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We report on the design and deployment of a probe study aimed at understanding the values, practices, and perspectives of people that actively embrace living situations that could be considered…

To inform developing interactive tools for maternal health, this thesis focused on the complex realities of pregnant women in rural Kenya. An extensive literature review and initial fieldwork…

The average sensitivity of a graph algorithm is a measure that calculates the stability of the algorithm when the input graph undergoes perturbations. The perturbation is represented by removing some…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, long-term care homes in Canada enacted lockdown protocols to safeguard the health of their residents. Consequently, physicians had to connect virtually with residents…

Fluorescence microscopy enables us to examine cellular structures with exceptional detail, significantly advancing our understanding of subcellular components. Among these components, the endoplasmic…

The electrochemically active surface area (ECSA) loss of the cathode electrode remains a critical issue for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell durability in zero-emission transportation and…

Growing up in the 90s and inspired by the philosophy and aesthetics of an 'East meets West' art education led by a group of New Confucian exiles in British Hong Kong, my practice is an…

Deaths attributed to illicit substance use increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the rise in opioid overdoses, the delivery of overdose care has become a significant service for…

In many real-world randomized controlled trials (RCTs), noncompliance behaviour often occurs and can greatly complicate assessing the intervention efficacy. Furthermore, multiple outcomes are usually…

The Mount Meager (Q̓welq̓welústen) Volcanic Complex is an elevated and glaciated volcanic system where many landslides larger than 100,000 m3 have occurred. Landslide susceptibility in the MMVC was…

Single-room occupancy (SRO) hotel tenants in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside live in 100-square-foot units within aging buildings with shared facilities. The institutional abandonment of these…

Includes supplementary information and data for the Terrorism News Beat. Materials include replication data and R scripts, procedures used for content analyses, and additional analyses and robustness…

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is an important class of methods in Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly for optimization problems and decision-making under uncertainty. However, practical and…

The cross-race effect refers to poorer recognition of faces of another race compared to faces of one's own race. This research investigates this phenomenon in White, East Asian, and Hispanic…

Several studies show that a significant fraction of fresh fruits are discarded at the retail and consumer levels, wasting precious resources and polluting the environment. We propose a cost-effective…

This thesis developed a community-informed definition of 15-minute neighbourhoods and explored how this intersected with social equity in accessibility to amenities. We mapped 15-minute…

The success of deep learning (DL) on a wide range of computer vision tasks can be attributed to the availability of large-scale annotated datasets, such as ImageNet and MS-COCO. However, such large-…

Recent years have witnessed a boom in the development of radiopharmaceuticals, a novel cancer treatment. A key contributor to this endeavor is securing a stable supply of medical radionuclides.…

Older adults with a history of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) might be uniquely vulnerable to subjective cognitive decline (SCD), which can adversely impact quality of life. Leveraging data from…

Climate change poses a significant challenge, and despite growing calls from activists around the world, those in power have been slow to act. Plausibly, many would-be environmental activists may…