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SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF HYBRID PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) AND COMBINED COOLING, HEATING, AND POWER (CCHP) SYSTEMS USING MULTIOBJECTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHMS
(2016-01-18)
Two identified strategies to reduce GHG emissions that threaten the global climate stability include 1)the utilization of renewable sources of energy such as solar electricity from photovoltaic (PV) devices and 2)more ...
Ediacaran rangeomorphs in the Mistaken Point biota, Newfoundland
(2016-01-21)
The Ediacara biota is a cosmopolitan assemblage of the first macroscopic multicellular soft-bodied fossil organisms (Late Neoproterozoic, 575 – 542 Ma). The Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland preserves entire communities ...
A Colonial Print Ascendancy: The Domestic Press, Sociability and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Halifax and Québec City
(2016-01-18)
From the mid eighteenth-century introduction of printing presses in Halifax (1751) and Québec City (1764), printers, readers and print contributors informally coalesced around the newspapers and magazines produced in the ...
From Genes to Genomes: Local Adaptation and Adaptive Potential in Two Arctic Seabirds
By investigating the mechanisms underlying the evolution and the maintenance of local adaptations we can help predict how species will adapt to future environmental change. In this thesis I investigate local adaptation and ...
Contact zone dynamics and the evolution of reproductive isolation in a North American treefrog, the spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer)
(2013-03-04)
Despite over seven decades of speciation research and 25 years of phylogeographic studies, a comprehensive understanding of mechanisms that generate biological species remains elusive. In temperate zones, the pervasiveness ...
Assessing Diatom Shifts in Embayments and Lakes in and Around Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) Using Paleolimnology
(2016-04-22)
Freshwater ecosystems in Ontario are affected by a growing number of multiple stressors, with climate change often acting as a “threat multiplier”. Diatom-based paleolimnological approaches are used to provide the much ...
Assessing the Relative Influence of Nitrogen Deposition and Regional Warming on Scaled Chrysophytes in Lakes Downwind of the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Canada
(2016-04-27)
Freshwater systems in Boreal regions are potentially threatened by a number of environmental stressors, such as point and non-point source pollutants from industrial development and climate change. In northeast Alberta, ...
Evaluating Spirulina as a protein source in Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) grow-out diets
(2016-05-26)
Aquaculture growth has intensified the need for a diversification of nutritionally appropriate aquafeed ingredients. The purpose of this study was to evaluate Spirulina, a blue-green microalgae, and soybean meal as the ...
Performing Resistance/Negotiating Sovereignty: Indigenous Women's Perofrmance Art in Canada
(2011-09-30)
Performing Resistance/ Negotiating Sovereignty: Indigenous Women’s Performance Art In Canada investigates the contemporary production of Indigenous performance and video art in Canada in terms of cultural continuance, ...
Diatoms as Bioindicators of Environmental Change in Cape Herschel and Pim Island (Nunavut, Canada) Ponds
(2016-02-29)
The High Arctic is especially sensitive to climatic change, but typically direct long-term monitoring data are lacking. Instead, paleolimnological approaches are now widely used to reconstruct past environmental changes. ...