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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
To retrieve all theses and dissertations associated with a specific department from the library catalogue, choose 'Advanced' and keyword search "university of alberta dept of english" OR "university of alberta department of english" (for example). Past graduates who wish to have their thesis or dissertation added to this collection can contact us at erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Items in this Collection
- 1Chunn, Michael
- 1DuVal, Michele G.
- 1Filbert, Alexander
- 1Hamzeh, Bahareh
- 1Lorenz, Chad D
- 1Maani, Rouzbeh
- 2Department of Computing Science
- 2Physical Education and Recreation
- 1Centre for Neuroscience
- 1Department of Biological Sciences
- 1Department of Chemistry
- 1Department of Physics
- 2Jones, Kelvin (Physical Education and Recreation)
- 1Allison, W. Ted (Biological Sciences)
- 1Berry, Tanya (Physical Education and Recreation)
- 1Bubela, Tania (School of Public Health)
- 1Collins, David (Physical Education and Recreation)
- 1Dal Bello-Haas, Vanina (School of Rehabilitation Science McMaster University)
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Acid Labile Surfactants Containing Ketal-Linkage in Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography and Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry
DownloadFall 2012
The combination of micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) would yield a very powerful analytical technique. However, hyphenating both techniques is not easy. Sodium 4-[(2-methyl-2-undecyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-yl) methoxy]-1-propane...
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Axon excitability testing shows increased IH activity in populations of slow versus fast motor axons of the rat
DownloadFall 2013
Despite extensive knowledge of variations in motoneuron (MN) soma and muscle properties across different healthy muscles or motor units, there is comparatively little knowledge about variations in motor axon electrophysiology across different axon groups. Axon excitability testing (AET) is an in...
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Spring 2019
The pre and post diagnostic phases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) care are inherently uncertain for patients and caregivers. The emotional character of ALS related communications requires that providers have a high degree of skill and tact. Understanding patient and caregiver preferences...
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DETECTING CEREBRAL DEGENERATION IN ALS USING A MULTICENTRE APPLICATION OF 3D TEXTURE ANALYSIS
DownloadFall 2018
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a highly heterogeneous disease in terms of its clinical presentation, progression, and detected pathology in the body. It is a multi-system degenerative disorder, though a diagnosis is made based on the presence of both upper motor neuron (UMN) and lower...
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Intentions of Canadian healthcare professionals to prescribe exercise to people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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Lack of effective treatment options exist for individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). A relatively inexpensive treatment option for people with ALS (PALS) is exercise. However, it is unclear whether healthcare professionals (HCP’s), working in ALS clinics across Canada, currently...
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Probing the Effects of Pathogenic Mutations on Prion-like Conversion of Superoxide dismutase-1
DownloadSpring 2024
Multiple neurodegenerative diseases feature the accumulation of misfolded proteins in and around neurons. In some cases, misfolding propagates through a prion-like mechanism whereby interactions between misfolded conformers and natively folded conformers induce the latter to convert into the...
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Regulatory factors gdf6a, tbx2b, and thr beta in generation of multiple cone photoreceptor subtypes; and intersections of genetic factors SOD1, TDP43, and gdf6a in zebrafish models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
DownloadFall 2018
The work within this thesis may be divided into two major foci with a unifying theme of understanding neurodegeneration and expanding the foundational knowledge necessary for treatment of two major degenerative diseases: macular degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. To these ends the...
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Spring 2015
Image texture is defined as visual patterns appearing in images. The powerful perceptive capability of texture features has made texture analysis a major research topic in computer vision and image processing. Texture features are used to detect defective products in factories, to understand...
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V-CoHOG: Volumetric Co-occurrence Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Texture Classification in Medical Imaging
DownloadFall 2022
Image textures, which are properties that can describe the pixel intensities of an image, have been analyzed in order to perform a variety of tasks, including segmentation and classification. Features derived from textures which are invariant to changes such as contrast and transformations are of...