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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
- 84Machine learning
- 6Artificial intelligence
- 4Reinforcement learning
- 3Data mining
- 3Game theory
- 3Natural language processing
- 2White, Martha
- 1Adegun, Ibironke
- 1Afaghi, Mohammad
- 1Ajallooeian, Mohammad Mahdi
- 1Alinezhad, Haniyeh Seyed
- 1Allen, Felicity R
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Spring 2019
Walking is a locomotor task that integrates information from all over the nervous system. The lumbosacral spinal cord houses neural networks that contribute to locomotion. These networks dominate locomotor activity during development and may provide suitable targets for restoring function after...
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Spring 2022
Processing of complex feedstocks for the production of value-added chemicals and fuels is industrially important. The lack of a priori knowledge of the innumerable species and the reaction pathways governing their conversion, has posed challenges to monitoring these processes. Although,...
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Spring 2023
The overall goal of this work was to design an intelligent method to reduce the cognitive and physical burdens associated with walking using lower-limb exoskeletons after paralysis. Lower-limb exoskeletons with many operating modes (i.e., walking patterns) can be challenging to work with....
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Methodologies in Mechanistic and Machine Learning Modelling of Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Wastewater Treatment Processes
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Nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent greenhouse gas, significantly contributes to the carbon footprint of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), with a global warming potential 300 times that of CO2 and also notorious for its ozone-depleting effect. Modelling can be a valuable alternative to...
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Fall 2012
This thesis provides a description of the cardiac rhythm as a latent chain of heart sound arrivals which occur over time, where each arrival generates a fixed window of observable data that can be described with arbitrary feature functions. This description of the process produces tractable...
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Spring 2022
Two-thirds of the world population faces severe water stress at least once per month in a year. The rapidly growing population exacerbates freshwater scarcity. Additionally, climate change, pollution, and bio-energy demands amplify the water demand problem. Since a large percentage of freshwater...
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Spring 2024
Modern industries are increasingly embracing complex, large-scale processes with interconnected units for their economic benefits. The increasing scale of industrial processes and the complexity of unit interactions substantially complicate the development of advanced process control systems....
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Spring 2014
Each patient with Type-1 diabetes must decide how much insulin to inject before each meal to maintain an acceptable level of blood glucose. The actual injection dose is based on a formula that takes current blood glucose level and the meal size into consideration. While following this insulin...
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Spring 2016
Ideal agent behaviour in multiagent environments depends on the behaviour of other agents. Consequently, acting to maximize utility is challenging since an agent must gather and exploit knowledge about how the other (potentially adaptive) agents behave. In this thesis, we investigate how an...