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While glacier surges occur across a range of geographical and environmental settings, they favor a climate envelope in which polythermal glaciers are common. Polythermal structure has been correlated…

Adolescents with a concurrent disorder (co-occurring mental health and substance use) are an understudied population. Mental health and substance use is a growing concern in schools, though support…

An ongoing longitudinal study named by Hotel Study focuses on investigating the physical and mental health condition of people who lived in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES). The study's…

Population stratification is a major source of confounding in gene-by-environment (G × E) interaction studies of case-parent trios when the study sample consists of individuals with distinct…

The utilization of Learning Analytics Dashboards (LADs) within the educational domain has been growing. Following the Weiners Attribution Theory, we designed LADs to understand how grades, time spent…

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…