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Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs) represent an innovative and promising technology for transportation applications due to their low weight, lower operative temperature, and pressure ranges…

Women's documentary filmmaking in Sinophone cinemas has been marginalized in the film industry and understudied in film studies scholarship. The convergence of neoliberalism,…

Post-industrial waterfront redevelopment refers to the transformation from the Keynesian-Fordist industrial landscape to the post-industrial service-based waterfront (Vormann, 2014). Neoliberal…

Vesicular ATP release is involved in regulating biological processes like nociception, blood glucose, and vascular tone. ATP-containing vesicles are filled by the vesicular nucleotide transporter (…

As an Arts based educator, I am particularly interested in exploring Arts classrooms. Places tailored for teaching the Arts are so unique—they are unlike regular classrooms that have no specific…

Environmental regimes are shifting with accelerating climate change, putting at risk species whose ecology has been shaped by pre-industrial climates. Both species physiology and habitat associations…

Food that is available yet inaccessible cannot ensure urban food security. This study involved an online survey (n=84) and semi-structured follow-up key informant interviews (n=10) with individuals…

Nature has evolved many mechanisms for achieving directed motion on the subcellular level. The burnt-bridge ratchet (BBR) is one mechanism used to accomplish superdiffusive motion over long distances…

Background: Drug repurposing can accelerate the identification of effective compounds for clinical use against SARS-CoV-2, with the advantage of pre-existing clinical safety data and an established…

Curious & Curiouser is a dual-part project where listening happens in two different "spaces": the choral composition and in an artist book. Each uses as source material haiku that the…

Background: Although older adults may experience health challenges requiring increased attention and care, they often do not ask for help. This behavior is complex and not completely understood;…

Integrating Indigenous perspectives in British Columbia is a requirement for teacher education programs as well as in the K-12 school programs. This doctoral research aims to study the successes and…

Non-credit programs for older adults have had a peripheral but growing role in Canadian universities since the 1970s (Ratsoy, 2016; Findsen & Formosa, 2011). As the population ages, interest in…

The significance of teacher and student interactions in classrooms as a means of enacting curricula, analyzing learning gains and embedding classrooms into broader societal power relations needs to…

This thesis is composed of three essays on economics of education. The first chapter is co-authored with Ciro Avitabile and Jesse Cunha and investigates the medium-term impact of early-life welfare…

With the acceleration of climate change, Canada's commitment to action on carbon emissions faces several vital contradictions. These tensions have economic, social, and communicative dimensions…

This report highlights the effects of the disruption in the magazine industry in recent years (pre the COVID-19 global pandemic) and explores how brand extension and diversification of revenue has…

Over the past two decades, the steady global popularity of South Korean pop music, known as K-pop, has brought with it a rise in scholarly inquiry surrounding not only the reception of the music…

This dissertation is the author's mourning diary. By way of discursive and poetic, epigraphic and fragmented, graphic and photographic modes of narrative inquiry, he marshals his grief in the…

Cytochromes P450 is a group of heme-containing enzymes with diverse catalytic activity that can be used for the biodegradation of environmental chemicals. Cytochrome P450cam (CYP101A1) from the soil…