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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
- 477Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
- 2Department of Biological Sciences
- 2Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 1Department of Computing Science
- 1Department of Public Health Sciences
- 7Frei, Christoph (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences)
- 7Hillen, Thomas (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences)
- 7Kong, Linglong (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences)
- 7Lewis, Mark (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences)
- 6Han, Bin (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences)
- 6Kashlak, Adam (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences)
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Fall 2014
he main aim of this thesis lies in describing, as explicit as possible, the local-risk minimizing strategy for a change-point model. To this end, we analyze and investigate the mathematical structures of this model. The change-point model is a model that starts with a dynamic and switches to...
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Fall 2016
Ferrofluids are liquids with a magnetic colloid suspended by Brownian motion which become magnetized in the presence of an external magnetic field. They have recently garnered a lot of interest due to their wide range of applications in industry and biomedicine. For example, ferrofluids are used...
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Spring 2015
Piecewise affine functions as defined by Aliprantis and Tourky and denoted by the set S are those functions in C(R^m) that agree with a finite number of affine functions. In this thesis, we extend their study by introducing the set of locally piecewise affine functions denoted by S_lp. Unlike...
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Fall 2016
Little is known about Vertex Operator Algebras (VOAs) which are neither semi-simple nor rational, and most of the work on such VOAs has been focused around specific examples such as the Singlet VOA. In this thesis, the relationship between subcategories of the module categories of the Singlet VOA...
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Fall 2018
This thesis is about the theory of vertex operator algebras and their representations. Its main results provide new examples of logarithmic C2-cofinite vertex operator algebras. These include closure of the characters under modular transformations with explicit determination of the modular...
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Fall 2018
Functional brain connectivity plays an important role on understanding how human brain functions and neuropsychological diseases such as Autism, Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is one of the most...
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Fall 2013
When computing the essential dimension of an algebraic group G defined over a field k, finding lower bounds is generally a much more difficult problem than finding upper bounds. For simple algebraic groups G of adjoint type, Chernousov-Serre developed a general method for computing lower bounds...
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Fall 2018
Metastasis - the spread of cancer from a primary to a distant secondary location - is implicated in over 90% of all cancer related deaths. Despite its importance in patient outcome, a full understanding of the metastatic process remains elusive, largely because of the difficulty in studying the...