Southwest Garden Supplies is a garden centre which is undergoing growth in its sales in both of its departments: nursery and bulk garden/landscape materials. With the increasing quantity, and sales of plants, the company requires strategic analysis…

Volunteer firefighters have limited up-to-date training and awareness in applied coping skills and trauma informed practice (TIP). Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) has been a standard of practice within emergency services — including fire…

Little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) populations have dramatically declined in North America as a result of white-nose syndrome, a fungal pathogen. The identification and protection of hibernacula is important to conservation efforts for the species…

The design of efficient control strategies is a well studied problem. Due to recent technological advancements and applications in the field of robotics, exploring novel ways to design optimal control for multi-robot systems has gained interest. In…

The Marshmallow Effect is a fictional work that explores the consequences of isolation and trauma on an individual’s identity. The story revolves around the protagonist Arthur, a man who inadvertently creates a reality-bending psychological safe…

Canada implemented Bill C-127 to eliminate sexual assault against wives in 1983, while Ghana criminalized marital rape in 2007. Although Ghana was late in establishing the Domestic Violence Act, which eliminated the idea that husbands can rape wives…

Cultural evolution of birdsong occurs when songs change over generations and such changes can spread directionally or via drift within and between populations. The objective of this thesis was to document the emergence and spread of a novel song…