Browsing Doctoral Theses and Dissertations by Issue Date
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Dynamic and Static CO2 Mass Transfer Processes in Bulk Heavy Oil and Heavy Oil Saturated Porous Media
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-05)In the petroleum industry, the contribution of solvents to the production of oil has become more cardinal, as production from the reservoirs have advanced from primary oil production to secondary and tertiary methods. ... -
Every ‘Body’ Has A History: Embodied Values of Ballet Teachers
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-06)This dissertation is an inquiry into the meaning of the teacher’s body in the pedagogy of female dance teachers. It explores how teachers experience their bodies, and considers the values which become embodied and normalized ... -
Experimental, Numerical, and Soft Computing-Based Analysis of the Vapex Process in Heavy Oil Systems
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-07)There are significant heavy oil and bitumen resources in Canada. Considering increasing energy demands, these abundant resources are a potential energy source. Regardless, looking for an economically viable and environmentally ... -
Mechanisms of Oil Recovery During Cyclic CO2 Injection process: Impact of Fluid Interactions, operating parameters, and Porous Medium
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-07)Carbon dioxide (CO2) injection processes are among the most promising enhanced oil recovery techniques based on their great potential to improve oil production while utilizing geological storage of carbon dioxide to ... -
Root Dynamics, Management Effects and Carbon Sequestration on Invaded and Native Semi-Arid Grasslands
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-07)Root dynamics are a major component of terrestrial ecosystem processes but they have not been broadly studied, due to the difficulty of quantifying root production and mortality. The use of minirhizotrons facilitates ... -
Estimation of Relative Permeability and Capillary Pressure for Hydrocarbon Reservoirs Using Ensemble-Based History Matching Techniques
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-07)Reservoir simulation is generally used in modern reservoir management to make sound reservoir development strategies, requiring a reliable and up-to-dated reservoir model to predict future reservoir performance in an ... -
Transdiagnostic Internet-Delivered Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy for Recent Cancer Survivors: A Feasibility Trial and Examination of Clinician Perspectives
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-07)Increased attention has been drawn to the challenges faced by cancer survivors following treatment completion. Although most survivors adjust well to these challenges over time, a subset of individuals experience clinical ... -
As Iron Sharpens Iron: Understanding Competitive Processes in Elite Sport Teams
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-08)The purpose of this thesis was the exploration, definition, conceptualization, and measurement of competition within elite sport teams (i.e., intrateam competition) by using an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design ... -
Utilization of Carbonated Water Injection (CWI) as a Means of Improved Oil Recovery in Light Oil Systems: Pore-Scale Mechanisms and Recovery Evaluation
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-09)In this study, the performance of secondary and tertiary carbonated water injection (CWI) was investigated at various operating conditions through sequences of laboratory experiments and numerical simulations. According ... -
Variations on a Theorem of Erdös, Ko and Rado
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-09)The Erdös-Ko-Rado theorem, a theorem which gives the size and structure of the largest pairwise intersecting collection of k-subsets from a base set of size n, has inspired many variations on the theme of the maximum ... -
An Efficacy Trial of Therapist-Assisted Internet-Delivered Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy for Older Adults with Generalized Anxiety
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-09)Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and subclinical anxiety symptoms are prevalent among adults aged 60 years and older. While cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) is efficacious for treating GAD, under treatment of GAD remains ... -
Mutex Pair Detection for Improving Abstraction-based Heuristics
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-09)Problem solving is a very important aspect of arti cial intelligence. This thesis focuses on problems that can be formulated as search problems in a state space. Since blindly searching in a large state space is usually ... -
Long-term Neuropsychological and Psychosocial Consequences of Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-10)Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major health problem affecting thousands of Canadians and their families each year. Little is known about the long-term consequences of pediatric mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) on ... -
Clarifying the Nature of Pain-Related Anxiety: Implications for Assessment and Treatment of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-10)Pain-related anxiety and anxiety sensitivity (AS) are important constructs in fearanxiety- avoidance models of chronic pain (Asmundson, P. J. Norton, & Vlaeyen, 2004). Pain-related anxiety (McCracken & Gross, 1998) ... -
Life History, Nurse Empathy, and Aggressive Behaviours in Individuals with Dementia
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-11)Dementia is common among long term care (LTC) residents and has many implications for their quality of life. Individuals with dementia often present with behavioural disturbances such as aggression (e.g., destructive actions ... -
Integrating Ontology-Based Information Extraction Systems and Spatial Modeling for Land Use Analysis and Simulation
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-12)Information Extraction (IE) is defined as the automatic identification and extraction of a predefined set of concepts, relevant to a specific domain of knowledge, ignoring irrelevant information. IE converts unstructured ... -
Lineup Composition Effects on Eyewitness Identification
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-12)Whenever lineups are prepared for eyewitness identification, the investigator constructing the lineup must decide how to choose lineup members to appear in the lineup with the person under investigation. Accordingly, ... -
Investigating Decision Making With Game-Theoretic Rough Sets
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-12)Rough set theory and game theory provide two approaches for analyzing and assisting decision making. Rough set theory provides the ability to make decisions with incomplete and insuffcient information. On the other hand, ... -
Improvements and enhancements of mps in free surface flow simulation.
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2015-01)The grid-based Eulerian methods have dominated the CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) for decades due to its simplicity. The grids not only used for discretize the simulation domain but also used for the computation, ... -
Development of On-Line Analytical Technique for Determination of Composition of CO2-Loaded Formulated Amine Solvents Based on the Liquid Thermo physical Properties for a Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Process
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2015-03)One of the ways to boost the carbon dioxide (CO2) capture performance of amine based solvents is to blend a primary or secondary amine with a tertiary amine. This has been shown to be true in the blending of monoethanolamine ...
