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Happily-ever-after and happy-for-now (HEA-HFN) stories influence women's expectations of intimate relationships and inform their understandings of what it means to be in love and to love. With…

This thesis addresses the challenge of learning contextual visual concepts from limited image sets. We leverage pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models and introduce a novel optimization framework…

In simple visual search, a target (e.g., a square shape) must be singled out as a unique item from distractors (e.g., ring shapes). Generally, two effects are known to facilitate search performance…

Averting extinctions in an increasingly affluent and populated world is the challenge of our generation. The defining features of geological epochs are the mass turnover and extinction of species,…

Significant progress has been made in the past three decades of shark, ray and ghost shark conservation. The first decade saw finning spark globa concern for chondricthhyans as wildlife, leading to…

Background: Many transgender and nonbinary youth face added challenges compared with their cisgender counterparts, including more adverse experiences and harassment, raising risks for secondary…

In 1969, Marshall McLuhan published a deck of cards, meant to be used for problem solving. His Distant Early Warning Line Card Deck (DEW deck) referenced the chain of sixty-three Cold War Arctic…

This is the text for Hazel Meyer's exhibition Muscle Panic at the Cow Palace in Warkworth ON, Canada. Presented by Mercer Union as part of Sunday Drive Presents Warkworth, a 16-day visual arts…

This paper uses critical discourse analysis to consider a broad sample of scholarly and popular ethical criticism of Annie Leibovitz’s most controversial Susan Sontag photographs from A Photographer’…

Background: Almost 200 youth in BC have died from unregulated drugs in the past decade, with most deaths involving fentanyl. As well, increasing numbers of BC youth are being diagnosed with opioid…

The emergence of the next generation of artificial intelligent systems including deep neural networks (DNNs) is occurring rapidly. However, DNNs are currently unable to explain their predictions to…

Our [the authors] inspiration for a dossier on Marika Cifor's "Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS" (2022) came from mutually experiencing the book as liberatory. As…

Exhibition Text for "The Lips of History" held from May 4–July 21, 2024, at A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

A curatorial essay by Meyer and McKinney in "Preserving and Mobilizing Canadian LGBT2Q+ Films from 1970 - 2000" in the CFMDC Collection Educational Series which discusses 5 films suggested…

British Columbia has a low COVID-19 vaccination rate for children in Canada. In addition, the South Asian community has experienced a disproportionate impact from COVID-19, characterized by a high…

I have developed a novel micropatterning method for human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) by emulating embryonic tissue formation through geometric confinement of cell growth. This cost-effective and…

Rural restructuring and municipal reforms have created pressures for rural and small town municipalities. Neoliberal-inspired economic and political change have caused local governments to search for…

One explanation for why conscription may raise wages is that conscripts accumulate valuable human capital during their service in the military. An alternative theory posits that conscription affects…

This chapter discusses the role of copyright in interlibrary loans and how the practice of interlibrary loans is affected by the movement of library collections away from physical ownership of…

Commitments to net zero carbon dioxide (CO2) or greenhouse gas emission targets now cover 88% of countries’ emissions. Underlying the accounting behind net zero frameworks is the assumption that…