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Finite Element-based Stress Intensity Factor Estimation for Fatigue Crack Growth Simulation and Stochastic Filtering-based Fatigue Crack Growth Prediction of Pipelines
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Fatigue cracking is one of the major integrity threats to oil and gas pipelines. Having a reliable trajectory of fatigue crack growth once detected is very crucial for decision making regarding integrity threat management. In-line Inspection (ILI) tools, and other non-destructive methods are used...
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Impact of Farming Practices on Soil Bacterial Community Composition, Diversity, and Interactions in the Main Agricultural Regions of Alberta
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Soil health refers to “the capacity of soil to function as a vital living system”, implying not only the capacity of soil to providing services of human interest, but also its capacity to provide ecological services, which makes ecosystems sustainable for the long term. The assessment of soil...
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Time Domain Principal Component Analysis for Rapid, Real-Time 2D MRI Reconstruction from Undersampled Data
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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....
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Spring 2022
Air pollution is a global issue which has an impact on various aspects of life with a vast range of pollutants being monitored with different methods. One class of pollutants is the volatile organic compounds and their presence in the air requires improved methods to accurately report the...
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Application of the IUMSS Methodology for the Standardization and Integration of Management Systems in University Research Laboratories
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Jaramillo Chavez, Renzo Wilfredo
The purpose of this research is to investigate alternatives for the integration of management systems standards requirements into a single management system (MS) for university research laboratories and compare the resulting MSs after standardization and integration against the initial MSs....
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Spring 2022
Montemayor Castillo, Eduardo I
Simultaneous Location and Mapping (SLAM) has been a well-pursued research area for computer vision and robotics. Robustness and performance are fields that address the efficiency of SLAM solutions. Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) promises to find a hyperparameter set that displays the lowest...
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Spring 2022
Maintenance decisions impact company's costs and profits in various ways. These decisions can be incurred as a part of everyday repairs or heavy replacements or as an investment in future asset or technology. Large corporations with physical assets have maintenance practices to ensure proper...
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A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Syrian Refugee Families with Children Living with Disabilities
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Children with disabilities are among the most at-risk groups for marginalization due to compounded disadvantages from the intersection of risk factors such as refugee status and disability status. Despite this high risk, there is no systematic data collected on this group and scant literature on...
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Multi-Objective Optimization of the Steam Alternating Solvent (SAS) Process using Pareto-based Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms
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The Steam Alternating Solvent (SAS) process is a relatively new auspicious alternative recovery process to produce heavy oil and bitumen resources. This process consists of injecting steam and solvent (i.e. propane) alternatively using the same well configuration as the widely adopted...
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Spring 2022
Fracture healing involves a fragile continuum from inflammation to repair and finally ends in bone reestablishment. Fractures that fail to heal progress to a state of nonunion, causing sub-stantial morbidity for the individual. Nonunion is one of the most serious complications of frac-ture. In an...