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Forward Stepwise Selection is a widely used model selection algorithm. It is, however, hard to do inference for a model that is already cherry-picked. A post-selection inference method called…

This thesis consists of three papers that explore early human organization. In the first paper I argue that the economic and social structure of early humans would have resulted in an especially…

Human Papillomaviruses can cause cancer of multiple human anatomical sites, with essentially all cervical cancer cases worldwide being attributable to persistent HPV infections. HPV vaccination…

Sleep plays an important role in the overall health and well-being of a child. The relationship between sleep and daytime behaviours of children with sleep disorders is understood poorly; different…

A key management concern for provincial parks is the establishment of invasive species due to their impacts on native biodiversity. Within Blanket Creek Provincial Park there is a 0.24 ha heavily…

This thesis incorporates four studies of the geography of bank offices and deposits in the United States (US). The research examines changes in retail bank branch proximity in neighborhoods, state…

This report looks at the changing landscape of Engage Books as they switch their focus from publishing classic titles to publishing children's books under the mandate 'books that make a…

This dissertation explores and applies experimental methods in economics. The first two chapters deal with the methodology of lab experiments, while the third presents a study on mobility apps. In…

Data preparation is the process of transforming raw data into a clean and consumable format. It is widely known as the bottleneck to extract value and insights from data, due to the number of…

By identifying relationships between regression tree construction and change-point detection, we show that it is possible to prune a regression tree efficiently using properly modified information…

This thesis is an attempt to analyze the philosophical ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin from the point of view of their possible implementation in educational practices. The first chapter examines the…

Word alignment is an essential task in natural language processing because of its critical role in training statistical machine translation (SMT) models, error analysis for neural machine translation…

Bitumen extraction in Alberta's oil sands region generates large volumes of oil sands process-affected waters (OSPW) that pose environmental and human health risks. Currently, few feasible…

Though scholars have often perceived of sovereignty in purely territorial and capital-p political terms, this is not a useful way to understand the concept when it comes to Indigenous nations. Both…

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young adults under the age of 35; a devastating disease that is not yet well understood. To date, greater than 1000…

In this thesis, we contribute in two main directions: modeling asynchronous time-series data and learning from partial labelled data. We first propose novel probabilistic frameworks to improve…

The scaling relationship between metabolic rate and body mass is one of the most notable functional relationships in comparative physiology and macroecology. In aquatic ectotherms, the surface area…

The Paleo Diet is a popular but controversial dietary regime that requires adherents to avoid domesticated plants and replicate the macronutrient distribution (i.e., the percentages of carbohydrates…

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic disease with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations and infections are a leading cause of morbidity and premature mortality in patients with SLE.…

Wearable biosensors have great potential for real-time diagnostics, but have been encumbered by costly fabrication processes, rigid materials, and inadequate sensitivity for physiological ranges.…