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As Canada enters an era of truth and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples, access, management, and governance of fisheries resources have been areas of tension. These tensions are often deeply…

Although people with higher attachment anxiety desire to be supportive partners, they tend to provide lower-quality support. Highly anxious partners struggle to provide effective support because when…

Research concerning sexual and gender minority inclusion in sport has primarily focused on cisgender heterosexual, gay, lesbian, and bisexual participants. Participation in organized team sport among…

In physical and computer experiments, factorial designs and space-filling designs are frequently employed to explore the relationship between several input factors and a response variable. Several…

The Cordilleran Ice Sheet (CIS) affected Yukon multiple times during the Quaternary; understanding the interaction of alpine glaciers and the CIS is important for paleoclimate studies and placer…

This thesis project is an exploration of the years I spent in the high Andes as a teacher and principal. It is a retrospective autobiographical inquiry that addresses social-material relations…

This is an ISO backup of a CD containing an interactive flash presentation produced by the SFU Archaeology department in 2003, titled "The Ancient Past of Keatley Creek Vol. 3."

Due to growing population, there is a higher demand for public transit. On the other hand, public transportation systems in many cities are not able to handle all the increasing demand due to their…

This study proposes a holistic view of post-secondary contemporary arts education within a framework informed by both Gestalt theory and the Buddhist conception of the skandhas. Such a framework…

Genomic epidemiology has gained significant popularity since the global COVID-19 outbreak. It combines the power of advanced genomic sequencing and epidemiology to gain valuable insights into the…

This thesis presents three ethnographic case studies exploring racialized queer immigrants' English learning in the Greater Vancouver Area in Western Canada. Drawing on multiple theoretical…

Reinforcement learning (RL) has gained a lot of attention in recent years due to its potential to solve complex control problems. However, RL faces various challenges in multi-agent settings and high…

Background: Approximately 26.5 percent of children who meet diagnostic criteria for one mental disorder, meet criteria for two or more. Children with multiple disorders often face added challenges,…

This research explores the efficacy of knowledge sharing in online communities and emphasizes the role of empathy and trust in shaping social interactions. It presents three studies that examine the…

Arachnophobia, an irrational fear of spiders, is a prevalent anxiety disorder causing harmless synanthropic spiders to be viewed as pests that must be controlled. The objective of my thesis was to…

The problem of enumerating vector partitions is the d-dimensional analogue of the well-studied coin exchange problem. Given a set of vectors a1, . . . , an ∈ Z d , the vector partition function…

The Royal Crescent and Garibaldi Ridge supportive housing projects in Maple Ridge, BC generated significant opposition from local residents, and conflict between provincial government actors, people…

Research in social-ecological systems (SES) has utilized recreational fisheries, which are tightly coupled human and ecological systems, to study the complex interactions and feedbacks that exemplify…

On International Women's Day in March 2019, Marvel Studios released Captain Marvel, the first film in the expansive Marvel Cinematic Universe to have a female superhero in the solo lead role.…

Absences and disengagement appear to be at a high in secondary schools with seemingly disinterested or apathetic students avoiding classes. While student absences have been studied extensively, the…