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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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Finding an Appetite for Reducing Food Waste: Determinants of Commercial Food Waste Management and Diversion in Alberta
DownloadFall 2022
Considerable quantities of food waste have been observed globally and minimizing it has the potential to generate significant reductions in the environmental burden of the agri-food sector. The commercial food sector contributes substantially to food waste generation, so understanding the...
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Finding Interesting Moments in Videos: Audio-visual and Unsupervised Video Highlight Detection
DownloadSpring 2022
Video is the dominant medium through which we consume information. Due to the sheer volume of video content, it is of great interest in the research community to develop automated ways to make this content manageable. In video highlight detection, our goal is to automatically find interesting...
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Finding reliable resources and Chatting with Mira while considering emotions when the scenario is unscripted
DownloadSpring 2024
The primary wellspring of information, the Internet, abounds with misinfor- mation, particularly in the domains of mental health and psychology. This also affects the reliability and truth of responses of chatbots counting on unverified data. To address this concern, the MIRA project started to...
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Finding Spaces for Inquiry: An autobiographical narrative inquiry into shifting teaching experiences
DownloadFall 2013
This work is an autobiographical narrative inquiry into my lived experiences teaching and my struggle to make sense of my shifting stories to live by (Connelly & Clandinin, 1999). My research in nestled within a larger semi-structured interview study of 40 early career teachers in Alberta. To...