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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A Near-Optimal and Efficiently Parallelizable Detector for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Wireless Systems
DownloadSpring 2012
Broadband Wireless Communications and Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems have been the focus of much research over the past decade. A variety of MIMO detection algorithms have been proposed for detecting the data signals from the multiple received and demodulated baseband signals....
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A Needs Assessment of the Educational Needs of Child Care Educators in the Promotion of Healthy Eating in the Child Care Setting
DownloadSpring 2018
Child care utilization in Canada has increased dramatically in the last two decades. Child care centres provide opportunities for the promotion of healthy eating habits among a great number of young children. Child care educators play a major part in the promotion of healthy eating and behaviour...
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A Neural Network approach to Automated Essay Scoring: A Comparison with the Method of Integrating Deep Language Features using Coh-Metrix
DownloadFall 2018
Automated essay scoring (AES) has emerged as a secondary or as a sole marker for many high-stakes educational assessments due to remarkable advances in feature engineering using natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning algorithms. The purpose of the study was to compare...
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Spring 2021
With the booming development of the Internet, the amount of data stored in databases are enormously growing. Databases retrieve relevant information in response to users’ queries; the retrieved information is encoded in dynamically generated by databases in the form of structured data records. As...