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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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Fall 2020
Each year 13-26 million infants worldwide will require neonatal resuscitation at birth. Care provided during neonatal resuscitation can range from suctioning the infant’s airways and providing stimulation to endotracheal intubation and chest compressions. Healthcare providers (HCPs) must be able...
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Fall 2022
Suicide is a leading cause of death for young adults. Among undergraduate students, risk factors for suicidality include substance abuse, academic pressure, and identifying as a minority (De Luca et al., 2016; Giordano & Cashwell, 2012; Shadick et al., 2015). Additionally, suicidal students tend...
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An Exploration of Connections with the Land in an Urban Sport Context among Indigenous Youth
DownloadFall 2019
The purpose of this participatory research was to explore connections with the land in an urban sport context among Indigenous youth. Two research questions guided this study: (a) What does a connection with the land look like in an urban sport context?, and (b) How can connections with the land...
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An Exploration of Dialog Act Classification in Open-domain Conversational Agents and the Applicability of Text Data Augmentation
DownloadFall 2023
Recognizing dialog acts of users is an essential component in building successful conversational agents. In this work, we propose a dialog act (DA) classifier for two of our open domain conversational agents. For this, we curated a high-quality, multi-domain dataset with ∼24k user utterances...
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Fall 2019
Physical literacy is a key focus within physical education and sport policy and practice in Canada. Although physical literacy has been suggested to benefit the general population, the experiences of Indigenous peoples are noticeably absent in the physical literacy literature. To facilitate...