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 2015
Battery is a limiting resource that affects the smartphone availability. Hence, it is the responsibility of developers to develop and maintain energy efficient applications to enhance end user satisfaction. As the impact of software code change on energy consumption is not known, developers need...
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Using the Edmonton Obesity Staging System to predict mode of delivery after labor induction
DownloadFall 2019
Objective: To evaluate the use of the Edmonton Obesity Staging System for Obstetrics (EOSSo) in predicting cesarean delivery amongst term, nulliparous, singleton pregnancies in women with overweight or obesity, who are undergoing an induction of labor. Methods: A prospective-cohort study was...
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Using the Four-Way Typology and Attitudinal Space Model to Examine Students’ Attitudes toward Digital Game-Based Assessment
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Background. Digital game-based assessment (DGBA) is a new and unprecedented generation of assessment that has rapidly developed in educational systems. Previous studies revealed that this modern assessment method could affect students' skills, motivation, and learning. Additionally,...
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Fall 2020
Online video games and their affinity spaces and subspaces are defined as virtual locations where groups of people gather to share common interests, and a place where learning happens (Gee, 2003). Recent studies have demonstrated the impact that affinity spaces and video games have on the...
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Using the Ottawa Surgical Competency Operative Room Evaluation (O-SCORE) in a Canadian Plastic Surgery Program
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Competency-based medical education has overtaken the traditional apprenticeship model of medical education. This shift toward competence-based training demands a higher number of assessments per trainee. Current assessment methods in Plastic Surgery have not been well studied. Numerous assessment...
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Using TLS-measured Tree Attributes to Estimate the Above Ground Biomass of Individual Small Black Spruce Trees in Canadian Boreal Forest Peatlands
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Earth’s changing climate poses a number of potential issues for people around the globe. It has become increasingly important for researchers to have the ability to collect good data and build accurate, robust climate models that can help influence the direction of policy makers to mitigate the...
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Fall 2020
Distinguishing between homonymy and polysemy can facilitate Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), as WSD systems use the standard sense inventories that are excessively fine-grained and include many polysemous senses. We classify words as either homonymous or polysemous by building graphs of word...