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
- 2Herzog, Jens A
- 2Miyashita, Tetsuto
- 2Richardson, Evan Shaun
- 2Vernygora, Oksana V
- 1Abbott, Sean P. (Sean Patrick), 1966-
- 1Abd Elhafiz, Areeg
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Evaluation of Highway Mitigation on the Frequency of Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions on the Highway and an Adjacent Railway in a Montane Ecosystem
DownloadFall 2016
Transportation networks are expanding rapidly to meet increasing global demands to move people and cargo. These networks are essential to connect societies and economies but have several negative effects on wildlife populations including collisions with vehicles. Growing incidences and increasing...
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Evaluation of Radar and Cameras as Tools for Automating the Monitoring of Waterbirds at Industrial Sites
DownloadFall 2014
Conflict occurs between people and birds at industrial sites around the world, where birds can endanger human lives (e.g. airports) and where bird populations are endangered by human activities (e.g. wind farms). Mitigating these conflicts requires accurate detection of birds and measures of...
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Fall 2022
Affinity maturation is the process to improve antibody affinity for an antigen during an adaptive immune response; it is mediated by the immunoglobulin mutator enzyme activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID). This process is crucial to produce high-affinity memory B-cells and plasma cells. In...
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Evolution of the eukaryotic membrane trafficking system as revealed by comparative genomic and phylogenetic analysis of adaptin, golgin, and SNARE proteins
DownloadSpring 2020
All eukaryotic cells possess a complex system of endomembranes that functions in trafficking molecular cargo within the cell, which is not observed in prokaryotic cells. This membrane trafficking system is fundamental to the cellular physiology of extant eukaryotes, and includes organelles such...
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Evolution of the sponge body plan: Wnt and the development of polarity in freshwater sponges
DownloadSpring 2014
Body polarity is a fundamental aspect of all multicellular organisms. Metazoans – animals – are monophyletic, but is body polarity homologous among all phyla? Sponges are considered to have branched off first from other animals and therefore studies of polarity formation in the simple sponge body...
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Spring 2013
Cleomaceae is an ideal system in which to investigate evolutionary transitions between monosymmetric flowers from polysymmetric ancestors. Previous studies have not produced a resolved phylogeny or explored the role of the candidate gene, TCP1, in the evolution of monosymmetric flowers. Here, I...
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Spring 2019
The field of evolutionary biology is centered on the study of processes that shape the diversity of life on Earth. Processes that shape genetic variation can act on a wide-range of spatial and temporal scales. Large-scale events such as glaciations and mountain uplift have wide-ranging effects...
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Evolutionary quantitative genetics and genomics applied to the study of sexually dimorphic traits in wild bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)
DownloadSpring 2011
The independent evolution of the sexes may often be constrained if male and female homologous traits share a similar genetic architecture. Thus, cross-sex genetic covariance is assumed to play a key role in the evolution of sexual dimorphism (SD) with consequent impacts on sexual selection,...