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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
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Fall 2013
This thesis proposes and evaluates methods to improve two algorithmic ap- proaches for Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering. These new methods in- crease the scalability and speed of the traditional Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering algorithm without using any approximations. The first...
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Efficient algorithms for least squares wave equation migration and source signature estimation
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Estimating accurate images of the subsurface is one of the end products of seismic data processing. Numerical solutions to the wave equation allow designing linearized forward operators. The adjoint of the linearized forward operator is used to image the interior of the earth. The adjoint...
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Fall 2010
The Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have emerged as a new paradigm for collecting and processing data from physical environments, such as wild life sanctuaries, large warehouses, and battlefields. Users can access sensor data by issuing queries over the network, e.g., to find what are the 10...
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Fall 2023
The presence of control-flow divergence in loops can either hinder or impede auto-vectorization as a compiler transformation to exploit parallelism enabled by Single-Instruction Multiple-Data (SIMD) instructions. A solution is to linearize control flow through the use of predicated execution....
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Fall 2014
The modelling of the electrical activity in cardiac tissue can enable researchers to study heart phenomena such as arrhythmias which are difficult to observe in vivo. However, the nature of the mathematical equations used to represent these behaviors present multiple numerical difficulties which...
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Efficient data acquisition, transmission and post-processing for quality spiral Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Spiral Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has traditionally presented more technical and computational challenges compared to its traditional Cartesian counterpart, notably a susceptibility to blurring artifacts, especially when scan parameters are non-optimal, and a heavier computational load both...