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Sherman Leroy Wilson
No full textposted: Necro Canada; funeral arrangements by G. W. Giffin Funeral Hom
Ordered Sums of Combinatorial Games
No full textA combinatorial game is a game of no chance where both players have perfect information. In this thesis we introduce, motivate, and develop a basic theory of ordered sums of combinatorial games, which generalize the disjoint and ordinal sums of combinatorial games. In doing so we survey the combinatorial game theory literature regarding disjoint and ordinal sums, outlining some of the largest unresolved questions in the topic. Using this new theory of ordered sums, this thesis makes significant advances towards understanding poset games, an important and poorly understood class of combinatorial games, and ordinal sums of combinatorial games. In particular we give a novel criteria for games G and H to satisfy the equation G : K = H : K for all games K
Henrica (Haazen) van Bommel
No full textposted: SaltWire, Feb. 1, 2022; funeral arrangements by C. L. Curry Funeral Services; "Rita"; formerly of Summerside, Heatherton; first name also spelled "Hendricka"
Exploring Colorectal Cancer in Atlantic Canada and the Effects of Low-Penetrance Genes
No full textObjective: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in Canada, and the second leading cause of death attributed to cancer. Atlantic Canada has a disproportionately high incidence of CRC compared to the rest of Canada, and although several environmental risk factors are prevalent in Atlantic Canada, including smoking, other factors may highlight a large impact that genetics may have on CRC risk than previously thought.
Methods: Data from two arms of the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project, the Atlantic PATH and BC Generations project, were used to examine the impact of smoking and genetic variants on CRC risk. In part one of the study, the effect of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in MUTYH, MSH2, MLH1, and APC, which are genes that are associated with genomic stability, were examined for their role in CRC using over 1,200 participants from BC Generations Project.
Results: No significant associations between smoking were observed after adjusting for confounders. We observed 22 SNPs with significant association with CRC risk after adjusting for the false discovery rate (FDR), which had odds ratios ranging from 17.13 to 12,142.71 that was driven by the homozygous minor and homozygous major genotypes strongly corresponding with disease-status. There was some evidence to suggest a gene-environment interaction between smoking and high-risk genotypes for three of the 22 SNPs, albeit non-significant.
Conclusion: The results of this study suggest an association between genetic variants of the select genomic stability genes and colorectal cancer development, in addition to a suggested effect modification of smoking by genotypes by certain SNPs. Further research is needed to assess the relationship between these SNPs and colorectal cancer risk, including analysing the remaining 1,200 participants from the Atlantic PATH cohort
Data-driven quantitative analysis on strength training programs and the discovery of new training methods for high performance athletes with artificial Intelligence
No full textTraining methods for athletes need to evolve; the competitive environment in sports is always changing. The current methods we employ today have not changed very much in the last 50 years and were not designed for the competitive environments we see today in sport and often leads to athletes either getting injured or overtrained. When compared to other fields of study, the sports science field has made the least amount of progress in utilizing the recent advancements in artificial intelligence to progress the field to new frontiers. This research was unable to find any standard data repositories, that can fully explain all of the properties contained in any given exercise and this has hampered our ability to get computers to search for new training methods which are better, than the ones we employ today. The goal of this project is to lay the foundation in which to build a standard data repository that will house all of the properties for each exercise (biomechanics characteristics, exercise prescription elements, physiological effects, general information, associated injuries, and relationships with other physical exercises) prescribed by Strength & Conditioning coaches. The repository will give specialists like coaches and therapists access to more information regarding their training programs and will also be used to build machine learning algorithms which are capable of modeling a given physical exercise to discover insights that may offer improvements to established training methods
James Dennis Wedge
No full textposted: Le Necrologue, Necro Canada; funeral arrangements by Green's Funeral Home; "Jimmy"; formerly of River Tillar
Marie (Delorey) Pettipas
No full textposted: SaltWire, Mar. 19, 2022; funeral arrangements by C. L. Curry Funeral Services; formerly of Monastery (Tracadie
Jacqueline Rose (MacDonald) Fox
No full textposted: SaltWire, Apr. 18, 2022; funeral arrangements by Dennis Haverstock Funeral Home
Flora Marguerite (Mason) Chiasson
No full textposted: SaltWire, Mar. 30, 2022; funeral arrangements by C. L. Curry Funeral Service
Michael David O'Leary
No full textposted: SaltWire, Mar. 1, 2022; funeral arrangements by Dennis Haverstock Funeral Homes; "Mike"