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Negative Spaces: Bringing Indigenous women to the forefront of archaeological research in the lower Great Lakes region
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-15)Indigenous women are underrepresented and/or stereotyped in the archaeological record with cultural remains often being interpreted as being inherently male. Previous to contemporary decolonial and feminist research, ... -
Neoliberal Governmentality in the Red-Green Era: Tracing Facets of the Entrepreneurial Self in Three Contemporary German Novels
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-26)This dissertation examines three contemporary German novels and their respective representations of the Red-Green era. It focuses on the discourses to which these novels refer in order to shed light on the consequences and ... -
Neologismen der 90er Jahre ? Kenntnis und Einstellungen unter Deutschsprecher/innen aus Kitchener-Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2006)In 2004, the Institut für Deutsche Sprache published the neologism dictionary "Neuer Wortschatz: Neologismen der 90er Jahre im Deutschen", which contains new words that entered the German language during the 1990s (for ... -
Neospirituality, Social Change and the Culture of the Post-Fordist Workplace
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)This dissertation applies a religious studies perspective to the topic of neospirituality in the iconic post-Fordist workplaces of symbolic analysts. Despite a voluminous business literature on the importance of spirituality, ... -
Networked governance and summit diplomacy: shaping the maternal, newborn and child health agenda
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-08)Diplomatic summits serve as critical opportunities for national leaders to interact and mobilize the political will needed to address the world’s greatest challenges. Yet, summits have a checkered past with both successes ... -
Neural bases of eye and gaze processing: The core of social cognition
(Elsevier, 2009-02-24)Eyes and gaze are very important stimuli for human social interactions. Recent studies suggest that impairments in recognizing face identity, facial emotions or in inferring attention and intentions of others could be ... -
Neural processing of fearful and happy facial expressions during emotion-relevant and emotion-irrelevant tasks: A fixation-to-feature approach
(Elsevier, 2016-09-01)Research suggests an important role of the eyes and mouth for discriminating facial expressions of emotion. A gaze-contingent procedure was used to test the impact of fixation to facial features on the neural response to ... -
Neural Processing of Fearful and Happy Facial Expressions: Effects of Fixation to Facial Features and Task Demands
(University of Waterloo, 2015-11-25)The current literature regarding the time course of facial expression processing is inconsistent and early emotion effects are debated. Facial expressions are well-known to be characterized by “diagnostic” facial features ... -
The neural systems for perceptual updating
(Elsevier, 2018-04-01)In a constantly changing environment we must adapt to both abrupt and gradual changes to incoming information. Previously, we demonstrated that a distributed network (including the anterior insula and anterior cingulate ... -
New Day. New Painting.
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-06)The thesis I’m presenting is an investigation of the perceptual experience of my day-to-day life as a student undertaking the graduate program at the University of Waterloo. It consists of observational paintings, which ... -
"A New Kind of War": The Vietnam War and the Nuremberg Principles, 1964-1968
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-19)This thesis explores what Telford Taylor called the “ethos of Nuremberg” and how it shaped antiwar resistance during the Vietnam War in the United States. The Vietnam War was a monumental event in the twentieth century and ... -
“New York is a State of Mind”: Race, Marginalization, and Cultural Expression in Postwar New York City
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-02)While the urban crisis debate has expanded to examine a variety of American cities, the general exploration of how African Americans have responded to, and challenged, racial and urban inequality remains focused on grassroots ... -
News Management and Earnings Management around Accelerated Share Repurchases
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)There has been a growing trend in accelerated share repurchases (ASRs) in the last decade. ASRs are an alternative to commonly used open market repurchases (OMRs). In an ASR, a firm commits itself to repurchasing an announced ... -
Nishga Initiative and Missionary Response: Robert Doolan at Quinwoch, B.C.
(SAGE, 1981-07-01)In this historical study of the work of pioneer missionary Robert Doolan, Professor Patterson points out the initiative shown by the Nishga people of the northwest coast of British Columbia and how this interest helped ... -
Nixonland Revisited: A History of Populist Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-22)The goal of this thesis was to validate journalist Rick Perlstein’s assertion in Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008) that the foundational dialectic of the 1960s “has not yet ended.” ... -
No Honour in Death: Analyzing the Debaucherous Death of Empress Valeria Messalina
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-27)It is not a certainty that the life of the Julio-Claudian empress Valeria Messalina was any different from the lives of the empresses who preceded her. The written historical record is largely silent on her life before she ... -
No Peace - A Drawing Installation
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-06)This paper is intended to serve as a supporting document for the exhibition "No Peace" that was held at the Artery Gallery, 158 King St. W, Kitchener, ON, Canada, March 28 - April 18, 2009. This drawing installation ... -
Noise reduction limits the McGurk Effect
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-02)In the McGurk Effect (McGurk & MacDonald, 1976), a visual depiction of a speaker silently mouthing the syllable [ga]/[ka] is presented concurrently with the auditory input [ba]/[pa], resulting in “fused” [da]/[ta] being ... -
Non-erotic thoughts and sexual functioning in a community sample: Associations with thought content, affect and attentional control
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-28)According to Barlow’s model of sexual dysfunction (1986; Sbrocco & Barlow, 1996), anxiety in sexual situations leads to attentional focus on sexual performance at the expense of erotic cues, which compromises sexual arousal. ... -
Nordic Interventions in African Sustainable Water Development: Addressing Participation Deficits as a Primary Success Factor
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-29)Aligning with the beginning of a new sustainable development paradigm in 2000 and the introduction of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, the international community has developed more collaborative ...