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This doctoral thesis in educational leadership focuses on the Breton language, on its revitalization and its transmission. Primarily spoken in Brittany, this Celtic language has faced a dramatic drop…

Thanks to the high energy efficiency, neuromorphic devices are spotlighted recently by mimicking the calculation principle of the human brain through the parallel computation and the memory function…

This critical qualitative study centers the counselling experiences, needs and desires of eight people with gender identities outside the binary. Thematic analysis of firsthand accounts shows a…

Visual learning and efficient communication in mining and geotechnical practices is crucial, yet often challenging. With the advancement of Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) a new era of…

Climate change risk for migratory species is intertwined with their life-history diversity. Here I quantify climate risk, exposure, and phenological adaptive capacity in Chinook salmon during their…

The current study examined a newly-translated Simplified Chinese version of the Thyroid-Specific Patient-Reported Outcome Short Form (SC ThyPRO-39) among 179 thyroid patients in Mainland China. This…

Recently, the concept of ocean literacy (OL) has been described as a way forward to help communities and individuals develop a more holistic understanding of their influences on the ocean and the…

This thesis presents a method for camera localization. Given a set of reference images with known camera poses, camera localization aims to estimate the 6 DoF camera pose for an arbitrary query image…

This dissertation reports my research work on three topics in the areas of two-level factorial designs under the baseline parameterization, space-filling designs, and sub-data selection for big data…

Advancement in technology has made Virtual Reality (VR) increasingly portable, affordable and accessible to a broad audience. However, large scale VR locomotion still faces major challenges in the…

At present, the methods by which costs of flood-related damages are estimated vary significantly across Canada, resulting in widely different and often incomplete quantification of these costs. I use…

Unlike traditional graph processing applications, graph-based learning algorithms like Belief Propagation and Multimodal Learning require complex data such as feature vectors and matrices residing on…

G̱ilakas'la, Nugwa'a̱m Joanna Elizabeth Fraser. I was born in East Africa to parents of European ancestry. I have been an inhabitant of the West Coast of Canada since I was two years old.…

Educators have described their classes and institutions as "safe spaces" with increasing frequency and certainty since the 1990s. However, philosophers of education such as Eamon Callan,…

In this research, self-explanation was prompted and feedback was supplied to help learners activate prior knowledge, detect misconceptions, and replace unscientific mental models with correct…

The field of restoration ecology has historically been guided by the Western science paradigm, and often restoration activities have been conducted without consideration for local Indigenous people…

Working memory allows for coordination of complex goal-driven behavior. Decline of working memory is linked to severe cognitive disabilities and is an important feature of both severe carotid…

The Cascade Bay landslide is a large postglacial bedrock failure on the east side of Harrison Lake in southwestern British Columbia. It occurs in meta-sedimentary and meta-volcanic bedrock near the…

Stochastic thermodynamics is an emerging field of research that has received considerable attention in the past two decades. Among its most visible applications is to understand the connections…

Avalanche warning services release public avalanche bulletins to help backcountry recreationists develop risk management approaches for winter backcountry trips. To safely recreate in the backcountry…