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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Towards Context-Independent Gamification: An Evaluation of Intrinsic Motivation in Gamified Contexts
DownloadFall 2020
Gamification is becoming widely adopted as a way of making applications fun and engaging, in order to motivate adoption and use. Despite its popularity, the question of whether gamification actually has any effect on user motivation remains open [1]. For many years, video game designers have...
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Towards Critical Realism: Marginality in Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian Photography (1980s–1990s)
DownloadSpring 2018
This thesis explores the unofficial photography of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus in the 1980s and 1990s: an art form that is barely studied in academia and therefore remains almost completely unknown to the general public. The dissertation offers a novel perspective of research within Eastern...
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Towards Critical Realism: Marginality in Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian Photography (1980s–1990s)
DownloadSpring 2018
This thesis explores the unofficial photography of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus in the 1980s and 1990s: an art form that is barely studied in academia and therefore remains almost completely unknown to the general public. The dissertation offers a novel perspective of research within Eastern...
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Towards Decolonizing and Indigenizing Teaching and Curricular Practices in Canadian Higher Education: A Narrative Inquiry into Settler Academics’ Experiences
DownloadFall 2022
For some moving toward reconciliation is controversial; for others acting on decades of talk about reconciliation is long over-due. Debates about Canada’s relationship with Indigenous Peoples have the potential to build or break apart Canada. Institutions of higher education in Canada have a...
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Fall 2019
Software energy efficiency has become a concern for the scale of operations in data centers and for the availability of battery-driven mobile devices. Developers now consider energy efficiency as one of the performance metrics. Unfortunately, developers are not trained enough and do not know how...
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Fall 2019
Pea root rot is one of the major diseases of field pea (Pisum sativum) in the Canadian prairies. Field avoidance is one possible approach for reducing yield loss caused by root rot. Current research aimed to investigate the possibility of developing a model to predict root rot. Surveys were...
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Spring 2010
Nigeria has a huge natural gas reserve, but to date this resource has been largely under-developed. This state of affair has impacted negatively on Nigeria’s economic potential. In contrast, Alberta has benefitted immensely from its natural gas resource because it has effectively developed same....
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Fall 2022
A cyber-physical system (CPS) is composed of interacting physical and computational components. CPS research addresses the combined sensing and actuating to monitor and control a CPS. Simulation techniques are used in advance of costly CPS deployments to provide sufficient understanding of the...
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Towards efficient search methods in object tracking: An evaluation and application to precise tracking
DownloadFall 2015
Object tracking is a much researched subject in the computer vision community. With more and more tracking algorithms reported every year, standard benchmarking and evaluation methods are reported for long term tracking systems. We present a public dataset to evaluate trackers used for human and...