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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 2021
Generalizing wavelets by adding desired redundancy and flexibility, framelets (a.k.a. wavelet frames) are of interest and importance in many applications such as image processing and numerical algorithms. Several key properties of framelets are high vanishing moments for sparse multi-scale...
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Severe cholestasis during the first year post-transplant predicts primary sclerosing cholangitis recurrence
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Background Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic cholestatic disease of unknown etiology, whose only definitive management is liver transplantation. One of the dilemmas that PSC patients face is the recurrence of the disease in the graft, which may shorten the organ’s life expectancy...
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Fall 2024
We study the Severi varieties of Atiyah ruled surfaces over generic elliptic curves. In particular, we prove that general members of such varieties have at worst ordinary triple points.
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Fall 2023
This dissertation is a novel application of conceptual engineering that intersects the history and philosophy of science, metaphysics, value theory and metaphilosophy. It argues for the dual thesis that human sex is a biological kind and that humans are in need of a new sex concept. This...
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Sex Differences in Central Nervous System Plasticity and Pain in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative autoimmune disease with many known structural and functional changes in the central nervous system (CNS). A well-recognized, but poorly understood, complication of MS is chronic pain. Little is known regarding the influence of sex on the development...
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Sex Differences in the Relationship between Childhood Trauma and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Adulthood
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Childhood trauma is a chronic stressor that has been linked to cardiovascular disease (CVD). Evidence also shows that females may have a heightened reactivity to interpersonal and chronic stress than males. The subjects for this study included 6881 members of Statistics Canada's National...