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The mobility of archaeological human populations has long been of interest to archaeologists, and the application of strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr) to further these investigations is now…

Analyzing the structural properties of graphs is important in various domains including bioinformatics, malware detection, and social network analysis. The fast-changing nature of real-world graphs…

This is a study of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) managed to achieve a totalitarian rule over the Chinese people through leisure regulation during and after the Mao Zedong period. I focus on…

Destructive intergroup behaviour (DIB) represents collective action taken with the proximal intent of harming an outgroup or its members. It was hypothesized that endorsement of DIB is most likely…

Natural products have provided humanity with powerful tools for human health, including combating infections, curing diseases, and helping humans to understand the world around us. However, natural…

In sports science, critical power and related critical velocity models have been widely investigated, and are being increasingly applied to field-based team sports. A challenge associated with these…

Background: Suicide is one of the leading causes of death for Canadian youth. To address this pressing concern, effective prevention programs that reach as many young people as possible are needed.…

Can we tell story in a non-linear and non-verbal way? In a time consisting of various positionalities, points of view, practices of law, and languages, can multiple stories exist in one performance…

The Late Cretaceous Nanaimo Group is a siliciclastic succession deposited into the Georgia Basin, that is exposed in BC, Canada. The Nanaimo Group records the initiation and evolution of a forearc…

There is an ever-intensifying conversation regarding the role that cities have in response to climate concerns. Many local governments have set ambitious targets and climate action plans, especially…

Community food assessments tend to be limited in their consideration for ecological and cultural assets that are important for food system resiliency. In addition, what are considered assets may not…

Given an unexpected query result, query explanation problem aims to automatically generate an explanation to resolve it. Existing provenance-based explanation methods identify a group of records to…

The 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite was the first direct democratic vote on public transit funding held in a Canadian city-region. Using qualitative methods and a…

Motivated by the Lymphoid Cancer Families Study established by Angela Brooks-Wilson and Joseph Connors at BC Cancer, this dissertation focuses on simulation and statistical methods for family-based…

This research examines how the concept of start-up has transcended its original acceptation as a synonym for early-stage, hi-tech company to become a historically specific way of knowing, ordering,…

Water resources around the world are periodically impacted by droughts, which can reduce water available for human use and put stress on the environment. The effects of long-term changes in climate…

The current literature on mortality has mainly focused on model specification, giving less regard to parameter estimation. Indeed, over the last three decades, multiple mortality models have been…

The dominant narrative around doctoral students and career preparation is informed by a discourse which assumes that the purpose of doctoral study is training for academic work. Rising PhD…

Hot pixels are defects that are permanent in nature and develop during the camera's lifetime. A common misconception is that a small number of hot pixels will not significantly deteriorate the…

This project report examines the current state of book distribution in Canada, particularly in relation to small and medium sized presses, by outlining industry standard terms and practices,…