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My thesis includes three chapters in Behavioural and Experimental Economics. The first chapter -- ``Instructions'', is co-authored with David J. Freeman, Erik O. Kimbrough and Garrett M.…

The historic extirpation and subsequent recovery of sea otters, a well-recognized keystone predator, has generated far-reaching changes in nearshore ecosystems across the Northeast Pacific. What…

The challenge of plasmonic hot electron science is in understanding and integrating the three pillars of device efficiency: (i) plasmonic excitation, (ii) plasmon decay and hot carrier transport, and…

The following dissertation addresses two important areas of consideration in adolescent risk assessment, namely the assessment of multiple adverse outcomes and the rating and formulation of change in…

The Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality Disorder (CAPP) is a recently developed conceptual model of psychopathy that has sustained operationalization in numerous modalities (e.g.…

Maternal stress (early life stress (ELS) and prenatal stress (PNS)) influence offspring development via the biological embedding of stress. Maternal physiological stress system activation can be…

Lexical suffixes are a class of morpheme in Salish languages which are obligatorily bound, but have the semantic properties of free-standing nouns. Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, a member of the Central Salish…

This thesis examines women athletes' relationship to food through a critical feminist lens to reveal how the ideal athletic female body is constructed at the intersection of race, class, and…

Workplace injury information in capitalist societies, where workers' compensation systems (WCSs) prevail, appears as a collection of inductive indicators that measure the existence and degree of…

Evaluation of design ideas is an integral part of designing built environments. It involves multiple stakeholders with diverse backgrounds reviewing design solutions by studying their form and…

In response to the Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015), post-secondary institutions across Canada are attempting to decolonize and Indigenize their pedagogies and…

The study explores policy options to address skilled labour shortages in the biomanufacturing sector in British Columbia ("BC"). Interviews with local biomanufacturing companies and…

Canada is a diverse country with 22.3% of Canadians belonging to visible minorities (Wang & Moreau, 2022). Canada's history has been marked by systemic racism against visible minorities such…

British Columbia's (BC) agriculture sector produces greenhouse gasses that contribute to climate change. The agriculture sector is also severely threatened by adverse impacts of a changing…

"Linear" production and consumption systems are unsustainable; they create excess waste, which exacerbates environmental pollution. Apparel and textiles are no exception, creating annually…

Youth between the ages of 15 and 24 face the highest rates of depression in Canada. Depression is a mood disorder that affects how a person thinks, acts, and feels, and it contributes to a variety of…

Professionals have increasingly stressed the dynamic nature of violence risk. To be effective at preventing violence, it is essential to reliably and validly measure dynamic risk factors that can…

Cleantech clusters are geographic concentrations of specialized companies in different sectors such as hydrogen and fuel cells. Vancouver's investment ecosystem, reflecting the interaction of…

Emperor Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos' tenth-century Book of Ceremonies is a vital source for Byzantine court culture. As such, it has helped reinforce many negative assessments of the…

The RNA World hypothesis proposes that the early evolution of life began with RNAs that can serve both as carriers of genetic information and as catalysts. Later in evolution, these functions were…