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Non-signaling strategies are a generalization of quantum strategies that have been studied in physics over the past three decades. Recently, they have found applications in theoretical computer…

Locally decodable codes (LDCs) are error-correcting codes $C : \Sigma^k \to \Sigma^n$ that admit a local decoding algorithm that recovers each individual bit of the message by querying only a few…

Recent developments in new molecular designs, scaling relationships, and theoretical modeling of mechanisms have rapidly advanced the utility of metalloporphyrins as electrocatalysts in the…

With the rapid growth in the telecom market, there is an emerging trend to focus on customer retention, which is a critical factor for designing future customer incentive strategies to help a company…

Civil protests. Music concerts and festivals. Sporting events. Parades and other large-scale celebrations. While these events differ in terms of their purpose, they are fundamentally all the same:…

Autonomous aerial and wheeled mobile robots play a major role in tasks such as search and rescue, transportation, monitoring, and inspection. However, these operations are faced with a few open…

Background: Exercise has been shown to have stress-reducing effects. Exercise is a non-invasive, relatively inexpensive activity, warranting further investigation as a protective influence against…

Deep neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of tasks. Convolutional neural networks, with their ability to learn complex spatial features, have surpassed human…

Biological control agents and composted materials, including vermicomposts and their water extracts, are used to suppress plant diseases in organic production systems, where fungicide use is limited…

Although case formulation and scenario planning are elements included in many structured professional judgment (SPJ) decision support aids, the utility of these steps in the development of risk…

This research explores the Daryl Morey incident as a case of international communication. On October 4, 2019, the general manager of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Houston Rockets,…

For a symmetric {0, 1, ⋆ }-matrix M of size m, a graph G is said to be M-partitionable, if its vertices can be partitioned into sets V1, V2, . . . , Vm, such that two parts Vi, Vj are completely…

This report documents my experience of teaching PUB 800 – Text and Context: Publishing in Contemporary Culture at SFU Publishing in the Fall 2020 semester, which was both my first time teaching this…

The high accuracy of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) come at the expense of high computational cost and memory requirements. During inference, the data is often collected on the edge device which are…

This thesis presents findings and analysis drawn from semi-structured qualitative interviews with eleven members, staff, and leaders within the BC Government and Service Employees' Union (BCGEU…

Work reported in this thesis, from three independent projects, highlights: first, a novel DNA secondary structure fold from a neurodegenerative disease-linked repeat sequence; second, a new approach…

Existing research is limited regarding intergenerational effects of adolescent mothers' abuse histories on their children and the pathways by which transmission of risk occurs. The current study…

This report details my research on the housing value of the Metlakatla First Nation's Cumulative Effects Management Program. The program is designed to protect Metlakatla community values, such…

In recent years, decision-makers in BC have engaged people who use(d) drugs (PWUD) and the general public for their input on strategic directions regarding the overdose crisis. Given the oft-…

Effective wildlife conservation requires understanding diet composition and its consequences for population demography. I measured the diet of an at-risk population of Northern Goshawks (Accipiter…