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Application of renewable natural gas (RNG) and hydrogen (H2) in internal combustion engines with a direct injection (DI) configuration leads to improved thermal efficiency and reduced CO2. Because of…

Despite the desire of the postindustrial workforce, particularly women, for flexible work arrangements, only four percent of Canadian employees performed their job duties remotely - outside of the…

Social License (SL) has emerged to become a concept significant to states, markets, and societies, but business management, when compared to other academic fields, has limited understanding of SL,…

The ability to predict human behaviour and choose the right action for a robot is crucial to safe and natural operation in an environment shared with humans. Assuming a probabilistic model for human…

Analyzing and detecting Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) anomalies caused by evolving ransomware cyber attacks are topics of great interest in cyber security. Various anomaly detection approaches such…

This thesis has been written during a time of truth and reconciliation in Canadian history. It is a time when there is a great need to build bridges, metaphorically speaking, especially in the world…

In this dissertation written in French, I reconsider the notion of identity in light of sociomaterial theories (posthumanism, new materialism, and Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophy), as well as different…

The minuscule nature of microplastics results in their uptake in many aquatic species, leading to the risk of physiological damage and exposure to toxic additives and anthropogenic pollutants not…

The advancement of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has largely boosted the visual quality of human avatar constructed from RGB inputs. However, existing works either need per-subject training, and thus…

This case study examines the ways in which three distinct models of social housing were constituted through processes of conflict and coproduction between non-profits, state bodies, and private…

Conservative Calgary consistently elects un-conservative mayors. Despite a mostly Conservative and right-wing electorate, right-wing mayoral candidates with Conservative Party ties consistently lose…

Phonological markedness in sign languages, and particularly handshape markedness, is an area of study that is relatively new. Corpus and participant studies have provided some information about…

This research focuses on the role and responsibility of design professionals within processes of gentrification and neighborhood change by focusing on the case of the recent reopening of the High…

This thesis contributes to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research and technology development with a focus on the design of locomotion interfaces for virtual reality (VR) applications. Using…

The use of brain-computer interface (BCI) technology has emerged as a promising rehabilitation approach for patients with motor function and motor-related disorders. Brain recordings collected by an…

Around their first birthdays, typically developing infants begin to use various object-extension gestures. However, the processes through which they develop are not well understood. In this thesis, I…

Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNs) have revolutionized the field of representation learning on graph data with non-Euclidean properties. As one of its variants, Graph attention networks (GATs…