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Policymakers are increasingly recognizing the ways in which Indigenous Knowledge can complement Western science to improve our understanding of and response to important issues such as climate change…

Public transportation is crucial in helping to grow cities sustainably. Good public transportation allows for less car-dependence, healthier and less polluted communities, and more equitable…

Incarcerated individuals are more likely to deal with mental health challenges than the broader Canadian public. Mental illness can be a contributor to criminal behaviour, while the experience of…

It is sometimes necessary to search for visual objects of potential interest that are underspecified (e.g., any illegal item in a suitcase). The search for such an object can be accomplished easily…

Our current confluence of global crises points to the very real possibility of systems collapse. These crises will continue to accelerate under capitalism due to its inherent structural…

Despite substantial research demonstrating its effectiveness in the treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD), few studies have investigated mechanisms of change for dialectical behavior…

This project presents five new Hul'q'umi'num stories about the land and sea, created with the help of my elders. The Coast Salish people of the Hul'q'umi'num'…

In each cell type, chromosomes are organized into a specific 3D structure that controls the function of a cell through different mechanisms including domain-scale regulation. Because of the…

My thesis describes the practices associated with being a rural Kosovo nuse, an Albanian word referring to both brides and young married women. These practices, which Kosovo people regard as…

This thesis investigates the identity building within the third-generation members of an immigrant community in Turkey, a group whose grandparents immigrated from the former Yugoslavia to Turkey…

Telemedicine has grown exponentially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and has demonstrated the benefits of a virtual healthcare system. In British Columbia, third-party providers are currently…

Green infrastructure (GI) and nature-based solutions (NbS) have been identified as an important strategy to assist in delivering key infrastructure services in Metro Vancouver, particularly when…

Evolved differences in life history traits, including fertilization ecology and mating systems, are expected to affect the strength of sexual selection acting on gamete-recognition genes (GRGs)…

Many relational datasets, including relational databases, feature links of different types (e.g., actors act in movies, users rate movies), known as multi-relational, heterogeneous, or multilayer…

Gas hydrates (or clathrate hydrates) are well-defined crystalline structures that consist of a host lattice of hydrogen-bonded water molecules partially or fully loaded with guest molecules. Guest…

Zinc oxide is a potentially useful material in optoelectronics. It has a 3.3 eV direct bandgap which makes it a comparatively inexpensive candidate for replacing gallium nitride as a UV light emitter…

Photoremovable protecting groups are powerful tools for the release or deprotection of a wide range of molecules. Benzoin type photoremovable protecting groups are renowned for their exceptional…

There is a gap in understanding how regional governmental authorities like Metro Vancouver understand the terms nature-based solutions (NbS) and green infrastructure (GI). Without a more fulsome and…

The present research consists of using Wenner's four electrodes method to measure the electrical resistivity of soil (e.g., clayey silt and clay), applying two machine-learning algorithms (k…

Silicon photonic integrated circuits have advanced to the point where thousands of components can now be combined into functioning optical circuits. A variety of quantum technologies are based upon…