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Does the right cerebral hemisphere contribute to limb praxis?, evidence from limb apraxia following unilateral stroke
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Does the Squeaky Wheel Get the Grease? Negative Expressivity and Partner Responsiveness in Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)Feeling that a partner is responsive to one’s needs is crucial to intimacy (Reis, Clark, & Holmes, 2004). Just as the well-known expression, “the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” suggests that people who voice the most ... -
Does unfairness have a ripple effect? The impact of independent and interdependent self-construals
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-22)In the present research, I examine whether independent and interdependent self-construals influence behaviour toward innocent others following unfair treatment from an authority. Fairness researchers have documented many ... -
Dogs, Cats, and Their People: The Place of the Family Pet and Attitudes about Pet Keeping
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-01)The perception of pets as ‘family members’ is an important area of research in the study of human-animal relationships. The objective of this thesis is to assess the ways in which pets are integrated into the home, and to ... -
A Doherty Power Amplifier with Extended Bandwidth and Reconfigurable Back-off Level
(University of Waterloo, 2013-03-22)Emerging wireless standards are designed to be spectrally efficient to address the high cost of licensing wireless spectra. Unfortunately, the resulting signals have a high peak-to-average ratio that reduces the base station ... -
Doing DNA differently: A bioarchaeological secondary exploration of Brucella in ancient metagenomes in the NCBI SRA
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-23)The use of biomolecular methods in bioarchaeological studies of health and disease offer novel insights into the dynamics of disease presence and prevalence in the past, such as pathogen evolution, human–pathogen–environmental ... -
Doing the work: Editing Wikipedia as an act of reconciliation
(On Archivy, 2018-08-28)The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls to Action outline the responsibilities of cultural heritage workers to educate both themselves and the general public about the Canadian Indian Residential School ... -
Doing Transparent and Reproducible Quantitative Sociology
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-08)The ongoing replication crisis (Baker 2016; Gelman and Loken 2016; Freese and Peterson 2017; Wiggins and Christopherson 2019; Bird 2020; Colling and Szűcs 2021) has laid bare quantitative sociology’s need for better ... -
dollhouse: An Exhibition of Installation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-17)"dollhouse" is a dreamy, peachy, pretty little private space saturated with sickly sweetness. The installation consists of three rooms built inside the shell of a 1971 Airstream trailer, filled with objects, forms, and ... -
Domain Adaptation for Autonomous Driving
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-20)Metric based method is a promising approach to domain adaptation, which aims to align the marginal distribution of different domains with a similar conditional distribution. The thesis explores applying domain adaptation ... -
Domain II (S5-P) region in Lymnaea T-type calcium channels and its role in determining biophysical properties, ion selectivity and drug sensitivity
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-27)Invertebrate T-type calcium channels cloned from the great pond snail, Lymnaea Stagnalis (LCav3) possess highly sodium permeant ion channel currents by means of alternative splicing of exon 12. Exon 12 is located on the ... -
Domain Knowledge Guided Testing and Training of Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-26)The extensive impact of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on various industrial applications and research areas within the last decade can not be overstated. However, they are also subject to notable limitations, namely their ... -
Domain Ordering and Box Cover Problems for Beyond Worst-Case Join Processing
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-17)Join queries are a fundamental computational task in relational database management systems. For decades, complex joins were most often computed by decomposing the query into a query plan made of a sequence of binary joins. ... -
Domestic Insurgency - Towards Affordable Housing in Vancouver
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-24)Vancouver’s persisting housing crisis has decoupled dwelling prices from local income through persistent capital investment oriented dwelling typologies and restrictions on land availability. Vancouver, as one of the first ... -
Domestic Terrorism in the Canadian News Media: a Framing Analysis of Canadian-Connected Terrorism in 2013 Newspaper Articles
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-28)Terrorism is one of the most politically and rhetorically significant issues shaping the world today, and a popular topic in the news media. Canada is no exception. Recently, the problem of domestic (or homegrown) terror ... -
Dominating sets in Kneser graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-29)This thesis investigates dominating sets in Kneser graphs as well as a selection of other topics related to graph domination. Dominating sets in Kneser graphs, especially those of minimum size, often correspond to interesting ... -
"Don Juan ist ein anderer" Peter Handkes Don Juan (erzählt von ihm selbst) in der literarischen Tradition des Don Juan-Stoffes
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-25)The figure of Don Juan with its numerous variations and adaptations has been widely discussed in secondary literature. However, one of the most recent adaptations of the character, Peter Handke’s novel Don Juan (erzählt ... -
"Don't Let Fear Take Over": The Space and Memory of Indian Residential Schools
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-15)The Indian Residential School (IRS) system in Canada directly affected 150,000 Indigenous children who were taken to state-sponsored and church-run institutions to separate them from their families and cultures. During the ... -
Don’t Ask, I’ll Tell: Investigating Strategy Use During Disability Disclosure at Work
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-31)The nature and effects of workplace disability disclosure—sharing disability-relevant information with others at work—is of great interest to researchers and human resources professionals. In this dissertation, I investigate ... -
Dopaminergic contributions to distance estimation in Parkinson’s disease: A sensory-perceptual deficit?
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-01)Recent research has found that perceptual deficits exist in Parkinson’s disease (PD), yet the link between perception and movement impairments is not well understood. Inaccurate estimation of distance has the potential to ...