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This research explores the role of fake news delivered during the 2019 Canadian Federal election. The aim of this study is to understand what impact exposure to fake news may have had on voter's…

A fully integrated grasping system for a mobile manipulator to grasp an unknown object of interest (OI) in an unknown environment is presented. The system autonomously scans its environment, models…

With the advancement of sequencing technologies, genomic data sets are constantly being expanded by high volumes of different data types. One recently introduced data type in genomic science is…

Policy efforts to reduce human trafficking in Canada have heavily focused on sex trafficking relative to labour trafficking. Partly as a result, victims of labour trafficking often lack effective…

Carbohydrates are one of the four main classes of biological macromolecules in nature, alongside lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. They serve in a wide range of cellular functions fundamental to…

In agricultural landscapes, hedgerows provide critical habitat for songbirds. Himalayan Blackberry (Rubus armeniacus; HBB) is a widespread invasive species in the Pacific Northwest that has been…

This doctoral work aims to understand designers' search behaviour when navigating through a large number of design alternatives. The motivation for this research lies in previous studies on…

Insect herbivores exploit plant cues to discern host and non-host plants. Studies of visual plant cues have focused on color despite the inherent polarization sensitivity of insect photoreceptors and…

Responding to Susan Stryker's (2006) call to identify the "seams and sutures" of the 'natural body', this dissertation analyzes the social incarnation of the 'natural…

Climate change and human activities are altering river flows and temperatures, with potentially large consequences for aquatic life. I investigated how changing river flows affect salmon productivity…

As part of Russia's ongoing foreign interference campaign, The Internet Research Agency (IRA) appropriated marginalised identities and created impersonated propaganda, including the Facebook…

Can we trust that the attention heatmaps produced by a neural machine translation (NMT) model reflect its true internal reasoning? We isolate and examine in detail the notion of faithfulness in NMT…

Learning, as it is being increasingly recognized, is centrally predicated upon students' wellbeing. Research findings indicate that in the instances of wounding and trauma, students'…

Decarbonatization of the World's primary energy supply is becoming increasingly more important due to a rapidly changing climate. A hydrogen-based economy offers a potential means of zero-carbon…

Today, people with British/European heritage comprise about half (49.3%) of the total population of Metro Vancouver, while the other half is represented by visual minorities, with Chinese (20.6%) and…

The Shortest Path Problem with Time Windows (SPPTW) is an important generalization of the classical shortest path problem. SPPTW has been extensively studied in practical problems, such as…

Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCT-A) permits visualization of the changes to the retinal circulation due to diabetic retinopathy (DR), a microvascular complication of diabetes. Machine…

This thesis presents a determination of the jet energy scale for the ATLAS detector using in-situ measurements. This calibration is critical, as jets are found in many analyses, and the energy…

As computational resources have become faster and more economical, scientific research has transitioned from using only physical experiments to using simulationbased exploration. A body of…

Quality of care in humanitarian healthcare is a challenge requiring a partnership between the project and the operational center, necessitating a way to bridge the divide between "on the ground…