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Libraries hold patron privacy as one of their core values. However, as our dependence on third party vendors and publishers to provide library resources and services deepens, and as the control of our network infrastructure continues to move to the…

The objective of this project was to build a functional plastics shredder that will create the feedstock for a future, purpose built, plastic injection molding machine. This first phase also proved the viability of building a complex machine from…

Various medium and small enterprises in the healthcare industry, especially in the US and Canada foresee the growing demands of accurately classifying healthcare customers by integrating geographic, demographic and psychographic data with…

Cannabis is set to become one of the most important cash crops in BC due to its recent legalization in Canada. There are hundreds of different varieties of cannabis and correctly identifying them has a great significance for both medical and social…

While there has been extensive research comparing the thinking styles of Chinese and European American students, there is relatively little looking at Indian students. The goal of this project was to determine if Indian students categorize objects…

The first part of the project involves the development of new antimicrobial peptide (antibiotics). This will initially involve generating a peptide array by surveying the literature and using software programs such as quantitative structure-activity…

The Being Human project honors truth and reconciliation, and promotes healing and peace through art. We were invited to present our work on this project at Wipce in Adelaide. This was an amazing opportunity to present to over 2000 attendees from…

Open to anyone who uses visual and material culture in their pedagogical practices, Open Art Histories (OAH) offers a dynamic and collaborative space for Open Education Resources (OERs) and serves as a virtual community and repository for art and…

Accurate labeling of phase connectivity in electrical distribution systems is important for maintenance and operations but is often erroneous or missing. In my project, we presented a process to identify which smart meters must be in the same phase…

This project was created to make a more seamless transition of gestures made by a robot that has human-like features.

While there has been extensive research comparing the thinking styles of Chinese and European American students, there is relatively little looking at Indian students. We have been exploring whether Indian students categorize objects based on…

Langara College is located within an urban green space with a number of pollinator gardens on site, but a survey of pollinator diversity and number is needed to understand how urban green spaces affect pollinators and how to best enhance on-campus…

"I am laying foundation for the creation of two linked, site-specific plays about humanity surviving the climate crisis: one live-online and multi-media, the second outdoors, low-tech, in a tent. There are two areas of research: Covid-friendly…

Previous research suggests that people may remember information more accurately when the language of retrieval matches that of encoding. We investigated this with 45 ESL student subjects, native language Mandarin or Punjabi, recruited from…

Second Place Winner- Langara Open Student Scholar Prize 2023 This project is part of the coursework of the course CPSC2221 (Database Systems) at Langara College. A group of two students are required to plan and implement a database on a given theme…

The purpose of the 3-year study funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada is to investigate and improve outcomes for international students (IS) along the Study-Work-Stay pathway with the goal of aligning student intent…

Accurate labeling of phase connectivity in electrical distribution systems is important for maintenance and operations but is often erroneous or missing. In my project, we presented a process to identify which smart meters must be in the same phase…