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Hop has separate female and male individuals, and self-fertilization cannot be used to generate plants homozygous for recessive alleles and traits, inhibiting breeding efforts. A long-sought trait is…

Most academic programs experience attrition, and radiography is no exception. What happens when former students attempt to return to their hands-on studies after a lapse of time? There is a dearth of…

Little is understood about motivational or cognitive factors that might contribute to the often documented poor relational and sexual functioning among women with borderline personality disorder (BPD…

Increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide are forcing climate, which in turn are forcing wildfire activity and amplifying uncertainty in wildfire management. Fire management organizations need to…

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, and is a multi-faceted disease that is characterized by oxidative stress, metal-ion dysregulation, and the formation of intracellular…

Nickel (Ni(SalCF3)) and copper (Cu(SalCF3)) complexes of an electron-poor salen ligand were prepared, and their one-electron oxidized counterparts were studied using an array of spectroscopic and…

Salen ligands are ubiquitous in inorganic chemistry with utility in applications ranging from materials to catalysis. Additionally, salen ligands have the potential for redox-activity due to…

In this thesis, we report the results of theoretical and numerical investigation of three different classes of unconventional superconductors. In the first part of this thesis, we use a dirty-limit…

The purpose of this research is to gain a better understanding of the processes of subjectivity (re)construction among recent Chinese immigrants in Canada. It is concerned with comprehending the…

The proliferation of geospatial data, services, and applications on the web, as well as open data made available by government agencies, have brought both opportunities and challenges for the public…

By controlling the relative phases of a bichromatic, coherent light source like a femtosecond pulsed laser, we can control currents in certain materials at frequencies approaching the petahertz…

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) was started in 1998 to equalize access to scholarly research and has since succeeded in enabling the publication of over 25,000 journals worldwide, most of which…

In 2017 the Faculty of Education (FoE) at Simon Fraser University engaged in a research-based review of its Faculty Tenure and Promotion (FTP) guidelines in an effort to better understand the scope…

The Indigenous Research Methods in Action series is presented by the SFU Library's Research Commons. The series showcases SFU researchers who engage in Indigenous Research Methods and highlight…

This thesis is focused on modeling the wear of cutting tools during the orthogonal machining of carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP). A novel measurement methodology and software toolbox is…

Homeodomain-interacting protein kinase (Hipk) is an evolutionarily conserved regulator of signaling pathways, controlling growth and patterning, throughout development. Salt-inducible kinases (Siks…

Brain injury may be associated with mechanical ventilation (MV). This thesis explores whether lung-protective MV may lead to brain insult and whether temporary transvenous diaphragm neurostimulation…

Readily available, achiral acetaldehyde derivatives and ketones are easily converted into chlorohydrin building blocks enantio- and diastereoselectively via a one-pot, proline-catalyzed tandem α-…

Cyclohexenyl carbasugars are natural product-inspired sugar mimics which incorporate a carbon-carbon double bond in their structure, which functions to replace the endocyclic oxygen of natural sugars…

In 2013 the municipal government of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada declared itself to be in the midst of a "mental health crisis", evident in increasing rates of psychiatric…