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Transition to light-like trajectories in thin shell dynamics
(Elsevier, 2018-11)It was recently shown that a massive thin shell that is sandwiched between a flat interior and an exterior geometry given by the outgoing Vaidya metric becomes null in a finite proper time. We investigate this transition ... -
Transitional Care Experiences Across Different Health Care Settings
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-20)Background: Older adults with multiple chronic conditions typically require care from numerous specialized health care providers across various different settings, making it necessary for patients to transition between ... -
Transitional care programs: who is left behind? A systematic review
(Ubiquity Press, 2012-09-01)Objective: Older adults are at risk of rehospitalization if their care transitions from hospital-to-home are not properly managed. The objective of this review was to determine if older patient populations recruited for ... -
Transitioning in Place: Designing a Co-operative Development for Homeless Families in Ottawa
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-08)It is no secret that Canada is experiencing a housing crisis where people are becoming increasingly excluded from home ownership and rental housing due to the rapid escalation of real estate prices. The unaffordability of ... -
Transitioning the Fashion Industry towards Sustainability
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-01)A growing body of literature addresses fashion industry's sustainability problems including resource depletion, toxic emissions, and unfair labour practices. The impacts of these sustainability problems only multiply with ... -
Transitions
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-23)Transitions is a three part series, examining themes which define our human condition. Utilizing traditional, digital, and interactive media, including sound, video, clay, paper, polyvoile material, and electronic devices, ... -
Transitions in Belonging and Sense of Community in a Long-Term Care Home: Explorations in Discourse, Policy and Lived Experience
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-30)This research examined notions of belonging and sense of community through a set of layered lenses that integrated a social model of aging with phenomenology to gain a better understanding of the lived experiences of ... -
Transitions in Mood Among Residents of Canadian Long-Term Care Facilities: The Effects of COVID-19 Individual Risk Factors and Regional Characteristics
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-31)Long-term care home residents are among the most vulnerable populations due to their advanced age. Their health and well-being can be influenced by physical and psychosocial factors, the surrounding physical environment, ... -
Transitions to Ecological Agriculture in Nanjing, China: Farm Types, Social-Political Networks, and Rural Communities
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-09)China’s rural and agricultural sector has been undergoing a dramatic transformation in the form of three major trends. First, the modernization and capitalization of agriculture has significantly modified traditional ... -
Transitive Factorizations of Permutations and Eulerian Maps in the Plane
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The problem of counting ramified covers of a Riemann surface up to homeomorphism was proposed by Hurwitz in the late 1800's. This problem translates combinatorially into factoring a permutation with a specified cycle ... -
Transitive-closure-based model checking (TCMC) in Alloy
(Springer, 2020-01-03)We present transitive-closure-based model checking (TCMC): a symbolic representation of the semantics of computational tree logic with fairness constraints (CTLFC) for finite models in first-order logic with transitive ... -
Translating Encounters with Stone: Investigating Rubbing as an Ecological Method of Inquiry within Architectural Material Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-24)This thesis situates the practice of rubbing within the context of an immediate geological feature in Southern Ontario, the Niagara Escarpment, as a site that is admired for its natural and productive qualities. Adverse ... -
Transmission Protocol for Video-on-Demand Streaming in 5G Core Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-16)The fifth generation (5G) networks are expected to accommodate various applications with diversified quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. To this end, some new technologies are employed in 5G networks such as software-de ... -
Transmission Strategies for the Gaussian Parallel Relay Channel
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-07)Cooperative wireless communication has received significant attention during recent years due to several reasons. First, since the received power decreases rapidly with distance, the idea of multi-hopping is becoming of ... -
Transmitting Quantum Information Reliably across Various Quantum Channels
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-01)Transmitting quantum information across quantum channels is an important task. However quantum information is delicate, and is easily corrupted. We address the task of protecting quantum information from an information ... -
A Transmogrifying Discourse of Sexual Violence: Resisting, Redressing, and Re-writing Racial Scripts in Contemporary African American Women's Theatre
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-14)This dissertation examines contemporary African American women's theatre that addresses the absented and erased reality of black women as victims of sexual violence. This thesis investigates how contemporary African American ... -
Transnational Dialogues and Community Making in the Syrian Digital Space
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-18)This thesis examines the ways diasporic and transnational Arabs, and particularly Syrians, utilize and engage in the virtual space to voice their experiences and engage in transnational dialogues, while overall taking part ... -
Transnational Identity in Online Discourse – Netflix’s Sense8 and accompanying Twitter communication
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-28)Digital media has become ubiquitous and immensely shapes communitarisation, and thus identity construction. As media does not rely on physical border crossing to bring us in con-tact with different subject positions, ... -
Transparency in Federal Policy-Making: the Case of Biotechnology in Animals Intended for Human Consumption
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-24)This research project examines the degree of transparency of the Canadian Federal Government’s decision-making processes and institutions with respect to the human consumption of animals produced through modern biotechnology ... -
Transparent Decision Support Using Statistical Evidence
(University of Waterloo, 2005)An automatically trained, statistically based, fuzzy inference system that functions as a classifier is produced. The hybrid system is designed specifically to be used as a decision support system. This hybrid system ...