Browsing Theses by Title
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Techno-Utopia/ Techno-Dystopia: Writing the Future of Cyber-Technology
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-13)Will cyberspace ever become truly inhabitable, and if so, what kind of political climate will be present there? By investigating emergent discourses surrounding the future of cyber-technology, I reveal how online users ... -
Technologies of Identity: A Queer Media Archaeology
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-16)This dissertation explores how queer people use media technology to make and construe their identities through a series of cases extending from the Victorian era to the present day. Each case is driven by three interlocking ... -
Technology and Strategic Management Decision-Making as a Constrained Shortest Path Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-22)A constrained shortest path algorithm is developed and implemented in Matlab to optimize the management decision-making process, which is a potential tool for managers. An empirical analysis is performed using Statistics ... -
Technology Diffusion on Spiders
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-29)There has been significant research about cascade effects that occur when information is spread through a network. Most models of such cascade effects are highly-localised, which means that they assume a node’s behaviour ... -
Technology-Scanning Capability and Market-Scanning Capability as Drivers of Product Innovation Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-26)Changing trends in customer preference, competitors’ offerings, new technologies and development techniques may disrupt a firm from its current leading market position and may favor other firms that prioritize innovation. ... -
Tectonic Stresses and Injection-Induced Fault Slip Assessment
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-14)Understanding the Earth's stress state at depth is fundamental to a wide variety of subsurface projects, ranging from seismology projects to studies on underground energy storage or extraction. The primary objectives of ... -
Teleportation: The Possible Leap
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)This thesis tells a story, inviting its audience into a parallel world, existing somewhere in my imagination, where human teleportation becomes real and gradually becomes the most prevalent method of transportation. ... -
Television in Literature
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)In this master thesis I discuss a topic which is highly neglected. We do see people reading all the time. When we see a person holding a book in his or her hands in the bus, we associate this person as being smart and ... -
Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-09)Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant is an exhibition of sculpture and drawings that focuses attention on the socio-political turmoil brought about by the ruling system in Iran. It also speaks to a shared melancholia in ... -
Tell Me a Story About Your Child: A Narrative Exploration of Disability in Recreation
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to explore how parents understand and experience their child’s involvement and non-involvement in community leisure experiences. The study involved five parents with children between ... -
Telling the Stories, Branding the Land: Examining Regional Narratives and Texts in Northern Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-23)This ecocritical study analyzes literary works and narratives related to northern Alberta. It establishes correlations between the way the land, history, and culture have been represented in these buried texts and the ... -
Temperament, attention, and the social world: New empirical approaches to the study of shyness and attention in middle childhood
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-16)In order to navigate their social world, children must come prepared to flexibly attend to and shift between the many different aspects of an interaction. For temperamentally shy children, for whom the demands of everyday ... -
Temperature Effects in Optical Fiber Dispersion Compensation Modules
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-05)This thesis presents the results for the temperature variation of the Differential Group Delay (DGD) measurements of a Dispersion Compensation Module (DCM) and interprets the results with a theoretical DGD model based on ... -
Temperature Mould Maintenance during Automatic Welding
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-19)An automatic system to weld multiple layers using Tungsten Arc (TIG) welding was in the process of being developed by Tool-Tec Welding Inc, prior to the company’s recent bankruptcy and subsequent closure. One of the project’s ... -
Temperature Programming of the Second Dimension in Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography (GC×GC)
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-10)Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) is a mature separation technique that is now over three decades old. It separates all sample components using two GC columns with different selectivities, connected ... -
Temperature-resistant hydrogel wearable sensors and thermoelectric devices
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-25)With the rapid advancements in biosensing and healthcare technology, traditional polymer and semiconductor sensors and electronic devices are increasingly unable to meet people's needs. As researchers delve deeper into ... -
Temperatures Experienced by Emerald Ash Borer and Other Wood-boring Beetles in the Under-bark Microclimate
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)Most studies of under-bark microclimate have been restricted to observations of a few coniferous trees in wooded southern latitudes. This limitation is worrying because of emerging wood-boring pests that specialize on ... -
Tempering optimistic bias in temporal predictions: The role of psychological distance in the unpacking effect
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-20)People typically underestimate the time it will take them to complete tasks, even when they are familiar with the process of executing those tasks (the “planning fallacy”; Kahneman & Tversky, 1979; Buehler, Griffin & Ross, ... -
Tempest Redux
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-20)I could write about what making a movie has to do with architecture, a question that has been posed to me countless times by family and friends who live happily outside of the architecture bubble. It’s a question that I ... -
The Temple Of Afrobeat(s): Re-Imagination of The New Afrika Shrine
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-14)Fela Kuti is very influential to the development of Nigerian music, as he is credited for the founding of Afrobeat, which in turn led to the establishment of Afrobeats, a collection of musical sub-genres of Nigerian and ...