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In the enterprise world, corporation has put a large significance on meetings where key decisions determine the future of organizations. The National Statistics Council claims that 37% of an employee…

Forward Collision Warning (FCW) systems are quite common in modern cars. In March 2016, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety…

This thesis is on the interplay of surfaces and graphs embedded on them. In order to showcase the interactions between the two, it discusses a game commonly played on graphs and surfaces: The Cops…

Spinal cord injury (SCI) can lead to comorbidities that reduce quality of life (QoL), including neurogenic bowel dysfunction and dangerous spikes in blood pressure called autonomic dysreflexia (AD).…

Asynchronous Online Discussion (AOD) is widely adopted in university courses. The rapid expansion of AOD challenges educational research to develop an understanding of how students interact and learn…

This thesis is composed of three essays on environmental, labor, and development economics. The first chapter investigates whether traffic congestion affects time allocation. I use highly granular…

The three papers in this dissertation explore how employees' careers and work experiences are evolving in the era of social media. In the first paper, a new construct, the job mobility mindset (…

Open net-pen Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) aquaculture is an important part of Canada's aquaculture industry. SLICE® (a.i.: emamectin benzoate [EMB]) and ivermectin (IVM) are two chemicals used…

This research investigates the applications of Virtual worlds (VWs) to foster creative collaboration within art and design education, an under-explored area. It centers on three interrelated…

Children and young adults are at particular risk for syncope and anxiety/depression, and these conditions may be interrelated. In very rare cases these disorders could potentially predispose to…

Energy efficiency has long been a big concern for large-scale wireless networking and Internet of Things (IoT) deployment. Backscatter communication conveys information through reflecting ambient…

In this book chapter, Hazel Jane Plante uses Joe Brainard's "I remember" constraint to share a kaleidoscopic collection of snippets related to being a trans femme librarian at a…

The maximum intrinsic rate of population increase (rmax) estimates population growth at low abundance, and varies with size, temperature, and depth, suggesting a metabolic basis for population…

We developed a new type of redox-active ligand, involving two N-heterocyclic carbenes and two phenolate units. The strong electron donating properties of the NHC moieties were utilized to stabilize…

Quantum error-correcting codes (quantum codes) are applied to protect quantum information from errors caused by noise (decoherence) on the quantum channel in a way that is similar to that of…

This study aims to explore how translanguaging pedagogy can be utilized in a language classroom that is situated within a context where the monolingual ideology is prevalent. Specifically, the study…

Nicola River, between Merritt and Spences Bridge in interior British Columbia (BC) has left behind a suite of river terraces as it incised its glacial valley fill. Terraces formed through episodic…

Research has shown that long-term spaceflight leads to the bone, muscle, and cerebrovascular deconditioning. Artificial gravity (AG) induced by centrifugation has previously been proposed as a…

What did Xi Jinping learn from the Tiananmen protests and Beijing massacre of 1989? How did the events of 1989 shape his leadership and thinking in the years that followed, through the present day?…

We begin by describing the current state of children’s mental health in Canada, including the high prevalence of disorders, the current public policy response and the need for a new integrated…