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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
- 2Arefi, Afshin
- 2Bagheri, Pooya
- 2Banerjee, Bitan
- 2Barczyk, Martin
- 2Barth, Stuart E
- 2Behnam Dehkordi, Mohammad
- 22Machine Learning
- 16Glancing angle deposition
- 15Wireless communication systems.
- 13Deep Learning
- 13Nanotechnology
- 13Optimization
- 21Musilek, Petr (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 21Reformat, Marek (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 21Tellambura, Chintha (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 20Chen, Tongwen (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 20Li, Yunwei (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 19Ardakani, Masoud (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
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Sensor-Based In-situ Process Control of Robotic Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing Integrated with Machine Learning
DownloadSpring 2023
Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) is a manufacturing technology that has the capability to fabricate a large-scale metallic part in a layer-by-layer fashion. It is receiving significant attention from many industries as a viable method of manufacturing as it has a high deposition rate,...
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Separating-Plane Factorization Models: Scalable Recommendation from One-class Implicit Feedback
DownloadFall 2016
We study the large-scale video recommendation problem based on user viewing logs instead of explicit ratings. As viewing records are implicitly positive samples, existing matrix factorization methods fail to generate discriminative recommendations based on such one-class data. We propose a...
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Sequence-based prediction and characterization of disorder-to-order transitioning binding sites in proteins
DownloadSpring 2012
Molecular Recognition Feature (MoRF) regions are disordered binding sites that become structured upon binding. MoRFs are implicated in important biological processes, including signaling and regulation. However, only a limited number of experimentally validated MoRFs is known, which motivates...
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Fall 2014
The pairing of implantable micro-electrode arrays with micro-electronic devices allows the observation of neural activity within nervous systems in a more comprehensive and potentially more effective way compared to single electrode recording. State-of-the-art tethered recording systems use...
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Fall 2024
Fiber optics is the only infrastructure capable of handling the large data traffic in the backend of many modern communication systems. However, the higher growth rate of data traffic compared to that of fiber system capacity raises significant concerns about meeting future demands. Recognizing...
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Spring 2013
In recent years compressive sampling (CS) has appeared in the signal processing literature as a legitimate contender for processing of sparse signals. Natural signals such as speech, image and video are compressible. In most signal processing systems dealing with these signals the signal is first...
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Fall 2012
The ground penetrating radar (GPR) and through-wall radar detect and identify a target, by transmitting electromagnetic signals and processing the reflected signal. Migration had been a common method used in radar signal processing to obtain geophysical images and sketch the reflected data in the...
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Spring 2011
The field of plasmonics has offered the promise to combine electronics and photonics at the nanometer scale for ultrafast information processing speeds and compact integration of devices. Various plasmonic waveguide schemes were proposed with the potential to achieve switching functionalities and...
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Silicon Photonic Multi-analyte Sensing System and Surface Plasmon Enhanced Chirality Detection
DownloadSpring 2017
Optical sensing and measurement technology provides one of the most accurate tools for detecting and characterizing materials. They are robust, can provide a rich amount of information about the analytes, and are amenable to miniaturization and large-scale integration on a chip for certain...
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Fall 2011
Alarm floods are a crucial problem in the process industry. An alarm flood makes it difficult for an operator to react and take necessary actions, which often can lead to risking an emergency shutdown or a major upset. In many cases, alarm floods are caused by interrelated process variables,...