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Although it is important to transition all vehicles to zero-emission vehicles to meet net-zero climate targets, there is a relative dearth of research on adoption in fleets. Through semi-structured…

The Vancouver Writers Fest (VWF) has been a staple in Vancouver's literary community producing literary events since 1988. Recognizing that the profile of the Festival attendees is skewed older…

Few studies to date have explored the experiences of racialized and ethno-cultural families raising autistic children in multicultural contexts such as Canada. Research conducted in the US and Canada…

Population aging and urbanization calls for urban planners to take a closer look at age-friendly plans and policies to support aging in place. Research shows that most older adults prefer to "…

This thesis interrogates the motives, worldviews, and culture of the Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland (Jugoslovenska vojska u otadžbini, JVuO), popularly known as the Chetniks. I argue that the JVuO…

Disc-shaped (discotic) liquid crystals (DLCs) predominantly form columnar phases, which have been utilized as organic semiconductors in opto-electronic devices; yet these materials have been hampered…

This study initiated with the recent changes and challenges of the global pandemic in our life and education. While discussing the reasons for adapting to the so-called 'Fourth Industrial…

ZeroSPACE : Is an immersive sonic installation and performance. Composed in real-time in collaboration with the listener's biofeedback and vocal contributions, the work is an invitation to…

The noise floor of high-performance accelerometers is conditioned by the vacuum pressure inside the sensor package. However, less than atmospheric pressure introduces a lower level of damping to the…

The success of machine learning relies heavily on the data, thus is also limited by the data when no sufficient annotation can be provided for a standard supervised training pipeline. Weakly-…

In this thesis, I show how a ubiquitous narrative of vaccination has gained traction in contemporary public discourse, affecting public health practices and our identities more broadly. Drawing on…

Lysosomes are acidic organelles that traffic throughout neurons delivering catabolic enzymes to distal regions of the cell and maintaining degradative demands. Loss of function mutations in the…

Injury is a major health problem worldwide, yet the distribution weighs heavily towards LMICs, where over 70% of all deaths due to injury occur. Systematizing trauma care has been used for decades to…

The late Albian Viking Formation was deposited in a foreland basin depositional setting in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. The Viking Formation is currently defined on the basis of…

British Columbia's food system is experiencing a trend in digital agriculture which will impact agricultural activities and land use in the province. This model of agriculture requires computing…

Despite their cultural importance, relatively few ancient DNA (aDNA) studies have focused on fish. Consequently, the methods available for the aDNA analysis of fish remains are underdeveloped…

Mathematical models in fisheries research that utilize tag return data require an estimate of the proportion of commercially caught tags that are returned (i.e., the tag reporting rate). In this…

Predicting the winner of a sports match is a widely studied challenging problem of interest to many stakeholders (media, teams, fans, bookmakers). Various machine learning methods have been used in…

Computer models, or simulators, are widely used as a way to explore complex physical systems, but can be computationally expensive to evaluate or are not readily available to the broad scientific…

Bog wetlands store a disproportionate amount of carbon for their size, making their conservation an important part of climate change mitigation. The goal of this project is to investigate how roads…