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Goal Communication at Ontario Heritage Sites
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-24)Professional management literature suggests that goal setting is one of the most important steps in the organizational process as goals provide a clear understanding of the directions in which the organization is heading. ... -
The Goal Fungibility Model: A Theoretical Account of Goal Persistence and Substitution After Failure
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-19)After failure at a goal, people have a variety of options for what to do next, including persistence at the goal or substituting it for a different goal. This thesis introduces a model of goal fungibility, which addresses ... -
Goal Models: A Lay Theory Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-16)Successful pursuit of multiple goals (e.g., health, career, family goals) is critical to personal well-being and social prosperity. However, despite significant research on how people manage single goals or even dynamics ... -
Goal Progress Velocity as a Determinant of Shortcut Behaviors
(American Psychological Association, 2023-04)Employees often have a great deal of work to accomplish within stringent deadlines. Therefore, employees may engage in shortcut behaviors, which involve eschewing standard procedures during goal pursuit to save time. ... -
Goal-based trajectory analysis for unusual behaviour detection in intelligent surveillance
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)Video surveillance systems are playing an increasing role in preventing and investigating crime, protecting public safety, and safeguarding national security. In a typical surveillance installation, a human operator has ... -
Goal-setting and unethical behavior: The journey toward the goal matters
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-30)Unethical behavior in the workplace causes harm to organizations and has a widespread impact on society. Recent studies show that difficult and specific goals can lead to unethical behavior. Specifically, studies show that ... -
Goal-Striving and Pilot Goal Management Training in Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-29)Goal-striving across academic, social, and psychological domains of life is associated with many positive outcomes. Unsuccessful goal pursuits increase the risk of engagement in health-risk behaviours, future vocational ... -
God, Country, and Christian Conservatives: The National Association of Manufacturers, the John Birch Society, and the Rise of the Christian Right
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-28)According to the First Amendment of the United States of America, religion is to be separate from the State, yet the heart and faith of voters cannot always be separated from their choices in the polling booth. Media, ... -
Goderich: A Case Study of Conserving Cultural Heritage Resources in a Disaster
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-17)A high impact Tornado (F3 on the Fujita scale of F0-5) struck Goderich, Ontario on August 21, 2011, significantly damaging the cultural heritage resources in the town. Heritage planning activities prior to the disaster had ... -
Goethe on film, television adaptations of Goetz von Berlichingen, Egmont and Stella
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Gold nanoparticle self-assembly as means for making electrocatalysts and magnetic nanonets and their application for oxygen evolution reaction and water purification
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-09)Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are widely researched materials in nanotechnology due to their distinct properties like surface plasmon resonance and ability to self-assemble. Citrate capped gold nanoparticles assembled into ... -
Gold Nanoparticle Synthesis for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopically Active Substrate
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-27)Large and small nanospheres, large and small nanoplates, nanorods and nanostars have been synthesized and fabricated into SERS substrates consisting of sandwiched and aggregated structure. Using 633 nm laser as excitation, ... -
Gold nanoparticles as dehydrogenase mimicking nanozymes for estradiol degradation
(Elsevier, 2019-09)Nanozyme catalysis has been mainly focused on a few chromogenic and fluorogenic substrates, while environmentally and biologically important compounds need to be tested to advance the field. In this work, we studied oxidation ... -
Gold Surface Nanostructuring for Separation and Sensing of Biomolecules
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-14)Detecting biomolecules in physiological environments is critical to health care and environmental monitoring. In this work, we study and use gold surfaces for biomolecule detection while incorporating nanoscale ... -
Goldberg's conjecture is true for random multigraphs
(Elsevier, 2019-09)In the 70s, Goldberg, and independently Seymour, conjectured that for any multigraph G, the chromatic index χ′(G) satisfies χ′(G) ≤ max{∆(G)+1,⌈ρ(G)⌉}, where ρ(G) = max\{\frac {e(G[S])}{\lfloor|S|/2\rfloor} \mid S\subseteq ... -
Gone Critical: Towards A Co-Creative Encounter with the Book
(University of Waterloo, 2010-03-19)This dissertation follows two interrelated lines of inquiry. The first, I formulate as follows: (1) How, historically speaking, has the discourse of literary criticism thought the book? How has it represented the book? ... -
Good Golly, Why Moly? THE STABLE ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY OF MOLYBDENUM
(Mineralogical Society of America, 2017-01-01)No abstract available. -
Governance across the land-sea interface
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-27)Effective governance is urgently needed to reduce the existing pressures on coastal-marine resources due to human activities on both the land and sea. Yet effective governance across the land-sea interface remains elusive ... -
Governance for Sustainability in Forest Communities: Case Study of the Antoine-Labelle Regional County Municipality in Quebec
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-20)Significant progress towards sustainability has been made in recent decades. However, persistent and deepening unsustainable trajectories underline that mere continuation of current strategies will not suffice in reversing ... -
The Governance of Global Sand Mining
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-04)Sand mining is a global ecological and social sustainability challenge. Greater attention to the governance of sand mining is urgently required to address these challenges. Based on a Delphi survey of global experts, this ...