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Can we tell story in a non-linear and non-verbal way? In a time consisting of various positionalities, points of view, practices of law, and languages, can multiple stories exist in one performance…

The Late Cretaceous Nanaimo Group is a siliciclastic succession deposited into the Georgia Basin, that is exposed in BC, Canada. The Nanaimo Group records the initiation and evolution of a forearc…

There is an ever-intensifying conversation regarding the role that cities have in response to climate concerns. Many local governments have set ambitious targets and climate action plans, especially…

Community food assessments tend to be limited in their consideration for ecological and cultural assets that are important for food system resiliency. In addition, what are considered assets may not…

Given an unexpected query result, query explanation problem aims to automatically generate an explanation to resolve it. Existing provenance-based explanation methods identify a group of records to…

The 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite was the first direct democratic vote on public transit funding held in a Canadian city-region. Using qualitative methods and a…

Motivated by the Lymphoid Cancer Families Study established by Angela Brooks-Wilson and Joseph Connors at BC Cancer, this dissertation focuses on simulation and statistical methods for family-based…

This research examines how the concept of start-up has transcended its original acceptation as a synonym for early-stage, hi-tech company to become a historically specific way of knowing, ordering,…

Water resources around the world are periodically impacted by droughts, which can reduce water available for human use and put stress on the environment. The effects of long-term changes in climate…

The current literature on mortality has mainly focused on model specification, giving less regard to parameter estimation. Indeed, over the last three decades, multiple mortality models have been…

The dominant narrative around doctoral students and career preparation is informed by a discourse which assumes that the purpose of doctoral study is training for academic work. Rising PhD…

Hot pixels are defects that are permanent in nature and develop during the camera's lifetime. A common misconception is that a small number of hot pixels will not significantly deteriorate the…

This project report examines the current state of book distribution in Canada, particularly in relation to small and medium sized presses, by outlining industry standard terms and practices,…

The Chain-Ladder model is the most widely used technique for property and casualty insurance to estimate unpaid claims, including incurred but not reported (IBNR) claims. In this project, inspired by…

Three economic experiments are used to answer questions about human decision making: when to pay attention, when to complete a task, and when to enroll in second year university. Chapter 1 explores…

The rise of the radical right parties in Europe has led these parties to become major players in the parliamentary sessions, either in helping to form government or as major opposition parties. The…

Coral reefs are being impacted by ocean warming and marine heatwaves caused by climate change, leading to the loss and degradation of these ecologically and economically important ecosystems globally…

Robots and artificial agents that interact with humans should be able to do so without bias and inequity, but facial perception systems have notoriously been found to work more poorly for certain…

The discretization of surface intrinsic PDEs has challenges that one might not face in flat spaces. The closest point method (CPM) is an embedding method that represents surfaces using a function…

Scheduling latency-sensitive applications in large-scale datacenters is challenging. Current approaches use application-layer schedulers, which impose high overheads and result in long latencies. We…