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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
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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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Spring 2021
Hashemiranjbar Sharifabad, Mohsen
Feed represents more than half of the costs of livestock production. Residual feed intake (RFI) is a phenotypic measure of feed efficiency that has been proposed as the best approach for genetic improvement of dairy cows. Although RFI is considered as a useful tool for feed efficiency, the...
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Elucidating how HIV-1 infection influences CD4, CD8 and regulatory T cell phenotype and function
DownloadFall 2021
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection is still a global health issue. Although the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapies (HAART) to suppress viral replication has transformed HIV infection from a lethal disease to a chronic and manageable infection, it does not cure HIV. CD8 T...
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Elucidating the basis of poorly understood floral traits associated with pollination biology
DownloadFall 2023
Flowering plants have evolved a stunning array of floral colours, scents, and structures, which act synchronously as cues for pollinators. Comprehensive investigations of the extraordinarily diverse floral features involved in plant-pollinator interactions requires expansion of the comparative...
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Elucidating the effects of photoperiod during gestation and lactation on mammary gene expression and function in cows and mice
DownloadSpring 2015
Photoperiod, or day length, generates a highly accurate biological calendar that allows animals to anticipate and adapt to environmental change throughout the year. Photoperiod coordinates both daily and yearly rhythms associated with sleep/wake cycles, behavior, and reproduction, including...
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Fall 2020
Despite their small size and apparent simplicity, viruses are capable of causing mass casualties, political turmoil, and global economic shut down. Due to their minimal genome (~10–12 kb), arboviruses such as Zika (ZIKV), Dengue (DENV), and Mayaro (MAYV) depend on many host molecules for...
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Elucidating the origin of expiratory abdominal activity during sleep and analysis of its manifestation in conditions of an impaired inspiratory drive
DownloadSpring 2024
This dissertation explored respiratory control mechanisms during sleep, with a specific focus on the contribution of the lateral parafacial area (pFL) to the generation of abdominal recruitment. Existing theories posit the preBötzinger complex (preBötC) as the inspiratory oscillator and identify...
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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...