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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Spring 2012
Large scale immigration of Ukrainians to Canada could be divided into four major waves according to the date of arrival. Each immigration wave cultivated a unique set of cultural practices, including folklore narratives, music and dance. A profound adjustment of the world-view occurs based on...
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Fall 2009
This study, which utilized a mixed methods approach, is the first research study in Ukraine which explored the experiences of parents raising deaf or hard of hearing children. The outcome of the study includes a documented analysis and synthesis of the perceptions held by Ukrainian-hearing...
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Fall 2013
With the fall of the USSR in 1991, Ukraine inherited the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Though it had promised to relinquish this arsenal, important territorial disputes with the Russian Federation, mainly - though not exclusively - over Sevastopol and its naval base for the Black...
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Ukrainian women emigrants in the "literature of migration": literary narratives through a linguistic lens
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This dissertation explores evaluations of Ukrainian emigration and women emigrants in works of fiction. Between 2000 and 2013, more than 20 literary works representing contemporary women’s writing about Ukrainian women’s emigration were published both in Ukraine and abroad. These women-authored...
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ULF Waves in the Magnetosphere and their Association with Magnetopause Instabilities and Oscillations
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This thesis addresses the question of excitation of ULF waves by magnetopause instabilities and oscillations. Given proper spacecraft orientations and near magnetopause encounters, the CLUSTER spacecraft mission is used to resolve the space-time ambiguity inherent in a single spacecraft...
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Spring 2019
In yeast, subtelomeric chromatin is silenced and positioned at the inner nuclear membrane (INM) through the interaction of proteins that comprise the heterotrimeric SIR complex with INM proteins. Telomeres reside primarily at the INM using partially redundant tethering mechanisms mediated by the...
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Ultra Low Frequency Waves and their Association with Magnetic Substorms and Expansion Phase Onset
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This thesis concerns the study of Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) waves during magnetospheric substorms. A wavelet algorithm which characterises magnetic ULF waves during substorm onset is presented. The algorithm is validated by comparing the spatial and temporal location of ULF wave onset to...