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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Spring 2018
Decision-making problems with two agents can be modeled as two player games, and a Nash equilibrium is the basic solution concept describing good play in adversarial games. Computing this equilibrium solution for imperfect information games, where players have private, hidden information, is...
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Fall 2016
This thesis explores aspects of self-government in Délı̨nę, NT, Canada, a Sahtú Dene community of approximately 550 people. Délı̨nę’s Final Self Government Agreement (FSGA) was passed by the federal government of Canada in 2015, and the research for this thesis coincided with the beginning...
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Fall 2013
Wireless sensor networks have become a very important tool for monitoring physical and environmental conditions over a wide area. These networks are distributed collections of small sensor nodes. Typically, sensor nodes collect data that must converge to a single sink location, possibly across...
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Fall 2015
Providing service in cloud is a popular trend nowadays. Users request resources from a shared pool in a framework like Hadoop, and the Hadoop fair scheduler controls the progress of tasks from users. In cloud, usually multiple resource types are available. The heterogeneous user demands and...
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Time Domain Principal Component Analysis for Rapid, Real-Time 2D MRI Reconstruction from Undersampled Data
DownloadSpring 2022
Hybrid Linac-MR systems are becoming more mainstream for use in external beam radiotherapy treatments for cancer patients. The addition of an MR scanner to a linear accelerator (Linac) can allow for real-time structure tracking (such as a tumour) and on-the-fly adjustments of the radiation beam....