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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.
To retrieve all theses and dissertations associated with a specific department from the library catalogue, choose 'Advanced' and keyword search "university of alberta dept of english" OR "university of alberta department of english" (for example). Past graduates who wish to have their thesis or dissertation added to this collection can contact us at erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Items in this Collection
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Fall 2016
Librarians, as information specialists, serve an important role in society. They provide low-cost access to information resources, organize the growing amount of information, and help students, job seekers, researchers, families, co-workers, organizations and communities meet their information...
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The Contemporary State of Free Expression on Canadian University Campuses: Responding to the Alleged ‘Crisis’
DownloadFall 2021
This dissertation (by publication) is a response to the alleged ‘crisis’ of free expression on Canadian university campuses. Although concerns about campus expression have been a routine feature of North American culture war conflagrations since at least the early 1990s, the past half-decade has...
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The Contrastive Gap: A New Perspective on the ‘Modality Gap’ in Multimodal Contrastive Learning
DownloadFall 2024
Learning jointly from images and texts using contrastive pre-training has emerged as an effective method to train large-scale models with a strong grasp of semantic image concepts. For instance, CLIP, pre-trained on a large corpus of web data, excels in tasks like zero-shot image classification,...