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Sedentary benthic species such as Alcyonacea corals form critical habitat for fishes and invertebrates, that are vulnerable to anthropogenic activities. Assessing risks to these organisms requires…

Western Australia was formed by the accretion of multiple tectonostratigraphic terranes over a long and complex geologic history. To better understand the relationship between the Paleoarchean…

This study explores the individualities of China's industrial labourers through their diverse responses to the labour protection project, one of the most significant and ambitious initiatives…

This thesis addresses the integration of three-phase dc/ac voltage source converter (VSC)-interfaced dc sources and loads into the three-phase ac grids or microgrids under very weak conditions. VSCs…

When the COVID-19 pandemic and physical distancing measures arrived, most indoor facilities closed. The South Vancouver Neighbourhood House (SVNH) launched temporary emergency food distribution…

Illegal waste disposal is a persistent and costly problem with a large negative environmental impact. By analysing some of the underlying causes of this practice, and some potential solutions from…

Mechanical ventilation (MV) is an essential tool in the management of critical illness, however MV also induces lung injury that contributes to morbidity and mortality. This thesis investigates…

At TRIUMF, Canada's particle accelerator centre, the TIGRESS Integrated Plunger (TIP) and its configurable detector systems have been used for charged-particle tagging and lightion…

Inspired by the author's personal experience of learning English in rural China, this study explores the complexity of beyond-classroom learning environments where rural Chinese girls learn…

Coreference resolution is a challenging problem that requires clustering relevant mentions based on referent objects in a text document. Most work on it has relied extensively on text-only datasets,…

Convolutional neural networks have shown a remarkable ability to estimate depth from a single image. However, the estimated depth maps are low resolution due to network structure and hardware…

The essay assignment has been commonly used in a wide range of courses in higher education to facilitate student learning of subject-specific knowledge. However, undergraduate students do not always…

Blindness is a debilitating detriment to human quality of life. In the pursuit of investigating the pathogenesis of blindness-causing retinal diseases, innovative tools for imaging the human retina…

Since 2007, researchers in SFU's Pain Studies Lab have been experimenting with utilizing immersive Virtual Environment (VE)s to motivate Chronic Pain (CP) patients to keep physically active, in…

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is an aggressive and heterogeneous type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) is composed of highly fragmented tumour- derived cell-free DNA (cfDNA)…

For decades, Indigenous organizations in Canada have endeavored to make Indigenous knowledge, practices, and practitioners available for Indigenous peoples' health needs (Aboriginal Healing…

Coordination polymers, which are solid-state systems with nodes and linkers, have been used to study countless material properties. The modularity in the choosing of components to make coordination…

Throughout the twentieth century, the status of women in Tunisia was often entangled in political conflicts and debates over the nation, modernity, and Islamic cultural authenticity. State feminism…

Based on digitally-mediated fieldwork conducted in 2020/2021, and building on existing scholarship, this thesis works to understand how Ainu in North American experience Indigenous identity-making.…

Learning during COVID-19 was an abrupt change for both instructor and students. However, long-standing traditions of in-person, hybrid, and online learning allow us to understand the advantages and…