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
- 1AL-Alawi, Mubarak K
- 1Ajweh,Ziad
- 1Al-Hussein, Riphay
- 1Alanjari, Pejman
- 1Aldrich, Daniel R.
- 1Ali, Mostafa A A
- 48Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 24Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- 21Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 11Department of Computing Science
- 11Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 6Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- 6AbouRizk, Simaan (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 5Al-Hussein, Mohamed (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 4Boulanger, Pierre (Computing Science)
- 4Mohamed, Yasser (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 3Nikolaidis, Ioanis (Computing Science)
- 2AbouRizk, Simaan (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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Accounting for non-stationarity via hyper-dimensional translation of the domain in geostatistical modeling
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Medium and short term mine planning require models of mineral deposits that account for internal geological structures that permit scheduling of mine production at a weekly and monthly production periods. Modified kriging estimation techniques are used for accounting for such geologic structures....
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Fall 2010
A robotically-controlled actuation system has been developed and built to perform active open-loop flow control experiments on transitional and turbulent backward-facing step flows in water. Control of the reattaching shear layer used hydraulic suction-and-blowing actuation emanating from 128...
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Fall 2012
Over the past decade improvements in semiconductor technology have led to faster power electronic switches with higher ratings. These devices have been used to improve the performance of various power converter systems. In particular, the Voltage Source Converter (VSC) has been widely used in...
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Spring 2016
In this work we address the challenges arising when developing, testing and deploying software for Wireless Sensor Networks. We investigate both pre-deployment software design, as well as efficient post-deployment updates. We present a combined pre-deployment framework that simulates the network...
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Advanced quantitative techniques to enhance heavy and civil construction information modeling
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Site development in heavy and civil construction need to consider many rules such as ensuring proper drainage, prevention of flood, safety driving, optimizing earthwork, minimizing fleet travel distances, proper fleet matching and achieving high equipment utilization rates. In recent decades,...
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An experimental investigation of the impact of fat taxes: Price effects, food stigma, and information effects on economic instruments to improve dietary health
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This thesis investigates how a tax and warning label on less healthy snack food products may affect consumer behaviour when the imposition of the tax is a source of consumer information. A survey that included choice experiments was implemented in supermarkets. Participants were asked to choose...
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An Interactive 3D Visualization Tool to Analyze the Functionality of Convolutional Neural Networks
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Convolutional Neural Networks have outperformed traditional image processing approaches for many image classification tasks. However, despite achieving high classification accuracy on multiple datasets, these machine learning approaches are not transparent and act more like a black box. For this...
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Spring 2016
The Smart-Condo™ project investigates how technology can be used to unobtrusively observe and support seniors to live independently in their homes longer. Sensors embedded in the environment react to the people’s daily-living activities and the recorded readings are analyzed to recognize these...
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Spring 2013
Global kinetic model for a Pt-Pd diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) is proposed and validated. Experimental data was obtained using different concentrations of the artificial gas mixtures which were passed over a bimetallic catalyst. Previous works of Voltz [1], Pandya [2], Sola [3] and many others...
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An open-source two-phase non-isothermal mathematical model of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell
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A comprehensive open-source two-phase non-isothermal MEA model including the microporous layer and accounting for multi-step reaction kinetics for the ORR and HOR is developed for the first time. The model is integrated into openFCST, an open-source FEM based fuel cell simulation framework. All...