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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.
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Items in this Collection
- 9memory
- 2hippocampus
- 1 constrained spherical deconvolution
- 1 diffusion tensor imaging
- 1 magnetic resonance imaging
- 1AFM
- 1Almadhoun, Mahmoud
- 1Brandwein, Nathan
- 1Chakravarty, Sucheta
- 1Feminella Duarte Da Costa, Julia
- 1Kwon, Vicki S.
- 1Mariasine, Jennifer E
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Fall 2022
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease which is mainly characterized by inflammation, demyelination, and axonal loss. Conventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has become the most established imaging tool in the diagnosis and follow-up of MS in clinical practice....
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Spring 2022
This dissertation examines socially engaged practices by contemporary Korean and Japanese artists who address current transnational issues in East Asia, drawing on discourses across subaltern studies, postcolonial theories, memory studies, and inter-Asia studies. When an artist travels to a...
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Fall 2024
Feminella Duarte Da Costa, Julia
Real-world events are three-dimensional (3D) and immersive. Prior research using virtual reality (VR) has suggested that 3D experiences may boost memory performance but are limited because they do not directly compare 3D and 2D experiences in fully immersive settings. Across two studies, we...
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Epigenetic Involvement in Heterosynaptic (Tagged) LTP Following Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Activation in the Mouse Hippocampus
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Synapses experience long-lasting plastic changes following neuromodulatory action in the brain. One natural modulator is noradrenaline (NA). Beta-adrenergic receptor (b-AR) activation by noradrenaline enhances memory formation and long-term potentiation (LTP), a form of synaptic plasticity...
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Fall 2023
The human hippocampus is difficult to image given its small size, location, shape, and complex internal architecture. Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has shown that typical age-related hippocampal volume changes vary along its anterior–posterior axis. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)...
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Fall 2020
Introduction: The beneficial effects of chronic exercise on hippocampal volume and associated memory functions are well studied, especially in the context of aging and dementia. These effects are thought to be mediated by multiple exercise-induced physiological and molecular factors (e.g.,...
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Fall 2021
Successful learning is of vital importance to human cognition. Accordingly, researchers have been interested to understand brain-activity signals that support it. However, traditional analysis of brain activity is based on planned comparisons and descriptive methods, which can both overestimate...
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Processing and Switching Mechanisms of Materials for Memory Devices in Flexible Electronics
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Current trends in Big Data are driving industries towards new innovations for data acquisition and processing. Among these trends is the concept of the Internet of Things (typically abbreviated as IOT), which will result in the collection of very large amounts of data from sensors and...
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Spring 2021
This dissertation consists of two related studies that examine children’s sleep in the first three years of life. The literature pointed to a need for more objective data concerning sleep in young children (Gokdemir & Ersu, 2016). However, it was not feasible to conduct lab polysomnography (PSG)...