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Reinforcement learning is one of the major areas of artificial intelligence that has been studied rigorously in recent years. Among numerous methodologies, Q-learning is one of the most fundamental…

Skeletal muscles are the motors that drive human and animal locomotion. Yet despite their fundamental importance, our understanding of whole muscle behaviour is relatively limited due to practical…

Baklava is a famous, culturally significant and rather contentious dessert. In Turkey, Antep Baklava/Gaziantep Baklava, from Gaziantep, was granted national and international Geographical Indication…

This is an ethnographic project that explores the articulation by urban communities of ways of using public space by examining how and why people skateboard in Vancouver. By conducting semi-…

Housing affordability is identified as a major barrier to meeting the core housing needs of older adults in Canada. Metro Vancouver in British Columbia (BC), Canada, is known for its lack of adequate…

Since deglaciation, Fraser River through the southern British Columbia (BC) interior has undergone episodic aggradation and incision to create a series of distinct stepped terraces. This study…

In physics-based character animation, motions are realized through control of simulated characters along with their interactions with the virtual environment. In this thesis, we study the problem of…

Non-signaling strategies are a generalization of quantum strategies that have been studied in physics over the past three decades. Recently, they have found applications in theoretical computer…

Locally decodable codes (LDCs) are error-correcting codes $C : \Sigma^k \to \Sigma^n$ that admit a local decoding algorithm that recovers each individual bit of the message by querying only a few…

Recent developments in new molecular designs, scaling relationships, and theoretical modeling of mechanisms have rapidly advanced the utility of metalloporphyrins as electrocatalysts in the…

With the rapid growth in the telecom market, there is an emerging trend to focus on customer retention, which is a critical factor for designing future customer incentive strategies to help a company…

Civil protests. Music concerts and festivals. Sporting events. Parades and other large-scale celebrations. While these events differ in terms of their purpose, they are fundamentally all the same:…

Autonomous aerial and wheeled mobile robots play a major role in tasks such as search and rescue, transportation, monitoring, and inspection. However, these operations are faced with a few open…

Background: Exercise has been shown to have stress-reducing effects. Exercise is a non-invasive, relatively inexpensive activity, warranting further investigation as a protective influence against…

Deep neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of tasks. Convolutional neural networks, with their ability to learn complex spatial features, have surpassed human…

Biological control agents and composted materials, including vermicomposts and their water extracts, are used to suppress plant diseases in organic production systems, where fungicide use is limited…

Although case formulation and scenario planning are elements included in many structured professional judgment (SPJ) decision support aids, the utility of these steps in the development of risk…

This research explores the Daryl Morey incident as a case of international communication. On October 4, 2019, the general manager of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Houston Rockets,…

For a symmetric {0, 1, ⋆ }-matrix M of size m, a graph G is said to be M-partitionable, if its vertices can be partitioned into sets V1, V2, . . . , Vm, such that two parts Vi, Vj are completely…

This report documents my experience of teaching PUB 800 – Text and Context: Publishing in Contemporary Culture at SFU Publishing in the Fall 2020 semester, which was both my first time teaching this…