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- 17Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of/Theses and Dissertations
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- 2Cockburn, Bruce F. (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 2Dinavahi, Venkata (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 2Gaudet, Vincent (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 2Hu, Yu (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
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Fall 2014
This thesis develops three major essays on Arbitrage Theory, Market’s Viabil- ity and Informational Markets. The first essay (Chapter 3) elaborates the exact connections among the No-Unbounded-Profit-with-Bounded-Risk (called NUPBR hereafter) condition, the existence of the numeraire portfolio,...
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Fall 2012
Single Event Upset has become an increasingly important issue for SRAM-based Field Programmable Gate Arrays. To mitigate these soft errors, most of existing works focused on utilizing logic-level flexibilities to improve circuit reliability. However, we notice that from an application's...
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Fall 2010
Sophisticated power electronic apparatus and their digital control systems are finding increasing applications in electric power systems at generation, transmission, distribution and utilization levels. It is essential to carry out rigorous performance evaluation of such apparatus before...
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Spring 2019
Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) has the potential to significantly reduce oxides of nitrogen NOx emissions, while maintaining a high fuel efficiency compared to existing lean-burn spark ignition engines. HCCI is characterized by compression induced autoignition of a lean...
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Linking occurrence and fitness to persistence: habitat-based approach for endangered greater sage-grouse
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Detailed empirical models predicting both species occurrence and fitness across a landscape are necessary to understand processes related to population persistence. Failure to consider both occurrence and fitness may result in incorrect assessments of habitat importance leading to inappropriate...
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Spring 2013
A major barrier to reclamation after oil sands mining is lack of commercially available, diverse native plant seeds and propagules for revegetation. Potential of LFH (forest floor material) developed on coarse textured soil for establishing native plants and how salvage, placement and storage...
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Real-Time Electromagnetic Transient Hardware Emulation of Multi-Terminal High Voltage DC Grid
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New high voltage DC (HVDC) transmission projects are being increasingly operated globally, which can be developed into multi-terminal DC (MTDC) grid interconnecting the conventional AC grid and the off-shore renewable energy power plants. Among various power converter topologies, modular...
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Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop Emulation of Electric Machines for Electrified Transportation Systems
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Design and prototyping of electric power components and systems employing off-line transient simulation tools are inefficient due to, first, time consumption of sequential processors for several cycles of testing, and second, inaccuracy arising from simplifications in the modeling of the entire...
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Real-Time Nonlinear Frequency-Dependent Electromagnetic Transient Power Transformer Model Hardware Emulation
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A transformer is a vital piece of transmission and distribution infrastructure in a power system which is used to transfer energy from one circuit to another. Real-time electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulation plays an important role in the design and testing of protection and control systems...
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Simulation of quantization noise effects on the performance of a wireless preamble detector and demonstration of a functional FPGA prototype
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This thesis describes the implementation of the physical layer for an experimental low-power wireless communication device. The system utilizes differential coherent correlation and threshold-based detection to produce a robust random-access packet-based communications protocol. Prior to...