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This study presents the stories shared by five students at Simon Fraser University who identify as women of color, regarding their fear of harassment or violence and perceptions of safety while…

Since my move to so-called Canada in 2015, I have reconsidered the way in which the places I have dwelled are bound to the temporal materialities around me. Through my transits in Mexico City, Oaxaca…

Sexual conflict occurs in biparental species because working together provides shared benefits while incurring individual costs. In birds, coordination of provisioning visits via turn-taking has been…

The goal of precision oncology is to make accurate predictions for cancer patients via some omics data types of individual patients. Major challenges of computational methods for drug response…

In British Columbia, Canada, older adults make up 40% of the rural populous. Rural communities have been reported to have reduced quantity and accessibility to formal services and supports in…

Advances in the technological sphere are synergistic with society's progression. Technological innovations result in social realities, and these correspondingly remodel technologies to reconcile…

Common property have long been considered inefficient and short lived, since they encourage high-productivity individuals to leave and shirking among those who stay. In contrast, kibbutzim ---…

Harlequin ducks breed at low densities on montane streams across a large geographic region. Variation within and between watersheds can make it difficult to isolate the effects of local stressors…

This study seeks to understand traditional food sharing and selling networks in Inuvik, NWT amidst dramatic societal change and growing food (in)security concerns. Country (traditional) foods…

Stories are integral to Coast Salish culture, past and present. This thesis is about my journey towards Hul'q'umi'num' fluency, through learning to tell a story with the support…

Snare (2020), explores the entangled relationship between visibility, concealment, and the domestic sphere as a site of artistic production. Through the use of pattern, painting and sculpture, Snare …

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is a technique for inferring the power consumption of each appliance within a home from one central meter, aiding in energy conservation. In this thesis I present…

Abstract For Indigenous communities everywhere, the passing of valued Knowledge Holders is resulting in the loss of history, language and culture on a daily basis. This is the case for our Ts'…

This doctoral thesis in educational leadership focuses on the Breton language, on its revitalization and its transmission. Primarily spoken in Brittany, this Celtic language has faced a dramatic drop…

Thanks to the high energy efficiency, neuromorphic devices are spotlighted recently by mimicking the calculation principle of the human brain through the parallel computation and the memory function…

This critical qualitative study centers the counselling experiences, needs and desires of eight people with gender identities outside the binary. Thematic analysis of firsthand accounts shows a…

Visual learning and efficient communication in mining and geotechnical practices is crucial, yet often challenging. With the advancement of Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) a new era of…

Climate change risk for migratory species is intertwined with their life-history diversity. Here I quantify climate risk, exposure, and phenological adaptive capacity in Chinook salmon during their…

The current study examined a newly-translated Simplified Chinese version of the Thyroid-Specific Patient-Reported Outcome Short Form (SC ThyPRO-39) among 179 thyroid patients in Mainland China. This…

Recently, the concept of ocean literacy (OL) has been described as a way forward to help communities and individuals develop a more holistic understanding of their influences on the ocean and the…