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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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...
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Fall 2021
This thesis is concerned with the experimental mechanics of brittle failure in advanced ceramics. It seeks to bridge global damage accumulation to local failure phenomena. Alumina serves as the primary model material. Other advanced ceramics (silicon carbide and boron carbide) and cermets are...
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Fall 2023
Distributed computing systems have been widely used in recent years to handle massive computations required by newly emerged machine learning algorithms and signal processing problems. Also, the use of error correction codes has been proposed to mitigate the negative impact of slow workers by...
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Fall 2015
The Busemann-Petty problem asks the following: if 𝐾,𝐿 ⊂ ℝⁿ are origin-symmetric convex bodies such that volₙ₋₁(𝐾 ∩ ξ^⊥)) ≤ volₙ₋₁(𝐿 ∩ ξ^⊥) ∀ ξ ∈ Sⁿ⁻¹, is it necessary that volₙ(𝐾) ≤ volₙ(𝐿)? This problem received a lot of attention, and many analogues have been considered. For origin-symmetric...