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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 2013
Sensor technologies profoundly impact all aspects of our everyday lives. Advances have led to smaller devices, faster response times, reduced costs, higher specificity and sensitivity, and even new sensing technologies. Surface acoustic wave (SAW) technology, which has been around for many...
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Fall 2015
Tumor targeting ligands provide a promising solution to the problems associated with the selective delivery of conventional cancer chemotherapeutics and diagnostics to cancer cells. Therefore, numerous cancer cell surface targeting peptides have been identified and evaluated. These peptides have...
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Spring 2021
For patients with decreased kidney function, waste materials accumulate within the blood compartment. Although not all of these chemical species have been directly linked to a specific toxicity, they are generally referred to as uremic toxins. Of particular interest are protein bound uremic...
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Engineering a Chromoprotein Optimized for Photoacoustic Imaging and Biosensing Applications
DownloadFall 2014
A subset of the family of fluorescent proteins are the non-fluorescent chromoproteins which serve as important tools in biomedical research. Recently, chromoproteins have been utilized as both reporter molecules in photoacoustic imaging and acceptor chromophores in Förster resonance energy...
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Engineering agarolytic enzymes into Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron for the development of a drug delivery system with algal polysaccharide-derived capsules
DownloadSpring 2020
The microbiota of the distal gastrointestinal tract (GIT) of monogastric animals plays a vital role in maintaining host health, such as releasing energy and nutrients from dietary polysaccharides that are otherwise indigestible by human enzymes. These dietary polysaccharides can be coupled to the...
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Fall 2018
The injection molding process has been widely used to manufacture various plastic products featuring complex geometry. Product quality and productivity are conflicting requirements which are hard to achieve simultaneously. Some molding simulation packages are available which can accurately...
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Engineering Considerations for the Design of High Performance Zinc Oxide Thin Film Transistors
DownloadSpring 2018
Zinc oxide (ZnO) thin film transistors (TFTs) are garnering significant interest recently due to their unique combination of high optical transparency, moderately high electron mobility, good stability, and compatibility with low temperature processing. If a low temperature processed, high...