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Acceptability of the interRAI Check-Up Self-Report Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) Tool: Evaluating Check-Up Acceptability in Assessing Care Needs of Older Adults with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Kampala District of Uganda
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-02)Background: The Ugandan healthcare system is ill-equipped to manage the emerging medical and social needs of its aging population. With the high burden of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), food insecurity, and the erosion ... -
Acceptance and Usage of Smart Wearable Devices in Canadian Older Adults
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-09)Background: As the Canadian older adult population grows rapidly, emerging solutions and technologies that have the potential to enable aging-in-place are garnering more attention from developers, public policy makers and ... -
Acceptance Criteria for Ultrasonic Impact Treatment of Highway Steel Bridges
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)The need for rehabilitation of bridges has become a critical challenge due to aging and an increase in traffic loads. Many of these bridges are exceeding their design fatigue life. Since many of these bridges are structurally ... -
Acceptance of a Remote Desktop Access System to Increase Workspace Awareness
(University of Waterloo, 2000)Awareness systems are being designed and implemented to improve employee connections. This study examines the variables that affect the acceptance of an awareness system. The awareness system that was used for this ... -
Acceptance of Commercially Available Wearable Activity Trackers Among Adults Aged Over 50 and With Chronic Illness: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation
(JMIR Mhealth Uhealth., 2016-01-27)Background: Physical inactivity and sedentary behavior increase the risk of chronic illness and death. The newest generation of “wearable” activity trackers offers potential as a multifaceted intervention to help people ... -
Access Control Administration with Adjustable Decentralization
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-12)Access control is a key function of enterprises that preserve and propagate massive data. Access control enforcement and administration are two major components of the system. On one hand, enterprises are responsible for ... -
Access Network Selection in a 4G Networking Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-18)An all-IP pervasive networking system provides a comprehensive IP solution where voice, data and streamed multimedia can be delivered to users at anytime and anywhere. Network selection is a key issue in this converged ... -
Access roads impact enzyme activities in boreal forested peatlands
(Elsevier, 2019-02-15)We investigated the impacts of resource access roads on soil enzyme activities in contrasting forested boreal peatlands (bog and fen). In August 2016, a total of 72 peat samples were collected from twelve 20 m long transects ... -
Access to Government Micro-data for SME Internationalization Research
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-10)International entrepreneurship (IE) is “a combination of innovative, proactive and risk-seeking behaviour that crosses national borders and is intended to create value in organizations”. The IE literature has been concerned ... -
Accessibility in Bioarchaeology: Methods of 3D Imaging of Entheses
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-19)This thesis examines accessibility within the field of bioarchaeology in two methods of generating 3D models of human remains, laser scanning and photogrammetry. These were analyzed for the following attributes: cost, time ... -
The Accessibility of the Jamaican and Aruban All-Inclusive Resorts
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-19)An impairment is an attribute of an individual whereas the extent to which it is a disability is influenced strongly by the environment in which they operate which is a product of society. This research focuses on people ... -
Accessible Integration of Physiological Adaptation in Human-Robot Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)Technological advancements in creating and commercializing novel unobtrusive wearable physiological sensors have generated new opportunities to develop adaptive human-robot interaction (HRI). Detecting complex human states ... -
Accessing Indigenous Foods in Urban Northwestern Ontario: Women’s Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty and Resistance to Policy
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-28)Indigenous populations living in urban northern Ontario have been repeatedly ignored in research regarding Indigenous Peoples food insecurity and food systems, despite the large proportion of Indigenous Peoples living in ... -
Accommodating a High Penetration of PHEVs and PV Electricity in Residential Distribution Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-22)Global warming is threatening the world’s delicate ecosystems to the point where the extinction of numerous species is becoming increasingly likely. Experts have determined that avoiding such a disaster requires an 80% ... -
Accommodating a High Penetration of Plug-in Electric Vehicles in Distribution Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-12)The last few decades have seen growing concern about climate change caused by global warming, and it now seems that the very future of humanity depends on saving the environment. With recognition of CO2 emissions as the ... -
Accounting Conservatism and Risk Disclosures
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-22)This thesis adopts a broad view of conservative financial reporting—managers can use two ways to communicate business uncertainties to outsiders, namely, conservative accounting via timely loss recognition and narrative ... -
Accounting Conservatism and the Consequences of Covenant Violations
(University of Waterloo, 2011-12-20)Recent studies document that covenant violations intensify the conflicts of interest between lenders and borrowers, and lead to greater restrictions on borrowing firms’ financing and investment activities (Chava and Roberts, ... -
Accounting for misclassification in binary longitudinal data
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Accounting for Risks: Identifying Water Risks in the Food and Beverage Industry Using an Ecosystem Services Benchmarking Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-28)Global population growth and economic development has placed unprecedented demand for freshwater resources. However the supply of freshwater is becoming increasingly uncertain, due to the variability of the hydrological ... -
Accounting for the Effects of Power System Controllers and Stability on Power Dispatch and Electricity Market Prices
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Recently, the widespread use of power system controllers, such as PSS and FACTS controllers, has led to the analysis of their effect on the overall stability of power systems. Many studies have been conducted to allocate ...