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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Tough Polyampholyte Hydrogels: Effect of Dialysis and Their Applications in Stretchable Electronic Skins
DownloadFall 2018
Tough hydrogels are an emerging class of advanced materials that have resolved the long-standing problem of brittleness and fragility in conventional hydrogels. Their superior mechanical performances enable several unprecedented applications in bio-integrated electronics, surgical glues, and soft...
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Fall 2022
In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, the need for destinations to create compelling and memorable experiences to differentiate themselves and power economic growth has become an important destination development strategy following significant tourism industry disruption resulting...
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Toward a Badiou-Inspired Eventful English Language Arts Curriculum: A Refractive Autoethnography
DownloadSpring 2023
The purpose of my autoethnographic study is to understand more fully how my experience of educational events and their emerging truths impact my identity and my curricular and pedagogical approaches as a seasoned English Language Arts teacher. My dissertation addresses the following research...
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Toward a biofidelic and repeatable physical head-brain model for application in blunt impact
DownloadFall 2023
Headforms as a type of physical human head models are widely used in head injury research and for the design and assessment of safety gear. The mechanisms of head injury caused by blunt impact (a common loading scenario) are associated with global head kinematics and intracranial mechanics such...
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Spring 2024
This work aims to address the lack of clear theoretical foundations in computational lexical semantics, the sub-field of natural language processing pertaining to computing with the meaning of words. Semantic tasks are of interest for end-user applications (e.g. contextual translation),...
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Fall 2017
The purpose of this study was to produce a conceptualization of good parenting in female youth sport. A two-phase approach was used. In phase one, individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight coaches (3 females, 5 males, M age= 40.1 years, SD = 15.1 years) with at least five...