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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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Older Adults and Generativity: Developmental, Experimental, and Clinical Advances in Terror Management Theory
DownloadSpring 2013
Terror Management Theory (TMT) (Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 1986) offers an empirical framework to explore how human beings function despite their fear of death. TMT studies have shown that in order to buffer death anxiety, people strive to meet the standards of their cultural worldview. ...
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Older Adults and Their Spare-time Activity Participation: A Comparison of Older Mainland Chinese, Chinese Canadian, and British Canadian People
DownloadSpring 2014
Abstract By comparing and contrasting three different ethnic/cultural groups (i.e., British Canadian, Mainland Chinese, and Chinese Canadian), this cross-cultural study explored how age, gender, ethnicity, and acculturation affect older adults’ motivations, constraints, and constraint...
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Fall 2015
Background: Older workers often require more recovery time than younger workers due to various considerations such as comorbidities, which may result in prolonged work disability. Work disability and its negative consequences may be reduced by identifying injured workers who are at increased risk...
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Spring 2020
Budnar Subramanya, Annapoorna Shruthi
Bitumen partial upgrading technologies aim to produce a product that meets viscosity and density specifications for pipeline transport with little to no addition of diluents. Thermal cracking processes are attractive for partial upgrading since they result in an increase in the light fractions....
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Spring 2021
Since prehistoric times, unsaturated plant oils, referred to as drying oils, have been used as a natural film forming material as result of oxidation-induced polymerization. Here, we report on the use of oleochemical reactions and photo-chemistry to develop three coating systems with low volatile...
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Fall 2015
Pain is the most common reason that patients frequent the Emergency Department. Pain is a complex symptom to assess properly and according to research, it appears to be poorly managed in the Emergency Department. The majority of research has focused on the incidence of oligoanalgesia in large...