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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…

In algebraic geometry, gap functions are useful tools in the study of singularities of curves. It is thus desirable to have a classification of gap functions with arbitrary degrees. Gap functions…

In this thesis, we study the classification of data by a nonlinear classification boundary in the case the decision boundary is determined by the inverse of a given function. We propose and…

Syncope, or fainting, refers to a transient loss of consciousness caused by cerebral hypoperfusion. Syncope is highly prevalent, and difficult to diagnose, with many patients referred for extensive,…

With the massive adoption of smartphone, location trackers, and GPS-based applications, data is being generated that captures people's geographic locations in more precise detail than ever…

Scholars in the field of music education argue that music has the potential to prepare students to engage in a society that cultivates personal freedom and democratic participation (Bowman, 2007;…

On October 21, 2015, the Bill Reid Centre at Simon Fraser University (SFU) hosted an uts'am, a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh witnessing ceremony, to welcome a canoe created by Bill Reid to SFU's mountain-…

The increasing severity of forest fires in British Columbia is proving to be a crucial issue facing British Columbians as well as policymakers. In addition to improving methods of fire suppression,…

All of us read books for information, education or as a hobby, and with the technological development these days it is important that people who are print disabled have accessible books they can…