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Towards An Efficient Traffic System via CAVs: Demand Management and Real-time Traffic Control
DownloadSpring 2024
With the dramatically rising traffic congestion issue, people are suffering the loss of working hours, increase in traffic accidents and pollution around the world. In Canada, drivers in the major cities were estimated to lose over 50 working hours per year in congestion during 2022, and in the...
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Pipeline Circumferential Cracking in Near-Neutral pH Environment Under the Influence of Residual Stress
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In recent years, pipeline failures attributed to circumferential corrosion fatigue in near-neutral pH environments were reported. Despite the implementation of protective coatings and cathodic protection in buried pipeline steels, the occurrence of Near-Neutral pH Corrosion Fatigue (NNpH-CF)...
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Spring 2024
The thesis delves into the mechanics of hyperelastic materials, specifically lipid bilayers and fiber-reinforced composites (FRC). The primary objective is to achieve an advanced understanding of cell physiology from the aspect of lipid membrane mechanics and provide qualitative analysis of the...
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Mechanisms of Chiral Features of Atomically Precise Metal Clusters and Resonant Transition Metal Complexes: Insights from Vibrational Optical Activity
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My PhD thesis primarily focuses on exploring chiroptical events and to elucidate the mechanisms responsible for chiroptical signatures in various compounds. These compounds encompass several atomically precise silver and copper clusters, a europium complex, and two highly flexible monosaccharide...
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Spring 2024
In this thesis, we present approximation schemes for the airport and railway problem (AR) on several classes of graphs. The AR problem, introduced by Adamaszek et al., is a combination of the capacitated facility location problem (CFL) and the network design problem. An AR instance comprises a...
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Improving the reliability of reinforcement learning algorithms through biconjugate Bellman errors
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In this thesis, we seek to improve the reliability of reinforcement learning algorithms for nonlinear function approximation. Semi-gradient temporal difference (TD) update rules form the basis of most state-of-the-art value function learning systems despite clear counterexamples proving their...
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Spring 2024
Since the advent of distributed ledger technologies, they have provided diverse opportunities in a wide range of application domains. With the transition towards a more decentralized and dynamic system, the significance of blockchain-enabled smart contracts has grown in prominence. Despite their...
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Investigations into the Occurrence and Distribution of Bioturbation in Tidally-Influenced Sedimentary Environments
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Tidally-influenced sedimentary environments are regions where sediment deposition is strongly influenced by the regular ebb and flow of tides. These natural processes result in distinctive and often heterogeneous patterns of sediment distribution and sedimentary structures, both physical and...
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Exploring the Interplay between Donor Sex, CD71+ RBCs, Erythrophagocytosis and Hospital-onset Sepsis
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Transfusion of red cell concentrates (RCCs) is common for treating anemia in Intensive care unit (ICU) patients, but it may result in adverse outcomes like sepsis, potentially due to donor sex-related immune responses. CD71+ RBCs, which are immature, may influence erythrophagocytosis, where the...
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Spring 2024
In recent years, autonomous driving systems (ADSs) using deep learning-based modules have significantly attracted the attention of researchers from different communities, such as computer vision. These intelligent systems require a precise and accurate training process before their deployment to...