As an estranged site that defines a gap along the recreational and accessible water’s edge in Vancouver, it is odd to fi find prime real estate left desolate. With research, the issue of the site was evidently much grander ...

A significant gap remains in our understanding regarding the temporal-spatial variability of hydrodynamics over the eastern Canadian shelf (ECS) and in the adjacent northern North Atlantic Ocean (nNA). This thesis is a ...

Traditional statistical methods face lots of challenges in model fitting, variable selection, and model diagnosis when analysing high-dimensional data. LASSO is one of the most popular regularised approaches for high-dimensional ...

‘Critical Habitat’ is the habitat required to close the life history of an endangered species and is a fundamental requirement for species recovery for two reasons; the role of habitat in population limitation and viability ...

Marcus Mosiah Garvey was the leader of the largest and most populous Black Nationalist movement of the early twentieth century. The movement began in Colonial Jamaica in 1914 but became a transnational phenomenon having ...

Fast mapping is the ability to learn a new word after one or a few exposures. Research on verb fast mapping in children with Down syndrome (DS) has found mixed results. Imitation aids fast mapping of nouns (Schwartz & ...

The passions of love and anger are at the root of character motivation in Vergil’s Aeneid, and often act as an essential narrative device for developing the poem’s more cosmic themes. This thesis endeavours to apply the ...

This thesis proposes a fine-grained semantic classification of what is traditionally named agent nouns in French; it is thus a study of semantic derivation. Our classification was elaborated starting from 1573 agent nouns ...

In the autumn of 2010 a novel free-falling profiler was deployed in attempt to measure, quantify and understand the vertical distribution of copepods in Bedford Basin, with particular emphasis on the effects of small-scale ...