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Fall 2024
Table reasoning is a challenging task that requires understanding both natural language questions and structured tabular data. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in natural language understanding and generation, they often struggle with large tables due to their...
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Exploring Indigenous Community-Based Monitoring Programs in Alberta: Key Factors in Advancing Community Capacity-Building and Sovereignty
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Indigenous community-based monitoring (ICBM) has the potential to act as a vehicle for building capacity in the community - particularly amongst youth, creating culturally oriented jobs to strengthen intergenerational learning, and contributing information to environmental governance and...
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Fall 2024
This thesis empirically investigates the comparative ease of learning policies and heuristics for bidirectional versus unidirectional search in satisficing classical planning. Our research explores the potential advantages of bidirectional search in terms of learnability and efficiency of the...
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Perennial Forage Polycultures and Organic Amendments Drive Soil Carbon Sequestration and Organic Matter Stabilization: Results After 90 Years of Management at the Breton Plots
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Increasing agricultural intensification threatens to strain already degrading global soil resources while simultaneously escalating anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Loss of soil organic matter (SOM) from agroecosystems is a major cause of soil degradation and a source of considerable...
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Quantifying Uncertainty for In-situ Stress Estimates using Reservoir Geomechanical Pressuremeter
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Over the last two decades, several high-profile caprock performance issues, such as surface steam and fluid releases, have highlighted the importance of caprock integrity assessments and the critical role that robust determination of the initial in-situ stress tensor plays in these assessments....
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Fall 2024
The prevalence of virtual agents across various sectors has led to the emergence of virtual influencers on social media platforms as computer-generated alternatives to human social media influencers. Virtual influencers are not very different from their human counterparts. On social media...
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Fall 2024
Municipal solid waste (MSW) management presents a significant challenge, as current practices often lead to inefficiencies and substantial variability in waste processing. This variability contributes to increased downtime, reduced productivity, and higher operational costs. While previous...
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Exploring The Role and Experience of Academic Administrators in the Delivery of Experiential Education Programs in Undergraduate Professional Faculties
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While experiential learning is broadly emphasized and implemented in the university setting, there is a scholarship gap regarding the organizational dynamics that impact the academic leaders who are responsible for these programs’ implementation and ongoing support, as well as in how academic...
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Fall 2024
Much of the cattle production cycle in western Canada occurs while grazing on open-range pasture, in which cattle exhibit complex behavior. Among these behaviors is how cattle spend their time grazing, walking, and resting. While these metrics may help explain behavioral responses and associated...
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Dynamic Periodic Event-triggered Multi-agent Consensus Using Relative-state Measurements: A Hybrid System Approach
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Driven by technological advances in emerging fields such as autonomous vehicles, robots, and industrial internet-of-things, multi-agent systems (MASs) continue to be a prominent research area within Control Systems. Often, in practical applications, the agents employ information obtained from...