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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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Emerging Adulthood in Chinese Young People: Does ego identity status moderate the relationship between transition features and burnout?
DownloadSpring 2016
Dramatic social changes in contemporary society have resulted in young people taking a longer time to transition into adulthood. In Western cultures, Arnett (2000) identified this transition period as emerging adulthood. Individuals may experience this period differently, depending on their...
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Spring 2014
Ten emerging adults were interviewed about their experiences of console-based video games in their domestic context. Emerging adults were chosen because they constitute the first generation of video game natives, the first generation to grow up with video games as a ubiquitous piece of Everyday...
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Spring 2022
This dissertation reads the informational ethos of authors Herman Melville and Walt Whitman through the lens of critical data studies and surveillance studies, examining how emerging data cultures in the nineteenth century gave rise to new subjectivities. The study situates these authors at a...
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Fall 2018
Recent research has highlighted the potential benefits of self-compassion on psychological well-being (Neff, Rude, & Kirkpatrick, 2007; Neely Shallert, Mohammed, Roberts, & Chen, 2009). Despite the growing research support for selfcompassion, there has been little exploration of selfcompassion...
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Spring 2017
Emerging sense of ethnic awareness is described as a child’s growing recognition of their ethnicity and connectedness to their ethnic group. Ethnic awareness is proposed to be the foundation for ethnic identity that typically emerges in early adolescence. Ethnic awareness includes three distinct...
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EMG Measurement of the fatigability of paraspinal muscles of patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
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This thesis aimed to address two separate questions, 1) Are current exercise approaches to scoliosis based on a strong foundation in the literature? And 2) Do the paraspinal muscles of patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) differ in endurance properties from controls? The first...
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Fall 2015
Emotion mining is the science of detecting, analyzing, and evaluating humans’ feelings towards different events, issues, services, or any other interest. One of its specific directions is text emotion mining, that refers to analyzing people’s emotions based on observations of their writings. Text...