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A Tale of Two (Mid-Sized) Cities: Analysis of External Factors Affecting Transit Ridership in the City of Kingston and Region of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-02)This thesis evaluates how municipal transit ridership in mid-sized cities is influenced by external factors. External factors are forces outside a municipality’s direct control but potentially affect the municipality in ... -
Tale of Two Cities
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-20)It was the best of cities, it was the worst of cities, it was a place of giddying boom, it was a place of economic despair, it was a utopia, it was a dystopic no-topia, it was the world centre of fantasies, and the world ... -
A Tale of Two Cities: Re-Imagining Tahrir Square’s Muggamaa Complex(e)
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-08)Cairo, Al Qahera, the city Victorious in Arabic, is being replaced by a new administrative capital 50 km away from its core in the middle of the desert . Known throughout history as the City of a Thousand Minarets, Cairo ... -
A Tale of Two Schoolings: A leisure scholar’s autoethnographic exploration of different learning settings
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-10)What do homeschooling, public school, leisure studies, and factors such as freedom of choice, trust, and competence have in common? I have been asking myself this question for over a decade now. Or, rather, not so much ... -
Tales of a Flood
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-06)This thesis is a story of a flood as seen through the eyes of an architect. The narrative explores the relationship of the young architect with his physical surroundings, using the context of a city that goes through a ... -
Tales of the Maunsell Sea Forts A Philosophy of Making in the Anthropocene
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-14)The Age of the Anthropocene is marked by a shift in power between the relationship of nature and man. For the first time in human history we are actively shaping the environmental systems around us on a planetary scale, ... -
Talk, Body, Performance: Mental Health Rhetoric in Corporate, Government, and Institutional Settings
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-17)Rhetorical studies in health and medicine often point out the ways in which medical empiricism is structured as an arhetorical entity. This dissertation delves into a rhetorical analysis of psychiatric illness through a ... -
Talking with and about older adult patients: The socializing power of patient-centered communication in an optometry teaching clinic
(University of Waterloo, 2007-07-31)In a teaching clinic, healthcare students and their supervisors talk with their patients in the examination room and they talk about their patients during teaching consultations outside the examination room. Effective ... -
Tanning Attitudes That Predict the Prevalence and Frequency of Tanning bed use in Older Adolescents and Young Adults in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-09)Background: Tanning bed use is a modifiable risk factor in the development of melanoma skin cancer. Despite the increased risk of skin cancer, tanning bed use is most common among the adolescent and young adult population. ... -
Targeted enrichment of cellulase genes using stable-isotope probing and metagenomics
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-23)Cellulose is the most abundant organic compound on the planet, and is found in nearly every ecosystem. Cellulose is also the most abundant waste product produced by human activity. These enormous stores of natural cellulose ... -
A Targeting Approach To Disturbance Rejection In Multi-Agent Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-01)This thesis focuses on deadbeat disturbance rejection for discrete-time linear multi-agent systems. The multi-agent systems, on which Spieser and Shams’ decentralized deadbeat output regulation problem is based, are extended ... -
Targeting novel soil glycosyl hydrolases by combining stable isotope probing and metagenomics
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-25)Soil represents the largest global reservoir of microbial diversity for the discovery of novel genes and enzymes. Both stable-isotope probing (SIP) and metagenomics have been used to access uncultured microbial diversity, ... -
Targeting p62 Palmitoylation as a Potential Therapeutic Strategy towards Huntington Disease
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-18)Huntington’s Disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a mutation in the huntingtin gene leading to the accumulation of mutant huntingtin (mHTT) protein and disruption of many cellular pathways causing neuronal ... -
A Task Offloading Framework for Energy Saving on Mobile Devices using Cloud Computing
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-06)Over the last decade, mobile devices have become popular among people, and their number is ever growing because of the computing functionality they offer beyond primary voice communication. However, mobile devices are ... -
Task Optimization and Workforce Scheduling
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-02)This thesis focuses on task sequencing and manpower scheduling to develop robust schedules for an aircraft manufacturer. The production of an aircraft goes through a series of multiple workstations, each consisting of a ... -
Task-Centric User Interfaces
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-22)Software applications for design and creation typically contain hundreds or thousands of commands, which collectively give users enormous expressive power. Unfortunately, rich feature sets also take a toll on usability. ... -
Task-Driven Integrity Assessment and Control for Vehicular Hybrid Localization Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-24)Throughout the last decade, vehicle localization has been attracting significant attention in a wide range of applications, including Navigation Systems, Road Tolling, Smart Parking, and Collision Avoidance. To deliver on ... -
Task-Parameterized Transformer for Learning Gripper Trajectory from Demonstrations
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-26)The goal of learning from demonstration or imitation learning is to teach the model to generalize across unseen tasks based on available demonstrations. This ability can be important for the stable performance of a robot ... -
Taub-NUT Spacetime in the (A)dS/CFT and M-Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2005)In the following thesis, I will conduct a thermodynamic analysis of the Taub-NUT spacetime in various dimensions, as well as show uses for Taub-NUT and other Hyper-Kahler spacetimes. <br /><br /> Thermodynamic analysis ... -
Tax Aggressiveness and Shareholder Wealth: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-21)In this dissertation, I examine two related questions on whether and how tax aggressiveness of firms is associated with shareholder wealth in a new context – mergers and acquisitions (M&A). The first study investigates ...