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Towards vertex renormalization in 4d Spin Foams
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-24)A long-standing open problem in 4-dimensional Spin Foam models of Quantum Gravity has been the behavior of the amplitudes under coarse graining. In this thesis, we attempt to study this question by using the recent ... -
Urban infrastructure finance and its relationship with land market, land development, and sustainability: Case study of the City of Islamabad, Pakistan
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-21)Cities are responsible for 70% of global carbon emissions. As a result, cities worldwide have been met with the challenge of urban sustainability. Urbanization results mostly from the conversion of agricultural land into ... -
Incorporating Misperception into the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-21)A flexible hypergame methodology is designed and implemented for modeling misperceptions by participating decision makers (DMs) in a conflict having two or more DMs within the framework of the Graph Model for Conflict ... -
Standalone Tensile Testing of Thin Film Materials for MEMS/NEMS Applications
(In Tech, 2012-03-28)The microelectronics industry has been consistently driven by the scaling roadmap, colloquially referred to as the Moore’s law. Consequently, during the past decades, integrated circuits have scaled down further. This ... -
Role of loading direction on cyclic behaviour characteristics of AM30 extrusion and its fatigue damage modelling
(Elsevier, 2017-07-18)Anisotropic fatigue and cyclic behaviour of AM30 Mg alloy extrusion is investigated by performing fully-reversed strain-controlled tension-compression cyclic tests at strain amplitudes between 0.3% and 2.3%, along extrusion ... -
An asymmetric elastic-plastic analysis of the load-controlled rotating bending test and its application in the fatigue life estimation of wrought magnesium AZ31B
(Elsevier, 2014-07-01)Due to different deformation mechanisms arising from limited slip systems in HCP wrought magnesium alloys, their yield and hardening in tension and compression are different. Consequently, the cyclic behavior of these ... -
Load path sensitivity and fatigue life estimation of 30CrNiMo8HH
(Elsevier, 2012-04-01)A set of strain-controlled biaxial proportional and non-proportional tests were conducted on solid and tubular specimens of 30CrNiMo8HH steel. The effect of the phase angle on fatigue life was studied. This effect becomes ... -
Multiaxial cyclic behaviour and fatigue modelling of AM30 Mg alloy extrusion
(Elsevier, 2017-04-01)Multiaxial fatigue characteristics of AM30 Mg alloy extrusion are studied through fully-reversed strain controlled cyclic experiments including pure torsional and combined axial-torsional at 0, 45 and 90 phase angle shifts. ... -
Christopher Nolan and the Art of Anamorphosis
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-20)This dissertation explores the cinema of Christopher Nolan over a 15-year period. It focuses on the portrayal of the subject in five of his major films: Memento (2000), The Prestige (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception ... -
Explorations in the Conformal Bootstrap
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-19)We investigate properties of various conformally invariant quantum systems, especially from the point of view of the conformal bootstrap. First, we study twist line defects in three-dimensional conformal field theories. ... -
Environmental controls of sediment mercury accumulation in a large, glacially-fed lake
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-19)Mercury is an environmental contaminant of concern, especially in northern regions where human exposure to mercury through fish consumption can be high. Mercury accumulation in northern lakes has increased over the past ... -
The effect of isothiocyanates on heat shock protein, heme oxygenase-1 and α-tubulin levels and localization in Xenopus A6 kidney cells
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-19)Numerous studies have elucidated the health promoting properties of organosulfur compounds derived from cruciferous vegetables known as isothiocyanates (ITCs). As electrophiles, the impact of ITCs at the molecular level ... -
Binocular vision and fixational eye movements
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-19)Introduction In observers with amblyopia, abnormal patterns of amblyopic eye (AME) fixational eye movements (FEM) have been associated with monocular (reduced amblyopic eye visual acuity) and binocular sensory deficits ... -
The Liftable Mapping Class Group
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-19)Broadly, this thesis lies at the interface of mapping class groups and covering spaces. The foundations of this area were laid down in the early 1970s by Birman and Hilden. Building on these foundations, there has been a ... -
Understanding Youth Transition as 'Becoming': Identity, Time and Futurity
(Elsevier, 2009-11-01)Drawing on recent work in psychology, philosophy, and youth geographies, this article responds to calls for theoretical rigour in children's geographies by developing the concept of becoming for youth transitions research. ... -
The Significance of the Personal within Disability Geography
(Wiley, 2008-09-01)Drawing on in-depth qualitative data, this article critically examines disability geography as a subfield where the personal is highly valued. The value and the risks inherent in this personal approach will be evaluated, ... -
Feeling Precarious: Millennial Women and Work
(Sage, 2015-12-18)In Precarious Life (2004), Judith Butler writes about how a shared sense of fear and vulnerability opens the possibility of recognizing interdependency. This is a wider understanding of precarity than is often present in ... -
Visual Impairment in the City: Young People's Social Strategies for Independent Mobility
(Sage, 2013-02-01)This article examines the mobility strategies that visually impaired (VI) young people employ as they negotiate their daily lives in the city. In contrast to research which foregrounds difficulties navigating the built ... -
Who we are at Work: Millennial Women, Everyday Inequalities and Insecure Work
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-09-01)Based on research with millennial women in Canada, this article examines the process of workplace identity, or (un)conscious strategies of identity management that young women employ at work. First, despite increasing ... -
Transient episodes of mild environmental oxygenation and oxidative continental weathering during the late Archean
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2015-11-20)It is not known whether environmental O2 levels increased in a linear fashion or fluctuated dynamically between the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis and the later Great Oxidation Event. New rhenium-osmium isotope data ...
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