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Fall 2022
As many as 60% of those diagnosed with FASD come into contact with the Criminal Justice System (CJS), with youth with FASD being 19 times more likely to be in prison than their peer without (Chartrand & Forbes-Chilibeck, 2003; Fast et al., 1999; Institute of Health Economics, 2013; Popova et al.,...
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Big Data in the Global Realm: An Assessment of International Relations' Ability to Study 21st Century Developments
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This thesis examines Big Data as the latest and perhaps most potent iteration of a number of transformative technologies that have had and continue to have an impact of global politics and international power hierarchies. The thesis seeks to examine if the discipline of IR, with its current...
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Spring 2022
The overall goal of this study is to improve the protocols for Ex Situ heart perfusion (ESHP) to better preserve the function and viability of donated hearts. ESHP has emerged as a new method of donor heart preservation. Unlike the standard cold storage technique, in ESHP, the heart is perfused...
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Opioid Prescribing Patterns for Treatment of Acute and Chronic Pain in Rural and Urban British Columbia
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Throughout Canada there has been an increase in both fatal and non-fatal opioid related overdoses, with British Columbia having some of the highest rates. In response to this increase, the Provincial Health Officer of British Columbia declared a public health emergency to mobilize resources to...
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Fall 2022
Background: This thesis encompasses two distinct projects. 1) von Willebrand factor (VWF) is a highly adhesive multimeric glycoprotein found in the Weibel-Palade bodies of endothelial cells and in ⍺-granules of megakaryocytes and platelets. At the site of vascular injury, VWF is essential for...
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Spring 2022
During the past 10 years, we have witnessed the proliferation of cloud computing services and their adoption in the industry. This rapid growth has been mainly due to economies of scale, improving resource utilization, infinite computing resources on demand, and pay per use cost model. However,...
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Spring 2022
Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) is a well-known NP-complete problem. Despite the theoretical hardness of SAT, backtracking search based Conflict Directed ClauseLearning (CDCL) SAT solvers can solve very large real-world SAT instances with surprising efficiency. The high efficiency of CDCL SAT...
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Fall 2022
Overfitting is a phenomenon when a machine learning system learns the patterns in training data so well that it starts to inauspiciously affect the model performance on unseen data. In practice, machine learning systems that overfit are not deployable rather systems that generalize well and do...
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Fall 2022
Zika virus (ZIKV) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are important emerging human pathogens that have disrupted global health. More therapeutic and prophylactic treatments for the diseases caused by the emerging viruses are needed. Expansion of our knowledge on the...
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An integrated approach to assessing mobile crane mat requirements based on a novel approach to ground bearing pressure calculations and a redefining of crane mat selection and optimization
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Modular construction is adopted to increase construction efficiency and curtail waste. The fortitude of modular construction is high-capacity mobile cranes, of which hydraulic and crawler cranes are the most widely used. With the surge in weight of modules, the mobile crane's ground bearing...