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Fall 2022
Machine learning has been used to solve single-agent search problems. One of its applications is to guide search algorithms by learning heuristics. However, it is difficult to provide guarantees on the quality of learning from a neural network, since the resulting heuristics can be inadmissible,...
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Spring 2014
Coach learning is a key component for developing quality coaches. While researchers have identified many ways that coaches learn, there is little agreement as to how coaches learn best. As a way of examining these discrepancies found in the research, this study’s aim was to explore how Canadian...
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Learning in simulation: theorizing Ricoeur in a study involving paramedics, pilots, and others
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The use of simulation is becoming increasingly important in the education of practitioners whose field of work contains a low tolerance for error. In aerospace, aviation, medicine, paramedicine, and the military, simulations are expected to provide working practitioners with “on demand”...
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Fall 2015
Virtual environments are inherently social spaces where user productivity and collaborative learning can take place. However, the majority of existing studies to date investigate common behaviours such as multi-tasking within traditional face-to-face learning environments. As part of a thesis...
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Optimal use of resources: classic foraging theory, satisficing and smart foraging – modelling foraging behaviors of elk
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It is generally accepted that the Marginal Value Theorem (MVT) describes optimal foraging strategies. Some research findings, however, indicate that in natural conditions foragers not always behave according to the MVT. To address this inconsistency, in a series of computer simulations, I...
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Reproduction and transmission of the winter tick, Dermacentor albipictus (Packard) in central Alberta
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Masters thesis. A two part study, involving a field and laboratory component, was developed to provide information on the reproductive performance and transmission of D. albipictus under field conditions and relate this information to the die-off of moose in Alberta.
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Spring 2020
Two-Player alternate-turn perfect-information zero-sum games have been suggested as a testbed for Artificial Intelligence research since Shannon in 1950s. In this thesis, we summarize and develop algorithms for this line of research. We focus on the game of Hex — a game created by Piet Hein in...
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Spatial Predation Risk and Interactions Within a Predator Community on the Rocky Mountains East Slopes, Alberta
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Understanding how large carnivores spatially partition the landscape is essential for understanding how they collectively pose risk to their prey. Most research on predation risk focuses on how prey respond to a single predator species, but prey respond to a community of predators. Additionally,...
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Succession, herbicides, forage nutrition and elk body condition at Mount St. Helens, Washington
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Concerns have been voiced over recent reductions in forest cutting, herbicide spraying, and past heavy grazing on nutritional resources for elk (Cervus elaphus) and their body condition in the Pacific Northwest. I evaluated the effects of herbicides and herbivory on elk forage in a paired,...