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Spatial phenomena are often perceived as complex systems (CS) that cannot be fully represented through equation or statistical modeling as they are spatial, dynamic, and nonlinear. This requires…

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are a diverse population of cells found in bone marrow, which generate blood cells throughout our lifetime. Little is known regarding how post-transcriptional…

Capacitive deionization (CDI) is an energy efficient brackish water desalination technique allows low voltage operation (~ 1.2V) under room temperature and pressure. Carbon material is the most…

In this dissertation, I examine a specialized method for reporting the news called "solutions journalism." I explore and assess the extent to which solutions journalism on climate change…

Fluorine-containing small molecules play a significant role in medicinal chemistry, material science, and PET imaging. However, there is a scarcity of mild and versatile strategies for incorporating…

Crime Scene Investigation within Canada has traditionally been a function carried out by police officers. Recently, civilians have been introduced into Canadian Forensic Identification Units (FIUs)…

The change of electric properties at a liquid-solid interface due to solution concentration variation has the potential to contribute toward the design of a concentration sensor. This study…

The tongue of the frog is of the softest known biological materials on this planet. It is this softness that yields the stickiness needed to pluck a fly from mid air, slough skin in perpetual acts of…

Gestational exposure to environmental chemicals presents an interesting challenge for epidemiological analysis of pregnancy outcomes and fetal development due to concurrent exposure of multiple…

In this thesis, we describe the first-ever large-scale computational analysis of the partially-deciphered proto-Elamite (PE) script. This script was used to write economic accounts which follow a…

I have been teaching core French for over twenty years in the small coastal city of Prince Rupert, BC. Although French is one of the official languages of Canada and is offered in all Canadian…

When identifying potential candidates for conservation attention, zoos use species selection schemes which include a variety of criteria, including Evolutionary Distinctiveness (ED; a measure of…

This project will provide information, told in the Tlingit language and English by the author, about her ancestors, and her upbringing and life in the Inland Tlingit community of Teslin which is…

The Jamaican garrison has been deemed a hotbed for crime and criminality. What exacerbates the issue of high crime levels is that these communities have been overly criminalized by colonial modes of…

We apply an inverse ensemble forecasting approach to COVID-19 outbreaks in a collection of U.S. counties containing college towns. Modelling disease dynamics with an SIR model, we define a time-…

Chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) is a condition that kills approximately 50% of lung transplant (LTx) patients who survive their first year post-surgery. A correlation between CLAD status…

Cancer is one of the major causes of mortality, accounting for one in six deaths worldwide in 2020. The majority of cancers can be prevented , cured , or reversed if early detected. Early diagnosis…

While seemingly undetectable, the digital world has a large effect on social movements; to what extent will people go, in order to persuade and influence others online? Twitter is a popular platform…

In recent years, the adoption of FPGAs in datacenters has increased, with a growing number of users choosing High-Level Synthesis (HLS) as their preferred programming method. While HLS simplifies…

Motion graphics videos offer a powerful means of communicating complex concepts through engaging visuals and animation. While becoming increasingly popular, authoring these videos can be overwhelming…