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Britain had little interest in the Mediterranean and almost none in Malta until Napoleon Bonaparte seized the island in 1798 and forced her to take heed. Thereafter, the question of who should…

With the growing DRAM capacity and core count in modern servers, database systems are becoming increasingly multi-engine to feature a heterogeneous set of engines. In particular, a memory-optimized…

The automated construction of structured geometry is crucial for the next technological revolution in broader domains such as digital mapping, construction, robotics, augmented reality, and more.…

This thesis studies offender choices associated with extortive offences in El Salvador, Central America. Super gangs like MS-13 and Barrio 18 have turned extortion into one of the most important…

Humans can learn to move optimally. For many movements, we have a control strategy—or control policy—that optimizes some objective. In walking, we prefer the combination of step widths, step lengths…

WHERE I HEARD YOUR VOICE is an experiment in recasting time as space. The photos of this back-projected photo-collage have been juxtaposed by means of a moving-image approach so that time can be…

Habitat use of indicator species is used to prioritize management activities, but habitat use can vary temporally in response to changes in predation risk and foraging rewards. I examined black…

This study presents the stories shared by five students at Simon Fraser University who identify as women of color, regarding their fear of harassment or violence and perceptions of safety while…

Since my move to so-called Canada in 2015, I have reconsidered the way in which the places I have dwelled are bound to the temporal materialities around me. Through my transits in Mexico City, Oaxaca…

Sexual conflict occurs in biparental species because working together provides shared benefits while incurring individual costs. In birds, coordination of provisioning visits via turn-taking has been…

The goal of precision oncology is to make accurate predictions for cancer patients via some omics data types of individual patients. Major challenges of computational methods for drug response…

In British Columbia, Canada, older adults make up 40% of the rural populous. Rural communities have been reported to have reduced quantity and accessibility to formal services and supports in…

Advances in the technological sphere are synergistic with society's progression. Technological innovations result in social realities, and these correspondingly remodel technologies to reconcile…

Common property have long been considered inefficient and short lived, since they encourage high-productivity individuals to leave and shirking among those who stay. In contrast, kibbutzim ---…

Harlequin ducks breed at low densities on montane streams across a large geographic region. Variation within and between watersheds can make it difficult to isolate the effects of local stressors…

This study seeks to understand traditional food sharing and selling networks in Inuvik, NWT amidst dramatic societal change and growing food (in)security concerns. Country (traditional) foods…

Stories are integral to Coast Salish culture, past and present. This thesis is about my journey towards Hul'q'umi'num' fluency, through learning to tell a story with the support…

Snare (2020), explores the entangled relationship between visibility, concealment, and the domestic sphere as a site of artistic production. Through the use of pattern, painting and sculpture, Snare …

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is a technique for inferring the power consumption of each appliance within a home from one central meter, aiding in energy conservation. In this thesis I present…

Abstract For Indigenous communities everywhere, the passing of valued Knowledge Holders is resulting in the loss of history, language and culture on a daily basis. This is the case for our Ts'…