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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-…

This study explores the processing of English and Spanish relative clauses (RCs) in discourse. The main goal is to understand how RCs contribute to the textuality of a text and, on the basis of this…

Phthalate diesters (DPEs) are a family of industrial chemicals used in a vast array of consumer products. Because of their broad commercial applications, many DPEs have become ubiquitously…

The veil is an obstacle to Muslim women and their freedom, becoming an area of debate in regards to “the woman question.” Scholars are revealing narrow assumptions of dominant logic that appears…

Overall, previous wind speed studies in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) present conflicting results for wind speed trends (both increasing and decreasing) in relation to climate drivers. This study fills…

In 2003, the city of Vancouver opened North America’s first supervised injection site, Insite. Insite presents a case where the municipal government initiated change in drug policy and responded to a…

Is there a relationship between positive environmental changes, a quick ratification of the Kyoto Protocol and preconditions such as green party presence and a Proportional Representation (PR)…

This project presents a strategic analysis of a linerboard and sackkraft mill. The industry analysis of the two different industries shows that both industries are facing substitution pressures and…

Versions 1,2,3 is a video installation that examines the relationship between performativity and the lens, in the staging and re-framing of mediated events. The work begins with improvisations by two…

This report assesses demand-side management strategies for water consumption in Whistler, British Columbia. At 575L/capita/day, Whistler’s per capita water consumption is currently well over the…

The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the characteristics of the quality of life of younger residents in residential care facilities, and to gain an understanding of the important…

To contribute to the growing literature on gender disparity in global blindness, this capstone provides an understanding of women’s eye health service use in Guatemala. Informed by intersectionalist…

In this thesis, we perform object recognition using (i) maximum similarity based feature matching, and (ii) adaptive multiple kernel learning. Images are likely more similar if they contain objects…

People engage in sex to meet a variety of intra- and interpersonal goals. Some motives for having sex may be associated with how people meet attachment-related needs for emotional security in their…

Recent studies have revealed that mitochondria are mobile structures within neurons and are transported by molecular motors associated with the cytoskeleton. The significance of mitochondrial…

This study examines the provincial government’s decision to expand online gambling services. In particular, the research identifies ways to decrease the problem gambling prevalence rate in British…

Children living in poverty often experience lower educational outcomes than the general population. A cycle of poverty can result, where low education levels pass from generation to generation. Up to…

The charge flow technique is used to study structure of nucleic acids. DNA-DNA duplexes and DNA-RNA heteroduplexes have been studied using charge transfer, yet little is known about RNA-RNA duplex…

This thesis critically examines the archaeological history of fishing at a five thousand year-old shell midden on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island. To do this, I use fish bones identified from…

Pupation site-seeking larvae of the codling moth, Cydia pomonella (L.), (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), aggregate in response to pheromone emanating from freshly spun cocoons of conspecific larvae. My…