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.
To retrieve all theses and dissertations associated with a specific department from the library catalogue, choose 'Advanced' and keyword search "university of alberta dept of english" OR "university of alberta department of english" (for example). Past graduates who wish to have their thesis or dissertation added to this collection can contact us at erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Items in this Collection
- 2Ma, Angela
- 2Wang, Yue
- 2Wong, Andy
- 1Abbas-Tehrani, Hesam
- 1Abdelghani, Mohammad
- 1Abdelrahman, Ali Satti Abdellatif
- 96Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 74Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- 71Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 66Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 58Department of Computing Science
- 48Department of Biological Sciences
- 5Khazaei, Hamzeh (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 5Liu, Qingxia (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 5Reformat, Marek (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 4Ahmad, Rafiq (Mechanical Engineering)
- 4Bayne, Erin (Biological Sciences)
- 4Beier, Nicholas (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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A multi-methods exploration of shared decision-making, lived experience, and opioid use disorder among emerging adults with anxiety and depression
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Background Anxiety/depression are common in emerging adults and may lead to poor coping strategies such as substance use. Shared decision-making (SDM) occurs when clinicians and patients make health decisions together informed by the best available evidence inclusive of the patient’s...
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Fall 2021
Birth decisions have a significant impact on the physical health of a woman and her child as well as to a woman’s mental and emotional health. Healthy low-risk women who birth with a physician in a hospital have statistically significantly higher odds of having interventions like augmentation and...
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Fall 2021
Background: The voices and experiences of black women in higher education in Canada have largely been absent. When they do speak out against institutional structures or challenging issues of power, they encounter issues of colonialism, racism, gendering, silencing, and othering. Such experiences...
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Fall 2021
Necrotic enteritis (NE) is an economically important disease in poultry, caused by the opportunistic pathogen Clostridium perfringens. Well-known as a multifactorial disease, NE development is under the influence of a wide range of environmental risk factors. Current in vivo NE challenge models...
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Spring 2021
With the booming development of the Internet, the amount of data stored in databases are enormously growing. Databases retrieve relevant information in response to users’ queries; the retrieved information is encoded in dynamically generated by databases in the form of structured data records. As...
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A New Avenue for Teacher Education: Virtual Reality Intervention as a Path Towards Reducing Public Speaking Anxiety and Supporting Growth Mindsets
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The National Institute of Mental Health reports that public speaking anxiety affects approximately 73% of the population (2016). Individuals with a fear of public speaking worry about being judged in social situations by other people (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). This is a problem if...
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A Novel Method of Obtaining Cell Membrane Permeability Parameters Using Non-Ideal Thermodynamic Assumptions
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Cryopreservation is the storage of biological matter at subzero temperatures to preserve it. As one can imagine, this comes with many challenges, including exposure to high solute concentrations as pure water in the extracellular solution freezes, cell dehydration as the intracellular water...
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Spring 2021
Sand control devices (SCDs) such as Slotted Liners (SLs) have been playing a crucial role in sand production for Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) operations. Lately, optimizing and selecting the proper design of SCDs in the laboratory to quantify and qualify the SCD’s performance is gaining...
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A Particle Engineering Approach to the Development of Microparticles Suitable for Enteric Delivery of Biologics
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Despite tremendous advances in the field of medical science, enteric infections still account for millions of deaths globally each year. Inaccessibility to clean drinking water, sanitation systems and proper healthcare infrastructure in developing parts of the world remains a huge obstacle to...
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A Qualitative Analysis of a Novel Face-Tracking Application and a Proposed Research Design to Study Glossectomy Speech using this Method
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Background: Following glossectomy, patients often utilize compensatory articulatory behaviors (CABs) to compensate for their acquired speech impairments. Incidental findings have indicated the presence of lower lip inversion CABs, but no study has investigated these inversions directly. A...