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Spring 2012
Cardiac hypertrophy is maladaptive remodeling of the myocardium that often progresses to heart failure. The hypertrophic transport metabolon consists of membrane transporters implicated in hypertrophy, and substrates for these transporters are provided by the catalytic action of carbonic...
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Fall 2021
One third of all deaths in Canada are due to cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure. Cardiovascular diseases have a considerable economic burden, and drastically impact the health and quality of life of Canadians. Heart failure (HF) is a clinical condition where the heart is unable to...
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Fall 2013
Heart failure is common, and is associated with significant mortality, morbidity, and reduced quality of life. The objective of this thesis is to evaluate some therapeutic interventions and outcomes in patients with acute and chronic heart failure. In the first part, the efficacy of cardiac...
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Exploring the Association between Parental Concern about Vaccine Safety and Incomplete Childhood Immunization: A Multivariate Model
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High levels of immunization coverage are required to maintain control of infectious diseases that previously caused significant illness and death in Canada. However, childhood immunizations have been so successful that many Canadians have never seen the impact of these diseases, with some parents...
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Spring 2016
Heart failure is associated with major changes in cardiac energy metabolism that decrease cardiac efficiency, which can reduce cardiac function. In severe heart failure there is a shift back toward a fetal heart metabolism, with a decrease in mitochondrial oxidative metabolism and increase in...
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Fall 2016
Abstract Aims: The use of telehealth for heart failure management is increasing and it is not clear from the literature whether it is more beneficial than usual care. A meta-analysis was done of published randomized controlled trials to compare telehealth management and usual physician care for...
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Fall 2020
Multivariate techniques aim to integrate multiple variables and/or data in the same framework to improve uncertainty assessment in high resolution geostatistical models. The necessity to build models that better quantify the uncertainty with limited data that are often collected with different...
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Spring 2015
Evaluating the process performance of mining and petroleum operations requires numerical geological models of many related rock properties or variables. Taken together, they provide a characterization of the geologic deposit that forms the basis for engineering design and decision making. Complex...
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Multiple Outcomes in Heart Failure Research: Composite Endpoints and Multivariate Modelling
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Composite endpoints are increasingly popular outcomes in clinical trials of heart failure. Uptake has outpaced guidance on their use and little consistency is seen in their construction. We must consider how best to handle multiple outcomes statistically and clinically, ie in a way that is both...
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Multivariate geostatistical modeling of unconventional shale gas reservoirs in the presence of sparse data
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A geostatistical workflow for modeling multivariate sparsely sampled variables in shale gas reservoirs is proposed in this thesis and applied to a study area in the HRB. This workflow accounts for direct and cross spatial correlation between variables while decreases computational modeling time...