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This paper addresses the problem of creating facial expression of mixed emotions in a perceptually valid way. The research has been done in the context of a “game-like” health and education…

This thesis explored the relationships between life history, migration distance, survivorship components of fitness, and molt strategies of Western and Semipalmated Sandpipers in one of the most…

Canada is often acknowledged as one of the most welcoming countries for immigrants around the world. However, literature reveals that Canadian skilled immigrants, particularly those from Latin…

Compressed sensing (CS) provides effective techniques for the recovery of a sparse vector from a small number of measurements by finding a solution to an underdetermined linear system. In recent…

Continuous lower body monitoring is an important step for real-time feedback training of runners and in-home rehabilitation assessment. Optical motion capture systems are the gold standards for gait…

Many problems in computer graphics and geometric modeling, e.g., skeletonization, surface completion, and shape style transfer, can be posed as a problem of shape-to-shape transformation. In this…

Improving maternal health outcomes is one of the main health concerns in Rwanda, a country that was shaken by the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. As part of the rebuilding process, the health sector…

Recently, Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR and AR) head-mounted displays have become affordable. However, efficient solutions for pointing tasks and text entry in VR and AR remain a challenge.…

Glacier surges are characterized by order-of-magnitude increases in flow that can be sustained for months to years, facilitated by a dramatic increase in basal water pressure that permits rapid…

The Inhibition of Return (IOR) effect manifests as slowed responses to targets at previously cued compared to uncued locations (Posner & Cohen, 1984; Klein, 2000). Most research indicates the…

Psychopathic personality disorder (PPD) is associated with serious dysfunction (e.g., crime, violence), and as a result, scholars believe it inflicts a massive social burden. Yet, very few works have…

As the growth of online data continues, automatic summarization is integral in generating a condensed version of a text while preserving the meaning of the original input. Although most of the…

Section III of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) includes an alternative model of personality disorder diagnosis that conceptualizes…

The central thesis of this dissertation is that war and militarism have been formative in the development of Western education from its inception in Classical Greece until the present. The secondary…

Membrane tether proteins staple the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to other cellular membranes at Membrane Contact Sites (MCSs), as possible conduits to coordinately regulate lipid metabolism and…

Enzymes that catalyze the removal of carbohydrate units from biological molecules are called glycoside hydrolases (GH). These enzymes have been categorized into more than 150 different families. This…

Between 1911 and 1914, as Vancouver was in the final moments of its breakneck transformation from a resource industry town to a metropolitan city, a working-class rebellion was brewing. Poor white…

An archaeological land use model for subalpine and alpine environments for southeast Yukon was developed using available ethnographic, archaeological and environmental data. The model describes a…

Traditionally, IPV has been viewed as a gendered phenomenon, with a focus on women. However, victimization surveys and emerging research have started to explore the experiences of male victims,…

Background: Cardiovascular disease is the second leading cause of diving deaths. Scarcity of 12 lead ECG recordings during dives leaves many questions unanswered about cardiac function during ascent…