Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) have gained tremendous attention amongst policy makers, researchers and engineers in response to the increasing fears for climate change which is caused by increased amounts of greenhouse ...

Climate change related problems are increasing in occurence and severity leading to significant econocmic losses in many places of the world. In semi-arid environments, like Saskatchewan, the main phenomenon involved in ...

Knowledge acquisition is the process of extracting and organizing knowledge from one source and storing it in some other location such as a knowledge base. Our research developed a new approach to knowledge acquisition ...

Background. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common neurological disorders in the world. However, the cause(s) of MS is unknown. Studies have suggested that smoking may be related to the development and progression ...

After having suffered the pressure of being a single woman at the age of twenty-five when I was in China, I have made a hybrid format short film Meat to remember my personal experience as being a sheng nu (left-over ...

This study takes a critical look at ‘English-only’ medium of instruction in Ghana. Like many African countries, Ghana has multiple languages. Davis and Agbenyega (2012) estimate that Ghana has approximately 49 spoken ...

The continuously increasing demand for energy has resulted in the fast depletion of conventional energy sources, resulting in a high degree of environmental issues worldwide. This thesis consists of a review and model ...

Science education has found itself in a paradoxical state of stagnant flux. Despite numerous calls for reform and a near consensus amongst science educators on the teaching techniques that hold the most promise, new ...

Preference elicitation is very important for interactive systems. A potential buyer typically has speci c expectations in the attributes of the product he or she is interested in. While the current interactive systems ...

Hibernation allows animals to survive lengthy periods of energetic deficit, but is not without costs. Hypometabolism, low body-temperature, and inactivity are associated with a variety of costs such as immuno-incompetence, ...