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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Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Methodological Reorientation to Studying Right-wing Nationalism and the Far-right Movement in Canada
DownloadSpring 2021
Right-wing nationalist movements have gained traction in Westernized countries such as France, Greece, Hungary, Austria, the United States, and Germany, where political figures or groups have mobilized nationalist ideas and right-wing populist sentiment to gain governmental power and/or influence...
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Thinking inside and outside the blood vessel: S1P-mediated control of vascular tone and the impact of CMV infection
DownloadSpring 2016
Sphingosine 1–phosphate (S1P), a bioactive lipid, has both endothelial barrier enhancing and disrupting effects, but also regulates vascular tone. The concepts of endothelial permeability and vascular tone have traditionally been studied separately. In this thesis, I demonstrate novel findings...
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Third World feminist perspectives on development, NGOs, the de-politicization of palestinian women's movements and learning in struggle
DownloadSpring 2010
This exploratory case study examines the proposition that development NGOs are playing an active part in the de-politicization of Palestinian women's movements fight for independence and liberation from occupation by advancing the “development project’s” (McMicheal, 1996) push for Western...
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This here thing: Specifying Morphemes an3, nai1, and mai2 in Tai Khamti Reference-point Constructions
DownloadSpring 2015
There are three facets to this dissertation—a descriptive analysis of the minority language Tai Khamti, a grammaticalization account of three basic morphemes in the language, and a theoretical account of how the three morphemes, and their extensions, are motivated by a conceptual reference-point...