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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Transitioning to University: The Effect of Changes in Academic Engagement and Pressure and Support from Friends on Grades
DownloadFall 2016
In Canada, over half of high school graduates attend post-secondary education (PSE); however, up to 32% of these students fail to graduate. Given that PSE completion requires meeting academic performance standards and that persistence in PSE is strongly associated with academic performance, a...
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Transitions of microbial communities in high-solids anaerobic digestion with percolate recirculation
DownloadSpring 2021
High-solids anaerobic digestion (HSAD) is a growingly popular strategy for recovery of biomethane from the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW). The focus of this thesis study is to advance fundamental understanding and engineering performance of high-solids anaerobic digestion...
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Spring 2012
This thesis discusses the challenges encountered when translating Hans-Jürgen Greif’s short story “N’appelle pas le chat pour mettre d’accord deux oiseaux” into English. In the first part, the thesis briefly examines a biography of Greif and his previous works, before identifying some of the...
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Translating and Publishing Nigerian Literature in France (1953-2017) A Study of Selected Writers
DownloadSpring 2019
This project focuses on the history and process of translating and publishing selected Anglophone Nigerian novels into French, with a special focus on elements of hybridity. The corpus consists of novels written by canonical and non-canonical, male and female Nigerian authors in the years after...
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Fall 2012
The study of translation of children’s literature is a recent phenomenon. The goal of this study is to explore the extent to which a translator needs to accommodate a child reader by making the text conform to the target culture. I examine two mainstream dual theories: “domestication”, which...
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Fall 2013
Hedwig Dohm was an important German woman writer and feminist at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. For a long time, she was recognized mainly for being Katia Mann’s – wife of the famous German author Thomas Mann – grandmother. However, her own work has been...
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Translating Japanese Free-Verse Poetry: Strategy and Theory in Translating Kawaji Ryūkō’s Roadside Flowers
DownloadFall 2021
The publication of Kawaji Ryūkō’s (川路柳虹, 1888-1959) Shinshi yonshō (新詩四章 “Four New Poems”) in the journal Shijin (詩人) in 1907 has been described as pioneering the genre of Japanese free-verse poetry. This poetry differed from previous Japanese poetic works in both form and content by eschewing...