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
- 2Herzog, Jens A
- 2Miyashita, Tetsuto
- 2Richardson, Evan Shaun
- 2Vernygora, Oksana V
- 1Abbott, Sean P. (Sean Patrick), 1966-
- 1Abd Elhafiz, Areeg
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Spring 2019
In wildlife conservation, long-term monitoring is often justified by wildlife agencies as they allow managers to inform stakeholders, avoid conflicts, and to evaluate the results of management interventions. However, many wildlife agencies insufficiently or inadequately use these data in their...
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Elucidating the role of the Cpx envelope stress response in the colonization and virulence of Citrobacter rodentium
DownloadSpring 2022
The murine attaching and effacing (A/E) pathogen, Citrobacter rodentium, is used as an infection model in vivo for the A/E pathogens enterohemorrhagic and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EHEC and EPEC). All three A/E pathogens harbor the Locus of Enterocyte Effacement (LEE) which encodes a...
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Elucidating the roles of endocannabinoid signalling pathway in motor neuron and locomotor development in zebrafish early life
DownloadFall 2020
The major endocannabinoids (eCBs), anandamide (AEA) and 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) mediate their effects through their actions on cannabinoid receptors (CBRs), mainly via CB1R and CB2Rs. The predominant catabolic regulators that degrade AEA and 2-AG are fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) and...
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Empirical validation of closed population abundance estimates and spatially explicit density estimates using a censused population of North American red squirrels
DownloadSpring 2014
Capture-mark-recapture (CMR) data is widely used to estimate a range of population parameters including abundance and density. Closed population estimators have gained wide acceptance and have become increasingly sophisticated. More recently, spatially explicit capture-recapture (SECR) models...
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Energy Selection Functions: Modelling the Energetic Drivers of Animal Movement and Habitat Use
DownloadSpring 2021
Energetics are a key driver of animal decision-making, as survival depends on the balance between foraging benefits and movement costs. However, this fundamental perspective is often missing from habitat selection studies, which mainly describe correlations between observed space use and...
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Engineering nitrogen use efficiency in Oryza sativa by the developmental over-expression of barley alanine aminotransferase using a novel rice promoter
DownloadFall 2011
Nitrogen is the main limiting component to plant growth and development. With increasing cost of food production the development of nitrogen use efficient (NUE) crop plants has become of interest. In our group, the over-expression of barley alanine aminotransferase (HvAlaAT) cDNA by the btg26...
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Enhancing parasitism of the introduced ash tree pest, Caloptilia fraxinella by native parasitoid, Apanteles polychrosidis in Edmonton, Alberta: Not just a matter of more parasitoids being attracted to infested trees
DownloadFall 2018
Hymenopteran parasitoids are widely studied and employed as biological controls to reduce populations of pest insects. Apanteles polychrosidis Vierek (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) is a native parasitoid wasp that has shifted hosts, becoming the primary parasitoid of the ash leaf-cone roller,...
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Fall 2013
Subglacial bryophytes, entombed during the Little Ice Age (LIA, 150-580 years BP) beneath the polythermal Teardrop Glacier, Sverdrup Pass, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, were examined. The diversity, paleoecological significance, and regeneration capacity of these bryophyte assemblages are...