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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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Speech breathing and prosody during statement and question productions in seven-year-old children
DownloadSpring 2014
Papadopoulos, Georgina Paulette Maria
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of prosodic contrasts in differing contextual scenarios (e.g., questions, statements) on acoustic measures and speech breathing parameters in children. Twelve English-speaking 7-year-old children participated. Structured and unstructured...
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Spring 2010
Theorists who endeavor to take sociality seriously have made substantial strides, but the phenomenological immediacy of experience has not been well explored or sufficiently addressed. This dissertation proposes an approach to cultural psychology that accounts for such experience. It addresses...
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Fall 2014
Speed effects on moving cracks in ductile or nonlinear materials are studied with newly developed theoretical models in the present thesis. Speed-dependent stress field, traction distribution and fracture energy are discussed in detail in four chapters. 1) An asymptotic analysis near the tip of a...
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Spring 2016
This thesis contains the following three parts: \egin{description} \item[Part 1(Chapters 1-5):] Spherical $h$-harmonic analysis. \item[Part 2:] Reverse H\"{o}lder's inequality for spherical harmonics. \item[Part 3:] Multivariate Lagrange and Hermite approximation and pointwise limits...