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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 2011
The current status of the disease of tuberculosis (TB) demands a rapid, simple and inexpensive point-of-care detection. This study reported the designing of an enzyme linked immunoassay that could detect the antigen lipoarabinomannan (LAM), found to be present in different body fluids of the...
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Designing an incentive program to reduce on-farm deforestation in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania
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This thesis is a set of two papers on the design of a ‘payment for ecosystem services’ (PES) program for the reduction of on-farm deforestation in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. The forests of this area are internationally recognized as one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems;...
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Fall 2021
Our world is changing from social, technical, cultural, inclusivity, environmental, risk tolerance equity, and global economic perspectives. We are transitioning to different ways of knowing and working. The societal expectations of engineers and professional engineering are changing. These...
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Spring 2022
Major blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum suffer from scalability issues. For instance, Bitcoin can handle up to about 7 transactions per second, whereas custodian payment networks such as Visa can handle tens of thousands of transactions per second. One of the promising solutions to scale...
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Fall 2015
The use of microalloyed steels have accelerated exponentially in the past few decades due to their better mechanical properties as compared to traditional carbon steel. One of the main factor that contribute to their high strength and toughness values is the presence of uniformly dispersed fine...
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Designing from Motivation: Exploring Large Scale Tagged Data Collection through Social Monetization Computing
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With the exponential growth of web image data, image tagging is becoming crucial in many image based applications such as object recognition and content-based image retrieval. However, despite the great progress achieved in automatic recognition technologies, none has yet provided a satisfactory...
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Fall 2012
This thesis describes a practice-based methodology in which an interdisciplinary team of computer scientists and musicians create, enact, and iteratively refine a series of technologically mediated participatory performances structured to investigate HCI research questions surrounding participant...
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Fall 2012
In this project we study the problem of wireless sensor network (WSN) node placement in a modelled environment. Although various optimal and sub-optimal techniques with different objectives and constraints such as maximizing coverage, network lifetime and reliable data transfer have previously...
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Designing Nanomedicines for Breast Cancer Therapy: New Synthetic lipopolymers and Optimization of siRNA Formulations against Therapeutic Targets
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In 2020, breast cancer became the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide. Conventional therapies like radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery have significant limitations and side effects that are mainly due to their inability to specifically target cancerous cells. Alternatively, gene therapy...