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Fall 2016
Reliability estimation based on condition monitoring data contains two important parts: thresholding and probability density estimation. Thresholding is to determine a critical level of an indicator corresponding to the transition of system states. Probability density estimation is to estimate...
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Heat and Pressure Resistance of Escherichia coli and Its Inactivation In the Presence of Antimicrobial Compounds
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Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) are pathogens causing severe foodborne disease. E. coli AW1.7 is a heat resistant beef carcass isolate that may be used as a surrogate organism to study the survival of VTEC on food. This dissertation examines the heat and pressure resistance of E. coli and...
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Vibrational absorption, vibrational circular dichroism and theoretical studies of methyl lactate molecules in solution phase and in argon matrices
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The infrared vibrational absorption (VA) and vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectra of methyl lactate in carbon tetrachloride and methanol have been measured in the 1000-1800 cm-1 region. Noticeable changes due to the solute self-aggregation and solvent-solute intermolecular...
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Spring 2016
With the rapid development in visual sensors such as monocular vision, appearance-based robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has become an open research topic in robotics. In appearance SLAM, a robot uses the visual appearance of locations (i.e., the images) acquired along its route...
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Spring 2024
This thesis as a part of the University of Alberta Energy Management and Sustainable Operations (EMSO) program aims to design an intelligent management tool for the University of Alberta fleet vehicles to achieve the fuel consumption reduction, and driver behavior improvement. To achieve this...