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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
- 2Ma, Angela
- 2Wang, Yue
- 2Wong, Andy
- 1Abbas-Tehrani, Hesam
- 1Abdelghani, Mohammad
- 1Abdelrahman, Ali Satti Abdellatif
- 96Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 74Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- 71Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 66Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 58Department of Computing Science
- 48Department of Biological Sciences
- 5Khazaei, Hamzeh (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 5Liu, Qingxia (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 5Reformat, Marek (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 4Ahmad, Rafiq (Mechanical Engineering)
- 4Bayne, Erin (Biological Sciences)
- 4Beier, Nicholas (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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Application of Magnetic Techniques in Albertan Oil Sands Cores For Improved Reservoir Characterization
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This study assessed some novel techniques to improve oil sand reservoir characterization. The main focus was on high resolution, non-destructive, low field probe volume magnetic susceptibility measurements on slabbed core from 3 oil sands wells in northern Alberta. The results demonstrated that...
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Spring 2021
Approximately 70% of the cost of beef production is impacted by dietary intake. Maximizing production efficiency of beef cattle requires not only genetic selection to maximize feed efficiency (i.e. residual feed intake - RFI), but also adequate nutrition throughout all stages of growth and...
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Application of Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval in Two Software Engineering Tools
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Many software engineering problems have traditionally been approached by applying techniques based on static analysis and fixed sets of rules. I created two novel techniques to tackle three software engineering problems: typo location, fix suggestion, and crash report bucket creation. However,...
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Application of non-linear modelling to efficiency and nutrient partitioning in broilers and broiler breeders
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DesLauriers, Airell Grayson Camille
Nutritive values of feedstuffs used in broiler rations vary significantly. Corn and wheat are theprimary energy sources in many broiler diets, depending on geographical availability. As feed is a largeproportion of live production costs, broiler operations may decrease diet nutrient density to...
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Spring 2021
This thesis applies computer vision and machine learning techniques to three engineering projects: a self-driving vehicle, a predictive display system, and a vision-based robot manipulator joint detector. In the first project, we build a remote-controlled car and implement three core self-driving...
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Fall 2021
Computed Tomography Perfusion (CTP) is a rapidly acquired minimally invasive mean to assess brain perfusion dynamics, collaterals and infarct growth in acute ischemic stroke (AIS). It helps differentiate expected stroke evolution and speed of core growth after arterial occlusion. The goals of...
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Fall 2021
As a key infrastructure of constructing the Internet of Things, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have attracted plenty of research interest. It is expected to be widely applied in almost every aspect of future life. Nowadays, some preliminary applications and prototypes have emerged in various...
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Approximation Algorithms for Throughput Maximization, Resource Minimization for Fire Containment and Hierarchical Clustering
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In this thesis, we present a variety of approximation algorithms for Resource Minimization for Fire Containment, Throughput Maximization, and Hierarchical Clustering.Resource Minimization Fire Containment (RMFC) is a natural model for optimal inhibition of harmful spreading phenomena on a graph....
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Approximation Schemes for Capacitated Vehicle Routing on Graphs of Bounded Treewidth, Bounded Doubling, or Highway Dimension
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In this thesis, we present Approximation Schemes for Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) on several classes of graphs. In CVRP, introduced by Dantzig and Ramser in 1959, we are given a graph G = (V,E) with metric edges costs, a depot r in V , and a vehicle of bounded capacity Q. The goal...
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Spring 2021
The atmospheric processing of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) leading to the formation and evolution of secondary organic aerosols (SOAs) is highly complex, involving “multiphase” chemistry occurring in the gas, particle, and aqueous phases (e.g., cloudwater, fog, aerosol liquid...