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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
- 1Adutwum, Lawrence A
- 1Alireza Kheradmand
- 1Boers, Nicholas M.
- 1Cakiroglu, Celal
- 1Casciaro, Yolanda
- 1Fedon S., Roberto J
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Fall 2012
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) measures the dynamic activity of each voxel of a brain. This dissertation addresses the challenge of learning a diagnostic classifier that uses a subject’s fMRI data to distinguish subjects with neuropsychiatric disorders from healthy controls. fMRI...
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Fall 2019
The growth of an organization in the market relies on customer’s satisfaction towards its products and services. Due to the dynamic nature of the internet, and increasing blogs, forums, and customer feedback, it usually remains a key issue in any industry to identify and extract data attributes...
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High-dimensional data mining: subspace clustering, outlier detection and applications to classification
DownloadSpring 2010
Data mining in high dimensionality almost inevitably faces the consequences of increasing sparsity and declining differentiation between points. This is problematic because we usually exploit these differences for approaches such as clustering and outlier detection. In addition, the exponentially...
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Fall 2010
In this dissertation, a hydrologic classification approach was tested using the shape factor of hydrographs to represent variation in streamflow regimes across Alberta. Hydrograph shape factor was effective at separating the forested landbase into 6 spatially distinct regions. Further statistical...
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Inferring Semantic Information from Websites: A View into Contextual Advertising and User Behavior Profiling
DownloadFall 2015
The World Wide Web has become an important platform for the execution of diverse types of human endeavor. There are billions of webpages covering different subjects and users with varied backgrounds on the web. Every day, colossal volumes of data are collected about the usage of websites....
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Integrated Classification of Cannabis Strains Marketed in Canada for Medical Purposes Based on Genetic, Chemical Profiles, and Morphological Traits
DownloadFall 2021
The vernacular naming convention commonly used by the cannabis community (“Sativa” and “Indica”) is inadequate for identifying or selecting strains for clinical research and medicinal production because they are arbitrary and inconsistent. In addition, they mostly contain tetrahydrocannabinol...
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Latent Class and Functional Data Analyses for the Investigation of Stiffness in Low Back Pain
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Low back pain (LBP) is known to be a prevalent, debilitating and costly condition, not to mention the difficulty clinicians have treating it. But progress has been made, as it has recently been shown that instrumented L3 indentation generates force-displacement (F-D) data that is associated with...
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Spring 2019
Predictive modeling has proven to be a valuable tool in process industry to estimate hard-to-measure variables that cannot be measured online. Those variables usually require LAB analysis to be quantified, which is time-consuming and costly. Predictive modeling can be used for both regression and...
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Navigating Protective Custody Classification: Examining the Lived Experiences of PC Inmates
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Classification systems in prisons have consequences in both formal and informal ways for inmates. Protective custody (PC) units are especially unique spaces in which traditionally the most vilified populations – informally often referred to as “skinners, rats, and scaredy cats” – have been...
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Spring 2020
During collaborative software development, developers often use branches to add features or fix bugs. When merging changes from two branches, conflicts may occur if the changes are inconsistent. Developers need to resolve these conflicts before completing the merge, which is an error-prone and...