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As rates of fraudulent crime rise globally, understanding fraud susceptibility (FS) is paramount to public interest and safety. Mixed findings exist regarding (a) the effect of older age on FS…

This project presents the results of a frame analysis conducted to understand how the debates in the Parliament of Canada surrounding the Online Streaming Act contribute to the ongoing politics of…

Sequence stratigraphic reconstructions of the McMurray Formation are highly complex owing to limited preservation of mappable surfaces and the erosional amalgamation of deposits from a wide range of…

Our research focuses on the physical exchange phase in the robot-to-human object handover task. We present a novel torque and vision sensor-based release controller for the physical exchange phase.…

From 1965 to 2002, Iris Garland was a determined advocate for dance at Simon Fraser University (SFU), in the broader community of greater Vancouver, and at a national level. From humble beginnings in…

Second-wave feminist historiography generally analyzes the movement from the perspective of gender plus another system of difference such as class, race, or sexuality. This thesis uses…

In this thesis, we present two analyses of COVID-19 outbreaks in different contexts. Our first analysis consists of hypothetical outbreaks at Simon Fraser University and makes use of enrollment data…

Adaptive management (AM) is an iterative resource management process designed to reduce uncertainty by aiming to continually improve environmental outcomes through rigorous up-front planning and…

Spinal cord injury SCI is a devastating, life-changing event that impacts motor, sensory, and autonomic function. Cardiovascular disease CVD, a secondary complication of SCI, has an earlier onset and…

Transition metal nitride (N3-) complexes exhibit useful reactivity towards heteroatom transfer, as well as providing valuable insight into the mechanisms of dinitrogen reduction and ammonia oxidation…

Sex education in American learning institutions has a longstanding history of serving as a space for political ideology over pedagogy, with this lack of inclusive or comprehensive sex education…

Charles Olson opened his 1950 manifesto, "Projective Verse," by rhetorically questioning the relevance of poetry in postwar America. If verse is "to go ahead" and "to be of…

This thesis delves into sneaker culture, consumption, and the allure of limited-edition sneakers, which have ties to athletes and celebrities like Michael Jordan and Kanye West and have been…

I tested the effects of synthetic (E)-4-ethyloct-4-enoic acid ('limoniic acid'; sex pheromone component of the click beetles Limonius canus and L. californicus) and of (E)-5-ethyloct-4-…

Functional data analysis (FDA) is a class of statistical tools to analyze data defined over time, spatial location, or any continuous domains including both Euclidean space and manifolds. Some…

In exploring the effects of Canada's net zero target, energy-economy researchers have primarily focused on the negative economic effects of greenhouse gas reductions, although they have shown…

Young adult refugees experience resettlement challenges in Canada, including insecure housing, financial instability, social isolation, and mental health concerns, all the while navigating personal…

The popularity of winter backcountry recreation has grown substantially in the last decade, drawing an increasingly diverse community of individuals to the winter mountains. To manage avalanche…

The Cordillera of western North America is an archetypal accretionary orogen. During the Mesozoic, two significant periods of terrane accretion are recognised within the Canadian-Alaska ("…

The chemical ecology of web-building spiders is poorly understood. Only 12 sex pheromones are known, the side of pheromone production remains elusive, a pheromonal function in female-female conflict…