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There is currently no safe, scalable cure for HIV-1 infection due to the persistence of a latent viral reservoir. The Block-and-Lock strategy to achieve drug-free HIV remission requires promotion of…

Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSC) increase invasiveness and metastatic potential in prostate cancer and may be a novel drug target for castration resistant prostate cancer. VGSC isoforms expressed…

Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) based wearable sensors have found common use to track arm activity in daily life. However, classifying a high number of arm motions with single IMU-based systems…

Mixed integer programming provides a unifying framework for solving a medley of hard combinatorial optimization problems of practical interest. A mixed integer program (MIP) is typically solved using…

The antenna is the most critical single component of a communication and sensing system. It not only provides the basic transformation between the electrical signals and electromagnetic waves, but…

Characterization of unstable rock slopes can pose a high level of risk toward the geoscientist/engineer in the field due to inaccessibility and safety issues. During recent decades, rapidly…

Many with Cerebral Palsy (CP) use assistive devices to perform daily activities. A gesture recognition based wearable device can be implemented using force myography (FMG). However, little research…

More than a hundred countries around the world practice some form of restorative justice. Although research of these practices has expanded exponentially, there remain significant gaps in…

The Arab Gulf region is one of the standard examples of diglossia, where standard Arabic (SA), as a high variety, and colloquial Arabic (CA), as a low variety, co-exist (Ferguson, 1959; Kaye, 1970;…

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) is a strong family of deep generative models based on variational inference (VI). Despite its recent success in modelling probabilistic data distributions, the…

Recently, several deep learning models are proposed that operate on graph-structured data. These models, which are known as graph neural networks, emphasize on methods for reasoning about non-…

The European Earwig (Forficula auricularia) has been the subject of scientific curiosity and public disdain since its introduction to North America due to its controversial status as both a natural…

Despite the many great advantages of social media and online forums in bringing people, communities, and groups together, other problems have emerged when using these sites including hate speech and…

Across the web and mobile applications, recommender systems are relied upon to surface the right items to users at the right time. This implies user preferences are usually dynamic in real-world…

This thesis reports the synthesis and study of a new class of fluorine-free, acid-bearing polymers for potential usage in proton exchange membrane fuel cells. The polymers were prepared via the…

In this thesis, I discuss the design and development of two Augmented Reality (AR) applications derived from two tangible systems. In this technology development research, I explore if it is…

Volcanoes are the surficial representation of the complex interplay of magmatic, crustal, and hydrothermal processes operating below the Earth’s surface. Studying volcanic deposits provides a unique…

Diffusion plays a major role in describing how particles and heat move in any nonequilibrium system. The diffusion of quantum properties is not as well understood as the diffusion of classical…

Canada’s population has been multicultural and multilingual for many years, and recently there have been changes to official language education policies, programs, and practices in public schools…

This dissertation examines the history of working-class environmentalism. It investigates the relationship between work and the environment and between workers and environmentalists. It presents five…