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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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Emergence and Refinement of Respiratory Chest Wall Intermuscular Coherence Associated with Speech and Non-Speech Tasks in Younger and Older Children
DownloadSpring 2018
Introduction: There is limited information about the development of chest wall muscular control of lung volume and alveolar pressure for non-speech and speech tasks. The present study was the first in a series of studies aimed at achieving an in-depth understanding of intermuscular coherence of...
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Emergence of wordlikeness in the mental lexicon: Language, population, and task effects in visual word recognition
DownloadFall 2013
Various aspects of our higher-level cognition affect the buttom-up information uptake in perception of objects, faces, and scenes. Such interplay between new information and existing information in our memory can be seen also in rapid visual word recognition. Lexical processing architectures...
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EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PROCESS FLOW IMPROVEMENT BASED ON EFFICIENT ARCHITECTURAL LAYOUT, LEAN CONCEPT AND POST-LEAN SIMULATION
DownloadSpring 2012
Long waiting times in Emergency Departments (ED) have been an issue in Canadian hospitals for years. Many factors have contributed to the excessive waiting time, including the current design scheme which is known architecturally as the “Funnel Design Scheme.” Current architectural and...
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Fall 2012
We present three articles written to satisfy the requirements for the Ph.D. degree in Operations and Information Systems: The first is focused on the use of a bidimensional Markov model to compute the expected performance of an ambulance system using dynamic ambulance repositioning based on the...
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Fall 2017
In North America, opera constitutes both an art form and an industry. Because companies rely on philanthropy and ticket revenues, they respond to a mass audience among the public at large, and yet granting agencies’ and critics’ influence suggests restricted circulation and in some ways a “high”...
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Fall 2020
This dissertation investigates the properties of representations learned by modern deep reinforcement learning systems. Representation learning plays an important roll in reinforcement learning. A representation contains information extracted from states---the description of the current situation...