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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Spring 2024
The representation of real-world relationships and entities through nodes and edges in a network has found wide applicability across diverse scientific fields. At the core of network analysis are the tasks of community detection and community search, which aim to identify distinct groups within a...
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Towards Context-Independent Gamification: An Evaluation of Intrinsic Motivation in Gamified Contexts
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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)
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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
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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...