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The development of Internet technology and globalization have boosted the game industry, and among which Massive Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games (MMORPGs) provide a space where players could…

Students often confront grief, anxiety, and despair as they learn about ecological decline and their complicity in a deleterious system. Ecological grief afflicts students even as the world requires…

Although the first bacterial genome sequence was published almost 20 years ago, there is still no generalizable method for automatically assigning natural products to their cognate biosynthetic gene…

The press is regarded as a political instrument all over the world, and the media are an integral part of the political life in most democratic societies, serving for most people as their major and…

The cultural order dominated by China's mainstream society has long criticized the popular Tuwei culture on the Internet and its rural background. However, in recent years, mainstream media and…

The existing literature and research on fathers in movements demonstrate differing approaches to understanding fatherhood, men's engagement in the family pre/post separation, family law, and…

This project examines dog owners' and non dog owners' use of an off-leash urban dog park to learn how such public space is used and by whom. As cities densify, the challenges of defining…

This thesis studies the design, synthesis, and optimization of radiopharmaceuticals for targeted alpha therapy applications with actinium-225 (225Ac). In Chapter 2, three novel radiopharmaceuticals…

The Simon Fraser University Retirees Association (SFURA) is publishing a website and book providing a retrospective of the Centre for Communications and the Arts (CCA). As the campus arts hub during…

The creative city concept is one that has been applied and transferred across many urban centres' cultural policy. In its adaptation by the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN), a recognized…

In this study, I analyze professional designers' experiences of exercising agency and enacting ethics in design practice. This research is based on a focus group and a series of individual…

During summer months in alpine systems around the world patches of green, orange and red snow appear. The phenomenon is sometimes called watermelon snow and is caused by a bloom of microalgae. The…

There is evidence that common genetic variation in the gene NEDD9 is associated with developing Alzheimer's Disease (AD). In this project, we study the relationship between brain-imaging…

Reinforcement learning is one of the major areas of artificial intelligence that has been studied rigorously in recent years. Among numerous methodologies, Q-learning is one of the most fundamental…

Skeletal muscles are the motors that drive human and animal locomotion. Yet despite their fundamental importance, our understanding of whole muscle behaviour is relatively limited due to practical…

Baklava is a famous, culturally significant and rather contentious dessert. In Turkey, Antep Baklava/Gaziantep Baklava, from Gaziantep, was granted national and international Geographical Indication…

This is an ethnographic project that explores the articulation by urban communities of ways of using public space by examining how and why people skateboard in Vancouver. By conducting semi-…

Housing affordability is identified as a major barrier to meeting the core housing needs of older adults in Canada. Metro Vancouver in British Columbia (BC), Canada, is known for its lack of adequate…

Since deglaciation, Fraser River through the southern British Columbia (BC) interior has undergone episodic aggradation and incision to create a series of distinct stepped terraces. This study…

In physics-based character animation, motions are realized through control of simulated characters along with their interactions with the virtual environment. In this thesis, we study the problem of…