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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 2010
Bitumen froth from oil sands extraction typically contains 60 wt.% bitumen, 30 wt.% water, and 10 wt.% solids. To meet downstream process specifications, the water and solids in bitumen froth have to be removed. The objective of this study is to identify the source of the water reporting to the...
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1989
Masters thesis. Describes and documents patterns of ringed seal (Phoca hispida) distribution in the southeast Beaufort Sea during the open water period. Data were collected during aerial surveys over the southeast Beaufort Sea in late August and September 1982, 1984-86.
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Spring 2013
Utility companies have benefited from the use of condition monitoring to optimize the performance of their assets and enhance power system reliability. This thesis starts with a review of different applications of condition monitoring in a distribution system, and one of the findings is that...
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Distribution, biodiversity, and function of glass sponge reefs in the Hecate Strait, British Columbia, Canada
DownloadSpring 2018
Reefs of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) off western Canada were recently established as a marine protected area (MPA), however effective management and monitoring of this MPA is hindered by a lack of baseline data about reef distributions and biodiversity. MPA boundaries were...
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Spring 2019
In this thesis we introduce a new loss for regression, the Histogram Loss. There is some evidence that, in the problem of sequential decision making, estimating the full distribution of return offers a considerable gain in performance, even though only the mean of that distribution is used in...