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Information engines are a modern realization of a Gedankenexperiment proposed by James Clerk Maxwell in 1867. They can convert thermal fluctuations into useful work by applying feedback based on the…

Despite advances in depth sensing and 3D reconstruction, mirror surfaces remain a significant source of errors. In existing 3D reconstruction, mirror surfaces are either missing or have incorrect…

With Dennard scaling ending, architects are turning to domain-specific accelerators (DSAs). Emerging DSAs work with sparse data and indirectly-indexed data structures. They introduce non-affine, and…

Panax ginseng and Panax quinquefolius, which are commonly called Chinese/Korean ginseng and Canadian/American ginseng, have different medical properties and market values; however, they can be…

As part of the education to become a Diagnostic Medical Sonography Technologist, students must complete a mandatory 4-term practicum at designated sites. Educational institutions that offer DMS…

This thesis describes how co-speech gestures are used by Hul'q'umi'num' storytellers. Hul'q'umi'num' is the dialect of Halkomelem Salish (ISO:hur) spoken on…

In our lifetime there are certain moments where we suddenly discover new truths and meaning about ourselves. After these experiences we are not the same person we were. Transformative experiences…

Geography is increasingly reliant on modern technology and rapid technological advancements have inspired novel uses of these technologies for geospatial applications. Geographic Information Systems…

Health and wellness have taken a front-and-center position in the modern post-secondary landscape. Despite this, few post-secondary programs integrate dimensional wellness and stress theory into the…

Estuaries are nursery habitats for juvenile Pacific salmon, yet quantifying estuary contributions to behaviour, adaptations, and fitness across the salmon life-cycle remains a challenge. Using data…

Globally, researchers are increasingly using the archaeological, paleoecological, and ecological records to demonstrate the longstanding connection of Indigenous peoples to culturally valued…

Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) at the College of New Caledonia are used as a summative, high-stakes evaluation before entering the clinical setting to ensure the Year 2 Bachelor of…

As with previous global public health emergencies, the COVID-19 pandemic has had distinct and disproportionate impacts on women and their health and livelihoods. As the leader in global public health…

Workshop materials, including slides and step-by-step instructions, for the workshop Mapping Equity: Using GIS and Maps to Make Invisible Realities Visible. The workshop is part of the 2021 Community…

Essay 1: This essay focuses on the dissonance between the theoretical and practical applications of political communication. While political communication theory has been defined as communication…

Flow cytometry (FCM) is a high-throughput single-cell biotechnology commonly used to study the immune system in clinical and research settings. We present solutions to two problems in an FCM data…

The increasing connectivity of critical infrastructure (CI) is now exposing facilities and institutions to malicious actors who aim to cause significant damage. During the process of a cyber-attack,…

We consider kinetic systems comprised of a large number of interacting particles and discuss one specific approach to modelling such an object from a physical point of view. The subsequent kinetic…

Null subject imperatives are hypothesized to contain a null pronominal subject with second person φ-features (pro) (Potsdam, 1998). The two experiments in this thesis test whether this null element…

There is marked variability in the presentation of core diagnostic features across autistic individuals. This poses a significant obstacle for research design and interpretability, as well as for…