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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 2018
The objective of this work is to study the problems that arise in state estimation for severely nonlinear systems. In practice, many processes are nonlinear, accompanied by uncertain parameters. The complexity of the model causes the probability density function (PDF) of the states to deviate...
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Fall 2022
Dynamic tumour-tracked radiotherapy is a promising method for delivering conformal doses to tumours that exhibit a large degree of motion as a result of patient respiration. However, there exists an inevitable latency between the acquisition of an image of a moving tumour and the adaptation of...
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Ensembling Diverse Policies Improves Generalization of Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms to Environmental Changes in Continuous Control Tasks
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Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms have shown great success in solving continuous control tasks. However, they often struggle to generalize to changes in the environment. Although retraining may help policies adapt to changes, it may be quite costly in some environments. Ensemble...
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Enteral diet and necrotizing enterocolitis in neonates: a scoping review and parent outcome prioritization project
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Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a potentially life-threatening inflammatory disease of the gut affecting newborns, especially preterm infants. This complex disease is affected by numerous risk factors including genetics, intestinal microbiota, immune system responses, cardiac or respiratory...
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Entheogen-Assisted Self-Transcendence & Psychospiritual Development: A Study of Positive Psychedelic Drug Use
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This dissertation examined the relationship between psychedelic-facilitated self-transcendent experiences and positive adult development. Although anthropologists note that humans have an extensive history of using these psychoactive substances to induce transformative states for beneficial...
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Entities and the expression of grounding and referential coherence in Northern Pwo Karen narrative discourse
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Northern Pwo Karen (N. Pwo), an under-described, isolating Tibeto-Burman language of northern Thailand, makes extensive use of clausal nominalizations in narrative discourse. Furthermore, the language has preserved a split-ergative system, based on person, in its personal pronouns. In this...
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Entitlement, Victimhood, and Hate: A Digital Ethnography of the Canadian Right-Wing Social Media Landscape
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This dissertation is, at its core, an interrogation of white masculinity in Canada’s right-wing spaces. While my interlocutors spent a great deal of time discussing others, namely immigrants, globalist elites, and feminists, through their discourse, they revealed a lot more about themselves and...
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Spring 2010
As the volume of data on the Web or in databases increases, data integration is becoming more expensive and challenging than ever before. One of the challenges is entity resolution when integrating data from different sources. References with different representations but referring to the same...