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This paper examines how subsistence farmers respond to extreme heat. Using micro-data from Peruvian households, we find that high temperatures reduce agricultural productivity, increase area planted…

Once believed to be a self-help organization, NXIVM has impacted how we traditionally perceive new religious movements (NRMs), opening the dialogue to further explore the relationship between NRMs…

Hypoxia has a detrimental impact on the brain due to its large oxygen demand. Hypoxia induced deficits are of concern for pilots, who undertake training to recognize their own symptoms of hypoxia.…

This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to…

This report presents an in-depth examination of New Star Books, an independent publisher located in Vancouver, Canada. Its primary objective is to critically evaluate the publisher's existing…

While acknowledging the existence of non-democratic forms of representation, political scientists have shown little interests in understanding conceptions and practices of political representation…

Through research conducted in a classroom, this dissertation explores problem solving in choice-affluent environments where students have abundant access to resources beyond their own and their group…

While science and art are often taught as entirely separate subjects, there are numerous historical and contemporary connections between these two fields of study. What will happen when the…

Freshwater fish such as juvenile salmon may rely on dynamic and diverse habitats. The importance of freshwater wetlands to juvenile coho salmon in large river networks is not well known. I studied…

Many problems in computational science and engineering can be cast as approximating a high-dimensional function from data. These types of problems involves at least three main challenges. First, the…

Students in British Columbia are required to take Physical and Health Education 10 (PHE 10) as a graduation requirement, and for many, especially females, it may be the last Physical Education (PE)…

Non-profit organizations that promote gender equity are central and yet understudied actors in reconciliation work in so-called "Canada." Building on Epps' 'settler problem…

This thesis consists of three essays considering the health, environmental and social outcomes of two different types of regulations on fuels. The first chapter examines a recent set of International…

Although women's soccer in Germany re-emerged after its ban from 1955-1970, the German soccer culture and system remain rooted in a restrictive gender ideology that privileges men. Using broader…

While societies around the world are grappling with the challenge of maintaining productive food systems that are resilient to climatic disturbances, Indigenous communities have been adapting to…

Indigenous cultural heritage (ICH) is rapidly diminishing worldwide, driven by factors like development, private property rights, and colonial planning. This study centers on the Comox Valley within…

This study explores the long-term impact community-based, nonfamilial intergenerational (IG) programs have on the lives of participants as well as identifies key organizational attributes of IG…

This thesis presents two user studies that investigate how the errors that can occur during speech recognition affect users' text entry performance and their experience. For this work, I used a…

Shared Last-level caches are increasingly facing severe security risks from occupancy attacks and set-conflict-based side-channel attacks, e.g., Prime+Probe. Attackers use unrestricted cache occupacy…