• Emotional Intelligence and Social Skills in Adolescents with ASD with Intact Intellectual Functioning after the Participation in PEERS 

  Rodgers, Andrea (Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, 2019-11-15)

  The purpose of this study is to examine the relation between social skills and two main frameworks of Emotional Intelligence (EI): Ability Emotional Intelligence (AEI) and Trait Emotional Intelligence (TEI) among adolescents ...

• The Experience of HELLP Syndrome in Pregnancy and its Influence on Motherhood: An Autoethnographic Inquiry 

  Kokotailo, Rae Anne (Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, 2019-11-14)

  This thesis involved an autoethnographic inquiry into the lived experience of HELLP syndrome; a severe, life-threatening hypertensive complication in pregnancy, and on motherhood. I aimed to explore how mothers make sense ...

• Examining Factors that Influence Organizational Commitment in Volunteer Leaders of Non-profit Islamic Organizations Across Urban Alberta 

  Qasqas, Mahdi J. (Social Work, University of Calgary, 2019-11-13)

  Ongoing resource challenges in the Canadian nonprofit sector and a national decline in volunteer rates and hours necessitates a deeper understanding of factors influencing organizational commitment in volunteer leaders. ...

• Stress Inversion and Damage Quantification in Tight Gas Shale with Application to Hydraulic Fracturing 

  Jia, Suzie Qing (Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, 2019-11)

  This thesis aims to advance the quantitative analysis of stress and failure process in tight gas shale under hydraulic fracturing by integrating stress inversion, microseismic monitoring, acoustic emission and discrete ...

• Measurement and Simulation of Preferential Flow in Frozen Soils 

  Mohammed, Aaron A. (Science, University of Calgary, 2019-11)

  The infiltrability of frozen soils strongly influences the partitioning of snowmelt and hydrological functioning of cold regions. Preferential flow in macropores may enhance infiltration into frozen soil, but flow dynamics ...

• Verifiable Relativistic Quantum Communication 

  Wu, Yadong (Science, University of Calgary, 2019-11)

  Quantum summoning retrieves quantum information prepared at some point in spacetime at another point, which is randomly chosen from a set of points. This thesis presents an efficient quantum summoning protocol based on a ...

• A Western Canadian University Leadership Response to Human-made and Natural Crises: Strategies and Challenges. 

  Ovie, Glory Rita (Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, 2019-11)

  This qualitative narrative research examined how senior higher education leaders in a large western Canadian university responded to human-made and natural crises. The literature review establishes a theoretical framework ...

• Improving immigrants' physical and mental health through volunteering 

  Liu, Ka Kei Jacky (Social Work, University of Calgary, 2019-11-01)

  With one fifth of the total population being immigrants, Canada has been one of the most attractive countries as a destination for immigration. Normally, immigrants who have greater human capital and better health are ...

• Women's Experiences of Prenatal Ultrasound in the Context of Atypical Findings 

  Powell, Christopher David (Nursing, University of Calgary, 2019-11-04)

  Prenatal ultrasound (U/S) can play a vital role in supporting reproductive choice. As a diagnostic modality, U/S provides clinical data that inform approaches to managing complicated pregnancy. The capability of U/S to ...

• How do You Watch? Defining Audience in the Era of Internet-Mediated Television 

  Chiang, Angela (Arts, University of Calgary, 2019-10-31)

  Television content and its consumption have experienced radical changes since the turn of the century which have yet to be systematically explored and theorized. As we head into this new era of television, study of this ...

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