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The purpose of this research is to examine the actions of an instructor in the undergraduate mathematics classroom over a full term of lecturing on abstract algebra. A micro-ethnographic, natural…

Threats related to global warming will grow over the 21st century. In British Columbia, climate change is predicted to cause rising sea levels, dry, hot summers, wet, warm winters, and more extreme…

In this thesis, we study different approaches to visual data coding for machines and develop new methods to address some issues in this area. We mainly focus on the Image and Video signals processed…

Ice hockey has one of the highest incidences of impacts to the head among team sports. Most head impacts do not result in diagnosed brain injury. Yet growing evidence shows that repetitive head…

What impacts does human psychological variation have on usage of evolutionarily-novel, online technological platforms? Autism spectrum disorder and psychotic-affective spectrum disorders, such as…

Body satisfaction is theorized to precede sexual satisfaction, which plays an integral role in romantic relationship stability and quality and may be negatively affected by negative partner feedback…

Approximately half of the world population lives in areas with circulating dengue virus (DENV) and are at risk of contracting an infection. DENV infection can cause severe complications, including…

HIV remains a global challenge, with the highest burden of infection occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the highest HIV genetic diversity occurring in West/Central Africa due to the pandemic's…

Application of renewable natural gas (RNG) and hydrogen (H2) in internal combustion engines with a direct injection (DI) configuration leads to improved thermal efficiency and reduced CO2. Because of…

Despite the desire of the postindustrial workforce, particularly women, for flexible work arrangements, only four percent of Canadian employees performed their job duties remotely - outside of the…

Social License (SL) has emerged to become a concept significant to states, markets, and societies, but business management, when compared to other academic fields, has limited understanding of SL,…

The ability to predict human behaviour and choose the right action for a robot is crucial to safe and natural operation in an environment shared with humans. Assuming a probabilistic model for human…

Analyzing and detecting Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) anomalies caused by evolving ransomware cyber attacks are topics of great interest in cyber security. Various anomaly detection approaches such…

This thesis has been written during a time of truth and reconciliation in Canadian history. It is a time when there is a great need to build bridges, metaphorically speaking, especially in the world…

In this dissertation written in French, I reconsider the notion of identity in light of sociomaterial theories (posthumanism, new materialism, and Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophy), as well as different…

The minuscule nature of microplastics results in their uptake in many aquatic species, leading to the risk of physiological damage and exposure to toxic additives and anthropogenic pollutants not…

The advancement of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has largely boosted the visual quality of human avatar constructed from RGB inputs. However, existing works either need per-subject training, and thus…

This case study examines the ways in which three distinct models of social housing were constituted through processes of conflict and coproduction between non-profits, state bodies, and private…

Conservative Calgary consistently elects un-conservative mayors. Despite a mostly Conservative and right-wing electorate, right-wing mayoral candidates with Conservative Party ties consistently lose…

Phonological markedness in sign languages, and particularly handshape markedness, is an area of study that is relatively new. Corpus and participant studies have provided some information about…