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It is important for teachers to facilitate a positive sense of belonging in the classroom. Improving students' sense of belonging has a wide range of positive benefits including lowered levels…

Platforms and Everyday Life explores how people interact with hardware and digital media platforms in everyday life. By integrating the concept of triple articulation (object, text, and context) into…

This dissertation uses qualitative and community-based research to explore women's im/migration and healthcare experiences during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic in the lower mainland of…

This thesis critically examines Vancouver's planning discourses in the context of settler colonialism. Drawing on theories of decolonization and grounded normativity, I consider the political…

This research evaluates the efficacy of two strategies in Boundary Pass that are aimed at recovering British Columbia's whales—an Interim Sanctuary Zone (ISZ) and the ECHO program voluntary…

Due to the increasing rates of mental health disorders and associated increasing rates of suicide in Canadian firefighters' lifetimes, it is imperative to understand how to better provide…

In Uruguay, as in many countries around the world, healthcare providers are looking to digital technologies to enhance service provision. This includes introducing new data‐intensive systems that…

This article makes the case that Electric Micromobilities (EMMs) are the site of a moral panic and employs the lens of mobility justice to explain it. Through analysis of scholarly and media…

Background: We investigated the effectiveness of Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), a prenatal-to-age-two-years home-visiting programme, in British Columbia (BC), Canada.
Methods: For this…

This report provides the history of a digital collection of Simon Fraser University's undergraduate Engineering Science capstone projects. Steve Whitmore began archiving capstone project…

This thesis presents recent advances in the optimal control of stochastic thermodynamic systems. It covers isothermal stochastic thermodynamics, including the use of linear response, thermodynamic…

Growth is a sensitive indicator of children's cumulative environment and can be used as a proxy for the stress experienced by their whole population. Archaeological data and historical research…

In British Columbia 2,272 people died from overdose in 2022 due to escalating and unpredictable concentrations of benzodiazepines, fentanyl, and even stronger opioid analogues in the illicit drug…

Computing gradients is a fundamental task in a variety of fields, ranging from machine learning to physics simulations and scientific computing. Automatic differentiation (AD) is a widely used…

Goal setting is widely researched in industrial/organizational psychology and in academic settings. Research involving post-secondary students has investigated optimal scheduling for goals and types…

Background: Approximately 26.5 percent of children that satisfy diagnostic criteria for one mental disorder, meet criteria for two or more. Given the frequency of co-occurring disorders, researchers…

This report synthesizes and compares survey research findings from two years of surveys with residents of two HNC housing partners, Catalyst Community Developments Society and Brightside Community…

This dissertation offers insights into B2B salesforce deployment by analyzing the words in over 50,000 job reviews written by B2B salespeople on Glassdoor and relating the words to their job…

A Stone Sings in the Stream: Sounding Timbral Lines in Principaling is an interpretive inquiry that offers possibilities for principaling in radically different ways. The study highlights "…

As of writing this, Deep Learning models are able to generate images with high-fidelity. They are becoming an integral tool for creative expression and democratizing creativity. With the introduction…