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Spring 2021

Bakhtiari Ziabari, Fatemeh

Methanotrophic bacteria can use different one-carbon compounds, including methane and methanol, two common industrial waste byproducts, as their main source of carbon and energy. Interestingly, they can convert these compounds into value-added products such as biofuels and bioplastics. Methanol...

Spring 2021

Koziel, Jakob

No evaluations have been conducted to determine whether Option 4, an Albertan driver education workshop, is effective in reducing future traffic violations and collisions when compared to fines. This thesis followed cohorts of Albertan traffic offenders (N = 1,707), one group who received a...

Spring 2021

Parayko, Nicholas W.

Growing global energy demand is projected to increase by nearly 30% in coming decades. As such, wildlife is increasingly required to persist in altered landscapes resulting from energy-related changes and development. In breeding birds, anthropogenic structures are often used as perches and, in...

Spring 2021

Bennett, Brendan

Temporal difference (TD) methods provide a powerful means of learning to make predictions in an online, model-free, and highly scalable manner. In the reinforcement learning (RL) framework, we formalize these prediction targets in terms of a (possibly discounted) sum of rewards, called the...

Spring 2021

Albach, Michele

Machine learning is often used to aid in human decision-making, sometimes for life-altering decisions like when determining whether or not to grant bail to a defendant or a loan to an applicant. Because of their importance, it is critical to ensure that the processes used to reach these decisions...

Spring 2021

Sarnecki, Dean C

In this philosophical study the author investigated the reality of religious pluralism and secularism and their effects on Catholic education in Alberta to provide insight into improvements for teacher faith formation. He used Charles Taylor’s (2007) work, A Secular Age, as a lens through which...

Spring 2021

Tobias Renwick

Vector representations of text are heavily used in state of the art NLP tasks, however they require significant computing resources to build and use. In this work, we discuss and evaluate DFx, a system for representing vectors in a compressed form without compromising the similarity between those...

Spring 2021

Dievert, Rylan V.

Functional morphology is an important tool for paleoecology. However, functional interpretations which are based on tenuous logic without a proper test or which rely on circular reasoning can be problematic. Biomechanical tests can help to provide structured and absolute assessments of...

Spring 2021

Navarrete Martinez, Javiera Constanza

Over the past two decades, considerable progress has been made in advancing the global agenda to ensure accessible and high-quality sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for everyone. Legislative and policy changes have enabled pharmacists to expand their scope of practice to address...

Spring 2021

Yaghini, Ali

The loading and haulage system is considered a prominent part of a surface mine operation. Improving the system enhances the productivity and economics of an operation to a great extent. Operators play a critical role in the mine overall performance and production. Autonomous truck fleets have...