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Spring 2022

Wall, Morganne

The migratory population of Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) in Canada has undergone significant declines over the past five decades. Monitoring of Burrowing Owl includes estimation of annual survival which is predominantly obtained using mark-recapture data. Survival is calculated based on...

Fall 2016

Wubie, Berhanu A.

Survival data is mostly analyzed using Cox proportional hazards model to identify factors associated with survival time of patients. However recently random survival forest (RSF), a non-parametric method for ensemble estimation constructed by bagging of classification trees for survival data, is...

Fall 2010

Lieffers, Jessica

The purpose of this work was to further understand nutritional status, especially body weight and composition, during colorectal cancer progression. Population-based studies of colorectal cancer patients were conducted using administrative health data (primary and co-morbid diseases,...

Fall 2022

Masoud, Andrew G.

Heart transplantation (HTx) is a life-saving intervention for patients with end-stage heart failure. Nonetheless, the development of Chronic Allograft Vasculopathy (CAV) limits the longevity of transplanted cardiac allografts and the survival of recipients. The pathogenesis of CAV begins with a...

Fall 2013

Sapkota, Yadav

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the developed world. The disease results from the combined effects of genetic, environmental, reproductive and lifestyle risk factors. Germline DNA variations identified thus far by linkage and genome-wide association studies (GWASs) account...

Spring 2023

Sun, Weijie

The electrocardiogram (ECG) records the electrical activity of a patient’s heart movement. It is one of the standard routine healthcare tests as it is non-invasive and easy to apply. In this thesis, we analyze 2 million ECGs and over 260,000 patients’ health records from the Alberta Health...

Spring 2014

Haché, Samuel Alcide

The numerical response of forest birds to habitat alteration has been well documented in North America, but the underlying demographic processes driving these changes remain largely unknown. Among species sensitive to such alterations, the Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla) shows one of the largest...

Fall 2009

Heydari, Maysam

This thesis addresses the challenge of prognosis, in terms of survival prediction, for patients with Glioblastoma Multiforme brain tumors. Glioblastoma is the most malignant brain tumor, which has a median survival time of no more than a year. Accurate assessment of prognostic factors is critical...

Fall 2013

Horn, Heidi L

I examined the role of habitat quality and climate in the dynamics of occupancy and survival of a population of collared pikas in the Yukon Territory, Canada. Annual surveys of marked individuals over an 11 year period (1999 to 2009) within a geographically isolated metapopulation were used to...

Spring 2020

Cherniawsky, Hannah M

Historically, the treatment of multiple myeloma in transplant eligible patients has included induction chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) and a watch and wait approach until relapse. The introduction of maintenance chemotherapy has changed the traditional observation...