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Land cover change (LCC) can be viewed as dynamic complex systems which require relevant relationships to be encoded when represented within various modeling approaches. Recurrent Neural Networks (…

Land and ocean carbon sinks play a major role in regulating atmospheric CO2 concentration and climate. However, their future efficiency depends on feedbacks in response to changes in atmospheric CO2…

This thesis explores the circulation of fanfiction sub-genres across fan communities as starting point for further inquiries into fan object movement among fans. Fan studies has long been interested…

This thesis presents a series of scientific examples that provide further insight into the connection of light and chemical reactivity for applications in catalysis, targeted drug delivery, and…

The growing ubiquity of GPS-enabled devices in everyday life has made large-scale collection of trajectories feasible, providing ever-growing opportunities for human movement analysis. However,…

Bevölkerungspolitik, population politics, shaped the politics of gender and sexuality during the Weimar Republic. With birth rates falling by the year in the post-war period, Germany was having a…

This report outlines the process used for creating the Master of Publishing 25th anniversary web publication and discusses the design and editorial practices implemented to engage the main audience,…

Forward Stepwise Selection is a widely used model selection algorithm. It is, however, hard to do inference for a model that is already cherry-picked. A post-selection inference method called…

This thesis consists of three papers that explore early human organization. In the first paper I argue that the economic and social structure of early humans would have resulted in an especially…

Human Papillomaviruses can cause cancer of multiple human anatomical sites, with essentially all cervical cancer cases worldwide being attributable to persistent HPV infections. HPV vaccination…

Sleep plays an important role in the overall health and well-being of a child. The relationship between sleep and daytime behaviours of children with sleep disorders is understood poorly; different…

A key management concern for provincial parks is the establishment of invasive species due to their impacts on native biodiversity. Within Blanket Creek Provincial Park there is a 0.24 ha heavily…

This thesis incorporates four studies of the geography of bank offices and deposits in the United States (US). The research examines changes in retail bank branch proximity in neighborhoods, state…

This report looks at the changing landscape of Engage Books as they switch their focus from publishing classic titles to publishing children's books under the mandate 'books that make a…

This dissertation explores and applies experimental methods in economics. The first two chapters deal with the methodology of lab experiments, while the third presents a study on mobility apps. In…

Data preparation is the process of transforming raw data into a clean and consumable format. It is widely known as the bottleneck to extract value and insights from data, due to the number of…

By identifying relationships between regression tree construction and change-point detection, we show that it is possible to prune a regression tree efficiently using properly modified information…

This thesis is an attempt to analyze the philosophical ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin from the point of view of their possible implementation in educational practices. The first chapter examines the…

Word alignment is an essential task in natural language processing because of its critical role in training statistical machine translation (SMT) models, error analysis for neural machine translation…

Bitumen extraction in Alberta's oil sands region generates large volumes of oil sands process-affected waters (OSPW) that pose environmental and human health risks. Currently, few feasible…