This study is a qualitative, blended methods, online ethnography that seeks to explore how youth (re)negotiate what it means to be Asian through their participation in online, user-created, racialized groups within the ...

Hearth features are often central to hunter-gatherer campsite organization and activities and have long been a focus of study for archaeologists. Among these studies, few have undertaken analysis of calcined faunal remains ...

Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) are key elements of ecological systems, and play an important role in the cultural foundation of human societies. All species of wild salmon face multiple, simultaneous threats, with ...

Earthquakes cause damages to structures and result in great human casualties and economic loss. A fraction of the kinetic energy released from earthquakes is transferred into buildings through soils. The investigation on ...

The niche concept, which provides a tractable measure of the environment encountered by organisms, figures prominently in ecological and evolutionary theory. Although neglected, valuable information may be gained by examining ...

Much of Natural Science involves the study of patterns in nature and the documentation of how these patterns reflect and affect evolution. It is in this spirit that I have analyzed three distinct life history traits of ...

Inducible defenses alter the strength of interaction in food webs. Theoretical models that incorporate their effects are therefore critical for predicting community dynamics and stability. I examined ecological effects of ...

This thesis centres on Karl Marx’s conceptualization of the forces of production, which I argue has received poor treatment in contemporary Marxist literature and is in need of reconstruction. Narrow and ‘lifeless’ ...

Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing animal protein production industries and accounted for 47% of the world’s food fish consumption in 2010. Aquaculture production is expected to increase to compensate for projected ...

Although scale is consistently identified as the central problem in ecology, empirical examinations of its importance in ecological research are rare and fundamental concepts remain either largely misunderstood or incorrectly ...