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Nowadays, huge volumes of data are generated with increasing velocity through various systems, applications, and activities. This increases the demand for stream and time series analysis to react to…

This dissertation developed and tested online writing analytics software, Vexique, designed to improve French immersion (FI) high school students' lexical richness by promoting use of…

"Treading Water: An Exploration of Grief and Surviving Suicide" is an original feature length screenplay called "Treading Water" that explores grief, specifically how a person…

This report explores the impacts of COVID-19 on book marketing, and how to take a digital-first marketing approach, using the University of British Columbia Press (UBC Press) as a case study to…

Background and Objective: Surveillance technology allows family members to monitor older adults' daily activities and their interaction with the home environment. In particular, video…

Bacterial pathogens depend on the expression of virulence factors that aid host infection. A mechanistic understanding of bacterial virulence can provide insights into novel antimicrobial targets and…

Quantifying the flow of energy, entropy, and information within and through nonequilibrium systems remains a central challenge in understanding the microscopic physics of biological systems. Over the…

Research has demonstrated that parent-adolescent attachment security and school connectedness are protective factors that buffer teens from risk for substance use, depression, and suicidality.…

Many transmission models have been proposed and adapted to reflect changes in policy for mitigating the spread of COVID-19. Often these models are applied without any formal comparison with…

There has recently been increasing attention in Canada towards the responsibilities that municipal governments have in resolving some of the systemic issues that Indigenous Peoples face, while living…

Our main result is a deterministic learning algorithm with membership queries that learns a disjunctive normal form (DNF) with a polynomial number of terms within an additive approximation error in…

Understanding the spatial distribution patterns of species is critical for determining the mechanisms behind marine biodiversity and appropriating conservation efforts. I used the distribution maps…

This thesis provides a critical view of the way the Supreme Court of Canada (the "SCC") has applied rights and freedoms under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the "Charter") to…

There is a crisis of trust in the neoliberal world. Is trust ending, or have we learned to trust in new ways? This thesis conducts an historical genealogy of trust practices across the early modern…

Integrated case assessment teams (ICATs) are a consortium of local agencies that respond to highest risk domestic violence cases using a collaborative approach. The underlying principle of ICATs is…

This project investigates the significance of fainting men in late-Victorian novels. While fainting is supposedly a female phenomenon related to women's fragility and emotional vulnerability, a…

Global air temperatures are projected to rise over the next century following the continued increase and amplification of greenhouse gas emissions, mainly due to human activity. This rise in air…

Arduous Business explores representations of immaterial labour in the Victorian realist novel. By "immaterial labour," I mean labour that has economic and social value, but that does not…

Visual, behavioural and verbal cues for gender are often used in designing virtual agents to take advantage of their cultural and stereotypical effects on the users. However, recent studies point…

Since the landmark Butler case in 1992, obscenity, or more specifically adult pornography, has "fallen to the wayside," in terms of legal consideration. Recent legal consideration has…