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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Fall 2018
Real-time simulation of biomechanical models has provided exciting potential for improving the outcomes of some medical interventions by allowing clinicians to visualize the displacements and strains of biomechanical tissues in real-time during the intervention. Through real-time visualization,...
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Fall 2019
Derived from Doll’s (1993) seminal conceptualization of a post-modern curriculum with the criteria of 4Rs (i.e., richness, relations, recursion and rigor), the present research continues the effort to complexify and theorize recursion and recursive curriculum. This study re-conceptualizes...
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Fall 2021
This thesis proposes novel algorithmic ideas in reinforcement learning for regret minimization. These algorithmic ideas enjoy nice theoretical guarantees and are more practical in large problems than their alternatives. We focus on finite-horizon episodic RL. We propose model-based and model-free...
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Towards superior cancer drugs by modeling approaches: Modification and prediction of the mode of action
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Cancer is a leading cause of death that imposes significant economic and social suffering on a global scale. Based on the projected growth and ageing of populations, the global burden of cancer is set to increase. Despite the vast investment in cancer research, the rate of translation of research...
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Towards Supervisory Control for Remote Mobile Manipulation: Designing, Building, and Testing a Mobile Telemanipulation Test-Bed
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This dissertation has two main contributions, a modular design of a mobile manipulator and a set of tele-operation performance experiments using this platform. To experimentally evaluate system performance and operator preferences, several tests were designed: 1) Which robot camera placement...
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Fall 2020
In this thesis, the challenges involved with large-scale Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) 3-dimensional (3D) printing is explored through an industrial application in which a cantilever chair is produced as a case study. The chair is designed in SOLIDWORKS® in which easy variability and complex...
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Fall 2015
Steel has traditionally been used as the material of choice for concrete reinforcement, due in part to its combination of high strength, stiffness, and ductility. However, steel rebar is susceptible to corrosion when exposed to moisture and salts, which can lead to delamination between the steel...