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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Spring 2022
A key problem in the theory of meta-learning is to understand how the task distributions influence transfer risk, the expected error of a meta-learner on a new task drawn from the unknown task distribution. In this work, focusing on fixed design linear regression with Gaussian noise and a...
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A Distribution System Harmonic Compensation Approach Using DG-grid Interfacing Converters at Low Switching Frequency
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In recent years, embedding ancillary functions of distributed generation (DG) have drawn great attention due to the increasing penetration of renewable energy based DG such as photovoltaic, wind turbines and fuel cells. Among these ancillary functions, harmonics compensation is becoming more...
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A Doctrinal and Law and Economics Justification of the Treatment of Women in Islamic Inheritance Laws
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several criticisms regarding the treatment of women in Islamic Inheritance Laws have stated that these laws are in favor of males. The most common claim is that women receive half the share of men in the Islamic inheritance system. This thesis examines this issue from legal and economic...
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Spring 2014
The plethora of research on ESL, L1, L2 and ethnography has left under-reported autoethnographies borrowing mathematics as a tool for thinking. In response to the multiplicity, this dissertation explores personal and academic experiences to expose my own development of an L2 learner, in...