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British Columbia's (BC) agriculture sector produces greenhouse gasses that contribute to climate change. The agriculture sector is also severely threatened by adverse impacts of a changing…

"Linear" production and consumption systems are unsustainable; they create excess waste, which exacerbates environmental pollution. Apparel and textiles are no exception, creating annually…

Youth between the ages of 15 and 24 face the highest rates of depression in Canada. Depression is a mood disorder that affects how a person thinks, acts, and feels, and it contributes to a variety of…

Professionals have increasingly stressed the dynamic nature of violence risk. To be effective at preventing violence, it is essential to reliably and validly measure dynamic risk factors that can…

Cleantech clusters are geographic concentrations of specialized companies in different sectors such as hydrogen and fuel cells. Vancouver's investment ecosystem, reflecting the interaction of…

Emperor Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos' tenth-century Book of Ceremonies is a vital source for Byzantine court culture. As such, it has helped reinforce many negative assessments of the…

The RNA World hypothesis proposes that the early evolution of life began with RNAs that can serve both as carriers of genetic information and as catalysts. Later in evolution, these functions were…

Some criminologists have argued that offending does not require special skills and that people who commit crime are not very good at what they do. Conversely, the criminal expertise perspective…

Fishery data visualization plays a vital role for companies in countries with developed fishery infrastructure. It is important to identify trends, anomalies, year-by-year comparison (drill-down) of…

Is Googling a banal activity or something more insidious? Search Results: The Subject of Google in 2010s Culture argues that users are employing search engines for reasons that parallel how and why…

This project tracks the shift in development and neighbourhood planning policy in Vancouver's Chinatown from 2000 to 2019. Using concepts from policy studies and Pierre Bourdieu's theories…

Like many cities across Canada, the City of Vancouver has a significant shortage of licensed childcare. Although childcare is primarily funded and regulated by the provinces, staff and officials at…

In this dissertation, I explore the antecedents, processes and outcomes of the translation of scientific invention to innovation, which is of particular interest to scholars and policy makers who…

This thesis focuses on the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task in 2D images and 3D environments using the Neural State Machine (NSM). The NSM is a state-of-the-art approach for VQA that simulates…

Contemporary fisheries management involves setting quantitative objectives, and establishing decision rules that determine management actions in response to monitoring data. Within that system,…

Feature discovery from a relational table is a critical but challenging problem in machine learning model development. Being able to discover a good feature can significantly boost model performance…

The arrival of dedicated GPU ray-tracing acceleration hardware has renewed demand for Monte Carlo path tracing algorithms optimized for interactive applications. Yet even with hardware support,…

Research has emphasized that self-regulated learning (SRL) is critically important for learning. Students have different capabilities of regulating their learning processes and individual needs. To…

Public toilets are a topic that evade public and political awareness; however, they are integral to maintaining healthy, sustainable, and equitable public spaces in which all people can take part. In…

This paper reviews Canada's use of a skills-based determinant system for economic immigration, focusing on admission for the 'best and brightest' candidates. The human capital model…