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The inability to tolerate everyday sounds, also known as Decreased Sound Tolerance (DST), has proven to be one the most prevalent issues in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). While advanced Neural…

Victim to a curse, I had to perform actions that were not my own in order to access the technologies of spiritual alignment embedded in collectively-developed rituals. I followed instructions. At…

Renewable energy is a revolution in the field of power generation to ensure environment friendly alternatives to fossil fuels. Wave power is a huge source of renewable energy found in the ocean…

Sum-frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy (SFG-VS) is a nonlinear optical spectroscopy used to probe the vibrations of molecules at interfaces. SFG-VS can be applied to study a vast number of…

High resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data allow for measurement of multicentimeter-scale glacier motion via a technique known as speckle tracking. In this thesis, I develop an intensity…

While the concept of social-ecological transformation is increasingly being invoked to guide ecologically safe and socially just pathways to sustainability, Indigenous communities have been…

The capacity for health and disease, and pleasure and pain, has an evolutionary legacy. Human females demonstrate a suite of unique as well as elaborated reproductive traits, such as invasive…

This study investigates the material conditions of frontline grocery work in Metro Vancouver during the first year of the global pandemic, and contrasts the everyday experiences of grocery workers…

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a promising approach for real-world applications of Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF). However, its success depends on a good reward function, which is difficult to…

Training a single network for high resolution and geometrically consistent monocular depth estimation is challenging due to varying scene complexities in the real world. To address this, we present a…

Energy access has been identified as critical to economic development and the improvement of millions of people's standard of living. Despite significant efforts in recent years, it is estimated…

Indirectly developing teleosts, such as flatfishes, have different visual requirements during their larval and juvenile stages. As such, the organization and spectral sensitivity of their retinal…

Researchers have expressed concern about the state of STEM education. To improve this situation, new pedagogies, such as blended learning, have been proposed and tested. The last decade has seen an…

This research investigates the relationships between strength, technique, and tactics in canoe slalom. 15 C1 athletes paddled a white-water slalom course and a flat-water figure-8 course. Paddle…

Police leaders occupy a critical position in the criminal justice system, in the field of policing, and in the community. Persons in this position must have community, organizational, personal, and…

In algal cells, an apparent threshold ceiling for selenium incorporation into amino acids suggests that protein content may determine the amount of selenium accumulated in these organisms at the base…

All major league sports teams are interested in projecting the performance of their players into the future. The seemingly most important feature of a model to project future performance is age. On…

Using the theoretical constructs of double instrumental genesis, instrumental distance, didactical landmarks and instrumental orchestration, I examined case studies of four elementary school teachers…

After observing a crime, eyewitnesses may conduct their own investigation on social media to search for the perpetrator. The current study examined exposure to an innocent suspect on social media and…

Evaluation of player value in sport can be measured in several ways. These measures, when captured over an entire career, provide insights concerning player contributions. Professional sports teams…