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Viral transmission plays an essential role in our understanding of and response to infectious diseases, for example, by informing policy decisions about transportation and borders. Phylogenetic…

The Wnt signaling pathway is a highly conserved cell signaling pathway that regulates cell fate determination and maintains adult stem cell populations, and when misregulated contributes to…

The various activities collectively known as "Track 2 diplomacy" have been notoriously difficult to define using international relations (IR) theories. This project leverages the recent…

There is currently little to no literature on femcels (female incels) as they are still a relatively new movement on the Internet. However, literature on incels have been well-established due to…

Modern Big Data systems have shifted away from pure ETL solutions and towards real-time analysis of "raw text". Unsurprisingly, efficient analysis of raw text is a critical performance…

Despite the ongoing challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has had in the number of international students able to come to Canada, over 500,000 students chose to study at Canadian institutions in 2021 (…

The Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) provides a general framework for a wide range of combinatorial problems dealing with mappings and assignments, including satisfiability, graph colorability,…

Research relating to intimate partner violence (IPV) responses and risk assessments are plentiful, but center around a heteronormative framework omitting various gender and sexuality configurations.…

With the development of lithography techniques, microfluidic systems have drastically evolved in the past decades. Digital microfluidics (DMF), which enables discrete droplet actuation without any…

In the first chapter of this thesis, my co-author and I study the tradeoff resulting from delegation of authority. Delegating decisions to an agent may benefit the principal if the agent is more…

This thesis locates the success and influence of modern yoga in the shared space of popular culture, neoliberalism and post-feminism. By focusing on the representations and discourse of the modern…

There is an explosive growth in the size of the input and/or intermediate data used and generated by modern and emerging applications. Unfortunately, modern computing systems are not capable of…

Aquifers in mountainous regions can be susceptible to periods of drought, but the aquifer response to drought is complex due to groundwater – surface water interactions. In this study, early season…

The thesis focuses on applying contrastive loss in learning joint embeddings over multimodal data and proves the effectiveness at a downstream task (retrieval). Previous work on joint representation…

The Atlantic salmon aquaculture industry uses anti-sea lice chemotherapeutant treatments to control sea lice, a damaging endemic ectoparasite. These treatments are then released into the receiving…

Fuel cell membrane durability remains one of the key challenges limiting the wide scale adoption of fuel cell technology. Degradation in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells limits the…

Asymmetric cell division is one mechanism that generates cellular diversity in multicellular organisms. In C. elegans, a variation of the Wnt pathway, the Wnt/βcatenin asymmetry pathway, regulates…

Today, the use of touchscreen text entry extends from short text messages to longer emails and blog posts, where the latter activities require more formal writing and text entry errors are less…

Many problems in combinatorics and computer science use algebraic methods in their solutions, even if they do not look inherently algebraic. Polynomial methods [49], rank arguments [16], and spectral…

Analyzing optical remotely sensed imagery has numerous applications, including climate studies, weather forecasting, urban planning, agriculture, and natural resource/disaster management. All these…