Charged lepton flavour violating processes are highly suppressed in the standard model, but they are predicted to be enhanced in several new physics extensions including supersymmetry and models with leptoquarks or ...

In the first part of the thesis, the need for physics beyond the Standard Model, as attested to by the evidence of dark matter, motivates us to study the effects of introducing into the standard theory of Leptogenesis ...

RNA sequencing is a powerful new approach to analyzing differential expression of transcripts between treatments. Many statistical methods are now available to test for differential expression, each one reports results ...

High resolution imaging of wide fields has been a prerogative of space telescopes for decades. Multi-conjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) is a key technology for the future of ground-based astronomy, especially as we approach ...

Plant growth and survival are affected by the nutrients available in the environment. Nitrogen (N) is most often the limiting nutrient in terrestrial ecosystems, particularly in temperate and boreal forests, such as those ...

This thesis focuses on ridge regression (RR) and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (lasso). Ridge properties are being investigated in great detail which include studying the bias, the variance and the mean ...

This dissertation describes a search for the invisible decays of dark matter particles produced in association with a Z boson, where the latter decays to a charged lepton pair. The dataset for this search includes 13.3 ...

This dissertation analyzes the Wigner-Poisson system in the presence of an external Coulomb potential. In the first part, the Weyl transform is defined and used to derive an exact quantum mechanical equation for the ...

Hydrozirconation and subsequent phosphination have been developed into a versatile synthetic methodology leading to formation of phosphorus-carbon bonds. A family of phosphinoalkylsilane ligand precursors SiHMen(CH₂C ...

Heteromorph ammonites and dinoflagellate cysts from the Upper Cretaceous Northumberland Formation on Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada are examined. The collection and preparation of new material has enabled the ...