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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On Organic Liquid Crystal Transfer from Bitumen-Rich to Water-Rich Phases: A Combined Laboratory and SAGD Field Study
DownloadSpring 2014
Hydrocarbon-based liquid-crystal domains were observed in unreacted heavy fractions extracted from Athabasca bitumen and bitumen derived hydrocarbon resource fractions. Transfer of these organic crystalline domains to the water-rich phase during SAGD production is explored here because there...
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Fall 2016
In this thesis, we are focusing on developing an efficient simulation algorithm to price the path-dependent options, which remains a challenging problem in derivatives finance. The Heston model, a widely used stochastic volatility model, will first be introduced. Then, we will discuss and...
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On Policy Decisions of Polymorphic Inline Caches in Dynamically-Typed Language Implementations
DownloadFall 2023
Dynamically-typed languages running on Virtual Machines (VMs) are commonly used, but the lack of explicit type information poses a challenge to producing efficient code. In general, without type annotations, it is impossible to statically infer an object's type to determine which methods to...
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Fall 2012
In this thesis, we develop a novel method of generating CAPTCHAs, which are used to protect online resources from abuse by computer agents. We view CAPTCHA generation as random field simulation and construct a CAPTCHA by evolving an initial state via resimulating pixels until the image becomes...