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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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Spectroscopic and Electronic Characterization of Microfabricated Solid State Molecular Electronic Junctions
DownloadFall 2012
The objective of the research described in this thesis is structural characterization of molecular electronic devices and investigation of their compatibility with widely use conventional microelectronics. Back-side spectroscopy was performed to probe organic molecular later integrity at buried...
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Spectroscopy of methane using a vertical cavity surface-emitting laser system with emphasis on development for portable applications
DownloadFall 2009
There is a great deal of interest in monitoring atmospheric greenhouse gases such as methane. Although distributed feedback edge-emitting lasers are often used for atmospheric detection, the development of the vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) has allowed for an alternative source....
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Spring 2019
With the fast growth of mobile data traffic, spectrum scarcity has become a serious problem to the development of wireless networks. Due to the limited available spectrum resources, it is critical to improve the spectrum efficiency. Cognitive radio, opportunistic scheduling, and non-orthogonal...
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Fall 2014
Cognitive radio has been considered as a promising way to deal with the overcrowded wireless spectrum. In cognitive radio, when licensed users (primary users) do not use their licensed spectrum, they may lease the spectrum to unlicensed users (secondary user). In a cognitive radio network, a...
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Speech and hearing professionals' perspectives on providing aural rehabilitation services to adults with hearing loss in Alberta
DownloadSpring 2017
The occurrence of hearing loss increases markedly with age. Given that the population in Alberta is aging, hearing loss is expected to affect an increasing proportion of people in this province in the coming years. Research indicates that approximately half of adults in Canada with hearing loss...
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Speech and Language Disorders in Older Canadians: Epidemiologic Primary Care-Based Research Using the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN) Database
DownloadFall 2016
Objectives: The objective of this study is to examine the epidemiology and clinical management in primary care of speech and language disorders in older adults (fifty-five and older) and to assess the utility and feasibility of EMR data to answer such research questions. This study is comprised...
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Speech Assessment in Bilingual Children: Relationship between Perceptual Judgments of Accent/Comprehensibility and Formal Test Measures
DownloadSpring 2019
There is a paucity of research examining how the presence of an accent may affect speech-language pathologists’ (SLP) assessments of bilingual children. Generally, assessment tools normed on monolingual children cannot be used to make diagnostic decisions about whether a bilingual child has a...