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Researching affect in tourism: a study of awe in nature-based tourism in New Zealand

Zhang, Yunzhen

Embracing and engaging in the affective turn is shifting tourism scholars’ attention to the role of feelings and emotions in shaping tourism encounters, practices, destinations, and even tourism studies. In theorising affect, scholars from various disciplines place a focus on questioning and exploring what different ve...

Cavities All the Way Down: Precision Measurement for Gravitational Waves and Quantum Spacetime

MacMillan, Ian Alexander Ouellette

Ground-based interferometers must aggressively filter noise while preserving their fundamental signal response. In the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), this requires active alignment control that rejects low-frequency noise without reducing astrophysical sensitivity; in Gravity from the Quant...

Molecular characterization of sea spray aerosol and traffic related air pollution

Kirindigoda Gamage, Dilini

Chapter 4 examines how the chemical composition of SSA varies after emission by chemical aging. Aging of SSA increased concentrations of sulfate, phosphate, nitrate, ammonium, and organic carbon relative to sodium. The most significant increases in sulfate and organic carbon to Na⁺ ratios by factors of 7 and 5 were fou...

AN EXAMINATION OF LOCAL FOOD AND AGRITOURISM

Murray, Jessica Caroline

This dissertation is composed of three individual essays, each examining an individual aspect of the local food or agritourism industry. The first essay examines the aspects of local food that drive the consumption value of local foods and subsequent increases in personal and social enrichments as well as intentions to...

Vuelos perdidos

Lores, Sebastián

The first section offers a personal reflection on the literary form of the novella, examining its unique affordances and constraints as a genre situated between the short story and the novel. Drawing from a selection of Latin American and global texts, as well as theoretical approaches to narrative structure, temporali...

Shrinkage Control & Self-Healing of Cement-Stabilized Unsaturated Soil through Sequential Hydration and Calcite-Biofilm-Biochar-Composite

Tawiah, Seth Owusu

This study developed a nature-inspired self-healing biomineralization approach that allows two different bacteria to co-exist in an environment with minimized competition, while promoting the most effective microbial activities. The two bacteria included one that produces a brittle precipitate (i.e., calcite), while th...

Extension, critique, and formalization of explanation in machine learning

Ragodos, Ronilo

Oftentimes, it is not sufficient for a machine learning model to achieve good predictive performance; in cases where a model is used in high-stakes decision-making, it is preferable to use an interpretable model. Examples of such applications include medical diagnosis, automated allocation of healthcare benefits, and l...

Natural Experiments in Landscape Dynamics and Carbon Cycling

Geyman, Emily C.

Many changes to Earth's landscapes evade direct observation because they unfold either too slowly or too episodically for modern instrumental records. This thesis develops two complementary strategies that extend the observational record in opposite directions: natural experiments that translate long periods of time in...

Characterizing the Neural Populations of the Cortical Grasping Network in Tetraplegic Humans

Thurston, Mackenzie J.

The cortical grasping network (CGN) is responsible for the ability to physically interact with the world around us using our hands. For patients with motor impairments due to neurogenerative disease or traumatic injury, brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) offer a potential pathway towards restoration of dexterous hand cont...

AI GANESH - an ethical framework for Artificial Intelligence in Education

Agarwal, Bhoomika