This phenomenological hermeneutic research explores the author’s lived experience of painting a Sacred Mandala over the course of 15 months while focusing on child-loss by adoption. In this dissertation, the structure, ...

Maintaining independence is a primary reason that many older drivers continue to drive. Safety, however, is a growing concern for all older drivers. Numerous studies have noted that many older drivers lack an awareness of ...

Modern distributed applications often have to make a choice about how to main- tain data within the system. Distributed storage systems are often self- contained in a single cluster or are a black box as data placement is ...

Cross-habitat subsidies of nutrients and prey can structure community processes in receiving ecosystems. Every autumn throughout the northern Pacific region, anadromous salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) return to their natal ...

The formation of the Salmonella extracellular matrix is a multicellular behavior important for environmental persistence. It is comprised of uniquely but ill-defined assembled thin aggregative fimbriae (Tafi), cellulose ...

The purpose of this thesis is to determine the key explanatory factors that explain why some First Nations reach an agreement through the British Columbia Treaty Process, while others do not. To do this, analytical frameworks ...

Sand crabs (Anomura: Hippoidea) have evolved a "new" means of locomotion: they use their thoracic legs to dig into the sand instead of walking on the benthos as many other decapod crustaceans do. I examined digging by three ...

While the social sciences have interrogated religious conversions as intensely social, historically situated phenomena, literary studies has not focused the same scrutiny on these textually rendered events and the forces ...

Graphs are commonly selected as a model of scientific information: graphs can successfully represent imprecise, uncertain, noisy data; and graph theory has a well-developed mathematical apparatus forming a solid and sound ...