Recently added works

Alerting (e.g., a brief flash preceding a target display) facilitates simple visual tasks that involve one step: locate a pop-out item within an array. It is unknown whether alerting facilitates…

Motivated partly by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this project aims to develop a tool for investigating spatio-temporal spread of events. We use the records of American coronavirus disease cases…

The 'problem' of desire has permeated philosophical thought all throughout history and across cultures, with desire persistently interpreted in Western Tradition as a potential danger, both…

The purpose of this report is to assist Metlakatla First Nation (MFN) in making decisions on selecting indicators for monitoring high-priority values in the economic prosperity pillar of the…

The northwest coast of Calvert Island, British Columbia, hosts a large isthmus that connects two rocky headlands. Previous research suggested that its surface stabilized within the last ~500 years,…

Cognitive decline is a common consequence of aging, with dementia at the extreme end of this process. The decline in cognition may decrease the ability and efficiency of performing daily living…

This thesis aspires to provide a thorough study on Speech Emotion Recognition in the field of Machine Learning. The main objective is to simplify the path towards emotion recognition by voice without…

Food loss and waste occurs at an alarming rate while many households in Vancouver are food insecure; Meaning they go without stable access to sufficient food to fulfill the requirements for a healthy…

Educators often lack the time and resources to learn, integrate, and customize featurerich software applications for their classes, and many struggle to keep up with the latest educational…

THE PLACES WE CARRY combines windows, texts, and images to perform like a memoir of fragmented images of place and time. These images, are representations of the immediate urban landscape that has…

In the last twenty years the world has seen great social, technological, and language changes that have left even best-selling backlist titles in need of updating. When Orca Book Publishers decided…

Schools have increasingly adopted threat assessment to prevent violence, but there is limited insight into whether assessors adhere to recommended practices and consider assessment acceptable and…

Short-term international retirement migration is a voluntary lifestyle where people around the age of retirement relocate from areas, typically those with cold winters, to areas with warmer and drier…

Biodiversity loss is increasingly well understood on land, but the extinction risk trajectory remains largely unknown in the comparatively data-poor oceans. The Red List Index is used to track…

In this thesis, a benchtop protocol for one-to-one replication of micro and nanostructures is described. Polycarbonate (PC) replicas are constructed via unconventional solvent-assisted molding using…

Resource development projects impact Indigenous communities' health, leading to increased chronic conditions prevalence and reduced access to health services. Through an analysis linking…

Coherent synthetic aperture radar (SAR) based terrain monitoring relies on effective image focusing, compensation of interferometric phase biases and mitigation of decorrelation effects. The…

This thesis presents the epistemological context, plan and implementation of a study employing a variety of art projects aimed at facilitating arts-oriented inquiries into identity for classes of…

Our ability to predict impacts of climate change on ecosystems is limited by complex species interactions. This is particularly the case among the world's temperate oceans where kelp forest…

Chapter 1 develops a continuous-time, heterogeneous agents version of the Barro-Rietz rare disasters model. Following Gabaix (2012), the disaster probability is assumed to be time-varying. The…