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Muscle mass significantly shapes skeletal muscle behavior and might partially clarify why traditional massless Hill-type models struggle to predict larger muscle functions in dynamic, submaximal…

The eighth edition of the Fact Book is based on the 2021 Census and also supplemented with data from national health surveys, such as the Canadian Community Health Surveys, and other targeted surveys…

North American educational institutions remain dominated by a worldview that stems from the Western colonization process. Given the increasing diversity of students, this failure to recognize and…

The Playbox is an autoneuroethnography in the form of a live theatre performance wherein audiences are invited to play and spectate a "pre-release demo" of a fictitious game console…

With the ever-increasing amount of user data produced worldwide, today's big data ana- lytics engines are constantly under pressure to keep up with the rapidly increasing demand for faster…

Concerns regarding positive youth development in schools are increasingly tied to the use of technology. The ability to easily share explicit photos and/or videos adds complexity to the issue and can…

Soft Machines: Kettle Logic and The Gale Maze is an interdisciplinary lecture-performance about death, Persian men, language and thought. A performance that attempts to use the elements of theatre in…

Over the past decade, backscatter nodes have received booming interest for many emerging mobile applications, such as sports analytics and interactive gaming. However, problems remain in making…

The widespread adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has ushered in an era of extensive sensor-generated data, leading to the need for improved communication capabilities, data storage, and…

An experimental setup was developed for analyzing the secondary photons produced by the Geiger mode avalanches utilized by Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs). The spectrum of these secondary photons…

This dissertation addresses the imperative task of understanding and facilitating the acculturation of nearly 30 million Muslims in the West. It explores acculturation challenges by examining the…

This project report explores the peritexts of books published by the University of British Columbia Press. Although university presses' main output has historically been the monograph, other…

In this work, thermoelectric generators (TEGs) are used to recover electrical energy from the configuration of a vertical combustor. An experimental test rig was developed using locally sourced…

A fuel cell system is an electrochemical device that converts chemical energy from a fuel, such as hydrogen, into electricity, water, and heat. In Polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFC), the membrane…

The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction is a promising solution to address problems associated with global warming and energy storage/demand. Research in developing a new molecular catalyst for…

Heat is a growing concern for Canada's increasingly urbanized populations, particularly for local governments, whose regulation and control of land and development impact the magnitude of the…

This thesis investigates two distinct projects: one in statistical genetics focusing on identifying rare causal variants using a sequence-relatedness approach, and another in goodness-of-fit test…

This thesis consists of five distinct chapters; each considers various applications within the domain of big data. In the opening chapter, an application of genetics is presented. It discusses how to…

Currently, the industry standard for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are perfluorosulfonic acid ionomer-based (PFSA) ionomers like Nafion®. However, PFSA-based ionomers are expensive…

This study examines watershed health indicator (WHI) frameworks across North America by assessing their alignment with the holistic principles of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The…