Music-based community programs are evidenced to support youth mental health. However, the processes by which they do this, and how these relate to youths’ experiences, remain unknown. Using constructivist grounded theory ...

This thesis explores homeless and street involved youth’s experiences of being kicked out from various programs and family situations and what draws them back. Using secondary data analysis from the Pathways to Resilience ...

Factors affecting cardiac function include those external to the heart (e.g., the autonomic nervous system, ANS) and intrinsic processes that allow rapid beat-by-beat adaptation to change in physiological demands. The ...

Pediatric T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is a high-risk disease. There is a need for targeted therapies for T-ALL, and techniques to rapidly screen drug candidates and personalize patient therapy. I developed ...

Non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) is the most severe form of male infertility that is caused by impaired sperm production. It is crucial to understand the experiences of NOA patients for whom surgical sperm retrieval, which ...

Zero forcing is a graph infection process where a colour change rule is applied iteratively to a graph and an initial set of vertices, S. If S results in the entire graph becoming infected, we call this set a zero forcing ...

In this thesis we study the zeros and asymptotics of sequences that satisfy linear recurrence relations with generally nonconstant coefficients. By the theorem of Skolem-Mahler-Lech, the set of zero terms of a sequence ...