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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.
To retrieve all theses and dissertations associated with a specific department from the library catalogue, choose 'Advanced' and keyword search "university of alberta dept of english" OR "university of alberta department of english" (for example). Past graduates who wish to have their thesis or dissertation added to this collection can contact us at erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Items in this Collection
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Fall 2018
Japanese distal demonstrative are ‘that’ has long been examined mostly with regard to its spatial use and overt expression in discourse by using constructed sentences. With regard to spatial use, are is used to refer to something far from both the speaker and the addressee (Sakuma 1992 [1936],...
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1981
Funded by Alberta Environment, Research Secretariat.
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Fall 2012
The thesis examines how oil prices and asset stocks affect the US dollar. It also examines the role of different factors postulated in the literature to have caused recent US current account imbalances. In the first two chapters, I study the role of oil prices and the US government debt in...
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Fall 2017
Background: The use of long-term non-invasive ventilation (NIV), defined as the provision of respiratory support from the upper airway through a mask interface, has increased in infants and older children over the past two decades. A number of studies have been published on NIV use in the overall...
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The Use of Acute Health Care Services by Mentally-Ill Seniors of Newfoundland and Labrador: A Quantitative Investigation
DownloadSpring 2012
Background The population of seniors is increasing rapidly. Currently, seniors represent 14.1% of the population of Canada and 14.4% of the population of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), rates that are expected to further increase to 30% by 2041 and 2026, respectively. There is ongoing debate...