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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Trajectories of parent-child contact, affection, and conflict during the transition to adulthood
DownloadSpring 2019
The parent-child relationship is one of the most influential and long-lasting social ties for many people. Much research on this relationship focuses on childhood, adolescence, and old age, while parent-child relations during the transition to adulthood remains a relatively understudied area....
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Spring 2019
The purpose of Tran(ce)sients is to find ways to engage an audience in concentrated listening during a concert hall performance of challenging chamber music. For some time now, a point of great interest to me has been what could or will hold one’s attention during a performance, particularly one...
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Spring 2019
This project looks at how athletic movements borrowed from exercise translate into performance and social media settings mediated through trans bodies, affects, and politics. Trans artists turn to exercise for personal transformation of the body and bring those movements and their accompanying...
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Trans-11 Vaccenic Acid Favourably Remodels Whole Body Energy and Endocannabinoid Metabolism During Conditions of Dyslipidemia
DownloadFall 2013
Introduction: Trans 11-18:1 (vaccenic acid, VA) is the predominant ruminant-derived trans fatty acid (TFA) in the food chain and is also the precursor to endogenous synthesis of cis-9, trans-11 conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). Literature documents numerous health benefits associated with CLA,...
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Trans-Form-Asians: The Liminal and Disrupted Lives of Singaporean and Balinese Transwomen Sex Workers
DownloadFall 2021
What does it mean to live a non-linear or disrupted life? When circumstances and society deny someone’s existence because of their non-normative gender and sexuality, by what means do people reconstruct their lives, reclaim their identities and sense of being, and gather the strength to survive...
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Spring 2011
Sadat Kooch Mohtasham, Seyed Hossein
In dynamic pointcut-advice join point models of Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP), join points are typically selected and advised independently of each other. That is, the relationships between join points are not considered in join point selection and advice. But these inter-relationships are...