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Cycling use and attitudes towards cycling in Halifax Regional Municipality and the Region of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-29)The purpose of this thesis is to explore bicycle use and attitudes towards cycling through case study analyses in Halifax Regional Municipality and the Region of Waterloo. There are two main sections of analyses; the first ... -
Cyclobutanone Analogues of β-Lactam Antibiotics as Inhibitors of Serine- and Metallo-β-Lactamases
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-31)Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is an emerging epidemic throughout the world and there is a desperate need for new antibiotics and new strategies to maintain the effectiveness of current agents. β-Lactams, such as the ... -
Cyclodextrin Assisted Self-Assembly of Stimuli-Sensitive Block Copolymers in Aqueous Media
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-20)Structures with well-defined architectures and tailored physical properties can be produced by supramolecular self-assembly of stimuli-sensitive polymeric inclusion complexes consisting of cyclodextrins. Recently, there ... -
Cylindrical colloids on a fluid membrane
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-22)We theoretically study the adhesion and membrane-mediated interaction of cylindrical colloids to a flat fluid membrane. There are two ways to approach this problem. The first way, based on energy, requires finding the ... -
Cytochrome c Oxidase Deficiency: Study of Aberrant Phenotypes and their Connection to Secondary Functions of Assembly Factors
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-14)Mitochondria are double membrane-bound organelles present in all eukaryotic organisms and are involved in myriad cellular pathways. Cytochrome c oxidase (COX) is a mitochondrial inner membrane protein complex that is an ... -
The C∀ Scheduler
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-02)User-Level threading (M:N) is gaining popularity over kernel-level threading (1:1) in many programming languages. The user threading approach is often a better mechanism to express complex concurrent applications by ... -
C∀ Type System Implementation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)The C programming language has been an important software development tool for decades. C∀ is a new programming language designed with strong backwards-compatibility to take advantage of widely distributed C programming ... -
Dairy Goat Research Facility: Revealing Process & Provoking Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-22)The dairy goat industry in Ontario is in need of benchmarking data on the raising and caring for goats resulting in better welfare and production. The power of collective data cannot be overstated to benefit and advance ... -
Damage Evolution in Complex-Phase and Dual-Phase Steels during Edge Stretching
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017-03-27)The role of microstructural damage in controlling the edge stretchability of Complex-Phase (CP) and Dual-Phase (DP) steels was evaluated using hole tension experiments. The experiments considered a tensile specimen with a ... -
Damage Measurements in Epoxy Structural Adhesives using Microhardness
(Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2018-04)The design of adhesively joined components requires the ability to predict and model the joint response under expected operating conditions, including crash events for vehicle structures. Specifically, quantifying adhesive ... -
'Damned If They Do And Damned If They Don't': The Inferiority Complex, Nationalism, and Maclean's Music Coverage, 1967-1995
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-19)This thesis critically analyses music coverage in Maclean’s between 1967-1995, and reveals that the magazine continually stressed Canadian music as inferior to that produced by foreign artists. Only during times of intense ... -
Dance Competitions and Recitals as Collectively Accomplished Events: An Ethnographic Study of Amateur Dance
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)This thesis presents a qualitative analysis of organized amateur dance participation as an example of human group life. Organized amateur dance typically occurs within a studio or school setting and is differentiated from ... -
Dancing Architecture: The parallel evolution of Bharatanatyam and South Indian Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-05)In her book, "Indian Classical dance", Kapila Vatsyayan describes dance as the highest order of spiritual discipline, the enactment of which is symbolic of a ritual sacrifice of one's being to a transcendental order. The ... -
Dancing to the Desert: A Proposal for Self-Help Reconstruction of Post-Earthquake Cities in Hot-Arid Climates
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-23)Natural hazards kill 82,500 people globally in a typical year, with earthquakes as the largest cause of death amongst all natural hazards in Central and Southern America, East Asia, Europe, and the Near East. Damages are ... -
Daptomycin forms cation- and size-selective pores in model membranes
(Elsevier, 2014-10)Daptomycin is a lipopeptide antibiotic that is used clinically to treat severe infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria. Its bactericidal action involves the calcium-dependent binding to membranes containing ... -
Daptomycin: Mechanism of Action and Bacterial Resistance
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-25)Daptomycin is an important lipopeptide antibiotic used for treating severe infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus ... -
Daptomycin: studies on its action mode and on bacterial resistance with model membranes
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-16)Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of the most serious problems facing medicine today. Recently, reports have appeared describing bacteria that are resistant to daptomycin (dap), an important antibiotic used against ... -
Dark Matter and Neutrinos in the Foggy Universe
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-07)Dark matter is predicted to be the main contribution to the matter content in the universe, in addition to ordinary baryonic matter such as protons and neutrons. However, we are limited in our knowledge of the nature of ... -
Dark Screening of the Cosmic Microwave Background with Hidden-Sector Particles and New Dynamical Observables in First Order Phase Transitions
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-02)This thesis focuses on two research directions within the field of Cosmology. It comprises the main results of my work as a PhD student. Part~\ref{PartI} introduces new observables of false vacuum decay derived from real-time ... -
Dark Spot Detection from SAR Intensity Imagery with Spatial Density Thresholding for Oil Spill Monitoring
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-28)Since the 1980s, satellite-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has been investigated for early warning and monitoring of marine oil spills to permit effective satellite surveillance in the marine environment. Automated ...