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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Non-Synonymous Variants in the Premelanosome Protein (PMEL) Gene are Associated with Pigment Dispersion Syndrome/Pigmentary Glaucoma and Cause Biochemical Defects
DownloadFall 2018
Pigmentary Glaucoma (PG) is a common glaucoma subtype that results from release of pigment from the iris (Pigment Dispersion Syndrome) and its deposition throughout the anterior chamber of the eye. Although PG has a substantial heritable component, no causative gene variants have yet been...
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Fall 2021
The optimization of non-convex objective functions is a topic of central interest in machine learning. Remarkably, it has recently been shown that simple gradient-based optimization can achieve globally optimal solutions in important non-convex problems that arise in machine learning, including...
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Non-verbal cognitive domain functions positively associate with mildly elevated fasting blood glucose in individuals presenting with a psychotic illness
DownloadFall 2017
Background: The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of biological parameters that have been identified as significant risk factors in the development of cardiovascular disease. The relevance of MetS to the psychiatric population has been demonstrated in that having severe mental illness (SMI)...
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Non-viral Gene Delivery of BMP-2 Plasmid from Collagen Based Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration Therapy
DownloadSpring 2021
Significant progress in the field of bone regeneration therapy has been achieved in the last two decades. While regeneration therapies with autogenous, allografts and exogenous grafts are remaining the preferred treatments, the outcomes remained are usually sub-optimal. Gene therapy holds a great...
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Spring 2019
The development of modern machine learning systems not only provides the opportunity of applications in various fields but also creates many challenges. The core of machine learning is to train a model based on a dataset, which can be posed as solving an optimization problem, usually expressed...