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2019-08-11

Taylor-Hulan, Kelly

The increasingly rapid speed of technological change has undoubtedly impacted the field of education as may have left those who need education the most, further behind. Online education requires both teacher and learner to have a different skill set. Some of these skills are hard skills such as...

2010-08-31

VanDusen, Nikki

Fall 2009

King, Martina

The goal of this study is to better understand academic library design, selection, and use of web icons. An additional goal is to discover some of the possible consequences of icon design decisions for student users. This research is meant to help library staff better understand the factors...

2021-06-03

Nunn, Natasha, Henry, Alison, Pow, Virginia, Sherbaniuk, Patti, Stieglitz, Lauren

Library guides are widely used to organize and share information. At the University of Alberta, subject librarians use library guides to create subject area guides, topical guides and course-specific guides. These guides are a common tool, but how helpful are they to our users? How often are they...

2015

Klassen, John S., Yao, Yuyu, Serpe, Michael J., Xu, Wenwen

Anisotropic particles have generated an enormous amount of research interest due to their applications for drug delivery, electronic displays and as micromotors. However, up till now, there is no single protocol capable of generating particles of “patchy” composition with a variety of...

Spring 2023

Sadri, Reza

Accurate steady-state analysis of power converters are essential for converter design and optimization. Steady-state responses are also useful for component selection, loss calculation, identification of soft switching operation, and small signal modeling of power converters. Normally, a...

Fall 2010

Jin, Ming

Because of their high strength to weight ratio, stiffened steel plates are often used in light structures where plates are placed into compression. The stability of steel plates stiffened with longitudinal tee-shaped stiffeners and subjected to uniaxial compression or combined axial compression...

Fall 2017

Talaei, Fereshte

Premature corrosion of reinforcing steel is a cause of concern for steel-reinforced concrete structures, since it causes them to deteriorate before their design operational life is attained. The Use of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) bars in reinforced-concrete (RC) structures has been shown to...

Spring 2014

Pankovskyi, Iaroslav

This dissertation is concerned with the communicative potential of websites. The World Wide Web is a relatively new locale for communication on which an increasing number of users rely daily in Canada and in Ukraine. However, up to the present time there has been no unified framework for the...

Fall 2018

Shahandeh, Hossein

Canada has the third largest oil reserves in the world where 97% of these reserves are located in the oil sands, Alberta province. The product resulted from the extraction of oil sands reserves is called bitumen which can be diluted and shipped to the market or it can be proceeded and upgraded...