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The antioxidant resveratrol down-regulates inflammation in an in vitro model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection of lung epithelial cells
(2014-01-22)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen capable of infecting the lungs and causing severe pulmonary disease in immunocompromised individuals. During the infectious process, P. aeruginosa provokes ...
Mobile miners: work, home, and hazards in Yukon's mining industry
(2015-06-15)
This thesis examines the impacts that long-distance commuting operations have for workers in Yukon's mining industry. The Canadian mining industry has transitioned from the traditional Taylorist operations of the twentieth ...
Dog sports : a mixed methods exploration of motivation in agility participation
(2015-08-05)
Obesity and physical inactivity are on the rise amongst Canadians. Dog sports, agility in particular, may represent a form of physical activity that can help address the health issues that some of our population face. ...
The role of personality in predicting unsafe driver behaviour in young and older adults
(2012-11-10)
Traffic-related collisions represent a considerable social and economic burden on our society. In Canada, drivers aged 16 to 19 years and 70 years or older are consistently overrepresented in victim statistics. Identified ...
The effects of copper, calcium, and nickel on the olfactory response of fathead minnows: from neurophysiology to behaviour
(2014-01-22)
The olfactory system is essential for a fish to be successful in an ecological context, and has been demonstrated to be sensitive to a variety of toxicants. The current biotic ligand model (BLM) for copper is an acute-toxicity ...
Self-assembled thin films of thiocyanate and selenocyanate bithiophenes
(2015-06-15)
Presented herein is the organic synthesis and thin film (TF) assembly of six alkyl-substituted
thiocyante and selenocyante bithiophene molecules: NCSe-T2-Hx, NCS-T2-Hx, NCS-Hx-T2-Hx, NCSe-
Hx-T2-Hx, NCS-Hx-T2-Hx-SCN and ...
A world-maker's will: the post-apocalypse and human power in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
(2015-08-05)
This thesis discusses human empowerment in Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel, The Road. While much of present-day scholarship on The Road views the novel as nihilistically highlighting the hopelessness of existence ...
The systems thinking paradigm and higher-order cognitive processes
(2014-12-12)
The present study examined a new psychological construct we have coined “The Systems
Thinking Paradigm.” The systems thinking paradigm describes a cognitive style with which one
is more likely to understand that complex ...
Vision-based control and autonomous landing of a VTOL-UAV
(2015-10-21)
In recent years the popularity of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has increased. Today, UAVs are widely used by military and police forces for surveillance. They are used by industry for such tasks as traffic ...
A role and attribute based encryption approach to privacy and security in cloud based health services
(2012-11-10)
Cloud computing is a rapidly emerging computing paradigm which replaces static and expensive data centers, network and software infrastructure with dynamically scalable “cloud based” services offered by third party providers ...