Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
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Fall 2019
This study examines the intricacies of southern resident Inuit post-secondary student life in relation to education and the funding stream made available to them. The Inuit students are all beneficiaries of land claims areas but are not residing inside the land claims area that recognizes...
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Fall 2011
Oil sands industry, with the collaboration of its research partners, has been striving to come up with cost effective and environmentally friendly technology for de-watering of mature fine tailings (MFT). Overall objective of present study was to determine the optimum dosage of suitable polymer...
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Spring 2011
Receiving false and nuisance alarms is a well known problem in industrial alarm systems. The main cause of this problem is poor alarm design which is the result of huge number of configured alarms and lack of automatic and analytical design methods. This study targets deriving analytical methods...
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Fall 2015
In the process industry, process variables are continuously monitored to ensure safety, reliability and efficiency of plant operations. Due to the advancement of the modern communication and computer technology, it is now possible to incorporate alarms to every process variable at little or no...
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Alberta Advantage?: An examination of the long-term challenges of Alberta’s non-renewable resource wealth governance
DownloadFall 2023
This dissertation applies an intergenerational lens to investigate the historical record of Alberta’s resource wealth governance from Premier Lougheed to Premier Klein. It explores how Alberta has collected, saved, and distributed its resource wealth in order to examine the explicit and implicit...