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Identifying Analogue Samples of Individuals with Clinically Significant Social Anxiety: Updating and Combining Cutoff Scores on the Social Phobia Inventory and Sheehan Disability Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-26)The use of analogue samples, as opposed to clinical groups, is common in mental health research, including research on social anxiety disorder (SAD). Recent observational and statistical evidence has raised doubts about ... -
Bioaugmentation coupled with activated carbon for the treatment of petroleum hydrocarbons in groundwater systems
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-26)The contamination of groundwater by petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) is a global concern with negative human health and environmental impacts. The injection of an activated carbon (AC) particulate amendment to create a ... -
Topics in the Geometry of Special Riemannian Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-26)The thesis consists of two chapters. The first chapter is the paper named “Betti numbers of nearly G₂ and nearly Kähler 6-manifolds with Weyl curvature bounds” which is now in the journal Geometriae Dedicata. Here we use ... -
A Comparison of Unsupervised Topic Modelling Techniques for Qualitative Data Analysis of Online Communities
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-25)Social media constitutes a rich and influential source of information for qualitative researchers. However, its vast volume and diversity present significant challenges, which can be assisted by computational techniques ... -
Towards Gated Quantum Emitters from Undoped Nano-LEDs
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-25)Quantum light emitters have the potential to transform emerging quantum technologies and their applications, such as secure quantum communication, metrology, and quantum computing. Ideally, these light sources emit on-demand ... -
Reactive Tracers in Turbulence Models
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-25)This thesis characterizes the nature of inaccuracies in the description of two tracers, one passive and one reactive (with a particular choice of model) within Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes simulations (RANS) and Large ... -
Towards Scalable Fully Automatic Program Verification
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-25)Formal verification is a rigorous way to establish software quality. After more than 50 years of research, we are at a point where formal verification is starting to be used in industrial applications. To encourage more ... -
Subjectivity Under the Smartphone: A Rhetorical Examination of Digital Communications Technologies
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-25)This dissertation examines how the ubiquitous presence of the smartphone is reshaping what it means to be a subject, and how people experience their subjectivity, in a digitally mediated society. I explore this question ... -
Exponential Stability of Maxwell’s Equations
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-25)The control of electromagnetic systems, which is governed by Maxwell's equations, is of interest for various reasons such as controlling plasma in a nuclear fusion reactor or magnetically trapping antiparticles for ... -
Assessment of soil carbon storage and greenhouse gas emissions in perennial bioenergy crops on low productive agricultural land in southwestern Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-22)Low productive agricultural lands with less suitability for annual row crop production have been recommended globally for growing perennial bioenergy crops. This is due to the low input requirement of perennial bioenergy ... -
The Inextricable Weed: Rawls and the Problem of Endemic Faction
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-19)John Rawls, over the course of his career, sought to construct a framework by which a liberal society could be envisioned in its ideal form which then, taken as a model, may illuminate a sure path for reform. His argument ... -
Analysis of the Impact of Fragmented Coordination During Natural Disaster Responses on Access to Drinking Water Following Cyclone Idai - Beira Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-19)Globally, disasters affect every domain of human activity and cause devastating losses across the human, economic and environmental domains. While they are extremely difficult to predict and prevent, the global society ... -
Investigation of Brain Response in Canadian Armed Forces Volunteers Subjected to Recoil Force from Firing Long-Range Rifles Using Instrumented Mouthguards and Finite Element Head Model
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-18)Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) may be caused by occupational hazards military personnel encounter, such as falls, shocks, exposure to blast overpressure events, and recoil from weapon firing. The repeated exposure of ... -
Breast cancer risk associated with phosphate toxicity
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-18)Background - The essential dietary mineral phosphorus in the form of inorganic phosphate (PO43-) is regulated in the blood serum by a sensitive network of endocrine hormones released from bone, kidneys, parathyroid glands, ... -
Horospherical geometry: combinatorial algebraic stacks and approximating rational points
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-17)The purpose of this thesis is to explore and develop several aspects of the theory of horospherical geometry. Horospherical varieties are equipped with the action of a reductive algebraic group such that there is an open ... -
Improving the Provision of Mental Health Care in Small-Scale Fisheries to Boost Livelihood Outcomes: A Case Study of Chilika Lagoon in India
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-17)Small-scale fisheries (SSF) support over 90 percent of the 120 million people engaged in capture fisheries globally. Due to their strong reliance on their surroundings, SSFs are in volatile positions. The ever-changing ... -
Efficient Memory Allocator for Restricting Use-After-Free Exploitations
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-17)Attacks on heap memory, encompassing memory overflow, double and invalid free, use-after-free (UAF), and various heap-spraying techniques are ever-increasing. Existing secure memory allocators can be generally classified ... -
Planning Renewable Electricity Using Life-Cycle Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-16)It has been predicted that by the mid-21st century worldwide energy demand will grow two to three times the current level of demand. Expanding the global electric power generation capacity will be problematic using the ... -
Wastewater Surveillance of Influenza (A, B) and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in Southern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-16)Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) of SARS-CoV-2 has been highly effective at tracking trends of COVID-19 infections across the globe. This success led to the question of the possible applicability of WBS in monitoring ... -
Degradation of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) and Polyamide (PA)
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-16)Microplastics have become an increasing concern to humans and ecosystems as plastic production continues to soar, due to their prevalence in the environment and lifespan. Plastic is cheap and durable making it an ideal ...