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Friday Dinner is a dance performance interlacing the aesthetics of both trained technical movements often taught in institutions, and gestural movements true and natural to a dancer's body. As a…

Museums have long displayed human remains from archaeological and other contexts to educate the public about human health, spiritual beliefs, and customs, and to encourage reflection about death and…

Monogenetic volcanoes are the most common volcanic landforms on Earth and usually form isolated small-volume volcanic centres with a wide range of eruptive styles and products. Here, I focus on the…

The enhanced ebook format—an ebook featuring multimedia elements such as audio, video, and animations—was released in 2010, yet it has been largely unused. Despite its potential, only 23% of…

Swaying is a project that exhibits a personal processing of the COVID-19 pandemic through a photographic series informed by a diaristic process. Each photograph marks a different happening, thought…

In light of failing global climate action, local governments have set their own greenhouse gas reduction targets and mitigation action plans. The Metro Vancouver regional district, its 21…

Metal nitride complexes exhibit interesting structure and bonding properties that are invoked when discussing the reactivity of these systems. The nitride (N3-) moiety can be either nucleophilic or…

Voltage-gated sodium channels initiate action potentials in excitable tissues. Altering these channels' function can lead to many pathophysiological conditions. The family of voltage-gated…

Humans are unique in their ability for language and a strong population-wide right-hand preference for object manipulation. A number of researchers (e.g., Arbib, 2005; Crow, 2002) suggest that an…

Examining the ways medical assistance in dying (MAID) discourse is presented in the media, this thesis analyzes the key themes, issues and contentions found throughout the topic in Canada's two…

Camera sensors are shrinking, resulting in more defects seen through image analysis. Due to cosmic radiation, camera experience both permanent defects known as hot pixels and temporal defective…

There are concerns about the usefulness of cotinine and trans-3'-hydroxycotinine (3HC), as biomarkers of risk in populations with light tobacco smoke exposure. Using CHILD cohort study data,…

As more and larger event stream datasets for professional sports become available, there is growing interest in modeling the complex play dynamics to evaluate player performance. Among these models,…

Self-explanation is a process by which learners generate inferences about causal connections or conceptual associations. This dissertation seeks to contribute to the literature on inducing self-…

The lack of clarity on the audiobook publishing processes for self-published authors leaves a potential gap in the Canadian market for the creation of a new independent audiobook production service.…

Self-handicapping is intentionally fabricating obstacles to performance. It is very prevalent in education where it interferes with learning and lowers academic achievement. Few self-handicapping…

In contemporary China, the development of new media technology has promoted the change and transformation of Chinese cyber nationalism, as it has an increasingly close relationship with youth…

Considerable research has documented negative health outcomes of 'language barriers' for im/migrants in destination countries. There is a crucial need for research underpinned by structural…

Hip Hop has become one of the most popular cultural phenomena in China due to commodification as well as to the broadcast of Hip Hop related variety shows. The unique path of Chinese Hip Hop has…

Alterations or losses to one's sense of self and identity are identified in the literature as being an important aspect of the lived experience of schizophrenia. Research further implicates…