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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On Load-Sharing in the Lumbosacral Spine during Neutral Standing and Forward Flexion Postures: A Combined Finite Element and Musculoskeletal Study
DownloadSpring 2019
Understanding load-sharing in the spine during in-vivo conditions is critical for better spinal implant design and testing. Previous studies of load-sharing that considered detailed spinal geometry applied compressive Follower Load (FL), with or without moment, to simulate muscle forces. Other...
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Fall 2015
The nature and structure of asphaltene nanoaggregates are frequently the subject of debate and speculation in the literature. The continental asphaltene nano-aggregate model, characterized by the presence of alkyl chains on their surface, and the archipelago nano-aggregate model, characterized...
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Spring 2016
This thesis investigates efficient and robust estimators for binomial regression models. For this purpose, I have made use of two minimum distance estimation methods developed for discrete data, namely Minimum Hellinger Distance Estimation (MHDE) and Symmetric Chi-squared Distance Estimation...
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Fall 2013
In this thesis, two robust and efficient methods of estimation are examined in dose-response studies context. In particular, we investigate the minimum Hellinger distance estimation and symmetric chi-squared distance methods of estimation. We support our theoretical results with extensive finite...
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Fall 2011
The impact of mixing on diluted bitumen de-watering is studied in two stages using a fractional factorial design of experiments. The first stage evaluates the relative effects of bulk demulsifier dosage, local maximum energy dissipation, and mixing time. The second stage of experiments evaluates...
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Fall 2015
The cancellation of co-channel interference (CCI) is extremely vital in the nextgeneration wireless systems, where universal frequency reuse is commonly used to maximize the capacity. The implementation of CCI cancellation at the receivers instead of the transmitters minimizes the additional...
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On Multivariate Quantile Regression: Directional Approach and Application with Growth Charts
DownloadFall 2009
In this thesis, we introduce a concept of directional quantile envelopes, the intersection of the halfspaces determined by directional quantiles, and show that they allow for explicit probabilistic interpretation, compared to other multivariate quantile concepts. Directional quantile envelopes...