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 2011
This thesis presents research on the selection and development of thin film deposition of materials and initial data on the integration of a pH measuring device suitable for evaluation. This device used two particular tantalum compounds deposited by dc magnetron reactive sputtering as functional...
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Thin Film Point of Care Diagnostic and the Potential Mitigation of Antimicrobial Resistance
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Antimicrobial resistance is an emerging worldwide threat that endangers the effectiveness of many of the gains of modern medicine. Therapies are becoming less effective through their overuse even while antimicrobial stewardship programs have been developed to measure and improve how antibiotics...
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Fall 2014
Scientists and clinicians involved in the development of biomarkers confront with the challenge of selecting the best analytical methods among dozens that have been reported in the literature. Creation of new and improvement of exist technologies is an integral part of the pathway to analytical...
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Thin Shell Finite Element Formulations for Geometrically Non-Linear Analysis of Straight and Curved Pipes
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Special finite element formulations were developed to accurately predict the structural response of straight and curved pipes. Although the ELBOW elements implemented in the ABAQUS library have been verified under in-plane and out-of-plane loading, the effect of internal pressure loading had not...
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Spring 2011
Thin film pyrolysis was used to thermally crack the pendant groups from asphaltene molecules. The cracked products were rapidly quenched to minimize further decomposition. The liquid products were condensed and collected, with over 91% material balance on the recovery of gas, liquid and coke...