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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
- 1Gertsberg, Vladimir.
- 1Jewison, Timothy
- 1Normandeau, Christopher M.
- 1Sarabchi, Saeed
- 1Wang, Andong
- 1Wu, Lengdong
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Spring 2016
While the World Wide Web has always been treated as an immense source of data, most information it provides is usually deemed unstructured and sometimes ambiguous, which in turn makes it unreliable. But the web also contains a relatively large number of structured data in the form of tables,...
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Fall 2015
There is a concern that brain tumours are underreported in the Alberta Cancer Registry (ACR), yet no studies have been performed to investigate this issue. This study addresses the concern of underreporting of brain tumours in the ACR by assessing case ascertainment of primary brain tumours cases...
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Spring 2014
Metabolomics involves the high throughput characterization of small molecules or metabolites in cells, tissues and organisms. To interpret, store and exchange metabolomic data it is necessary to have comprehensive, electronically accessible databases that can be used to handle both the...
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Spring 2020
The web contains a large volume of tables that provide structured information about entities and relationships. This data may be used as a source for exploratory searches and to gather information about desired entities. This thesis focuses on one particular exploratory search where given a query...
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Spring 2016
Set expansion aims at expanding a given query seed set into a larger and more complete set by adding elements that are likely to belong to the same grouping as the elements of the query set. This thesis studies the problem of efficient set expansion; in particular, given a collection of data...
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Fall 2016
Big data applications demand and consequently lead to developments of diverse scalable data management systems, ranging from NoSQL systems to the emerging NewSQL systems. In order to serve thousands of applications and their huge amounts of data, data management systems must be capable of...