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Cities are complex systems in which the diverse stakeholders, who have conflicting values and priorities, interact to directly influence the process of urban land use change. These interactions,…

Asymmetric many-core processors (AMPs) consist of cores varying in size, frequency, power consumption and performance, all exposing the same instruction-set architecture. Since this architecture…

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Serial ATA (SATA) and Fibre Channel (FC) are the main storage interconnect technologies at present. FC is the main interconnect in Storage Area Network (SAN) with a well-…

This project examines Aboriginal participation in northern environmental assessment processes through the study of Aboriginal public participation in the Joint Review Panel for the Mackenzie Gas…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between academic intrinsic motivation and classroom productivity in a sample of gifted students (N = 99) in Grades 4-8. Participants…

The weaning process varies considerably among human populations, but it is not yet understood why this is the case. With this in mind, I used data from natural fertility societies to test two…

Over the last several decades, the role of clinical medicine in the development of practice guidelines has increasingly` become dependent upon evidence. This study aims to examine the role evidence…

Basin-wide River Basin Organizations are widely promoted by reputable international bodies as the best way to achieve cooperation in negotiations over shared basins. As more shared basins around the…

In this thesis, we present a probabilistic generative approach for learning hierarchical structures of spatially local features, effective for visual recognition. Recently, a greedy layerwise…

After roughly 4 years of operations, Magazines Canada initiated a strategic review of its Small Magazines Office (SMO). The object of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the SMO in…

As one of the New World’s few animal domesticates, the turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) represented an important resource for the Ancestral Puebloans of the Southwest United States. Despite the rich…

The general aim of the study is a contribution to a better understanding of a new educational context. In the two classrooms where the researcher is also a teacher, we have documented, through…

In 1992, the Governor of Chiapas summoned a public hearing to resolve violent conflict in the highland of Chiapas, Mexico, between local political bosses and evangelical proselytizers. The Audiencia…

Computational methods offer new problem solving and analysis techniques that play a key role in advancing the boundaries of many research disciplines. Particularly for social systems, the precision…

Tourism related greenhouse gas emissions contribute to a warming climate, which will have significant consequences on many destinations. Addressing the emissions related to visitor travel is…

Pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A2 (PAPP-A2) is a metalloproteinase that specifically cleaves insulin-like growth factor binding protein-5 (IGFBP-5), a major modulator of insulin-like growth…

Collaborative planning is widely used in British Columbia, Canada as a decision-making tool for land use management. This study uses a research design synthesized from the relevant literature to…

This study investigates the prevalence of malnutrition amongst poor women in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The literature states that malnutrition is both a consequence and a cause of poverty and is exacerbated…

I examined forest structure and tree mortality in the Coastal Western Hemlock very wet maritime 1 variant (CWHvm1) of British Columbia, using data collected from 190 permanent sample plots…