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Fall 2022
Gonzalez Mariscal, Rafael De Jesus
Slender masonry walls are often found in school gymnasiums, warehouses and other low-rise buildings. According to current North American masonry design standards, a slender wall is defined to have a height-to-thickness ratio of 30 or greater. These walls must satisfy several stringent...
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Virtual Reality-based Human Factor Analyses for Ergonomic Improvements in Construction Manufacturing Facilities
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Dias Ferreira Barkokébas, Regina Celi
In construction manufacturing, components (e.g., panels or modules) are produced in a factory environment before being transported and installed in a construction site. In this context, two distinct operational phases are observed: factory, accounting for 60%–90% of the tasks that would typically...
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Fall 2022
For many, the pursuit of a healthy romantic and sexual relationship is a significant component of their lives. However, the use of satisfaction measures may not be sufficient to capture and understand the underlying factors and nuances that govern sexual well-being. The strong relationality model...
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Fall 2022
Matrix multiplication is a key operation both in high-performance computing and in deep-learning applications. Generic building blocks have been introduced to abstract a matrix-multiplication operation and to enable the generation of efficient code for multiple architectures. This thesis presents...
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Fall 2022
OpenSpiel is an open-source software system for implementing high-performance software players for many different computer games. Hex is a two-player game of perfect information used in a variety of computer games research projects. The OpenSpiel project has implemented a version of the AlphaZero...
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« The women folk often helped »: La conception inéquitable de la citoyenneté dans les manuels d’études sociales albertains de la première moitié du 20e siècle
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The teaching of Canadian history has been a source of contention over the past century, particularly regarding the place of minorities in the nation’s narrative and cultural identity. In early 20th-century Alberta, history education was driven by male-authored textbooks which were used to...
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Biological soil crusts in Alberta’s grasslands: increasing our knowledge of their taxonomy, diversity, and sensitivity to drought and defoliation
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Biological soil crusts (BSCs) play a central role in the biodiversity, health, resilience, and function of drylands like Alberta’s grasslands. In Alberta, much of the biocrust cover consists of lichens, and many crusts are dominated by species of Cladonia. Despite the drought-resistant nature of...
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Atomistic Approach towards Sodium Citrate Role on Surface Properties of Silica and Clay Minerals
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The use of sodium citrate as a secondary processing aid in combination with caustic significantly improved bitumen recovery, specifically in poor oil sands ores. The role of sodium citrate on wettability alteration of solid surfaces, benefiting bitumen liberation as well as improving bitumen...
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Fall 2022
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is becoming a popular tool to quantify environmental impacts including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Because of the high number of assumptions and low quality of available data, the results of LCA are often viewed with skepticism. It is common for studies to provide...
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Fall 2022
ABSTRACT Benzene is a priority contaminant that is commonly coincident with fossil fuel entities, whether natural or anthropogenic, and is characterized by high mobility and toxicity. In Alberta, Canada, where oil and gas production comprises much of the provincial industrial output,...