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Spring 2023

Johnstonbaugh, Kerrick

Choosing an appropriate action representation is an integral part of solving robotic manipulation problems. Published approaches include latent action models, which train context-conditioned neural networks to map lowdimensional latent actions to high-dimensional actuation commands. Such models...

Spring 2024

Edwards, Claire

Parks and protected areas provide important refugia for source populations of threatened grizzly bears in Alberta, where high human-use and recreation can cause human-bear conflict. Many jurisdictions in Alberta and beyond use hazing and aversive conditioning (hereafter AC) programs to deter...

Spring 2021

Lukie, Michael Paul

There is limited literature about what it means to understand physics. Previous research has focused on university physics students’ understanding of physics concepts, but no research to date has examined variations across populations of what it means to understand physics. This study begins to...

Spring 2018

Matthews, Byron W

Teaching portfolios have been used by faculty in postsecondary institutions for summative and formative evaluations since the early 1980s (Knapper, 1995). Despite their proliferation, there remains much to be learned about the use of teaching portfolios and whether they are perceived as being...

Fall 2022

Li, Hong Zu

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally, causing nearly 17.9 million deaths per year. Early detection and treatment are critical for improving this situation. Today's wearable medical devices are becoming popular because of their price and ease of use. Many manufacturers...

Fall 2022

Li, Tianhua

Machine learning has been used to solve single-agent search problems. One of its applications is to guide search algorithms by learning heuristics. However, it is difficult to provide guarantees on the quality of learning from a neural network, since the resulting heuristics can be inadmissible,...

Spring 2015

Found, Robert B.

Personality has been documented in diverse taxa and growing attention is being directed towards the ecological implications of consistent variation in individual behaviour. These implications include the rise in habituation behaviour by wildlife living in human-disturbed areas, which has resulted...

Fall 2010

Musselman, Kristin Elizabeth

This thesis includes four projects that examine motor learning and assess novel approaches for the training and evaluation of walking. In Project 1 we study motor adaptation in children aged 8-36 months using a split-belt treadmill. Split-belt walking, in which one leg moves faster than the...

Spring 2011

Homstol, Lori

I tested the efficacy of aversive conditioning (AC) and conditioned taste aversion (CTA) on American black bears (Ursus americanus) in Whistler, British Columbia. Black bears subjected to 3-5 day AC programs responded by increasing their wariness toward humans, while control bears habituated. ...

Spring 2014

McFeetors, Pamela Janelle

High school mathematics students often complete homework and study for unit tests without support to consider how these actions could contribute to their mathematical learning. However, students can, through the process of learning to learn mathematics, to bring into view how they learn...