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Fall 2009
Over the past three decades, the HIV epidemic has gained a stranglehold in sub-Saharan Africa, where 10% of the world’s population comprises more than 60% of all people living with the disease. Recent initiatives to boost prevention and treatment interventions are beginning to yield modest but...
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First language maintenance and attrition among young Chinese adult immigrants: a multi-case study
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The role of the first language (L1) has been generally acknowledged as having important implications for young immigrants’ linguistic, educational, socio-cultural, intellectual, career, and identity development (e.g., Cummins, 2001; Guardado, 2002; Kim 2006; Kouritzin, 1999). In this case study I...
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Fall 2011
Being human is a finite entity, defined by specific qualities, ideals, or characteristics. In Deleuzian terms, the posthuman is a stage of transition, never reaching representation because it is always changing and becoming. This dissertation explores the subjectivity of mostly Canadian,...
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Fall 2015
This dissertation is written as a series of interconnected papers around a theme– an accepted procedure by the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research – because such a process seemed to better further the goals I have to speak to a variety of Christian audiences and...
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Fall 2010
The sea ice fields produced by the NEMO sea ice/ocean coupled model’s prognostic simulation drift from reality in the Labrador sea. Thus four additional data assimilation experiments were conducted in order to obtain satisfactory sea ice fields. In the first two experiments the model’s sea ice...
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Spring 2015
The education and school experiences of siblings of seriously ill children are greatly affected when the family of an ill child is required to travel for life saving treatment. This study inquired into the narratives of the children as temporary and uniquely challenged students in Alberta to...
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Études sociales, postcolonialisme et multiculturalisme : le Canada, la question d’Israël/Palestine et le Proche-Orient des années 1940 à aujourd’hui
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On a longtemps connu le Canada comme un médiateur raisonnable et respecté qui vise un certain équilibre dans sa position par rapport au conflit israélo-arabe au Moyen-Orient. Cette réputation lui a permis de jouer un rôle d’équilibre sur la scène internationale. Plus de 64 ans après la création...
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Spring 2011
A great majority of children in Canada and the United States from Grades 2-6 fail to solve equivalence problems (e.g., 2 + 4 + 5 = 3 + __) despite having the requisite addition and subtraction skills. The goal of the present study was to determine the relative influence of two variables,...