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Human papillomaviruses (HPV) and their associated complications are major public health issues in Canada and across the globe. There is significant data to support immunization against HPV in youth as an effective method to prevent the spread of…

Purpose. To identify the factors that influence primary care providers in their decision to provide medical abortions. Background. Medical abortion has been commercially available in Canada since 2017, with reduced restrictions on prescribing…

Shared decision-making (SDM) is central component of patient-centered care and is of particular interest in contraceptive counselling, where a range of potentially suitable options are available, and personal preferences and values must guide…

The first part of this thesis investigated the growth-inhibitory and immunomodulatory potential of six wild Canadian mushrooms. Out of 24 crude extracts, six showed strong growth-inhibitory activity, two exhibited strong immuno-stimulatory activity…

Hospice care can improve quality of life for persons nearing end of life. Little is known about hospice care practices in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) in Canada. This thesis included 185,715 residents in LTCFs in Canada in 2015 and followed…

Intermontane lakes are often enclosed by complex topography that creates difficulty in resolving the local and regional wind fields. Quesnel Lake, nestled into the western flank of the Cariboo Mountains in central British Columbia, is one such lake…

Snow plays an important role on the hydrological cycle of watersheds in cold regions. Predicting timing and magnitude of snow accumulation and ablation is necessary for water management in different sectors. A spatially distributed snow model (…

This thesis study analyzed the land use and land cover (LULC) changes in Stoney Creek Watershed, BC, Canada using the combination of remote sensing, GIS and modeling approaches. The Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) tool in PCI Geomatica 2017…

Due to an exponential increase in number of electronic documents and easy access to information on the Internet, the need for text summarization has become obvious. An ideal summary contains important parts of the original document, eliminates…

Deep Learning has become increasingly popular since 2006. It has an outstanding capability to extract and represent the features of raw data and it has been applied to many domains, such as image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision,…

This project examines precipitation patterns across the Continental Divide in the southern Canadian Rockies with a focus on precipitation gradients. This thesis is part of the Storms and Precipitation Across the continental Divide Experiment (SPADE…

Oily wastewater caused by marine oil spills brings great harm to the environment. In this work, the application of gas flotation with microbubbles and nanobubbles in separating crude oil droplets from oily wastewater is reported. The experiments…

Point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) is the process of operating a compact ultrasound machine at a patient’s location and immediately integrating the images generated into patient care. POCUS can help nurse practitioners (NPs) make more accurate…