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
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Spring 2014
Seetharaman Srinivasan, Praveen Raj
Recent studies have reported high rates of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection and gastric disease in the remote community of Aklavik (NWT) as compared with urban centers in Alberta. Current therapies fail to eradicate 20-25% of H. pylori infections, which may be related to antimicrobial...
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USING PHOTOGRAMMETRY TO ANALYZE THE MORPHOLOGY, TAPHONOMY, AND SEDIMENT DEFORMATION OF BRASILICHNIUM TRACKWAYS ON A SLOPING SAND DUNE FROM THE NAVAJO FORMATION
DownloadFall 2023
The ichnogenus Brasilichnium is widely distributed locally and is found stratigraphically on eolian sediments of the same western erg system of the Early Jurassic period. Exceptionally wellpreserved synapsid trackways of Brasilichnium were discovered by researchers from the National Park Service...
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Using plain forms but still being polite: speech style shifting as an interactional phenomenon in Japanese native and non-native talk
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The Japanese language is known for its various styles of speech, conditioned by factors such as social status, formality, and gender. When a speaker switches between the speech styles within the same talk targeted at the same recipient, such a phenomenon is called speech style shifting...
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Using primary care electronic medical record data to establish a case definition and describe the burden of young-adult onset metabolic syndrome in Northern Alberta
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Background: There is little evidence on the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in the younger adult Canadian population. Moreover, MetS is even less studied within the primary care setting due to multiple barriers including difficulty for providers to identify patients given the multitude of...
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Spring 2021
This dissertation demonstrates how to utilize data collected previously from different sources to facilitate learning and inference for a target task. Learning from scratch for a target task or environment can be expensive and time-consuming. To address this problem, we make three contributions...
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Spring 2016
Game theoretic solution concepts, such as Nash equilibrium strategies that are optimal against worst case opponents, provide guidance in finding desirable autonomous agent behaviour. In particular, we wish to approximate solutions to complex, dynamic tasks, such as negotiation or bidding in...
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Fall 2015
Extensive-form games are a powerful framework for modeling sequential multi-agent interactions. In extensive-form games with imperfect information, Nash equilibria are generally used as a solution concept, but computing a Nash equilibrium can be intractable in large games. Instead, a variety of...
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Spring 2020
Water is a resource crucial for the survival and growth of trees. Understanding water relations and how changes in water availability may affect the growth and survival of trees across spatial and temporal scales is critical to gain insights in the future of forests. Sap flow sensors allow...
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Spring 2019
Online advertising is one of the most lucrative forms of advertising, with digital ad-spending expected to reach $83 billion in 2017, making it one of the most important channels of advertising media. Contextual Advertising is a type of online display advertising that takes cues from the content...