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Most pathways that meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting the global temperature increase to well below 2°C above preindustrial levels will require a temporary exceedance ("overshoot")…

In recent times, the African continent has experienced many protest actions, but these protests have attracted few academic studies, with their impacts less explored. The few attempts at evaluating…

This project report investigates ways publishing institutions and organizations in Canada and Australia support Indigenous publishing. The main objectives of this project were to connect the many…

Humans have a remarkable ability to learn a wide range of motor behaviours and adapt them to different conditions. Motor learning involves rectifying movement errors and retaining corrected actions…

Video compression is ubiquitous in virtually all visual processing pipelines nowadays. However, its impact on many visual analytics tasks is not fully understood. In this thesis, we study the impact…

This research focuses on a novel approach to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) for autonomous mobile robots. SLAM enables the robot to move independently in a geofenced environment by…

With the maturing of sound studies, and its intersection with critical studies, more attention is being given to the Anglo-Euro-centric and hegemonic legacy of acoustic ecology, as well as the…

Estuaries can function as important nursery and stopover habitat for juvenile Pacific salmon, such as coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch), during their outmigration from their natal freshwaters to the ocean…

An Anti-vertex is a declarative construct that indicates absence of a vertex, i.e., the resulting subgraph should not have a vertex in its specified neighborhood that matches the anti-vertex. Anti-…

the lightest things float to the top is an intermedia instrument and solo performance for sound, light, and objects. This instrument comprises several containers of various sizes and qualities that…

Experiences of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression change efforts (SOGIECE) among sexual and gender minority people of colour (SGM-POC) have not been adequately described. A non-…

This report illustrates how a content marketing agency can leverage its expertise to generate passive income and increase awareness to potential clients and companies. This report focuses on Forge…

When orthogonal blocking of orthogonal designs is not possible, we will have to allow either non-orthogonality between treatment factors or non-orthogonality between treatments and blocks. An example…

People living with HIV (PLWH) are disproportionately represented in suicide ideation and mortality. For my thesis, I will examine the patterns of healthcare utilization prior to death for: PLWH who…

The Honey Badger Brigade is an organization affiliated with men's rights activism and the men's rights movement (MRM) that is primarily made up of women from Western Canada. These women…

Selection can generate risk of maladaptive extremes in sexually dimorphic and sex-limited traits. In humans, such extremes commonly manifest in diseases associated with sex and reproduction.…

This thesis details the electrical characterization of a new asymmetrical geometry molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) photodiode using transient photovoltage (TPV) and transient photocurrent (TPC)…

Human development is regulated by intricate, and interconnected, signal transduction networks. Given the complexity, deciphering the effects of mutations that give rise to abnormal development can be…

This dissertation investigates what is a healthy or integrative response to evil, with the proviso that the attribution of evil is subjective. Without a framework, most internal and external…

Decreased sound tolerance (DST) is common among many children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). When children are exposed to specific aversive sounds at school, they may be very distressed and can…