Theses

We invite you to browse through the Electronic Theses and Dissertations database cIRcle hosted by the UBC library. Since 2008 all dissertations are accessible electronically. The database is an excellent resource to find out about research at UBC! You may do a quick title search on this page or go to cIRcle and to full text searches.
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Squirrel banking : essays on the evolutionary foundations of patience and time preferences 15 December 2021
Techno-economic and environmental assessment of microwave-assisted catalytic pyrolysis of biomass 15 December 2021
English for academic purposes in Canada : practitioners’ assessment practices and construction of assessment literacy 15 December 2021
Epidemiology and geospatial analysis of built environment determinants of healthy and resilient cities 14 December 2021
The effects of higher- and lower-load resistance exercise training on leg and arm skeletal muscle mass in healthy young adult females : a randomized equivalence trial 13 December 2021
A four-week observational study to identify cardiopulmonary trends in critically-ill sepsis patients participating in physiotherapy rehabilitation in the VGH-ICU 13 December 2021
Inflammation, antioxidant defense, steroidogenesis, and steroid metabolism : mechanisms for pregnancy complications associated with assisted reproduction 13 December 2021
Parametric design of boring bars with adaptive tuned mass dampers 13 December 2021
Generalized mechanics and dynamics of 3-axis machining processes 13 December 2021
Fractal modeling of moisture diffusion in wood 13 December 2021
Integration of sea surface temperature and light for prediction of coral bleaching 13 December 2021
Becoming anew as an educator : thinking with Arendt through narrative 13 December 2021
Determination of the lysine bioavailability from cereal food sources in healthy school-aged children 13 December 2021
The social organization of animal sheltering and protection in British Columbia, Canada 13 December 2021
The development of peer social support networks among families of children with neurodevelopmental and intellectual disabilities attending physical activity programs 08 December 2021
Shedding light on the brain—characterizing functional brain activation during simple and complex walking after stroke 08 December 2021
Adult-type granulosa cell tumour of the ovary : a FOXL2-centric disease 07 December 2021
Dynamical inference for biological processes through the lens of optimal transport 07 December 2021
Improving the methods to measure work productivity loss in caregivers 07 December 2021
Efficient in-hardware compression of on-chip data 07 December 2021
'All the feels’ – exploring educators’ embodied experiences of sex education 07 December 2021
How to make America democratically deliberate again : a proposal for widespread deliberative mini-publics 06 December 2021
Annular displacement flows in primary cementing of horizontal and irregular wellbores 06 December 2021
Slurry transport modelling and applications in the gravel packing process 06 December 2021
Occupational therapists' re-entry to practice following a career break : a mixed methods study 06 December 2021
Synthetic host defense peptides as therapies for skin inflammation and biofilms 06 December 2021
Optical monitoring in kidney transplant 06 December 2021
Physical and chemical evolution of Cracked Mountain glaciovolcano, SW British Columbia 06 December 2021
Street soccer in Vancouver : player accounts of homelessness, sport, and social identity 06 December 2021
Magnetic sponges for localized and controlled drug delivery with drug combination therapy 06 December 2021
Experimental characterization of tissue structure and the impact of forming fabric on tissue properties 06 December 2021
Condensation in membrane-based energy exchangers 06 December 2021
Reinforcement learning for legged robot locomotion 06 December 2021
Exploring in-service science teachers' assessment literacy on teaching with models 06 December 2021
Design, prototyping, and optimization of a double pulse testing platform for high voltage dynamic testing of e-mode GaN HEMTs 06 December 2021
Fabius Maximus and the deployment of ransom in the Second Punic War 06 December 2021
Subspace optimization for machine learning 06 December 2021
Engineering montbretin A biosynthesis in Nicotiana benthamiana 06 December 2021
Uniting Thailand : cultural production and national unity 02 December 2021
The influence of social and psychological factors on the relationship between body composition and colon cancer outcomes 01 December 2021
Climate risk and adaptation management in mine closure planning in mountainous watersheds 01 December 2021
Seismic performance evaluation of steel building systems in Canada 01 December 2021
Development of a multi-agent based simulation model for cyclist-pedestrian interactions in shared spaces 01 December 2021
Attending to relationship : a narrative inquiry into teachers’ experiences with community and place in mathematics education 01 December 2021
Brønsted acids with weakly coordinating anions featuring group 5 metals 01 December 2021
Crowd cash and the city : understanding the (re)emergence of the crowd as a financial 'actor' and its reimagining of urban development futures 01 December 2021
Investigating cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis using myelin water imaging 29 November 2021
Implementation leadership characteristics of first-level leaders and nurses' use of mobile health technologies 29 November 2021
Capillarity in complicated geometries 29 November 2021
Towards a conceptual framework of navigation for people who use wheeled mobility devices in the community 29 November 2021

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