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The contemporary discourse of reconciliation in Canada is imbued with liberal conceptions recognition. A discourse analysis of the Principles respecting the government of Canada's relationship…

This project examines the strategic form and function of legal mobilization. The scholarship on this topic is extensive, yet it falls short of explaining how and why mobilization continues after the…

In sports, baseline assessment of self-reported concussion-related symptoms with the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT) is often implemented as part of sports-related concussion protocols.…

In this thesis, we have developed a semi-autonomous behavior that allows us to control a drone with less effort. We have also presented a technique that enables autonomous repeating of a previously…

Critical infrastructures (CI) are connecting their systems to networks at an increasing rate, providing the opportunity for malicious actors to conduct cyber-attacks against these companies. In an…

Recent years have witnessed a drastic increase in the scale of data generated by sensors and smart devices across the city. While the data scale is increasing, it is more and more important to…

Radioactive isotopes are widely used in medicine for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.The most commonly used isotope is technetium-99m (99mTc), a product of β-decay of a molybdenum-99 (99Mo)…

This dissertation examines the role of curiosity in understanding the process of mathematical meaning-making. I argue that human curious behaviour coupled with the affordances of digital technology…

The Canadian government has made commitments to transition Canada to net-zero emissions by 2050 but has not addressed the transformative changes needed to decarbonize emissions-intensive and trade-…

In this study, we introduced Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) as a novel technique for studying gestational chemical mixtures. Using data from the Maternal-Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals…

Mediation analysis examines the exposure-outcome association that acts through an intermediate variable. However, mediation analysis becomes challenging when data have missing values. Although…

At the conclusion of the Gastown Riot in August 1971, Vancouver Police Inspector Robert Abercrombie declared the evening "a good night's work." Using riot sticks and horse hooves,…

Simultaneous neural Machine Translation (SiMT) aims to maintain translation quality while minimizing the delay between reading the input and incrementally producing the output. The eventual goal of…

Data-driven processes are increasingly being used in architectural design to create, evaluate, and select design options. Multiple design-aid systems for supporting such processes exist. Despite this…

The number and scales of data centers have significantly increased in the current digital world. The distributed data centers are standing out as a promising solution due to the development of modern…

An O(\sqrt {n}) query time and O(n^{1.5}) size oracle for counting shortest paths is proposed. Given a pair of vertices u and v in a planar graph G of n vertices, the oracle answers the number of…

This thesis presents an approach to incorporating qualitative assertions of conditional irrelevance into belief change, in order to address the limitations of existing work which considers only…

We address the Plan2Scene task: converting a floorplan and associated photos into a textured 3D mesh model of a residence. Our method 1) lifts a floorplan image to a 3D mesh, 2) synthesizes textures…

Supersingular isogeny graphs, which encode supersingular elliptic curves and their isogenies, have recently formed the basis for a number of post-quantum cryptographic protocols. The study of…

The effective population size Ne was introduced by geneticist Sewall Wright to describe idealized populations. Ne has been a research interest because of its mathematical theory and population…