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
- 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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“Enjoying the lake breezes”: Excursions, Tourism, and Dwelling in Resort Landscapes at Cooking Lake, 1894-1938
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This study explores the history of excursions, tourism, and resorts at Cooking Lake from 1894 to 1938. Cooking Lake was considered Edmonton’s favourite resort for summer recreation and tourism in the early 1900s, yet its recreational landscape history is largely obscure. Analysis centres the...
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"Pointing Wayfarers to the Right Road": Puritan Dissent and the Textual Work of Susannah Spurgeon
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This dissertation demonstrates the importance of recovering the work of nineteenth-century Dissenting women whose life and writing have been overshadowed and minimized by their husband’s pastoral ministry. Specifically, it examines the textual work of Susannah Spurgeon (1832-1903), wife of the...
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“The West Knows Best”: Unintended Consequences of Western Aid During the West African and Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola Epidemics
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The two largest Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemics on record occurred from 2013-16 in West Africa (Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea) and 2018-20 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), claiming 11 325 and 2 299 lives, respectively. The Western aid responses that followed centered on...
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“They Do Not Sit Down, These Women”: Land Rights, Freedom, and Livelihoods In Zimbabwe Under the Fast-Track Land Reform Program
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This research explores how land reform in Zimbabwe, and particularly the extension of primary land rights to women, influences gender relations. I carried out research in a resettled village where women had received individual title to land during Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP)...
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“This isn’t gonna fix your child,” Experiences of parents using involuntary stabilization for a child’s substance use
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Background: Evidenced-informed strategies are urgently needed to support families who are struggling with a youth’s substance use disorder. One strategy used in several Canadian provinces is involuntary stabilization programs, which involve the apprehension and confinement of youth whose...
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Fall 2021
The concept of ‘winter cities’ speaks to a particular relationship between place and winter. However, winter cities are largely under examined in urban research, particularly Canadian cities. This thesis asks what type of place is a winter city and what types of placemaking occur in this context?...
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Fall 2021
This study explores the relationship between online gender-based violence and symbolic annihilation. I ask the following questions: How extensively are Canadian cabinet ministers Catherine McKenna and Chrystia Freeland subjected to online gender-based violence on Twitter? What forms of online...
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Spring 2021
In 2008 Swiss theatre-maker Milo Rau and a group of collaborators founded the production company the International Institute of Political Murder. Since 2008, Rau and company have created a unique and identifiable brand of documentary-inspired political theatre. Early IIPM projects such as Die...
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A Bayesian Joint Model Framework for Repeated Matrix-Variate Regression with Measurement Error Correction
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In this thesis, with the purpose of correcting for potential measurement errors in repeatedly-observed matrix-valued surrogates, and examining the underlying association between latent matrix covariates and a binary response, we propose a Bayesian joint model framework. This joint model method...
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A Caring Rebellion: Literacy, Power, and the Problem of Marginalized Self-Actualization in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age
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Grounded in the methods of media ecology and Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, this thesis examines the relationships between power, literacy, technology, and society. It poses the problem as to why some individuals can attain critical literacy and self-actualization through literacy...