• Derivation and Internal Validation of a Prediction Model for Hand Fracture Referral Among Pediatric Patients 

  Hartley, Rebecca Lauren (Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 2019-06-18)

  Pediatric hand fractures are common however, which fractures should be referred for specialist care remains unclear. This thesis aimed to develop a prediction model to identify which acute pediatric hand fractures required ...

• Data-Driven Cyber Prediction in Hybrid Warfare 

  Devereux, Hannah (Arts, University of Calgary, 2019-06-17)

  Cyber Warfare, despite being a thoroughly discussed tactic, is consistently misunderstood and taken out of context. Cyberattacks, most often committed during hybrid warfare, are often studied apart from the physical ...

• Longitudinal assessment of mechanical strength of trabecular bone underlying bone marrow lesions following acute anterior cruciate ligament injuries. 

  Shtil, Mariya (Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, 2019-06-17)

  Anterior cruciate ligament tears are common injuries that are often accompanied by traumatic bone marrow lesions (BML) that occur in the knee. These lesions may be linked to osteoarthritis and by understanding the indication ...

• Essays in International Trade and Environmental Policy 

  Munzur, Alaz Safak (Science, University of Calgary, 2019-06)

  This thesis comprises a collection of three essays on international trade and environmental policy. In Chapter 1, I examine Britain’s trade policy in the 19th-century. Britain, the dominant trading nation of the time, ...

• Cluster analysis of correlated non-Gaussian continuous data via finite mixtures of Gaussian copula distributions 

  Burak, Katherine L. (Science, University of Calgary, 2019-06-12)

  Model-based cluster analysis in non-Gaussian settings is not straightforward due to a lack of standard models for non-Gaussian data. In this thesis, we adopt the class of Gaussian copula distributions (GCDs) to develop a ...

• Instruction in the Foundations of Writing: A Case Study of Grade One Gifted Children 

  Ramzy, Miriam (Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, 2019-06-07)

  Writing with paper and pencil continues to be the most common method students use in school to communicate their knowledge. It is a skill that is foundational to generating text for a wide variety of purposes from kindergarten ...

• “A Steady Opposition to Every Evolution of Radicalism”: Western Conservatism in Civil War Era Indiana 

  Wiley, Andrew Wayne (Arts, University of Calgary, 2019-06-06)

  This dissertation examines conservatives in Indiana politics from the 1820s to the 1870s. During the Civil War Era, northern conservatives helped push Abraham Lincoln into the White House in 1860, and then forced an end ...

• The Impact of Human Capital on Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Outcomes 

  Sinha, Kanhaiya Kumar (Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, 2019-06-11)

  In the extant literature, innovativeness, opportunity identification, and performance of the firm are considered to be independently affected by the human capital (i.e., knowledge, skills, and experience) and entrepreneurship. ...

• The Presynaptic and Postsynaptic Signaling of Amyloid β Protein During Ischemia 

  Palmer, Laura Ann (Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 2019-06-11)

  Amyloid β has been implicated in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer disease (AD) by disrupting synapses and enhancing cell death. Genetic mutations that are causative of familial Alzheimer disease are associated with enhanced ...

• Rawlsian Justice: Reflections on a new Equilibrium 

  Forster, Monte S. (Arts, University of Calgary, 2019-06-10)

  This thesis considers the notion of intergenerational justice. I consider intertemporal justice largely through the lens of John Rawls’s theory of justice. Nonetheless, Rawls incorrectly gives priority to the principle of ...

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