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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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Spring 2010
The traditional approach to the study of consumer behaviour is to regard them as isolated islands of preferences, needs, motives, and goals; however, this approach neglects the impact of ‘others’ on consumers’ judgments and preferences. For this reason, the theme of this thesis is the ‘connected...
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1973
Doctoral thesis. Equations are developed to predict the effects of thawing permafrost. Application to the foundation of a hot oil pipeline at Inuvik shows good agreement between theoretical predictions and the observed behaviour.
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Fall 2020
The essays herein add up to an examination of the ways in which Indigenous peoples in Canada desire something outside of the terror of the present and the afterlife of the long twentieth century. By way of the modalities of memoir and cultural criticism, I A) seek to lay bare how the cruelties of...
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The Constitutional Democrats and the Jews: National Election Campaigns in Kiev Province, 1905-1912
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This study explores a period of vibrant political life in Imperial Russia through the prism of electoral politics, a powerful modernizing force. In the early twentieth century, the empire embraced practices which transformed the power balance between the imperial centers and borderlands, with...
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Spring 2021
This thesis examines the constitutional limitations on federal action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to combat climate change. I rely primarily on cases in other areas of economic policy including agricultural supply management, the control of inflation, the regulation of competition,...