Determination of groundwater effects of the new Foothills Regional Waste Management Center storm-water management system

A new groundwater monitoring will be conducted consistently throughout the precipitation period (May~October) to collected a seasons worth of data around the “Engineered Forest”. The newly collected data will then be compared to historical values of the FRWMF to see if there are any observable differences between the two. This will prove there is no […]

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Aboveground Storage Tank (AST) tightness testing using statistical approach

The industry partner, Cantest is establishing a new leak detection procedure for analyzing data sources in aboveground storage tanks and statistical learning models to monitor AST shell dynamics and product activity over time. This is an important problem as identifying leak detection is usually associated with various environmental data and records collected from sensitive sensors […]

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Leaders Enhancing Employee Wellbeing – Year two

Our objective is to create, evaluate, and sustain an evidence-based leadership intervention to foster employee wellbeing. Based on the leadership development and organizational change literatures, I am proposing to conduct two studies at a provincial-based financial institution. The first study will explore the beliefs and opportunities to model health behaviours in the workplace and serves […]

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Leaders Enhancing Employee Wellbeing

Our objective is to create, evaluate, and sustain an evidence-based leadership intervention to foster employee wellbeing. Based on the leadership development and organizational change literatures, I am proposing to conduct two studies at a provincial-based financial institution. The first study will explore the beliefs and opportunities to model health behaviours in the workplace and serves […]

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Alternative Methodologies for Travel Time Studies

Alternative Methodologies for Travel Time Studies Reza Omrani Sponsor Organization: CIMA+ Name of Supervisor: Dr. Lina Kattan University of Calgary Travel time is one of the largest categories of transport costs. Recent developments within the Bluetooth technology, widespread use of mobile phones, and in-vehicle navigation systems provided the opportunity to obtain travel time information within […]

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Role of astrocyte CB1 receptor in the regulation of energy balance

Proper functioning of astrocytes and of the endocannabinoid system in the hypothalamus has been strongly linked to feeding behaviour and energy balance in mice. Furthermore, a strong molecular link has been found to connect cannabinoid receptors to leptin (a hunger hormone) receptors in hypothalamic astrocytes. Specifically, deletion of cannabinoid receptors in hypothalamic astrocytes disrupted the […]

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Tools to Support Embedded Data Representations in Physical Environments

In our data-saturated world, people could greatly benefit from understanding data in their daily lives through visualization. Currently, many visualizations are situated out of context from the physical world, leading to a loss of data-richness gained from in-context analysis. Using tabletop robotic devices and projectors, Dr. Jansen’s research team are developing infrastructure to generate and […]

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Understanding the Interplay Between Membrane Curvature and Conformational States in ABC transporters

ABC-transporters is a superfamily of membrane proteins that are expressed in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. One of the most studied ABC transporters is P-glycoprotein (Pgp). Pgp remove chemotherapy drugs from inside the cancer cell. Therefore, higher concentrations of toxic chemotherapy drugs are needed to kill cancer cells. This has an adverse effect: cancer cells develop resistance […]

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Highly Efficient Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) Modules

The UPS market has recently experienced an exponential growth due to the increase in the number of data centers and IT centers. In this research program, superior UPS products will be designed and developed to comply with the new performance requirements of the UPS market. This research program has tremendous value for Alpha Technologies Ltd. […]

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Investigation the effects of graphene nano-platelets on the electromagnetic properties of epoxy coatings

By growing of computer and electronic science and also wireless devices, which are used at home or at work, electromagnetic interference shielding is becoming increasingly evident. Electromagnetic waves emitted from electronic devices are noises that interfere with other electronic devices and impair their functioning. Due to the increasing spread of electronic and communication devices, these […]

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Development of standoff explosive detection technique based on infrared sensitive hydrogel microscale physical sensors

Various hydrogel microstructures will be fabricated with hydrogels exhibiting different molecular weights and structures along with varying concentrations of the photoinitiator and ultraviolet doses. Then, resonance sensitivity of fabricated hydrogel microstructures will be investigated with direct electrical and indirect IR heating. Using the dynamic mask, various hydrogel microstructures with different sizes and shapes will be […]

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