Decreased fetal movement can indicate uncommon complication of labor; in response, we have developed a non-invasive, wearable monitoring tool to objectively assess fetal movement called the Babykick device. The novelty ...

This work seeks to recover the critical spirit of conservatism and re-emphasize its goal of stability and resilience in society. I will argue that we should strive to view ourselves as deeply dependent and persistently ...

The goal of the research of this Dissertation is using actuation redundancy to reduce backlash in parallel manipulators (PMs.) Initially, 3-RRR and 3-RPR PM layouts where 3 is the number of branches, R is a revolute joint ...

Testing every possible combination of the input parameter values is often impractical, inefficient or too expensive. One common alternative is pairwise testing where every pairwise combination of the parameter values is ...

Women who experience homelessness are faced with a myriad of challenges and struggles. Compared to women with housing, they endure higher than average rates of physical illness, mental health challenges, and substance ...

This thesis focuses on two classes of learning problems in stochastic multi-armed bandits (MAB): graphical bandits and private bandits. Different from the basic MAB setting where the learning algorithm can only ...

This thesis consists of a close textual reading of the three chapters of Book VI of the Florentine Codex in which the ritual bathing of the Nahua infant is described. Bernardino de Sahagún’s Spanish translation is compared, ...

My reading of the figure of Adele, a woman with dementia, in David Chariandy’s novel Soucouyant: A Novel of Forgetting (2007), brings Giorgio Agamben’s biopolitical concept of “bare life” together with the notion of the ...

The objective of this thesis is to explore the factors that enhance collaboration in the interdisciplinary environment of front-line addiction and mental health care. This research will explore these factors by posing the ...

This thesis aims to provide a current understanding of the open data movement at the municipal government level in British Columbia. The focus of the analysis is to identify barriers municipal public servants have encountered ...