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British Columbia is currently dealing with the climate crisis and a housing affordability crisis. CMHC recommends that the province increase housing supply by an additional 500,000 units by 2030 to…

While driver telematics has gained attention for risk classification in auto insurance, the scarcity of observations with telematics features has been problematic, which could be owing to either…

This dissertation studies the problem of learning continuous-time dynamics from discrete observations in probabilistic approaches. We first propose an normalizing flow model for continuous-time…

This thesis investigates populist political rhetoric through the lens of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). SFL provides the tools to analyze and quantify language-in-context and allows us to…

This dissertation explores the working lives and labour activism of South Korean television writers, who are predominantly women, from a feminist political economy perspective. The dissertation…

Autogestion, sometimes translated as "self-management," was a movement in 1970s France comprised of workers, trade unions, political parties, autonomous groups, and independent associations…

The nursing shortage in British Columbia is causing significant issues across the province and threatens to collapse the entire healthcare system. As of 2022, there is a shortage of approximately 3,…

In this project, we consider a simple new approach to variable selection in linear regression based on the Sum-of-Single-Effects model. The approach is particularly well-suited to big-data settings…

As new technologies and innovations emerge, certain everyday tasks become redundant and begin to feel overly complicated. Today, people use facial recognition to unlock their cell phone, and…

Lighting Talks from Keeping it ReAL (Research in Academic Libraries) 2022.

This recording includes the presentations "Exploring Autoethnography: Approaching a New Methodological Practice" and "Relationality and Research: Visiting in Practice" from…

Traditional transistor memory has saturated all areas of the computer memory market, but leaves much to be desired in certain applications, opening opportunities for new and exciting technologies. In…

Global efforts have failed to address climate change and reduce emissions. In democratic countries, a key reason for continued rise in emissions is the inability for citizens and politicians to…

Enabled by advances in artificial intelligence, research exploring the computational simulation of creative behaviours has produced human competitive generative systems in a variety of creative…

Root rot and wilting complex (RRWC) of red raspberry, caused by Phytophthora rubi and potentially other species of Phytophthora, is an economically important disease in British Columbia (BC) and in…

Variable selection causes the distributions of parameter estimators to be unknown and difficult to determine. To do inference after selection, conditional distributions for parameter estimators given…

In 2018, BC's NDP government held a referendum on electoral reform, asking residents whether to adopt proportional representation. Prior to this, the Attorney General consulted Indigenous…

Machine learning has been successfully used to solve a variety of tasks in the domains of computer vision, language translation, and video games. However, these domains in which success has been…

Confronting the ongoing genocide and assimilation of Indigenous Peoples on the UNCEDED lands you call (British Columbia, Canada), in a time of so called Reconciliation. Honoring our children,…

As the expansion K-pop and the Korean Wave continues to develop in tandem with digital media technologies and the global fandoms that form around them, questions surrounding the flows of media,…