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The significance of teacher and student interactions in classrooms as a means of enacting curricula, analyzing learning gains and embedding classrooms into broader societal power relations needs to…

This thesis is composed of three essays on economics of education. The first chapter is co-authored with Ciro Avitabile and Jesse Cunha and investigates the medium-term impact of early-life welfare…

With the acceleration of climate change, Canada's commitment to action on carbon emissions faces several vital contradictions. These tensions have economic, social, and communicative dimensions…

This report highlights the effects of the disruption in the magazine industry in recent years (pre the COVID-19 global pandemic) and explores how brand extension and diversification of revenue has…

Over the past two decades, the steady global popularity of South Korean pop music, known as K-pop, has brought with it a rise in scholarly inquiry surrounding not only the reception of the music…

This dissertation is the author's mourning diary. By way of discursive and poetic, epigraphic and fragmented, graphic and photographic modes of narrative inquiry, he marshals his grief in the…

Cytochromes P450 is a group of heme-containing enzymes with diverse catalytic activity that can be used for the biodegradation of environmental chemicals. Cytochrome P450cam (CYP101A1) from the soil…

The purpose of the study is to examine public trust in health authorities during COVID-19 and whether individuals' trust in health authorities is influenced by inconsistent health messages.…

Sequence relatedness has potential application to fine-mapping genetic variants contributing to inherited traits. We investigate the utility of genealogical tree-based approaches to fine-map causal…

Fuel cell membranes undergo simultaneous or individual chemical and mechanical degradation under dynamic fuel cell operating conditions. This combined stress development effect compromises the…

This capstone project explores the impact of separating married couples when one spouse has dementia in long-term care settings. In particular, on couples' abilities to maintain a sense of…

Rates of sexual assault remain high across university settings despite increased efforts to combat this phenomenon. This project fills a gap in the existing literature by examining how situation-…

The overall goal of this thesis is to center ways Snuneymuxw First Nation (SFN) have known how to live collaboratively and collectively with their territory since time immemorial. This project looks…

The gypsy moth is a widespread and harmful pest causing extensive damage to the Canada's forest and orchard ecosystems. It uses (+)-disparlure as a sex pheromone. Discovery of the pheromone,…

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) has been recognized as a global public health concern affecting millions of people across the world. Women in South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and…

Situating itself within the frameworks of musical affect and relational labour, this research examines the healing practices of BTS fans from all around the world. As the biggest Korean musical act…

Urbanization has altered riparian ecosystems, resulting in the decline of species that depend on them. The Brunette River in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia is no exception; though it…

The creation of advanced solid polymer electrolytes is of critical importance for the development of many technologies, especially fuel cells and hydrogen electrolyzers. While hydrogen fuel cells are…

(Context) Online economic crime leverages information technologies (IT) for illegal wealth redistribution, such as banking theft. Such crime requires a series of actions, a scheme, to be successful.…

Perspectivals is an interior wall installation and an immersive environment comprised of eight freestanding wooden-framed translucent fabric panels immersed in geometric light projections. The…