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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 165Machine Learning
- 22Artificial Intelligence
- 21Reinforcement Learning
- 20Deep Learning
- 11Natural Language Processing
- 10Computer Vision
- 2Jacobsen, Andrew
- 2Wen, Junfeng
- 1Aghaei, Nikoo
- 1Al Dallal, Ahmed
- 1Al-Masri, Mohammad
- 1Alam Anik, Md Tanvir
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Fall 2016
Current medical imaging professional training uses an apprenticeship model with students following an established doctor and viewing their cases, in what is called a practicum. This posses an issue as students are limited to the cases available during their practicum. To resolve this automated...
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Fall 2017
Network connectivity is an indispensable component of any computer related activities. Any computer-like machine is connected to some kind of a network, which is further connected to another computer network. Technological advances allow users to connect any devices and use multiple applications....
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Data-driven development of advanced controllers for complex reaction systems with minimal prior information
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In the realm of complex reactive systems where full knowledge of ongoing reactions is unattainable, the adoption of data-driven inferential models based on mixture spectra has gained significant traction. Spectra-based online monitoring has shown promise due to the rapidity, non-invasiveness,...
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Spring 2022
Numerical simulation and hybrid simulation are extensively used in earthquake engineering to evaluate the seismic response of structures under seismic loading. Despite the advances in computing power and the development of efficient integration algorithms in the past, numerical simulation...
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Fall 2024
It has been shown that pretrained language models exhibit biases and social stereotypes. Prior work on debiasing these language models has largely focussed on modifying embedding spaces in pretraining, which is not scalable for large models. Since pretrained models are typically fine-tuned on...
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Deep Learning-based Forecasting and Energy Management Algorithms for Smart Grid Applications
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With the increasing global problems concerning energy security and climate change, new challenges in social progress and human survival have come to the fore. Requiring no fuel, and being renewable and non-polluting, renewable energy (RE) resources, typically from photovoltaic and wind sources,...
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Fall 2011
The imbalanced learning problem occurs in a large number of economic and health domains of great importance; consequently, it has drawn a significant amount of interest from academia, industry, and government funding agencies. Several researchers have used stratification to alleviate this...
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Development and Evaluation of Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Mitigating Winter Road Safety – An Empirical Investigation
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In Canada, winter crashes account for a significant portion of crashes each year. This thesis investigates the utility of machine learning (ML) for understanding and mitigating winter road risks. Despite their potential to achieve high predictive performance in the face of complex data...
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Development of AI-based ergonomics risk assessment tools for harmonization of industrial work systems
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Manufacturing industry workers face significant ergonomic risks due to poorly designed work systems. Consequently, it is crucial to periodically assess work systems to identify areas for improvement. However, the assessment process is often disregarded due to the absence of userfriendly...
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Fall 2012
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) measures the dynamic activity of each voxel of a brain. This dissertation addresses the challenge of learning a diagnostic classifier that uses a subject’s fMRI data to distinguish subjects with neuropsychiatric disorders from healthy controls. fMRI...