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In a time of rapid global environmental change, it is important to identify the practices that promote resilient social-ecological systems. Indigenous systems of stewardship offer insight into social…

Canada urgently requires a population health approach to children’s mental health—promoting health and preventing disorders, in addition to providing treatment. Underpinning this approach, indicators…

Canadian autism policy has been unusually contentious, with parents resorting to litigation to secure services for their children in several provinces. To ascertain whether consensus was possible on…

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Nurse-Family Partnership is a nurse home visitation program that aims to improve the lives of young mothers and their children. The program focuses on women who are parenting for…

Despite its profound importance for individuals and populations, children’s mental health remains under-appreciated as a public policy priority, to a degree that violates children’s rights. Using a…

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Effective strategies for participant retention are critical in health research to ensure validity, generalizability and efficient use of resources. Yet standardized guidelines for…

Thuja plicata trees produce a heartwood that is well known for its durability; nevertheless, logged trees are frequently afflicted by heartwood rot. In addition, increasingly severe summer droughts…

In a primordial "RNA world," survival and self-replicating nucleic acid species within the extremely harsh environment of early Earth, especially UV radiation, imposed this prebiotic…

This thesis tackles the problem of dense captioning objects in 3D environments. In this task, we are given a 3D environment, and our aim is to first detect objects and then describe them using…

Guaranteed safe online trajectory planning is becoming an increasingly important topic of robotic research, due to the need to react quickly in unknown environments. However, as a result of modelling…

Plastic are now the main fraction of marine and beach litter as a result of the increasing production and wide range of applications. Due to continuous degradation, long residence times, and…

Air pollution has become a silent killer, and in Canada, claims more lives than do motor vehicle accidents annually with mortality rates being higher in metropolitan cities. Of concern for Canada…

School food programs (SFPs) in K-12 schools in British Columbia (B.C.) provide many benefits to students, including food literacy education, procuring local foods, and connecting with growers and…

Stable isotope analysis of human tissues has increasingly been used in forensic studies as a tool to predict the geographical origin of unknown human remains, and to assist with solving missing…

This thesis explores Indigenous women's personal testimony given at the Royal Commission of Aboriginal Peoples hearings held across Canada between 1992-1994. The RCAP was a national inquiry…

With the rise of digital observational data, there has been an increasing amount of attention to the discovery of causal relations from large datasets. In the last three decades two major approaches…

Ecosystems around the world face an increasing frequency and intensity of human impacts, meaning that managing multiple co-occurring pressures is imperative. Unfortunately, our ability to predict…

The need for automated ship detection methods has become increasingly important with the advancements in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology in Maritime Domain Awareness in Canada. In this…

Coastal deltas house more than 335 million people worldwide in some of the largest population centers in the world, including growing megacities such as Shanghai, Dhaka, and Bangkok. These…

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in automated tracking and detection of sports activities. Researchers have shown that tracking and monitoring the workout activities aids in keeping…