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Horizons offers a space to explore the history and future of community-engaged research (CER). At the broadest level, community-engaged research (CER) is a form of praxis, an exercise in knowledge…

This thesis explores everyday emergencies and looks at the challenges and opportunities that surround in designing and implementing Next Generation 9-1-1 systems. The thesis looks at two stakeholders…

British Columbia has encountered numerous natural disaster events in the last decade. Despite this, and a growing body of evidence showing the number and magnitude of these disasters will only…

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events such as heat domes and flooding is evidence of British Columbia's lack of effective climate adaptation. One measure to improve the region'…

The use of 3D reconstruction technology in agriculture can offer significant benefits in analyzing fruit quality; however, the complex aggregate shape of fruit bundles such as grapes and the absence…

In this thesis, a method for bias field correction is proposed for Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCT-A) images. The bias field artifact is an intensity nonuniformity present on OCT-A…

Accurately assessing body composition is crucial in identifying health risks associated with high or low levels of body fat. While there are several methods available for measuring fat, some commonly…

The idealized thin current loop is the foundation for cylindrically symmetric applied coil magnetics. The field equations along the coil axis are easy to solve both numerically and analytically,…

Allegory and Intoxication argues that addiction crises in 2010s North America are symptomatic of the heightened ravages and crises of the capitalist value-form. This project reconstructs the critical…

In the northern districts of Paris, many thousands of asylum-seekers and other migrants live in provisional encampments, over 75 of which have been dismantled since 2015. These encampments and the…

Character animation is a core research topic in computer graphics, which studies synthesizing realistic movements for virtual characters. Physics-based character animation utilizes physics simulation…

Despite over 40 years of research and clinical investigation, there is still no vaccine or cure for HIV-1. Highly effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) has dramatically reduced illness due to HIV-1…

British Columbia is currently dealing with the climate crisis and a housing affordability crisis. CMHC recommends that the province increase housing supply by an additional 500,000 units by 2030 to…

While driver telematics has gained attention for risk classification in auto insurance, the scarcity of observations with telematics features has been problematic, which could be owing to either…

This dissertation studies the problem of learning continuous-time dynamics from discrete observations in probabilistic approaches. We first propose an normalizing flow model for continuous-time…

This thesis investigates populist political rhetoric through the lens of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). SFL provides the tools to analyze and quantify language-in-context and allows us to…

This dissertation explores the working lives and labour activism of South Korean television writers, who are predominantly women, from a feminist political economy perspective. The dissertation…

Autogestion, sometimes translated as "self-management," was a movement in 1970s France comprised of workers, trade unions, political parties, autonomous groups, and independent associations…

The nursing shortage in British Columbia is causing significant issues across the province and threatens to collapse the entire healthcare system. As of 2022, there is a shortage of approximately 3,…

In this project, we consider a simple new approach to variable selection in linear regression based on the Sum-of-Single-Effects model. The approach is particularly well-suited to big-data settings…