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The Southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia are unincorporated communities. Instead of a Mayor and group of counsellors, they are governed by a patchwork of organizations which include the Province…

The salmon aquaculture industry has become a major contributor to the Canadian economy, however, many practices including sea lice pest management strategies have resulted in the contamination of the…

The challenge of condensed matter physics is to understand how various states of matter emerge from periodic or amorphous arrangements of atoms. This is typically easier if there are no impurities in…

In recent years, there has been an ever increasing level of effort focused on creating novel technologies based on spintronics. One of the most exciting of these technologies is spin transfer torque…

Incels, or involuntary celibates, are men who are angry and frustrated at their inability to find sexual or intimate partners. This anger has repeatedly resulted in violence against women. Because…

This thesis examines how the voices of trans women are produced and experienced. I explore the various social forces that affect the production of voice, how voice affects trans women's ability…

Sustainable manufacturing practices have been an essential consideration in recent years. 3D printing will be a key technology in the transition towards sustainability because it minimizes material…

Visible minorities make up roughly half of the population in Metro Vancouver. Despite this, their representation in municipal governments is very low, in partial contrast to provincial and federal…

Nurses belonging to equity-seeking groups, including people of colour, Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and people identifying as 2SLGBTQIA+, face barriers to opportunities and resources…

The modification of proteins with O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) is a nucleocytoplasmic modification that is present on over a thousand different protein targets. This post-translational…

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…