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"It felt like I was part of the data": Comparing Mouse, Touch, and Physical Interaction with Visualizations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)With my two exploratory studies I contribute a deeper understanding of the different experiences people have when manipulating data representations using mouse, touch, and physical interaction. To uncover experiences rather ... -
"It reminds me that I'm still me": Social programs for younger persons with dementia
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-24)Introduction: The needs of persons living with young onset dementia (YOD) may not be met by community programs for older persons with dementia. Two YOD programs in southern Ontario were designed to meet the unique needs ... -
It Takes a Village: A Retrofit Framework for Improving Health and Community in Car-Dependent Suburbs
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-09)Car-dependent suburban sprawl is an outdated planning methodology that is antithetical to the health, wellbeing, and social prosperity of suburban residents. In the past, North-American town planning was more community-centric; ... -
"It's a fine line": An autoethnographic exploration of alcohol-involved sexual assault.
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-15)When I was an undergraduate student at the University of Waterloo, I was sexually assaulted at a party. My experience was dismissed and discredited by friends, peers, and the police. I spent the remainder of my undergraduate ... -
"It's Farcical!": Theories, Models, and Recommendations to Improve Public Consultations During Ontario School Closure Reviews
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-21)School closure review processes in Ontario are highly contested and deeply divisive. Though schools are central to their host communities, the closure review process largely ignores the community impacts. Existing research ... -
"It's Like All of Campus Life Inside a Little Classroom": How an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Program Operates within a University Setting
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-03)English for Academic Purposes (EAP) are language programs designed to assist non-native speakers with their academic studies in English. These programs determine entry and exit into various stages of post-secondary ... -
It's not Just Food, Sustainable Food Security for Immigrants: Barriers and Opportunities
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-05)Despite enough food production to feed everyone on the planet, there are 850 million people around the world who are food insecure. This includes people in developing and industrialized countries. Food insecurity may not ... -
It's ON at Ontario Place - Or is it?
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-18)This thesis It’s ON at Ontario Place - Or Is It? addresses the roles that architecture and landscape play in shaping the waterfront and park systems into designed connected networks that respond to local, social, sustainable, ... -
It's Terminal: Architecture of Obsolescence
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-17)There’s always been one here. There’s the one that’s here now, there’s the one that it replaced, and there’s also the first one that didn’t last so long. One hundred and sixty odd years there’s been one here, in this place. ... -
Italiani Brava Gente? The Italian occupation of southeastern France in the Second World War, 1940-1943
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)Many academic works have focused on the German occupation of France in the Second World War, both from the perspective of the occupiers and the occupied. Only a few monographs however had dealt so far with the Italian ... -
Iterated Function Systems with Place-Dependent Probabilities and the Inverse Problem of Measure Approximation Using Moments
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-25)The study of iterated function systems has close ties with the subject of fractal-based analysis. One important application is the approximation of a target object by the fixed point of a contractive iterated function ... -
Iterative Coupled Shell/Tube Simulation of Waste Heat Boilers using Computational Multiphysics
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-02)Removal of sulphur from fossil fuels is important in order to avoid the emission of sulphur oxides into the atmosphere, exposure to which has negative health and environ- mental effects. Sulphur is removed from refinery ... -
Iterative Edit-based Unsupervised Sentence Simplification
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-28)We present a new iterative approach towards unsupervised edit-based sentence simplification. Our approach is guided by a scoring function to select simplified sentences generated after iteratively performing word and ... -
Iterative Rounding Approximation Algorithms in Network Design
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)Iterative rounding has been an increasingly popular approach to solving network design optimization problems ever since Jain introduced the concept in his revolutionary 2-approximation for the Survivable Network Design ... -
An Itinerant Architect
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-22)An itinerant architect—one who learns, teaches, and practices architecture on the road—has the ability to improve spaces that would otherwise never reach their fullest potential. The profession of architecture as it stands ... -
iTRAQ-based Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of Mammalian Cell Lines
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-17)High-throughput proteomics approaches have been successfully employed in the inclusive and unbiased characterization of cellular proteome. In this thesis, we are aiming to comprehensively compare changes in proteome ... -
It’s About Time (for the Next Task): Time Available and Next Task Valence Interact to Explain Velocity’s Influence on Affect
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-14)Over the course of a typical day, employees often face a seemingly never-ending sequence of goals. Given the omnipresence and importance of goals in the workplace, a keen understanding of the goal pursuit process is ... -
I’ll Share With You But Only If… The influence of context, communication, and perspective taking on preschoolers’ social behaviours
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)A key aspect of children’s development is learning how to navigate the social world. To do so successfully, children must be able to adapt their social behaviours to the diverse social contexts and demands that they encounter ... -
"J'y Suis. Pour de Bon." Montreal Jewish Education and the Social Construction of Diaspora Identity
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-25)This work examines the meaning of the State of Israel in diaspora Jewish education in contemporary Montreal, Canada. It does so by asking three central questions: “Is there a common idea of the nation?” “How is the idea ... -
J.S. Mill and John Paul II: Utilitarianism and Loving Your Neighbour
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-28)Jesus Christ’s Commandment to Love one’s neighbour as one’s self in Mark 12:28-31 plays a pivotal role in the social moral doctrine of nineteenth century philosopher John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism and of twentieth century ...