Waterloo Research: Recent submissions
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“All Your Faves Are Problematic”: The Performative Spectatorship of Drunk Feminist Film
(Duke University Press, 2022-09-01)This article looks at the work of the Drunk Feminist Film (DFF) collective from Toronto, Canada. DFF screenings offer interactive in‐person and online events that combine watching popular Hollywood films with simultaneous ... -
Meme-ifying Data: The Rise of Public Health Influencers on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter during Covid-19
(DIGSUM, 2023-09-01)This article argues for the importance of the memetic tactic of bricolage within contemporary social media science communication for its capacity to curate and distill approachable, accessible, and shareable Covid-19 ... -
Dwelling as Method: Lingering in/with Feminist Curated Data Sets on Instagram
(DIGSUM, 2024)This article proposes and delineates “digital dwelling” as one method of grappling with a central methodological challenge that we, as feminist researchers, face of how researchers might account for the multiple entanglements ... -
Feminist Shadow Networks: 'Thinking, Talking, and Making' as Praxes of Relationality and Care
(Open Library of Humanities, 2023-10-17)In the face of the constraints and pressures of the neoliberal university, this article argues for the importance of feminist shadow networks as a response to the unequal academic grounds on which scholars and students are ... -
PEGylated MoSe2 Nanomaterials with Limited Oxidation via Femtosecond Laser Ablation for Photothermal Therapy
(American Chemical Society, 2024)MoSe2 nanomaterials are promising photothermal agents for non-invasive cancer treatment. Their surfaces usually need to be functionalized with biocompatible polymers to improve their biocompatibility and colloidal stability ... -
Gamification and Gaming in Cryptocurrency Education: A Survey with Cryptocurrency Investors and Potential Investors
(Sage, 2024-01-22)Introduction: In recent years, cryptocurrency has increasingly sparked interest among investors. Many people have invested in this field without adequate knowledge. Existing research has shown that using game design elements ... -
Modeling of Microplastic Emission, Transport, and Retention in Urban Stormwater Ponds
(University of Waterloo, 2024)Urban areas are the major sources of microplastics to the environment, given their high concentration of people, road traffic, and mismanaged waste. Stormwater runoff, one of the major carriers of urban-derived MPs to ... -
Enzymatic degradation of PET plastic
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-02)Previous work has shown that the degradation of plastics such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) using commercial grade enzymes is possible and highly effective in lab settings. However, the environmental factors controlling ... -
A study of common bug fix patterns in Rust
(Springer, 2024-02-12)Rust is a relatively new programming language which allows programmers to write programs that have low-level control over resources while still ensuring high-level safety guarantees (for programs written in safe Rust). ... -
Vestibulocollic and Cervicocollic Muscle Reflexes in a Finite Element Neck Model During Multidirectional Impacts
(Springer, 2021-05-03)Active neck musculature plays an important role in the response of the head and neck during impact and can affect the risk of injury. Finite element Human Body Models (HBM) have been proposed with open and closed-loop ... -
Optimization of muscle activation schemes in a finite element neck model simulating volunteer frontal impact scenarios
(Elsevier, 2020-03-07)Neck muscle activation is increasingly important for accurate prediction of occupant response in automotive impact scenarios and occupant excursion resulting from active safety systems such as autonomous emergency braking. ... -
From Waste to Wealth: Policies to Promote the Circular Economy
(Elsevier, 2024-03-01)The policy article addresses the urgent need for comprehensive policy framework to advance the circular economy, a crucial strategy in mitigating the global waste and pollution crisis. It seeks to bridge the research gap ... -
Pure Pairs. IX. Transversal Trees
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2024)Fix k>0, and let G be a graph, with vertex set partitioned into k subsets ("blocks") of approximately equal size. An induced subgraph of G is "transversal" (with respect to this partition) if it has exactly one vertex in ... -
Around the closure of the set of commutators of idempotents in B(H): Biquasitriangularity and factorisation
(Elsevier, 2023-04-15)In this paper, we continue our study of the norm-closure of the set CEof bounded linear operators acting on a complex, infinite-dimensional, separable Hilbert space Hwhich may be expressed as the commutator of two idempotent ... -
Five Hilbert Space Problems in Operator Algebras
(Springer, 2022-11-03)A number of questions which have been solved over the years in the theory of single operators acting on Hilbert space have interesting analogues when recast in the setting of elements of C*-algebras. We list five of these, ... -
A note on the structure of matrix *-subalgebras with scalar diagonals
(EleMath, 2021)We characterize those unital, self-adjoint algebras of complex n x n matrices that are simultaneously unitarily similar to algebras in which every member has a scalar diagonal. -
On *-similarity in C*-algebras
(Instytut Matematyczny, 2020)Two subsets X and Y of a unital C -algebra A are said to be -similar via s 2 A1 if Y = s1Xs and Y = s1X s. We show that this relation imposes a certain structure on the sets X and Y, and that under certain natural ... -
Quasidiagonal weighted shifts on directed trees
(Instytut Matematyczny, 2023)We investigate quasidiagonality of weighted shifts on directed trees. We concentrate mainly on a subclass of weighted shifts operators called adjacency operators. In particular, we provide equivalent conditions for ... -
On Specht's Theorem in UHF C*-algebras
(Elsevier, 2021-01-01)Specht’s Theorem states that two matrices Aand Bin Mn(C)are unitarily equivalent if and only if tr(w(A, A∗)) =tr(w(B, B∗))for all words w(x, y)in two non-commuting variables xand y. In this article we examine to what extent ... -
Triangular Operator Algebras and Simultaneous Triangularisation
(American Mathematical Society, 2023)We consider the question of whether every collection of compact operators that is contained in a triangular operator algebra (in the sense of Kadison and Singer) must be simultaneously triangularisable. The answer is shown ...