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Wood Fiber Polyamide Composites for Automotive Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-13)The automotive industry is currently experiencing environmental, legislative, and consumer pressure to improve the environmental sustainability of passenger vehicles. Just one of the approaches being taken to address this ... -
Woodchip Biofilters for Treatment of Particulate Phosphorus in Agricultural Runoff
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-07)Woodchip filters have received attention in recent years for their ability to sustain denitrification activity across multiyear time frames. However, in most freshwater aquatic ecosystems, phosphorus (P) rather than nitrogen ... -
Word Birds
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-14)This paper is intended to serve as a supporting document for the exhibition Word Birds that was held at the Render Gallery at the University of Waterloo, April 22-27, 2008. The drawing and sculpture in this exhibition ... -
The Work of Wealthy Women: Female Discipleship in Luke 8:1-3
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-01)Luke 8:1-3 is the only explicit indicator in scripture that Jesus receives financial provision during his ministry. Interestingly, the donors are wealthy women. From a social historical perspective who are these women who ... -
Work Zone Safety Assessment and Throughput Analysis for High Volume Highways Using Random Parameter Models
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-12)Highways and freeways could be considered the most important transportation infrastructure in North America; these vital routes are necessary for the efficient haulage of huge amounts of goods and services. Several factors ... -
Work-conserving WRR-CSVP resource allocation in ATM networks
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Work-related psychosocial stress and allostatic load within firefighters
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-10)The aim of this study was to investigate the nature and type of psychosocial stress experienced by firefighters through investigating the cumulative effects of work-related factors on their health by reviewing current ... -
Working Smarter and Working Harder: Combining Learning and Performance Goals to Improve Performance in a High-Complexity Task Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-20)In a high-complexity task environment individual productivity can be improved through exerting more effort (i.e., working harder) as well as by learning improved task strategies. I examine the productivity effects of both ... -
Working Together to Put Living First: A Culture Change Process in a Long-Term Care and Retirement Living Organization Guided by Critical Participatory Action Research
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-29)My research begins with the premise that the dilemmas of long-term care homes are rooted in the dilemmas of modernity. Habermas (1984; 1987) contends that modern societies are comprised of two basic spheres of social life ... -
Working Towards Collaborative Archaeology: Exploring Indigenous Perspectives on Archaeological Topics and Research Questions in Nain, Labrador
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-12)Archaeology is one avenue that people use to understand the past. It is through these contemporary understandings of the past that cultural identities are created and maintained. Unfortunately, Indigenous perspectives have ... -
Workload balancing for flight dispatcher scheduling
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)Unlike other airline operations planning problems, optimization in flight dispatching is not common in literature. Flight dispatchers are centrally located and monitor multiple flights in different places simultaneously. ... -
Workload Matters: A Robust Approach to Physical RDF Database Design
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-01)Recent advances in Information Extraction, Linked Data Management and the Semantic Web have led to a rapid increase in both the volume and the variety of publicly available graph-structured data. As more and more businesses ... -
Workload, Risks, and Goal Framing as Antecedents of Shortcut Behaviors
(Springer, 2017-08-01)Purpose: Shortcut behaviors are methods of completing a task that require less time than typical or standard procedures. These behaviors carry the benefit of increasing efficiency, yet can also carry risks (e.g., of an ... -
Workplace Gossip, Paranoia, and a Deviance Dilemma: A Warning for Deviance/CWB Research
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-04)Organizational research has long conceptualized workplace gossip as a form of deviance and included gossip in many measures of deviance and counterproductive work behaviors (CWB). However, empirical evidence regarding the ... -
Workplace Injustice and Counterproductive Work Behaviour: The Moderating Role of Employee Age
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Drawing on prior research from several areas of psychology, I predicted that different forms of organizational justice would predict counterproductive work behaviour (CWB) depending on employees’ age. In particular, I ... -
“The world has always been like a comic book world to me”: Examining representations of queer stories in comics and other media
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-13)Engagement with media has become the most popular form of leisure in our lives with approximately 40% of leisure time being dedicated to television viewing alone (Mullen, 2020). The consumption of books, graphic novels/comics, ... -
World hunger and the global economy: strong linkages, weak action
(School of International and Public Affairs: Columbia University, 2014-03)This paper probes some of the global economic forces that have contributed to the ongoing precarious global food security situation, especially in the years since the 2007 to 2008 food crisis. Since the crisis hit at a ... -
The World of My Childhood Home
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-19)My childhood home ceased to exist and remained in the past. This thesis is a return to my childhood home through my memories. I return to it in remembering my child-self, who sought the heights from the roof and high ... -
WorldCat Local in a Health Sciences Environment: One Library's Experience
(2010-06-07)In 2009, Memorial University Libraries embarked on a pilot project with WorldCat Local (WCL), an available discovery layer. As of May 2010, WCL remains in internal testing and will likely be released it in beta form in ... -
Worldwide retention of nutrient silicon by river damming: From sparse data set to global estimate
(American Geophysical Union, 2014-08-13)Damming of rivers represents a major anthropogenic perturbation of the hydrological cycle, with the potential to profoundly modify the availability of nutrient silicon (Si) in streams, lakes, and coastal areas. A global ...