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Bacteria are rich with functional diversity enhanced by their ability to readily adopt and transmit novel traits via horizontal gene transfer. Genomic islands (GIs), defined as clusters of genes of…

Identifying a violent event as an act of terrorism is often difficult when the perpetrator and their motives are unclear. This paper argues that one way the public solves this classification dilemma…

"Writing Words & The Written Word: The University and Endemic Crisis" asks what it would mean to re-examine writing in the university as a pedagogy but also as the university's…

Bedrock rivers often alternate between relatively wide alluvial reaches and conspicuously narrow, deeply incised bedrock reaches (canyons) where there exists a constriction-pool-widening (CPW)…

Wireworms are the larval stage of click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) and can cause severe damage to a wide variety of field crops. Due to their long larval stage and subterranean lifestyle, they…

My dissertation analyzes the relationship between public health and settler colonialism, employing age and ability as key categories of analysis. I argue that settler colonialism and public health…

The aim of our study is to examine the relationship between minimal factorizations of the canonical full cycle that arise in lattices of non-crossing partitions, as well as the statistics attached to…

British Columbia's (BC) agricultural sector produces greenhouse gases which contribute to climate change, with methane being the primary source of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in BC. BC…

Canada is facing a growing and substantial shortage of healthcare workers. One of the main factors contributing to this shortage is the prevalence of occupational burnout amongst health care workers…

The rudimentary and inefficient regulatory structure for remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) in Canada, more commonly known as drones, is a barrier to economic development of RPAS industry and…

Human-object interactions with articulated objects are common in everyday life. Despite much progress in single-view 3D reconstruction, it is still challenging to infer an articulated 3D object model…

We analyze the robustness of recent 3D shape analysis methods to SO(3) rotations, something that is fundamental to shape modeling. We build our investigation on a dataset of 3D indoor scenes, where…

Purpose: Vision normally provides environmental information necessary to direct the foot to safe locations during walking. Peripheral visual field loss limits what a person can see, and may alter how…

Background: The ability to adapt, a form of short-term motor learning, and retain this adaptation, is essential for rehabilitation and for day-to-day living. Yet, little research is available on this…

Visuomotor adaptation is a form of motor learning that enables accurate limb movements in the presence of altered environmental or internal conditions. It requires updating the mapping between visual…

In Canada, 1 in 5 students enters post-secondary with a mental health-related challenge. Many students navigate institutional stigma and ableism without adequate services or support. Learning design…

A partition is said to be balanced if the sizes of the sets in the partition differ by at most one. The size of a graph partition is the number of edges that have their end-vertices in different…

Hydrogen energy is projected to become increasingly important in the coming decades, but most hydrogen is produced by processes that are emission intensive. Green hydrogen is produced using renewable…

The development of chemically stable and mechanically robust hydrocarbon ion exchange membranes is critical for the advancement of water electrolyzers. The acidic perfluorinated cation exchange…

Both money laundering and terrorist financing are two activities that abuse the financial system. As a result, similar techniques are implemented for both anti-money laundering and counter terrorist…