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Effective strategies for participant retention are critical in health research to ensure validity, generalizability and efficient use of resources. Yet standardized guidelines for…

Thuja plicata trees produce a heartwood that is well known for its durability; nevertheless, logged trees are frequently afflicted by heartwood rot. In addition, increasingly severe summer droughts…

In a primordial "RNA world," survival and self-replicating nucleic acid species within the extremely harsh environment of early Earth, especially UV radiation, imposed this prebiotic…

This thesis tackles the problem of dense captioning objects in 3D environments. In this task, we are given a 3D environment, and our aim is to first detect objects and then describe them using…

Guaranteed safe online trajectory planning is becoming an increasingly important topic of robotic research, due to the need to react quickly in unknown environments. However, as a result of modelling…

Plastic are now the main fraction of marine and beach litter as a result of the increasing production and wide range of applications. Due to continuous degradation, long residence times, and…

Air pollution has become a silent killer, and in Canada, claims more lives than do motor vehicle accidents annually with mortality rates being higher in metropolitan cities. Of concern for Canada…

School food programs (SFPs) in K-12 schools in British Columbia (B.C.) provide many benefits to students, including food literacy education, procuring local foods, and connecting with growers and…

Stable isotope analysis of human tissues has increasingly been used in forensic studies as a tool to predict the geographical origin of unknown human remains, and to assist with solving missing…

This thesis explores Indigenous women's personal testimony given at the Royal Commission of Aboriginal Peoples hearings held across Canada between 1992-1994. The RCAP was a national inquiry…

With the rise of digital observational data, there has been an increasing amount of attention to the discovery of causal relations from large datasets. In the last three decades two major approaches…

Ecosystems around the world face an increasing frequency and intensity of human impacts, meaning that managing multiple co-occurring pressures is imperative. Unfortunately, our ability to predict…

The need for automated ship detection methods has become increasingly important with the advancements in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology in Maritime Domain Awareness in Canada. In this…

Coastal deltas house more than 335 million people worldwide in some of the largest population centers in the world, including growing megacities such as Shanghai, Dhaka, and Bangkok. These…

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in automated tracking and detection of sports activities. Researchers have shown that tracking and monitoring the workout activities aids in keeping…

Emotion regulation is foundational to mental health and well-being. In the last decade there has been an increasing focus on the use of interactive technologies to support emotion regulation training…

There is a growing interest in human-computer interaction (HCI) to envision, design, and evaluate technology-enabled interventions that support users’ emotion regulation. This interest stems in part…

Sometimes academics from different disciplines feel like they are working on different planets that orbit stars lightyears apart. Justice in energy transitions (JET) and the energy modelling…

In this transcript, Alice Fleerackers interviews Rackeb Tesfaye, founder of Broad Science. Tesfaye shares her experience as a graduate student in neuroscience and how it led her to start Broad…

The scope of post-conflict reconciliation and peace-building literature has largely focused on processes of atonement and outcomes for survivors. Few analyses concentrate on perpetrator experiences…