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Gender-based violence (GBV) is a persistent and pervasive public health problem and requires a collaborative response, especially from the health system. Health-care professionals (HCPs) are uniquely…

This thesis analyzes four housing developments in the Province of B.C. that involve mixed rental rates, uses and, in some instances, tenures (oftentimes referred to as mixed model developments in…

An evening of reading and conversation with authors Esi Edugyan and Omar El Akkad. They discuss Esi Edugyan’s novel Washington Black.

Power utility companies rely on forecasting to anticipate future consumption needs, plan power production, and schedule the selling/purchasing of power. We present a novel method to forecast the…

Storytelling is an important tool for sharing knowledge and language across generations. Stories teach us about our way of life and our perspectives on how to be as First Nations peoples. In this…

2019 Year-in-Review forum is the 5th annual event convened by the Vancouver City Planning Commission that brings together a panel of four, eminent urbanists to look back on urban planning in 2019.…

The recent social movement in Hong Kong is marked by its leaderless mode of mobilization and coordination, which would be impossible without innovative use of digital media. Why did such a mode of…

Welcome to the first episode of our Below the Radar conversations series. Our first guest speaker is Dr. Kelley Lee, Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance at Simon Fraser University. In…

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium), enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) commandeer the actin cytoskeleton of their host cells as a…

Since the early 2000s, tenants of seniors’ social housing in BC have increasingly shared their buildings with younger persons who have severe mental illnesses and/or addiction issues. While this…

Efficient cell-to-cell transfer of Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) requires the proper formation of actin-rich membrane protrusions. To date, only the host proteins ezrin, the binding…

This research study explores the motivations for religious congregations in Vancouver, Canada that are redeveloping their sites, building housing (and other ancillary services and uses), while…

We introduce a methodology for integrating functional data into densely connected feed-forward neural networks. The model is defined for scalar responses with at least one functional covariate and…

“We either bring our languages back or we die.” says Khelsilem, the founder of the Squamish Language Immersion Program at SFU. With Trudeau’s announcement of a National Indigenous Languages Act, and…

Dr. Howard Caygill discusses ideas from his book “On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance”. In this book, Dr. Caygill conducts the first ever systematic analysis of ‘resistance’: as a means of…

Statistical clustering is a procedure of classifying a set of objects such that objects in the same class (called cluster) are more homogeneous, with respect to some features or characteristics, to…

Until recently, the story of “comfort women” was more or less suppressed as a kind of national humiliation in China; however, it has received more diverse media attention in recent years. Through the…

This essay approaches the issue of masculinity through a historical analysis grounded in the Chinese context. It focuses on how the concept of masculinity has been negotiated in prominent examples of…

This study discusses Nigerian perceptions of Chinese-made products by examining whether the country of origin (COO) impacts their consumption choices of these products. It argues that low-income…

Africa is full of mixed stories about desperation, lost and despair, and when young Africans offer an alternative narrative; they often are challenged to defend themselves. Most people like to think…