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In this thesis, we present a pseudo-real-time retinal layer segmentation for high-resolution Sensorless Adaptive Optics-Optical Coherence Tomography (SAO-OCT). Our pseudo-real-time segmentation…

The perceived poor durability of non-fluorous, hydrocarbon solid polymer electrolyte membranes in the presence of reactive hydroxyl radicals remains a significant hurdle for their integration into…

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited cardiovascular disease that could result in sudden cardiac death. Mutations in the genes encoding sarcomeric proteins, including the…

Falls commonly occur in older adults and could result in long-lies when no one is around to assist, which could result to additional emotional and physical consequences. The use of inertial sensors…

In response to the inequities in health and health care that Indigenous communities continue to experience, governments in many countries have used contracting as a policy mechanism to improve access…

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women. Early diagnosis of precancerous lesions in the cervix is important to prevent development of invasive cervical cancer. At the same time,…

The present study was designed to investigate reports of old and new memories with eye-closure and mental context reinstatement interview techniques. Seventy-eight undergraduate students were asked…

Fairfax, Washington (site 45PI918) was a thriving, company-owned coal mining and lumber town that operated between the late 1890s and 1941. Like most company towns in the western United States, the…

Beamforming is a technique which can adaptively steer the pattern of a microphone array towards or away from a target direction. Three conventional beamforming techniques are reviewed and compared…

Referred to as the “guardian of the genome”, p53 is the most frequently mutated protein in cancer and accounts for over 50% of cancer diagnoses. p53 regulates the cellular network by signaling for…

The English contrast between fortis (i.e., /p t k/) and lenis plosives (i.e., /b d g/) is widely considered to depend on the presence or absence of aspiration. English is thus generally thought of as…

Disgust is an “everyday” experience as it appears in everyday, ordinary moments. Yet, disgust has remained challenging to address both theoretically and in our personal interpretations of disgust…

We continuously use vision to navigate the cluttered environment in which we live. To accomplish this, we adapt the location and timing of gaze shifts to gain environmental information to achieve a…

Even though Indigenous peoples are overrepresented in the Canadian justice system, little research has studied potential mechanisms for this overrepresentation. To address this gap, the current…

A primordial magnetic field (PMF) present before recombination can leave specific signatures in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations. Of particular importance is its contribution to the…

The adoption of fire into the lives of hominins is widely held to be one of our genus’ most significant technological advances. The ability to start fire at will and therefore control when and where…

In this work, we study the problem of clustering bacterial isolates into epidemiologically related groups from next-generation sequencing data. Existing methods for this problem mainly use a single…

Phylogenetic trees are frequently used in biology to study the relationships among several species or organisms. The shape of a phylogenetic tree contains useful information about patterns of…

Instructors’ perceptions, values, and belief structures influence their curriculum decisions and may fundamentally overlap, contradict, and/or conflict, leading to a confluence of curricula cultures…

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the bidirectional relationship between speech and social processes, as increased attention is given to how speakers’ physical appearance, in…