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Some criminologists have argued that offending does not require special skills and that people who commit crime are not very good at what they do. Conversely, the criminal expertise perspective…

Fishery data visualization plays a vital role for companies in countries with developed fishery infrastructure. It is important to identify trends, anomalies, year-by-year comparison (drill-down) of…

Is Googling a banal activity or something more insidious? Search Results: The Subject of Google in 2010s Culture argues that users are employing search engines for reasons that parallel how and why…

This project tracks the shift in development and neighbourhood planning policy in Vancouver's Chinatown from 2000 to 2019. Using concepts from policy studies and Pierre Bourdieu's theories…

Like many cities across Canada, the City of Vancouver has a significant shortage of licensed childcare. Although childcare is primarily funded and regulated by the provinces, staff and officials at…

In this dissertation, I explore the antecedents, processes and outcomes of the translation of scientific invention to innovation, which is of particular interest to scholars and policy makers who…

This thesis focuses on the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task in 2D images and 3D environments using the Neural State Machine (NSM). The NSM is a state-of-the-art approach for VQA that simulates…

Contemporary fisheries management involves setting quantitative objectives, and establishing decision rules that determine management actions in response to monitoring data. Within that system,…

Feature discovery from a relational table is a critical but challenging problem in machine learning model development. Being able to discover a good feature can significantly boost model performance…

The arrival of dedicated GPU ray-tracing acceleration hardware has renewed demand for Monte Carlo path tracing algorithms optimized for interactive applications. Yet even with hardware support,…

Research has emphasized that self-regulated learning (SRL) is critically important for learning. Students have different capabilities of regulating their learning processes and individual needs. To…

Public toilets are a topic that evade public and political awareness; however, they are integral to maintaining healthy, sustainable, and equitable public spaces in which all people can take part. In…

This paper reviews Canada's use of a skills-based determinant system for economic immigration, focusing on admission for the 'best and brightest' candidates. The human capital model…

Today's governments face increasingly wicked challenges in concerns over the marine environment which are exacerbated by climate change. Canada's sectoral approach to departmental mandates…

Environmental stress triggers the formation of physiological amyloid-based structures known as A-bodies, which share many biophysical properties with disease-associated plaques. Data indicates that…

Compared to conventional artificial neural networks, spiking neural networks (SNNs) are more biologically plausible and require less computation due to their event-driven nature of spiking neurons.…

Why is health a security issue now? An emerging paradigm that links epidemics and security concerns has influenced how we think about health and the preparedness of health surveillance. As the…

The criminalization of psychoactive drugs creates preventable harms to individuals and society. Decriminalization of personal possession of drugs is an innovative approach to mitigate the harms of…

The collection and use of Indigenous ancestors and their belongings for research and display in museums has contributed to losses of cultural patrimony and to the intergenerational trauma…

APN functions defined on finite fields of characteristic two provide the best protection against differential cryptanalysis. They are used extensively in modern symmetric block ciphers. It is…