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Inspired by the author's personal experience of learning English in rural China, this study explores the complexity of beyond-classroom learning environments where rural Chinese girls learn…

Coreference resolution is a challenging problem that requires clustering relevant mentions based on referent objects in a text document. Most work on it has relied extensively on text-only datasets,…

Convolutional neural networks have shown a remarkable ability to estimate depth from a single image. However, the estimated depth maps are low resolution due to network structure and hardware…

The essay assignment has been commonly used in a wide range of courses in higher education to facilitate student learning of subject-specific knowledge. However, undergraduate students do not always…

Blindness is a debilitating detriment to human quality of life. In the pursuit of investigating the pathogenesis of blindness-causing retinal diseases, innovative tools for imaging the human retina…

Since 2007, researchers in SFU's Pain Studies Lab have been experimenting with utilizing immersive Virtual Environment (VE)s to motivate Chronic Pain (CP) patients to keep physically active, in…

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is an aggressive and heterogeneous type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) is composed of highly fragmented tumour- derived cell-free DNA (cfDNA)…

For decades, Indigenous organizations in Canada have endeavored to make Indigenous knowledge, practices, and practitioners available for Indigenous peoples' health needs (Aboriginal Healing…

Coordination polymers, which are solid-state systems with nodes and linkers, have been used to study countless material properties. The modularity in the choosing of components to make coordination…

Throughout the twentieth century, the status of women in Tunisia was often entangled in political conflicts and debates over the nation, modernity, and Islamic cultural authenticity. State feminism…

Based on digitally-mediated fieldwork conducted in 2020/2021, and building on existing scholarship, this thesis works to understand how Ainu in North American experience Indigenous identity-making.…

Learning during COVID-19 was an abrupt change for both instructor and students. However, long-standing traditions of in-person, hybrid, and online learning allow us to understand the advantages and…

Indigenous cultural heritage (ICH) around the world is being lost at a rapid rate, due to factors such as increasing development, private property rights, and colonial planning schemes. This research…

This dissertation explores the possible benefits of Goethe's holistic approach to nature in science education and in science educator programs, especially in regard to how Goethe's approach…

People with mental health needs and substance use disorders (MHN/SUD) are overrepresented in all levels of the criminal justice system, including prisons. Despite this, diversion options for people…

This research explores the role of place-based philanthropy in rural community development through a case study on the Skeena watershed, an ecologically significant region in Northwest BC that is…

Electric vehicles are viewed as key to the emerging sustainable transportation revolution in Canada and other developed nations and cities. EVs are growing in popularity and reputation, and…

Sometimes referred to as "nature's laboratories", islands have long been used to test fundamental ecological theories. One highly influential theory, MacArthur and Wilson's (1967…

Computed Tomography (CT) is one of the most common modalities of medical imaging. CT scan has become a useful screening tool for body composition analysis and spinal conditions. Body composition is…

The Higgs boson is a unique tool in the search for the fundamental laws of nature, as it is connected to many of the open fundamental questions the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics cannot…