Wireline formation testing (WFT) has gained increasing popularity in the oil and gas industry in the last two decades because of its economical and environmental benefits. Recently, there has been growing interests in ...

Oil sands mining operations in northern Alberta, Canada generates an ever growing volume of fine tailings that are disposed off hydraulically in the tailings ponds. The caustic extraction process results in dispersed ...

This thesis is an autoethnographic self-study intended to create conversations amongst educators teaching in international schools overseas, and to possibly bring about change in the way we, as expatriate teachers, view ...

The Middle Devonian Stone and Dunedin formations are correlative to the Chinchaga and Keg River formations in Northwest Alberta, as well as the Headless and Nahanni formations in Southern Yukon. Core study has identified ...

Computer-based numerical simulation has become a significant and very popular approach for solving engineering problems in the past few decades. It provides a safe and efficient tool to engineering investigations. It can ...

Bounty is a collection of short stories that explores the lives of characters who have spent a significant portion of their lives in the fictional small town Bounty. The stories consider how small-town ideologies impede ...

Word formation phenomenon in French is constantly evolving. There are debates, research and conferences that focus on the description and clarification of the mechanisms employed in the creation of new lexical units. As ...

Developing processes for the removal of carbon dioxide (CO2), the most abundant greenhouse gas (GHG), has been of tremendous research interest due to the serious global warming problems associated with CO2 emissions. ...

Adolescent girls are not meeting the recommended daily physical activity levels needed to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The 2012 Active Healthy Kids Canada report card states that only 17% of girls ages 10-16 accumulate ...

The main purpose of this thesis is to discuss quantum decoherence in the frame- work of operator algebras. We will define several types of decoherence of quantum Markov systems based on the original notion introduced by ...