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Is What You See What You Get? Exploring the Role of Virtual Reference Icons on Academic Library Websites
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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...
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Fall 2016
The thesis traces Internet textual representations of the Maidan, a wide-scale protest movement that took place in 2013-2014 in Ukraine, and their function in identifying the opposing sides during the protests. These texts helped to formulate new narratives, articulate attitudes, and build...
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Master & student: an investigation of the methods of negotiating teacher-student relationships in the martial arts
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This thesis is an ethnographic comparison of two martial arts training systems, with the goal of discovering what methods martial arts teachers employ to define and negotiate relationships with their students. Informed by the approaches employed by previous martial arts scholars, this study uses...
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2016-10-14
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: There is a paucity of research on the factors that shape the pathways from being a Temporary Foreign Worker [TFW] to other status in Canada and how TFWs' agency can be further leveraged to address their precarious migration status in Canada. Drawing on data from Alberta,...
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Fall 2020
This correlational study examines the predictive utility of several demographic and psychological variables on problem gambling categorization and severity within a population of post-secondary students and student-athletes. The current research used a integrative model of problem gambling...
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2019-12-05
Proportion of Female/Male Students and Principal Investigators at the University of Alberta, 2016-2019
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Report from the Working Group on Text-Matching Software for Detecting Plagiarism in Student Work
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Hackett, Chris, Eerkes, Deborah
A working group of the University of Alberta's Campus Law Review Committee (CLRC) examined the use of Text Matching Software (TMS) as a tool to detect plagiarism in student work. The group met over the 2012-13 academic year to study the issue and made seven recommendations.
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Role of Caregiver Beliefs About Alzheimer Disease in the Social Creation of Dependency Among Persons With Alzheimer Disease
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It is estimated that over 1.1 million people in Canada will have dementia by 2038 (Alzheimer Society of Canada, 2010). In the caregiving context it is important that independence be maintained for as long as possible. Previous research has shown that caregivers can inadvertently create excess...
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Spanish Dialectal Variation in the Foreign Language Classroom: Students' Attitudes, Instructors' Beliefs and Teaching Practices, and Treatment of Variation in Textbooks
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Communicative competence is a key concept in the field of foreign/second language (FL/L2) teaching and learning. In fact, the development of the learner’s communicative competence is one of the essential goals of FL/L2 teaching. In Bachman’s model (1990) of Communicative Language Ability,...
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2010
Bostrom, A.M., Estabrooks, C.A., Kajermo, K.N., Thompson, D.S., Hutchinson, A.M., Wallin, L.
Background: A commonly recommended strategy for increasing research use in clinical practice is to identify barriers to change and then tailor interventions to overcome the identified barriers. In nursing, the BARRIERS scale has been used extensively to identify barriers to research utilization. ...