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Today's governments face increasingly wicked challenges in concerns over the marine environment which are exacerbated by climate change. Canada's sectoral approach to departmental mandates…

Environmental stress triggers the formation of physiological amyloid-based structures known as A-bodies, which share many biophysical properties with disease-associated plaques. Data indicates that…

Compared to conventional artificial neural networks, spiking neural networks (SNNs) are more biologically plausible and require less computation due to their event-driven nature of spiking neurons.…

Why is health a security issue now? An emerging paradigm that links epidemics and security concerns has influenced how we think about health and the preparedness of health surveillance. As the…

The criminalization of psychoactive drugs creates preventable harms to individuals and society. Decriminalization of personal possession of drugs is an innovative approach to mitigate the harms of…

The collection and use of Indigenous ancestors and their belongings for research and display in museums has contributed to losses of cultural patrimony and to the intergenerational trauma…

APN functions defined on finite fields of characteristic two provide the best protection against differential cryptanalysis. They are used extensively in modern symmetric block ciphers. It is…

The contemporary discourse of reconciliation in Canada is imbued with liberal conceptions recognition. A discourse analysis of the Principles respecting the government of Canada's relationship…

This project examines the strategic form and function of legal mobilization. The scholarship on this topic is extensive, yet it falls short of explaining how and why mobilization continues after the…

In sports, baseline assessment of self-reported concussion-related symptoms with the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT) is often implemented as part of sports-related concussion protocols.…

In this thesis, we have developed a semi-autonomous behavior that allows us to control a drone with less effort. We have also presented a technique that enables autonomous repeating of a previously…

Critical infrastructures (CI) are connecting their systems to networks at an increasing rate, providing the opportunity for malicious actors to conduct cyber-attacks against these companies. In an…

Recent years have witnessed a drastic increase in the scale of data generated by sensors and smart devices across the city. While the data scale is increasing, it is more and more important to…

Radioactive isotopes are widely used in medicine for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.The most commonly used isotope is technetium-99m (99mTc), a product of β-decay of a molybdenum-99 (99Mo)…

This dissertation examines the role of curiosity in understanding the process of mathematical meaning-making. I argue that human curious behaviour coupled with the affordances of digital technology…

The Canadian government has made commitments to transition Canada to net-zero emissions by 2050 but has not addressed the transformative changes needed to decarbonize emissions-intensive and trade-…

In this study, we introduced Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) as a novel technique for studying gestational chemical mixtures. Using data from the Maternal-Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals…

Mediation analysis examines the exposure-outcome association that acts through an intermediate variable. However, mediation analysis becomes challenging when data have missing values. Although…

At the conclusion of the Gastown Riot in August 1971, Vancouver Police Inspector Robert Abercrombie declared the evening "a good night's work." Using riot sticks and horse hooves,…

Simultaneous neural Machine Translation (SiMT) aims to maintain translation quality while minimizing the delay between reading the input and incrementally producing the output. The eventual goal of…