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In an urban context, the immigrant church is not only a place of worship, but it is also a community hub, a cultural center, and a social gathering place. When COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic…

This research study explores the financial-related challenges impacting young professionals in the City of Vancouver. It approaches the topic from a life course perspective, considering how the…

Despite extensive research on the politics of war and Yugoslav refugees during the civil war, there has been scant research on identity building in their children. I present the term, "…

This research is aimed at understanding sense of community among residents of a master planned community in Richmond's Oval Village. In particular, my research investigates how affordable…

Active noise cancelling (ANC) headphones grant an individual the ability to define and create personal sonic borders in real time. While this promise offers individuals a form of sonic escapism, I…

Despite the fact that women significantly outnumber men in the publishing industry, surveys and journalistic accounts reported from both the United States and the United Kingdom over the last 10…

This thesis proposes a novel approach for indoor scene illumination modeling and augmented reality rendering. Our key observation is that an indoor scene is well represented by a set of rectangular…

Data stalls are a major overhead in main-memory database engines due to the use of pointer-rich data structures. Lightweight coroutines ease the implementation of software prefetching to hide data…

In recent years, deep learning models have been widely used and are behind major breakthroughs across many fields. Deep learning models are usually considered to be black boxes due to their large…

Phaeocystis is an ecologically important cosmopolitan genus with several species that form harmful algal blooms. Previous studies of the mechanisms of Phaeocystis blooms have been hindered by the…

A universal prescription drug coverage policy remains an unfinished business of Canadian healthcare system with over sixty year long historical roots. Since national medicare doesn't provide…

In the Fraser River Estuary of British Columbia, tidal marshes have been receding and converting into unvegetated mudflats since the 1980s. While there are many hypotheses for this recession, the…

For the nervous system to develop properly, axons must connect neurons into networks by navigating to their target destinations. A large proportion of genes containing extracellular Leucine-Rich…

Single stock terminal fisheries for Fraser River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) have been proposed as an alternative to lower-river mixed-stock fisheries to avoid weak stocks and support…

The Mpemba effect refers to a phenomenon where a sample of hot water may cool and begin to freeze more quickly than a cool or warm water sample prepared under identical conditions. Although the…

Aging in place is a common topic among gerontologists, policy-makers, older adults, and other stakeholders, and is widely recognized as the most desirable option for older adults in Canada. A…

This dissertation primarily examines two separate topics: evidencing the presence of boundedly rational behavior on currency designs and re-examination of extant status theory as applied to high-…

There is pressing need to manage adolescent substance use to prevent impaired driving. Adolescent impaired driving is more common than imagined and is damaging to the health of Canadians and the…

As the number of couples using In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) treatment to give birth increases, so too does the need for robust tools to assist embryologists in selecting the highest quality embryos…

The jump-diffusion framework introduced by Duffie et al. (2000) encompasses most one factor models used in finance. Due to the model complexity of this framework, the particle filter (e.g., Hurn et…