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In the escalating crisis of drug toxicity deaths in Canada, reducing stigma towards people who use drugs (PWUD) has emerged as a priority, and mass media substance use-focused anti-stigma campaigns…

Landscapes are lessening their ability to support wildlife because of threats from climate change and anthropogenic development. As a result, managers must focus on promoting landscape resilience to…

This thesis is a qualitative multimodal analysis of TikTok videos and interviews with eco-influencers that maps the actors and content present across three climate event case studies: the 2021…

Through a speculative design approach, we explore the benefits and drawbacks of virtual memorials. This work is presented within the context of a fictional business, Memento Flori, which offers users…

Graph mining workloads search for subgraphs of interest in large graphs. This often involves finding subgraphs with containment constraints such that the subgraph does not contain a smaller subgraph…

Sleep disturbances are considered both a risk factor for and symptom of Alzheimer's disease (AD). To identify sleep-dependent cognitive tests, we monitored rest and activity patterns for 7 days…

This thesis presents an investigation of the impacts of glacier change in the St. Elias Mountains of Northern Canada, by considering both non-surge-type and surge-type glaciers. First, the 2007-2018…

I began my research at the St.Mary's Residential School that my family attended. I was seeking to understand myself in relation to my family history. As a contemporary Xwelmewx person, I sought…

Data-to-text generation, a subfield of natural language generation, increases the usability of structured data and knowledge bases. However, data-to-text generation datasets are not readily available…

This report investigates and documents the current landscape of Indigenous art book publishing in Canada as a niche category of the industry, and a space where Indigenous artists' work…

In this multiple-case constructivist grounded theory study I investigated how five first-year first-generation students (FGS) experienced support from their peer mentors at a Canadian university…

P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is an ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter known to contribute to the efflux of unmodified xenobiotics from organisms' cells, playing an essential role in chemical…

Many athletes do not have access to a coach to help them improve their performance, and coaches' feedback can be subjective. Artificial sport coaches can collect continuous data during training…

Supportive Housing has dramatically expanded in British Columbia over the past decade, serving as a major arm of the provincial subsidized housing apparatus. Housing more than twelve thousand people…

A fish tracking model and an acoustic multi-layered structure are presented using the theory of transmission lines to demonstrate propagation through various layered media. The fish tracking model is…

The equivalence problem is concerned with statistical methodology to assess the equivalence between two medications or two formulations in clinical trials. Frequently, researchers incorrectly use…

This project examines the place-based activism of residents of the False Creek South neighbourhood in Vancouver in their efforts to engage with the City of Vancouver about the planned redevelopment…

Walking is recognized as the simplest form of mobility and the most popular type of physical activity (PA) among older adults that has the potential to improve their physical and mental health and…

This study explores what arose after I received my cancer diagnosis. Having the courage to find free spaces within which to live became vitality important. A cancer diagnosis enlivens the question of…

Ultra Violets is a performance piece devised through a personal study of how queer becoming and feminine subjectivity intersect within a close study of plant history and life. Through a collective…