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Thinkacting through liberatory frames: (re)imagining the academy beyond
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-12)After being burnt down by the liberal politics of the university, I call for a (re)imagining of its structure that can offer hope for those seeking a home in academia. This thesis asks the question, “how can we thinkact ... -
Thinking outside the 'water box' in the Detroit River Area of Concern
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-30)Despite sustained attention to water issues around the world—including attention to shortcomings in water governance—many long-standing water problems persist around the world. This may be because some of the sources or ... -
Thinking outside the box; fast error estimation for next generation galaxy surveys
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-29)Since the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe in the late 90s, the flat $\Lambda$CDM model has reigned as the best explanation for the cosmological phenomena we have observed. In spite of over two decades ... -
Thinking the Impossible: Counterfactual Conditionals, Impossible Cases, and Thought Experiments
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-22)In this thesis I present an account of the formal semantics of counterfactuals that systematically deals with impossible antecedents. This, in turn, allows us to gain a richer understanding of what makes certain thought ... -
Thiophene-S,S-dioxidized indophenine for use in organic field effect transistors
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-23)To address the need for better n-type organic semiconductors, thiophene-S,S-dioxidized indophenine (IDTO) was developed. IDTO is a planar quinoidal molecule with deep energy levels which facilitate stable and efficient ... -
The Third Distinction of Michael Scot's Liber quattuor distinctionum: a window into the social world of astrologers in the early thirteenth century
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)Michael Scot remains an under-studied figure of the early thirteenth century, in particular with regard to his main original work, the Liber introductorius. This work has never been comprehensively edited, although several ... -
Third-Party TCP Rate Control
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is the dominant transport protocol in today?s Internet. The original design of TCP left congestion control open to future designers. Short of implementing changes to the TCP stack ... -
Thirsty Land into Springs of Water: Negotiating a Place in Canada as Latter-day Saints, 1887-1947
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-17)This dissertation examines how Latter-day Saints—originally an American tradition—expanded into an international religion beginning with their settlement on Canadian soil. The “Americanization thesis” promoted by scholars ... -
This Land is Your Land: Exploring the Sea to Sky Land and Resource Management Plan through the Lens of Indigenous Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-28)Canadian Indigenous groups have long faced challenges regarding land rights assertion and validation within land use planning and resource management. Although attempts to deviate from the rational comprehensive planning ... -
This Peregrina's Autoethnographic Account of Walking the Camino Via de la Plata: A Feminist Spiritual Inquiry in Human Transformation
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)This is an autoethnographic account of my 1000km journey across The Camino Via de la Plata, framed within transpersonal theory. From my personal account of a peak experience on The Way, this spiritual inquiry attempts to ... -
'This Sacred Land is Our Home: Respectful Visitors Welcome': An Indigenized code of conduct for visitors to the traditional lands of the Lutsel K'e Dene First Nation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-30)The purpose of this narrative study is to explore stories told by Lutsel K’e Denesoline that convey their experiences of, and expectations for, respectful visitor behaviour in their vast ancestral territory. Following a ... -
This Site Is Under Construction: A Painting Installation
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-20)This paper is intended to serve as a supporting document for the exhibition This Site Is Under Construction that was held at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery, University of Waterloo, April 17th – May 14th, 2010. ... -
"This Third Space": Real-and-Imagined Spaces in Turn-of-the-Century American Settlement Fiction
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-22)This thesis is a literary analysis of American settlement fiction, using a spatially-informed cultural historicist approach. The settlement movement in the U.S. was both a Progressive Era reform movement and a precursor ... -
Thomassen’s 5-Choosability Theorem Extends to Many Faces
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-10)We prove in this thesis that planar graphs can be L-colored, where L is a list-assignment in which every vertex has a 5-list except for a collection of arbitrarily large faces which have 3-lists, as long as those faces ... -
Threads of Memory: A Culture of Commemoration in Kenya Colony, 1918-1930
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-05)The centenary of the First World War (2014-2018) proffered new interpretations of the conflict as a global war that stretched far beyond the Western Front. Historians of the Great War, however, have continued to characterize ... -
Three Approaches to Building Time-Windowed Geometric Data Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-18)Given a set of geometric objects (points or line segments) each associated with a time value, we wish to determine whether a given property is true for a subset of those objects whose time values fall within a query time ... -
Three Chapters on the Labour Market Assimilation of Canada's Immigrant Population
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-03)The three chapters of my dissertation examine immigrant assimilation in the Canadian labour market. Through three levels of analysis, which are distinguished by the sample restrictions that are employed, I investigate ... -
Three Dimensional Digital Image Correlation for Dynamic Measurements
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-25)Structural inspections have traditionally been completed by inspectors using simple tools to determine the health of a structure. The limitations using these techniques led to the development of quantitative sensors such ... -
Three Dimensional Hydrodynamic Modelling of Lake Erie: Kelvin Wave Propagation and Potential Effects of Climate Change on Thermal Structure and Dissolved Oxygen
(University of Waterloo, 2013-07-25)This thesis investigates physical processes in Lake Erie, a large, shallow mid-latitude lake, from two perspectives: climate change impacts on the thermal structure and dissolved oxygen concentration and small-scale eddy ... -
Three Empirical Essays on Job Training, Income Support Programs, and Household Debt
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-29)This thesis consists of three essays examining the effects of education and job-related training on promotions and wages in Germany, the effects of a reduction in Unemployment Insurance duration on the likelihood of joining ...