ... -
Sleep Disturbances and Fatigue in Survivors of Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and their Siblings
(Arts, University of Calgary, 2019-08-19)Sleep disturbances and fatigue have been identified by patients with cancer as common and distressing. Conflicting evidence about the prevalence of these outcomes, however, exists for survivors of childhood cancers. ...
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