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Examining the Importance of Understanding During Training: An Industrial Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-14)Human error is an inevitable existence in virtually all tasks in which an issue arises as humans are almost always directly or indirectly involved with the process. Researchers have examined many past accidents and ... -
Examining the Influence of Scratch Card Structural Characteristics on Psychophysiology, Motivation, and Gambling Behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-26)Scratch cards are a popular and accessible form of gambling. Although scratch cards, like other lottery products, are typically cast in an innocuous light, this gambling form contains structural features that resemble slot ... -
Examining the Livability of a Day Program for Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Memory-related Disorders: A Case Study of The Dotsa Bitove Wellness Academy
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-27)The number of people affected by Alzheimer’s disease and other memory-related disorders (ADMRD) is increasing at substantial rates. A specific challenge for planners is to build non-institutional environments that can ... -
Examining the neural, behavioural, and social responses associated with affective self-referential processing in adults and children.
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-08)Information processing biases favouring self- compared to other-referential and positive compared to negative stimuli are theorized to be healthy, adaptive outcomes of well-regulated attention. Within the lab, self-referential ... -
Examining the Neuromuscular and Mechanical Characteristics of the Abdominal Musculature and Connective Tissues: Implications for Stiffening the Lumbar Spine
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-30)Research has uncovered an essential role of proper abdominal muscle function in ensuring the health and integrity of the lumbar spine. The anatomical arrangement of the abdominal musculature (rectus abdominis, external ... -
Examining the Physiological and Subjective Effects of Near-misses in Smartphone Games
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-03)Like many gambling games, the exceedingly popular and lucrative smartphone game “Candy Crush Saga” features near-miss outcomes. In slot machines, a near-miss involves getting two of the needed three high-paying symbols on ... -
Examining the Potential of Inuit Art and Artistic Processes to Facilitate Knowledge System Bridging About Environmental Change
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-26)Art and artistic processes have an important role to play to bridge knowledge systems about environmental change and to inform governance action. Inuit and western knowledge systems contribute to understanding and governance ... -
Examining the Potential Use of Geospatial -Informatics Technologies to Engage Northern Canadian First Nation Youth in Environmental Initiatives
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-23)Having experienced climatic warming before, First Nations people of the Albany River basin in sub-arctic, Canada, have already shown the ability to be adaptable to external influences. However, societal changes and the ... -
Examining the Process of Automation Development and Deployment
(University of Waterloo, 2005)In order to develop a better understanding of the process of development and deployment of automated systems, this thesis examines aspects of project execution and knowledge transfer in the context of a large automation ... -
Examining the relationship between boredom and creativity
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-08)Popular sentiment expresses that boredom leads to creativity despite a lack of research investigating the relationship explicitly. Across two experiments this thesis examined the relations between both state and trait ... -
Examining the relationship between climate change and migration and its socio-economic implications in Dhaka, Bangladesh
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-10)Climate change and migration are two urgent global issues of our time, and their relationship is complex and unpredictable. Understanding the nature and implications of this relationship is crucial for policymakers, ... -
Examining the relationship between climate change risk perceptions and the implementation of climate-related policies
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-02)Climate change is a global problem that will have local impacts on regions and municipalities. Many parts of Canada are already experiencing severe weather events such as extreme levels of rainfall, severe flooding, and ... -
Examining the relationship between social position, spatial learning, and memory in adult male and female rats.
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-05)Decades of neuroscience research has established the modulating role of stress in cognitive function, such as learning and memory, namely from severe stressors that invoke fear or physical stress. The effect on cognition ... -
Examining the Relationship Between Whole Body Resting Metabolic Rate and the Efficiency of SR Ca2+ Handling in Human Skeletal Muscle
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-26)The purpose of this study was to investigate whether skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ transport efficiency and expression levels of major SR Ca2+ regulatory proteins are associated with resting metabolic ... -
Examining the relationship of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) with wasting and stunting status among children experiencing poverty in the Philippines: a cross-sectional study
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-24)Background: In the Philippines, poverty is one of the main risk factors driving acute (wasting) and chronic (stunting) undernutrition among children. Previous research has pointed to the potential of social protection and ... -
Examining the Role of Apoptotic Cell Signalling and Mitochondrial Fisson During Skeletal Muscle Differentiation
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)Cellular maturation (differentiation) and cell death (apoptosis) are two vital processes shared by virtually all mammalian cells types. Although these two events have disparate outcomes, recent evidence indicates their ... -
Examining the role of autophagy and mitophagy in regulating muscle differentiation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-22)Autophagy is a degradative process that is used to eliminate intracellular organelles and protein aggregates. Further, a selective form of autophagy, termed mitophagy, is used to specifically degrade mitochondria. ... -
Examining the role of autophagy in modulating apoptotic signaling and skeletal muscle recovery after cardiotoxin injury in tamoxifen-inducible, skeletal muscle-specific Atg7 knockdown mice
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-06)Skeletal muscle is a unique tissue composed of multinucleated, post-mitotic fibers. Despite its post-mitotic nature, skeletal muscle has an astounding ability to regenerate after injury largely thanks to muscle-specific ... -
Examining the Role of Autophagy in Skeletal Muscle Cell Death and Differentiation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-08)Autophagy is catabolic process which sequesters large portions of cytoplasm as well as selected organelles and proteins for degradation. Recently, autophagy has been a topic of much debate owing to conflicting evidence ... -
Examining the role of caspase-2 in skeletal muscle cell differentiation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-26)Prior research has indicated a crucial role for apoptotic signaling in skeletal muscle cell differentiation. Although a number of caspases (-3, -8, -9) have been implicated in this process, few prior investigations have ...