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Troubling Dominance in Sport: Deconstructing Curling Culture(s) through Narrative Inquiry
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-26)Curling, with its deep history, colonial legacy, and quintessential “Canadianness” (Mair, 2007, 2009) offers a rich context to explore how dominant narratives within a sport may continue to affect diversity and inclusion. ... -
Infrastructure Asset Management Readiness Assessment of Ontario Municipal Water Utilities
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-26)The safety and quality of services provided by municipal water utilities depend on sound water and wastewater infrastructure. Nevertheless, according to the 2016 Canadian Infrastructure Report Card, about 12% of this ... -
Predicting drivers' direction sign reading reaction time using an integrated cognitive architecture
(IEEE, 2019-04-04)Drivers' reaction time of reading signs on expressways is a fundamental component of sight distance design requirements, and reaction time is affected by many factors such as information volume and concurrent tasks. We ... -
Developing a droplet microfluidic platform for making double emulsions towards manufacturing polymersomes
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-24)In recent years, there has been growing interest in the use of double emulsions in various industries such as pharmaceutical, foods, and cosmetics. Polymersomes are one of the promising applications of double emulsions ... -
Hurry Up and Wait: Spatial Strategies for Urban Stress Relief
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-21)In the midst of rising urban density and its projected impacts on infrastructures and city dwellers alike, the importance of understanding the effects of built space on our biology and mental well-being is becoming essential ... -
Analyzing Government Use of GitHub for Collaboration: An Empirical Approach to Measuring Open Government and Open Collaboration
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-21)The way government organizations collaborate on developing computer software has significantly changed with the use of the Internet. GitHub, an online platform that hosts computer software and provides project management ... -
Cellulosic Nanocomposites for Advanced Manufacturing: An Exploration of Advanced Materials in Electrospinning and Additive Manufacturing
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-21)The effects of formulation and processing of thermoplastics and composites containing Nanocrystalline Cellulose (NCC) were explored and characterized for electrospinning and fused deposition modeling 3D printing advanced ... -
Predatory Publishing: Hidden Pitfalls with High Costs
(2018)What is a Predatory Publisher: With little or no actual services or scholarly review being performed the sole purpose of these publishers is to make money through fraudulently charging authors fees, often guised as processing ... -
Museum of Contemporary Art Gateway Sculpture Garden
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-20)This thesis comprises a design for a garden that serves as a gateway to the new cultural hub of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in the Junction Triangle, Toronto. This contribution aims to capitalize on the cultural ... -
The Storey-Based Stability of Steel Frames Subjected to Variable Gravity and Fire Loading
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-20)The concept of storey-based stability has been developed over the past several decades, and includes powerful methods to holistically assess the structural integrity of unbraced and semi-braced steel frames. Recently, it ... -
Development of Highly Anti-Corrosive and Mechanically Improved Graphene-Based Polyurethane Nanocomposites for the Application of Pipeliners in Oil Sands Transportation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-20)In contemporary composite science, polymer nanocomposites are the promising functional materials in the research field. Among them, the nano-sized filler, graphene, supplements the flaws of polymeric materials with their ... -
Linking soil moisture content and carbon dioxide fluxes: From batch experiments to process-based modelling
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-19)The emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from soil to the atmosphere represent a major flux within the global carbon cycle. Soil CO2 fluxes depend on environmental factors including soil moisture and oxygen, and on intrinsic ... -
Direct Method for Floor Response Spectra Considering Soil-Structure Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-19)Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI) analysis is required in structural dynamic analysis under seismic excitations in the current standards, and it significantly influences the Floor Response Spectra (FRS),which are used in ... -
The Effects of Narcissism and Perspective-taking on Managers’ Escalation of Commitment
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-19)Companies often have the opportunity to invest in capital assets. Unfortunately, the benefits of such investments are not always realized and managers are challenged with deciding whether they should withdraw their support ... -
Burrowing Through the Edifice: Viewing the Patterns of Woodboring Beetles as a Representation of the Chthulucene
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-19)Following a process of formal and craft explorations this thesis uses the lines, tracings, and voids of various forest pests, specifically woodboring beetles and their fungal symbionts, as a way of evoking Donna Haraway’s ... -
Image-based spatio-temporal model of drug delivery in a heterogeneous vasculature of a solid tumor — Computational approach
(Elsevier, 2019-05)The solute transport distribution in a tumor is an important criterion in the evaluation of the cancer treatment efficacy. The fraction of killed cells after each treatment can quantify the therapeutic effect and plays as ... -
Constrained-CNN losses for weakly supervised segmentation
(Elsevier, 2019-05)Weakly-supervised learning based on, e.g., partially labelled images or image-tags, is currently attracting significant attention in CNN segmentation as it can mitigate the need for full and laborious pixel/voxel annotations. ... -
An Efficient Geometric Multigrid Solver for Viscous Liquids
(ACM, 2019-07)We present an efficient geometric Multigrid solver for simulating viscous liquids based on the variational approach of Batty and Bridson [2008]. Although the governing equations for viscosity are elliptic, the strong ... -
A Community-Based Pilot Study Exploring Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSD) Perception Among Recently Relocated Syrian Refugees in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-18)Refugees, a vulnerable population, usually end up in precarious work situations, which are very common in small businesses (SBs). SBs, where 69.7% of the total private labor force is employed, often hire unskilled workers ... -
An adaptive variational finite difference framework for efficient symmetric octree viscosity
(ACM, 2019-07)While pressure forces are often the bottleneck in (near-)inviscid fluid simulations, viscosity can impose orders of magnitude greater computational costs at lower Reynolds numbers. We propose an implicit octree finite ...
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