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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…

Orthologs are genes in different species that diverged from a common ancestral gene after speciation. Their identification is critical for reliable prediction of gene function in newly sequenced…

Because the historical record makes reference to a substantial number of prosecutions driven by charges of impiety, including the notorious trial and execution of Socrates, a perception arose that…

This thesis examines the Service, Office, and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada (SORWUC), an independent, grassroots, socialist feminist union that organized unorganized workers in Canada in the 1970s…

The over-representation of Aboriginal people in the Criminal Justice System (CJS) is a considerable problem that has been present in Canada for many years and is extreme with Aboriginal youth…

Two data sets are presented and various distributions, including the lognormal, are fitted to the data. A method is given to calculate exact confidence intervals for the quantiles of the lognormal…

Quaternions have been a subject for research in mathematics, physics, and engineering for decades. Using quaternions to represent colours, however, has recently been proposed and studied. Colour…

Behavioural inhibition to the unfamiliar is a temperamental style of reacting to novel situations, peers or adults with fear, wariness and avoidance. Childhood behavioural inhibition is a well-…