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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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Spring 2022
Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) is a well-known NP-complete problem. Despite the theoretical hardness of SAT, backtracking search based Conflict Directed ClauseLearning (CDCL) SAT solvers can solve very large real-world SAT instances with surprising efficiency. The high efficiency of CDCL SAT...
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Fall 2014
Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is a powerful signal analysis technique to analyze non-stationary signal systems, like seismic data. Through the sifting process, EMD splits the non-stationary features of the input signal into individual decomposition modes, which are called intrinsic mode...
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Empirical validation of closed population abundance estimates and spatially explicit density estimates using a censused population of North American red squirrels
DownloadSpring 2014
Capture-mark-recapture (CMR) data is widely used to estimate a range of population parameters including abundance and density. Closed population estimators have gained wide acceptance and have become increasingly sophisticated. More recently, spatially explicit capture-recapture (SECR) models...
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Empirically Driven Investigation of Dependability and Security Issues in Internet-Centric Systems
DownloadSpring 2010
The Web, being the most popular component of the Internet, has been transformed from a static information-serving medium into a fully interactive platform. This platform has been used by developers to create web applications rivaling traditional desktop systems. Designing, developing and...
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Employability Skill Development in Higher Education: Students’ and Faculty Members’ Perspectives
DownloadFall 2020
Employability is one’s ability to obtain and maintain employment, and employability skills are the skills that support this goal, such as working with others and communication. Government, employers, and students expect higher education institutions to prepare graduates for the world of work....