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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.
To retrieve all theses and dissertations associated with a specific department from the library catalogue, choose 'Advanced' and keyword search "university of alberta dept of english" OR "university of alberta department of english" (for example). Past graduates who wish to have their thesis or dissertation added to this collection can contact us at erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Items in this Collection
- 1Aftergood, Olivia SR
- 1Al Dallal, Ahmed
- 1Behsaz, Babak
- 1Berube, Paul N. J.
- 1Cheng, Hao
- 1Fokaefs, Marios-Eleftherios
- 10Department of Computing Science
- 5Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 3Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 1Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
- 1Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 1Department of Pharmacology
- 2Sander, Joerg (Computing Science)
- 1Ardakanian, Omid (Computing Science)
- 1Cockburn, Bruce (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Deutsch, Clayton (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 1Dick, Scott (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Flannigan, Mike D (Renewable Resources)
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Fall 2016
Survival data is mostly analyzed using Cox proportional hazards model to identify factors associated with survival time of patients. However recently random survival forest (RSF), a non-parametric method for ensemble estimation constructed by bagging of classification trees for survival data, is...
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Fall 2018
Identifying the peptide sequence from a mass spectrum is done either by database search or De novo peptide sequencing. This thesis focuses on identification of peptides by using database search, which is a process where an MS/MS spectrum is searched against an entire database of spectra...
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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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Fall 2021
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been recently seeing great success in various image classification fields and applications. However, this success has been accompanied by a significant increase in memory and computational demands, limiting their use in resource-limited devices, e.g.,...
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Spring 2018
This thesis addresses challenges in geostatistical analyses of multivariate geochemical data that commonly contain complexities that have a significant influence on geostatistical modeling and cluster analysis. For geostatistical modeling, the effect of the most common despiking methods is...
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Fall 2010
Software can be considered a live entity, as it undergoes many alterations throughout its lifecycle. Therefore, code can become rather complex and difficult to understand. More specifically in object-oriented systems, classes may become very large and less cohesive. In order to identify such...
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Identifying and analyzing spatial and temporal patterns of lightning-ignited wildfires in Western Canada from 1981-2018.
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This study looked at the spatial and temporal patterns of lightning-ignited wildfires in Western Canada from 1981 to 2018. Studying patterns of lightning fires over space and time can provide great insight into understanding, highlighting, and quantifying these sequences. This is of great...
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Input Space Partitioning and Other Heuristics for Minimizing the Number of Corner Simulations During Design Verification
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The continuing reduction in the feature sizes of the latest CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) technologies allow faster, more compact, and more energy-efficient integrated circuits (ICs). On the downside, the performance of each transistor becomes harder and harder to characterise...
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Fall 2018
Diabetes is a common metabolic disorder, which is characterized by peripheral insulin resistance and a relative insufficiency of insulin secretion from human pancreatic β-cells. Recent insights indicate that impaired insulin secretion is a key determining factor in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D)....
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Fall 2012
This thesis makes improvement to the process of ahead-of-time feedback-directed optimization (FDO) in compiler design. It examines multiple aspects of FDO from profile collection and representation through to the performance evaluation of FDO code transformations. Two guiding principals knit the...