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Contemporary China has witnessed the transformation of Chinese feminism from state feminism to grassroot feminism. Weibo hashtag #DontYouBeAfraidYourSistersAreHere is a typical grassroot feminist…

In recent years there has been a call for the development of integrated continuing care systems in Canada. Such systems would provide older adults and informal caregivers with a comprehensive…

Emotion regulation is foundational to mental health and well-being. In the last ten years there has been an increasing focus on the use of interactive technologies to support emotion regulation…

Influence diffusion concerns the propagation of an entity throughout a network. The naming alludes to the application that motivated the study of this process: the influence that social network users…

Our current Internet environment is characterized by online conglomerates, predictive computing and data mining. With this, there is a growing concern among users on how to protect their privacy and…

People with lived experience of homelessness (PWLEs) have poorer health and higher rates of hospital admissions than stably housed persons. However, PWLEs are often discharged from hospital to…

In this thesis, we present new methods to address multi-person scene understanding. Specifically, we focus on a multi-person task known as group activity recognition. We analyze multi-person scene…

This research examines judicial intervention striking down mandatory minimum sentencing laws in Canada. Between 2006 and 2015, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government…

Recent Canadian research highlights a tension. President Trump may be responsible for a potential weakening of the social norms surrounding Canadian identity. Trump's effect, however, is…

The model of sparse vectors has proven invaluable for compressive imaging, allowing for signal recovery from very few linear measurements. Recently however, the structured sparsity model of sparsity…

Probabilistic topic models (PTM's) have become a ubiquitous approach for finding a set of latent themes (``topics'') in collections of unstructured text. A simpler, linear algebraic…

The green peach aphid, Myzus persicae Sulzer (Hemiptera: Aphididae), poses a serious threat to a wide variety of both greenhouse and field crops. In greenhouses, biological control agents are…

Since 2015, the OwnVoices Movement has been promoting the idea that stories representing any marginalized communities – people of colour, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, etc. – should be written by…

The propagation of internal gravity waves in stratified media (such as those found in ocean basins and lakes) leads to the development of geometrical patterns called "attractors". These…

The Burkhardt quartic is a projective threefold which, geometrically, is birational to the moduli space of abelian surfaces with full level-3 structure. We study this moduli interpretation of the…

We consider the game of cops and robbers, which is a game played on a finite graph G by two players, Alice and Bob. Alice controls a team of cops, and Bob controls a robber, both of which occupy…

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) was grown on top of (0001) textured polycrystalline Ru or single crystalline Cu (110) inside a Low Energy Electron Microscope (LEEM). Ru samples were prepared via…

A novel coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, has caused the outbreak of the pandemic of COVID-19. The global economy, people's health and life have been facing a tremendous threat in COVID-19. This…

Urban designers and landscape architects have begun to devote more of their practice to the creation of learning opportunities in public spaces. Very little research has been conducted, however, into…

Data from outcome research studies indicate that spiritual and religious approaches to psychotherapy are effective in improving the psychological wellbeing of clients. While there has been…