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- 2Cortini, Francesco
- 2Deng, Jian
- 2Dias de Andrade Silva, Raiany
- 2Echiverri, Laureen F. I.
- 2Feng, Han
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Spring 2013
In this thesis we study operator ideals on ordered Banach spaces such as Banach lattices, $C^*$-algebras, and noncommutative function spaces. The first part of this work is concerned with the domination problem: the relationship between order and algebraic ideals of operators. Fremlin, Dodds and...
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A Bayesian Joint Model Framework for Repeated Matrix-Variate Regression with Measurement Error Correction
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In this thesis, with the purpose of correcting for potential measurement errors in repeatedly-observed matrix-valued surrogates, and examining the underlying association between latent matrix covariates and a binary response, we propose a Bayesian joint model framework. This joint model method...
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A century of landscape change in the southern Rocky Mountains and Foothills of Alberta: Using historical photography to quantify ecological change
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Throughout the Rocky Mountain regions of North America fire regimes have been altered towards longer fire return intervals in the 20th century as compared to the 18th and 19th centuries; this has been accompanied by losses of grassland and open canopy woodlands due to encroachment by closed...
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A comparison of coarse woody debris in post-harvest and post-fire island remnants a decade after disturbance in northern Alberta
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Retention forestry is the practice of retaining forest structure within cut-blocks at harvest sites and is practiced widely throughout the world. Although retention practices are modelled on the propensity for fires to leave behind a variety of biological legacies or structural elements, the...
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A comparison of residual tree mortality in forest island remnants following wildfire and harvest
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As forested ecosystems are put under compounding stresses due to the effects of climate change and demand for resources, forest managers must develop innovative ways to utilize natural resources in less-impactful ways. In the boreal forests of Alberta, Ecosystem Based Forest Management (EBFM) is...
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Spring 2014
We introduce two kinds of particle filters, one is weighted particle filter and the other is resampling particle filter. We prove the Strong Law of Large Numbers and Central Limit Theorem for both particle filters. Then, we show that the resampling particle filter is better than the weighted one.