ERA is in the process of being migrated to Scholaris, a Canadian shared institutional repository service (https://scholaris.ca). Deposits and changes to existing ERA items and collections are frozen until migration is complete. Please contact erahelp@ualberta.ca for further assistance
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
-
Development of a Novel Oral Drug Delivery System Using pH-Responsive Hollow Microparticle with Macropores on the Surface
DownloadFall 2017
Oral administration of drugs is considered advantageous over all other routes of drug delivery due to several benefits, including painless self-administration, lack of biohazardous waste, and easier and cold-chain free transportation. However, numerous environment sensitive drugs such as vaccines...
-
Development of a Novel Piglet Model to Simulate the Physiology of a Child with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome during the First Interstage for Investigating Changes in Tricuspid Valve as it Adapts to a High-pressure and High-volume Stress Environment
DownloadSpring 2020
INTRODUCTION: Tricuspid valve (TV) failure develops in 25-35% of children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) and is a risk factor for morbidity and mortality. The mechanisms underlying TV failure in HLHS are not well understood. There is no effective medical therapy and current surgical...
-
Development of a pheromone-based attract and kill formulation with visual cues to target the diurnally active apple clearwing moth, Synanthedon myopaeformis (Borkhausen), (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae)
DownloadSpring 2014
The apple clearwing moth, Synanthedon myopaeformis (Borkhausen), (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) is a serious pest of apple trees in British Columbia (BC) in Canada. Due to its recent introduction to BC and the lack of natural predators, the development of an attract and kill formulation using SPLAT® to...
-
Development of a Prototype for a Low Dead Time Dark Matter Detector using Superheated Liquid
DownloadFall 2013
PICASSO (Project in Canada to Search for Supersymmetric Objects) is a direct dark matter search experiment located at SNOLAB. PICASSO uses su- perheated Freon-10 (C4 F10 ) as target for elastic scattering of Weakly Interact- ing Massive Particles (WIMPs) which are the most favored particle...
-
Spring 2020
Fused deposition modelling has become one of the most prominent additive manufacturing processes for the fabrication of thermoplastic polymers. It is generally used for rapid prototyping and industrial batch production, and due to its capabilities to fabricate a wide range of materials, FDM is...