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Blockchain is the emerging, decentralized technology best known for powering cryptocurrencies. It connotes powerful narratives about socio-economic progress, democracy, transparency, and inclusion.…

This project assesses mine reclamation regulations in the Peace River region of British Columbia, focusing on metallurgical coal mines within the range of endangered Central Mountain Caribou (…

The arbiters of the subject of Daoism have assumed authority to determine what does or does not merit inclusion through a few select means; either through a circumscribed scholastic lens or via…

Two-dimensional Transitional Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) such as MX2 (M= Mo, W; X= S, Se) have gained tremendous attention for use in optoelectronic applications because of their high carrier…

The National Occupancy Standards (NOS) are guidelines primarily used in social housing to determine the number of bedrooms required for housing applicants based on the gender, age and relationships…

This thesis explores experiences of addiction/substance-use, stigma, and addictionstreatment/recovery of families across social locations in British Columbia (BC); illuminating how their experiences…

Glycoside hydrolases (GHs) are the enzymes that catalyze the cleavage of glycosidic bonds, which link carbohydrate units to other biomolecules. The work in this thesis comprises mechanistic studies…

My thesis includes three chapters in Behavioural and Experimental Economics. The first chapter -- ``Instructions'', is co-authored with David J. Freeman, Erik O. Kimbrough and Garrett M.…

The historic extirpation and subsequent recovery of sea otters, a well-recognized keystone predator, has generated far-reaching changes in nearshore ecosystems across the Northeast Pacific. What…

The challenge of plasmonic hot electron science is in understanding and integrating the three pillars of device efficiency: (i) plasmonic excitation, (ii) plasmon decay and hot carrier transport, and…

The following dissertation addresses two important areas of consideration in adolescent risk assessment, namely the assessment of multiple adverse outcomes and the rating and formulation of change in…

The Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality Disorder (CAPP) is a recently developed conceptual model of psychopathy that has sustained operationalization in numerous modalities (e.g.…

Maternal stress (early life stress (ELS) and prenatal stress (PNS)) influence offspring development via the biological embedding of stress. Maternal physiological stress system activation can be…

Lexical suffixes are a class of morpheme in Salish languages which are obligatorily bound, but have the semantic properties of free-standing nouns. Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, a member of the Central Salish…

This thesis examines women athletes' relationship to food through a critical feminist lens to reveal how the ideal athletic female body is constructed at the intersection of race, class, and…

Workplace injury information in capitalist societies, where workers' compensation systems (WCSs) prevail, appears as a collection of inductive indicators that measure the existence and degree of…

Evaluation of design ideas is an integral part of designing built environments. It involves multiple stakeholders with diverse backgrounds reviewing design solutions by studying their form and…

In response to the Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015), post-secondary institutions across Canada are attempting to decolonize and Indigenize their pedagogies and…

The study explores policy options to address skilled labour shortages in the biomanufacturing sector in British Columbia ("BC"). Interviews with local biomanufacturing companies and…

Canada is a diverse country with 22.3% of Canadians belonging to visible minorities (Wang & Moreau, 2022). Canada's history has been marked by systemic racism against visible minorities such…