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A great portion of people's lives are spent in the workplace. I argue that many Western workplaces are neither sites of democratic practices or equality but are based on modes of exploitation…

Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), the deliberate self-infliction of tissue damage, is a serious behaviour with a host of negative consequences that has a considerable impact on the health system.…

The number of international students in tertiary education has soared in recent decades, driven by rising student demand and countries competing to boost their economic and human capital.…

In this thesis we investigate eigenproblems arising in spectral geometry and in the theory of linear elasticity, and numerically study the mechanics of skeletal muscles in three dimensions. We first…

The current cooling systems mainly employ vapor compression refrigeration technology, which increases the electricity peak load significantly and has a high carbon footprint. One alternative solution…

Students cope with the attentional demands of a university setting by accessing a range of cognitive and behavioural strategies. Yet, they may not be aware of the full scope of strategies available…

We consider the maximum weight stable set problem with an additional budget constraint (BSS) which is also known as the knapsack problem with conflict-pair constraints. A unifying 0-1 programming…

Generative Design (GD) produces many design alternatives and promises novel and performant solutions to architectural design problems. The success of GD rests on the ability to navigate the generated…

This thesis presents iterative action research that was situated in my practice as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Simon Fraser University. Motivated by a puzzlement that arose with…

Adolescents are vulnerable to the onset of psychological disorders, yet research on parenting factors that promote adolescent mental health is sparse. Attachment security is a strong predictor of…

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…