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Single stock terminal fisheries for Fraser River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) have been proposed as an alternative to lower-river mixed-stock fisheries to avoid weak stocks and support…

The Mpemba effect refers to a phenomenon where a sample of hot water may cool and begin to freeze more quickly than a cool or warm water sample prepared under identical conditions. Although the…

Aging in place is a common topic among gerontologists, policy-makers, older adults, and other stakeholders, and is widely recognized as the most desirable option for older adults in Canada. A…

This dissertation primarily examines two separate topics: evidencing the presence of boundedly rational behavior on currency designs and re-examination of extant status theory as applied to high-…

There is pressing need to manage adolescent substance use to prevent impaired driving. Adolescent impaired driving is more common than imagined and is damaging to the health of Canadians and the…

As the number of couples using In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) treatment to give birth increases, so too does the need for robust tools to assist embryologists in selecting the highest quality embryos…

The jump-diffusion framework introduced by Duffie et al. (2000) encompasses most one factor models used in finance. Due to the model complexity of this framework, the particle filter (e.g., Hurn et…

By harvesting online workers' knowledge, crowdsourcing has become an efficient and cost-effective way to obtain a large amount of labeled data for solving human intelligent tasks (HITs), such as…

Transcription of genes and production of proteins are essential functions of a normal cell. If disturbed, misregulation of crucial genes leads to aberrant cell behaviour and in some cases, leads to…

How do we re-politicise today in its correct, original, and medieval spirit Orderic Vitalis's thousand-year-old investigation of the Conqueror's crimes? The text where this exists in its…

Core-shell semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have gained increasing attention since the last decade for their advances in multiple applications. This core-shell geometry is advantageous because of the…

Spectroscopic studies provide information about the structure of nuclei. Information that, in turn, serves to inform theoretical models and astrophysical studies.Recent work using the GRIFFIN…

Globally, around 20% of people suffer from chronic pain, an illness that cannot be cured and has been linked to numerous physical and mental conditions. According to the BioPsychoSocial model of pain…

Impact benefit agreements have become a popular tool to manage and mitigate the impacts of resource development activities, and share the monetary and/or non-monetary benefits from development…

A combined sedimentological-geochronological approach is employed to unravel the importance of paleoenvironments landward of the shoreline in understanding the stratigraphic architecture, and…

Indigenous peoples have maintained that sovereignty over their waters is a priority for them. Yet, most water governance systems across Canada exclude Indigenous peoples from decision-making…

It is difficult to find closed-form optimal decisions in the context of pension plans. Therefore, we often need to rely on numerical algorithms to find approximate optimal decisions. In this report,…

This research examines the Korean state's position in the development of its cultural industries. In contrast to doctrines of neoliberal globalization that demand that the state minimize its…

In order to investigate the structures and physical properties of intriguing relaxor ferroelectrics, a novel solid solution, (1-x)(Pb0.5Sr0.5)(Zr0.5Ti0.5)O3-xPbTiO3 (PSZT-PT), of complex perovskite…

Beyond Representation: Music, Language, and Mental Life investigates how music, as a non-discursive expressive form, generates and expresses meaning. Music's use in cultural ritual is explored…