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These hwulmuhwqun stories are about connecting generations. After learning the history of our people, learning the Hul'q'umi'num' language was my way of connecting to those who…

The role of oral history in Caribbean culture promotes the use of narrative in order to retrieve missing histories not found in literature. It examines the power of narrative in reconstructing…

I present a new perspective on 'money laundering,' understanding it from a risk perspective using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). I initially discuss the models studied so far in the…

DDT is an organochlorine insecticide that was widely used in fruit orchards in the South Okanagan Valley from the late 1940s and in the 1990s, this was documented to have caused extensive…

My research aims to develop a deeper academic understanding of how permaculture contributes to alternative sustainability politics, focusing on how permaculture is envisioned and enacted as social…

Varroa destructor is a serious threat to the eastern honey bees, Apis melliferra. The available varroa controls are either ineffective due to resistance of varroa mites or require correct…

Transition metal complexes incorporating redox-active ligands have the potential to facilitate controlled multielectron chemistry, enabling their use in catalysis and energy storage applications.…

I tested whether the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB), Halyomorpha halys, discriminates among phenological stages of sunflower, Helianthus annuus. When BMSB females in a still-air laboratory…

Motivated by predicting the lifetime of polymer electrolyte membranes (PEMs), we map the fracture dynamics of a network of ionomer bundles onto a correlated percolation model. A kinetic Monte Carlo…

Cardinality estimation is a fundamental but long unresolved problem in query optimization. Recently, multiple papers from different research groups consistently report that learned models have the…

We study second harmonic generation (SHG) in an acentric Weyl semimetal, tungsten ditelluride (WTe2), and estimate its second-order electric susceptibility, χ(2). WTe2 is a layered material that has…

For us Hul'q'umi'num' people, storytelling is an important tool for sharing knowledge across generations. Stories teach us how to live as First Nations peoples. The goal of this…

Small-scale fisheries are culturally significant and provide coastal communities with economic opportunities. On the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, five First Nations co-manage a…

In this thesis, I quantify the spatial phenotypic variability of two genetically homogeneous demersal fish populations in British Columbia, Canada. In the first chapter, I quantify spatial variation…

Accurate bathymetric information is fundamental to safe maritime navigation and infrastructure development in the coastal zone, but is expensive to acquire with traditional methods. Satellite-derived…

Metabolic rate is often assumed to set the pace of life histories because organisms depend upon the energy acquired through metabolism for survival, growth, and reproduction. However, key links…

The overall goal of this work was to investigate the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) to support patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD). There were two specific aims: (…

In secondary mathematics education in British Columbia, written communication is recognized as the dominant form of mathematical language, while little emphasis has been placed on spontaneous, spoken…

Methane (CH4) is a major greenhouse gas (GHG), second only to carbon dioxide (CO2) in the contribution to historical climate forcing. Yet, the level of understanding of how CH4 will influence the…

Learning actions values is a key idea in sports analytics with applications such as player ranking, tactical insight and outcome prediction. We compare two fundamentally different approaches for…