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- 34913Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of/Theses and Dissertations
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Fall 2023
Background: During exercise, there is an increase in sympathetic activity, causing vasoconstriction and reduced blood flow. However, to maintain blood flow and oxygen delivery to the exercising skeletal muscle, a phenomenon known as sympatholysis occurs, which is the reduction in sympathetic...
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Fall 2019
Background and Rationale Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by episodic bronchoconstriction and airway hyper-responsiveness resulting in symptoms such as coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases in the...
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Fall 2013
Cardiovascular dysfunction in asphyxiated neonates leads to significant morbidity and mortality and the hemodynamic support is limited to the use of catecholamines. In a pilot study, we showed that low-dose vasopressin improved myocardial tissue lactate levels, suggesting decreased anaerobic...
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2012
This integrative study paper explores three documents from the Second Vatican Council (Lumen Gentium Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Gaudium et Spes Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World and Dei Verbum Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation) from the perspective of a...
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Fall 2017
Historically seismic data processing has relied on the acoustic approximation to process single component data under the simplifying assumption that the recorded wavefield consists mainly of compressional wave modes. With the advancement of multicomponent seismic technology there is an increased...
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Fall 2019
In this thesis, we investigate different vector step-size adaptation approaches for continual, online prediction problems. Vanilla stochastic gradient descent can be considerably improved by scaling the update with a vector of appropriately chosen step-sizes. Many methods, including AdaGrad,...
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Fall 2016
Tavassoli Kafrani, Mohammad Hossein
This thesis first describes the development of novel analytical methods for use in lipid transformations. It continues with the synthesis of vegetable oil-based polyols with high hydroxyl value (OHV) and low viscosity, an example of a lipid transformation. Vegetable oils are amenable to...