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- 9Department of Computing Science
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- 2Sander, Joerg (Computing Science)
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Spring 2021
The financial landscape is in a state of major disruption through digitalization. The steady adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has brought about a myriad of opportunities for banks and financial institutions to drive efficiency and innovation. These institutions are essentially...
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Subsurface Geophysical Characterization of the Crystalline Canadian Shield in Northeastern Alberta: Implications for Geothermal Development
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In northern Alberta, existing heat flow and geothermal gradient studies suggest that using geothermal heat in oil sands processing would require deep drilling of the crystalline Canadian Shield. Using a 2.36 km deep borehole located near Fort McMurray, the goal of this study is to investigate the...
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Possible thunderstorm modifications caused by the Athabasca oil sands development and the Canadian Shield
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Thunderstorms are common in boreal forest regions and can cause dangerous hazards such as lightning, forest fires, hail, wind, and flooding. Significant research has been conducted to help predict thunderstorms to mitigate or avoid the hazards and damage. The development of thunderstorms...
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Spring 2015
Among renewable energy resources, solar energy is promising and has recently become an area of interest in research. Photovoltaic (PV) systems have the capability of converting solar energy into electrical power. The advances in PV technology, such as the reliability and the continuous reduction...
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Fall 2012
This thesis makes improvement to the process of ahead-of-time feedback-directed optimization (FDO) in compiler design. It examines multiple aspects of FDO from profile collection and representation through to the performance evaluation of FDO code transformations. Two guiding principals knit the...
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Spring 2014
Lightning is widely acknowledged as a major cause of wildland fires in Canada. On average, 250,000 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes occur in Alberta every year. Lightning-caused wildland fires in remote areas have considerably larger suppression costs and a much greater chance of escaping...
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Spring 2019
The ionospheric Alfvén resonator (IAR) is an area of space that, due to sharp Alfvén speed gradients, has the ability to trap electromagnetic plasma wave energy, where it bounces in the Alfvén mode between near-Earth space and the lower ionosphere. Here we present research that, by comparing...
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Fall 2018
Diabetes is a common metabolic disorder, which is characterized by peripheral insulin resistance and a relative insufficiency of insulin secretion from human pancreatic β-cells. Recent insights indicate that impaired insulin secretion is a key determining factor in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D)....
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Input Space Partitioning and Other Heuristics for Minimizing the Number of Corner Simulations During Design Verification
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The continuing reduction in the feature sizes of the latest CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) technologies allow faster, more compact, and more energy-efficient integrated circuits (ICs). On the downside, the performance of each transistor becomes harder and harder to characterise...
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Identifying and analyzing spatial and temporal patterns of lightning-ignited wildfires in Western Canada from 1981-2018.
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This study looked at the spatial and temporal patterns of lightning-ignited wildfires in Western Canada from 1981 to 2018. Studying patterns of lightning fires over space and time can provide great insight into understanding, highlighting, and quantifying these sequences. This is of great...