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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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Fall 2023
The coexistence of numerous species despite competing for similar resources remains a central paradox within the field of ecology. Differentiation of species interactions with resources and their environment has been proposed as a mechanism by which species reduce competitive interactions, thus...
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Text analysis of Maxpark and LiveJournal Russia: How is the evaluation of modern femininity and masculinity discussed in Russian blogs
DownloadFall 2014
This thesis focuses on text analysis of Russian speaking blogs with the goal to examine critically discussions of femininity and masculinity in modern Russian society. The data corpora are comprised of blogs and comment entries from websites Maxpark.com and LiveJournal Russia. The central...
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Text Document Topical Recursive Clustering and Automatic Labeling of a Hierarchy of Document Clusters
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The overwhelming amount of textual documents currently available highlights the need for information organization and discovery. Effectively organizing documents into a hierarchy of topics and subtopics makes it easier for users to browse the documents. This thesis borrows community mining...
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Fall 2024
Text-to-SQL conversion, the process of transforming natural language queries into executable SQL commands, stands at the forefront of bridging human linguistic capabilities with the structured logic of databases. This dissertation embarks on a journey to elevate text-to-SQL systems to new...
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Fall 2020
There has been ongoing debate in therapeutic recreation (TR) regarding the role of recreation as a means to an end, or as an end in itself since the field emerged in the early 1900s. The roots of the field are in both hospital and community recreation, and despite numerous attempts over the last...
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Textile Fibre Fragments in Marine Environments and their Interaction with Suspended Hydrocarbons
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Pollution by microplastics is one of the biggest current environmental problems, due to the great amount of plastic waste that is used worldwide, as well as the threat they represent to fauna that might ingest them, particularly in aquatic environments. One of the main sources of microplastics,...
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Texts like the world: the use of utopian discourse to represent place in works by Nicole Brossard and Dionne Brand
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“Texts like the World” examines Nicole Brossard’s Picture Theory and Mauve Desert and Dionne Brand’s No Language is Neutral and A Map to the Door of No Return in order to demonstrate how these authors figure place in ways that are representative of utopian discourse. To do so, I draw primarily on...