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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Fall 2013
This Thesis proposes a novel transform called “Channel Components Transform” and presents its application to power system voltage stability assessment. The transform is based on the following observation: a power network can be represented as a multi-node, multi-branch Thevenin circuit connecting...
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Spring 2010
This thesis focuses on the negotiation of power and identity between Swiss students and instructors in the Swiss classroom. Although Schriftdeutsch1 is the official language of secondary schools in Switzerland, speakers often practice code-switching, which serves many conversational functions...
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Power and the marginal situation: Indian - relations in the Yellowknife - Fort Rae area of the Northwest Territories
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Doctoral thesis. Data collected during two field trips is analyzed from the perspective of marginal man theory. It was found that Indian-white relations are singularly characterized by a subordinate-dominant relationship based on economic exploitation and the extension of power into the social,...
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Power in My Blood: corporeal Sovereignty through the Praxis of an Indigenous Eroticanalysis
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This dissertation explores how Indigenous articulations of sensuality, sexuality and gender form erotic expressions and act as decolonizing mechanisms. I address the question, “If this is my body, where are my stories?” by arguing for the recovery and what I call the practice of an Indigenous...