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Fuel cell as an attractive clean energy source has gained a great deal of interest. To increase the durability and reliability of fuel cells, diagnostics systems that can detect degradation and…

This thesis focuses on the design and development of a wireless and wearable platform that employs an inductive sensor to track trunk movements when the user bends forward. The inductive textile…

Fake news has become a powerful and disruptive force in the social media environment, with serious consequences for democracy. As a result, news organizations and tech companies have taken measures…

There is growing attention in the HCI community on how technology could be designed to support experiences of reminiscence on past life experiences. Yet, this research has largely overlooked people…

Evidence from archaeological sites and ancient and modern DNA suggests that people first entered northern North America via Beringia no later than 15,000 years ago, and potentially as early as 24,000…

The ever-changing gang landscape in British Columbia (BC) has seen periods of escalated retaliatory gang violence, most recently in 2015, in Surrey, BC, Canada. The 'face' of the gang…

The environment in which universities operate continues to shift and change consequent to economic realities, changing demographics, and changes in technology. Planning in higher education must be…

Effective management of animals requires understanding movement throughout the annual cycle. We used satellite transmitters to track 229 adult Pacific Barrow's goldeneye (Bucephala islandica)…

In the realm of the KickQueens, Malak Alawye breaks time's cyclicality when she hits an armed man in the crotch. She takes Lebanon out of its traumatic loop and into a linear dimension where…

Currently, most flexible group benefit plans are designed and priced based on deterministic assumptions about the plan members' option selections. This can cause the adverse selection spiral,…

Effective spatial planning for seabirds depends on understanding what influences foraging habitat choices. I used a long running at-sea survey dataset (1997-2018) to develop a baseline understanding…

Peter and the Wolf is a retelling of the classic symphonic fairy tale for children, queerly remade. Incorporating elements of film, live audio, and imposed communication technologies, the performance…

A new and novel sedimentological-statistical approach is applied to Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation strata in the southwest quadrant of the McMurray depocenter to further comprehend the impact of…

In a marketplace society, we believe we confront each other as human beings. The following argument will demonstrate this assumption to be incorrect. To understand why the person and the human are…

This thesis consists of six essays – framed by introduction and conclusion chapters – that develop possibilities for philosophy of education and pedagogy from the lens of bio-semiotics and edu-…

International research collaboration (IRC) has been on the global governance agenda since the mid-20th century, gaining steam especially after the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism in the 1990s…

YouTube, a web platform with more than 2 billion individual monthly users, is a media powerhouse. However, despite various YouTube content creators garnering attention for their connection to rising…

The single ratio linear fractional programming problem when the denominator of the objective function ratio is non-negative is solvable in polynomial time. This result extends to several classes of…

This thesis describes the use of quotation in Hul'q'umi'num' narratives. Hul'q'umi'num' is the Island dialect of Halkomelem spoken on the southeastern coast of…

Epilepsy is one of the most serious neurological disorders that affects people of all ages. In Canada, an average of 15,500 people discover epilepsy symptoms each year [1]. Numerous scholars have…