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An Investigation into the Household and Resident Composition of Higher Density Residential Districts in the Greater Toronto Area
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-19)The intensification of existing urban areas has become a common strategy used by planners to combat the negative aspects associated with unrestrained urban growth. This paper investigates the cultural and socio-economi ... -
An Investigation into the Lexicon of Waste
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-26)Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the increase in population, urbanization, cheap energies, and new technologies have bankrupted the environment into destruction. This chaos has created a society that transformed ... -
An investigation into the motivations, influences and expectations of students studying optometry in Canada and the United States of America
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-01)Purpose: To investigate and compare the motivations, influences and expectations of Doctor of Optometry students studying in Canada and the United States of America. Methods: A survey was created, piloted, and conducted ... -
Investigation into the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying self-regulatory processes in eating behaviours
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-19)Prior research has demonstrated that the integrity of the executive control system is correlated with obesogenic behaviour tendencies in a theoretically meaningful way. However, due to the paucity of experimental evidence ... -
An Investigation into the Self-deployment of Attentional Reminders
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-24)In a series of studies, we sought to determine whether 1) people will self-deploy attentional reminders when asked to complete an attentionally demanding task (Experiment 1 & 2), 2) people modulate the number of attentional ... -
An Investigation into Water Consumption Data Using Parametric Probability Density Functions
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-07)Many datasets can be expressed through the usage of frequency-based histograms that provide compact visualizations of large volumes of data. A motivating hypothesis of this work is that the relative frequency of measurements ... -
Investigation of a Double Calibration Technique to Reduce Soft Tissue Artifact Error in High Flexion
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-01)High knee flexion tasks (knee flexion angle > 120 degrees) are performed frequently in both daily living activities (gardening, religious practice, exercise, etc.) and occupational settings (childcare, roofing, construction, ... -
Investigation of a Jacobian-free Newton-Krylov solution to multiphase flows
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-22)The current study is focused on investigating a Jacobian-Free Newton-Krylov (JFNK) method to obtain a fully-implicit solution for two phase flows. In the JFNK formulation, the Jacobian matrix is not directly determined ... -
Investigation of a Novel Hydrogel Anion Exchange Material for the Capture and Purification of Baculovirus
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-20)Baculoviruses are versatile viruses that can be used as biopestisides, or for the production of recombinant protein and vaccines. Baculoviruses have also been found to be able to transfer genes to mammalian cells. This ... -
Investigation of a potential therapeutic role for N-oleoylethanolamide and N-linoleoylethanolamide using lymphoblasts deficient in Tafazzin
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-01)Barth syndrome (BTHS) is a rare X-linked genetic disorder caused by mutations in the TAZ gene that encodes for a cardiolipin (CL) remodelling enzyme, Tafazzin. Due to an inability to remodel the fatty acyl chains on CL ... -
Investigation of an Inhomogeneous Mixing Model for Conditional Moment Closure Applied to Autoignition
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-28)Autoignition of high pressure methane jets at engine relveant conditions within a shock tube is investigated using Conditional Moment Closure (CMC). The impact of two commonly used approximations applied in previous work ... -
An Investigation of Basic Probability Operations Using AND and OR Operations
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-23)The purpose of this thesis was to observe people’s abilities to compute probability problems at a fundamental level. The problems in this study were presented in an abstract format to ensure non-ambiguity in its interpretation. ... -
Investigation of Blast Load Characteristics On Lung Injury
(University of Waterloo, 2010-03-31)In many parts of the world, civilians and peacekeepers are exposed to potentially serious injury from blasts and explosions. Providing insight into the trauma thresholds for blast injury is necessary for the development ... -
Investigation of Blast–related Fluid Cavitation using a Novel Polymeric Hopkinson Bar–Confinement Chamber Apparatus
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-24)Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) associated with blast exposure has become an increasing issue in military conflicts, with the most common exposure being improvised explosive devices. Exposure to blast accounted for ... -
Investigation of Channel Reciprocity for OFDM TDD Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)This dissertation investigates the assumption of channel reciprocity in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems using time-division duplex (TDD) access. Within TDD systems uplink and downlink transmission ... -
Investigation of charge-exciton interactions and their correlations with the device efficiency and operational stability in Phosphorescent Organic Light Emitting Devices by studying delayed electroluminescence
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-11)Phosphorescent OLEDs (PHOLEDs) have gained a lot of attention due to their remarkable capability of achieving nearly 100% internal quantum efficiency. Although PHOLEDs are a promising technology for the development of high ... -
Investigation of Conditional Source-Term Estimation Approach for Turbulent Partially Premixed Combustion Modelling
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-29)Conditional Source-term Estimation (CSE) is a closure technique for modelling turbulent combustion phenomena. CSE uses the Conditional Moment Closure (CMC) hypothesis for closing chemical source terms: conditionally averaged ... -
Investigation of Conditional Source-term Estimation Approach to Modelling MILD Combustion
(University of Waterloo, 2016-07-27)Conditional Source-term Estimation (CSE) is a turbulent combustion model which uses conditional averages to provide closure for the mean chemical source term and is based on the same ideas as the Conditional Moment Closure ... -
Investigation of Consumer Acculturation in Dining-out: a Comparison between Recent Chinese Immigrants and Established Chinese Immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-16)The interaction between culture and consumption of immigrants is an important research area in a number of fields including consumer behaviour, marketing, and ethnic studies. This article offers a specific look at issues ... -
Investigation of Consumer Grade EEG as a Fall Risk Assessment Tool
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-29)Fall prevention for geriatric populations is a growing concern among clinicians and researchers due to severe risk of morbidity and loss of independence. Emerging evidence has demonstrated that cognitive workload while ...