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Knowledge engagement in collaborative water governance: A New Brunswick example
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-26)Authoritative, top-down forms of environmental governance are presently giving way to more collaborative approaches in which decision making is an ongoing negotiation between government and non-government actors. There is ... -
Knowledge Gaps, Perceived Barriers, and Perceived Rewards in Sexual Consent
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-27)Sexual consent, or the communication of willingness to participate in sex, is crucial in all sexual interactions. Whereas educators and researchers emphasize an ideal of consent (i.e., “affirmative” consent; Muehlenhard ... -
Knowledge Graph Imputation
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-27)Knowledge graphs are one of the most important resources of information in many applications such as question answering and social networks. These knowledge graphs however, are often far from complete as there are so many ... -
The Knowledge of German Phrases in a Multilingual Context: An Empirical Study among German-Speaking Canadians
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-06)Idioms are a linguistic form which appear frequently in bilingual communication andplay a special role because of the way their meaning is generated. In my master thesis, I explored the understanding of idioms and conducted ... -
Knowledge On Tap: Measuring Sustainability Impacts of Ontario Craft Brewers
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-08)Small businesses compose 98% of all employer businesses and employ nearly two-thirds of the entire labour force in the Canadian economy. Small businesses, however, are often exempt from environmental regulation and corporate ... -
A Knowledge Perspective of Strategic Alliances and Management of Biopharmaceutical Innovation: Evolving Research Paradigms
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-08)Information from the Human Genome Project is being integrated into the drug discovery and development process to permit novel drug targets to be identified, clinical trial testing to be made more efficient, and efficacious ... -
Knowledge Transfer and Exchange in Work and Health Research
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-28)Knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) is the practice of preparing and disseminating research to those who can use it. The burden of workplace injury and illness can be great affecting workers, workplaces, the medical ... -
Knowledge, First Aid and the Moral Requirements of Rescue
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)In cases involving the rescue of people in need of immediate medical care, it is often thought that the responsibility to save the lives of the imperilled falls to advanced professionals, such as paramedics, doctors, nurses, ... -
Knowledge, Justice, and Subjects with Cognitive or Developmental Disability
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-20)This thesis includes four research papers, each devoted to a topic in philosophy of cognitive disability and its intersection with other areas of philosophy. Three focus on issues of cognitive or developmental disability ... -
A Knowledge-based Energy-saving Approach to PWM Control of a Novel Integrated Pneumatic Valve
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-21)As manufacturers, the automotive industry, and many other sectors face an increasingly competitive global business environment; they seek opportunities to reduce production costs by reducing energy consumption. Energy costs ... -
Koblitz's Conjecture for the Drinfeld Module
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-01)Let $E$ be an elliptic curve over the rationals without complex multiplication such that any elliptic curve $\mathbb{Q}$-isogenous to $E$ has trivial $\mathbb{Q}$-torsion. Koblitz conjectured that the number of primes less ... -
"Kometensplitter einer Biographie" & die vielstimmige Beweglichkeit der Kunst. Autofiktionales Erzählen in Felicitas HOPPEs Hoppe
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-28)In this thesis I examine in how far, or to which degree, the concept of autofiction can be applied to Felicitas Hoppe’s text Hoppe (2012). Since the coinage of the term ‘autofiction’ by Serge Doubrovsky in the 1970s, ... -
Kommunikative Praktiken des Widerstands in psychotherapeutischen Gesprächen: Patientenwiderstand durch reaktive Ich-weiß-nicht-Konstruktionen / Communicative practices of resistance in psychotherapy interactions: Patients' resistance through reactive Ich-weiß-nicht-constructions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-30)In recent years, there has been an increase in conversation analytic research on psychotherapeutic interactions (Marciniak, Nikendei, Ehrenthal, & Spranz-Fogasy, 2016), particularly on the practices of patient resistance ... -
KPI Information Acquisition by Analysts: Evidence from Conference Calls
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-10)As performance measures based on generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) deteriorate in usefulness, information users are placing more reliance on alternative performance measures. Key performance indicators (KPIs) ... -
Kung Fu is Inside the Body: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Cultivating Martial Art Practices
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-20)The purpose of this phenomenological inquiry was to explore the meaning-making and cultivation of Kung Fu within a martial arts club. The inquiry focused specifically on the teachings of Grandmaster Qing Fu Pan, and how ... -
kupferschmidt / kupferschmid / kupferschmidte
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-29)kupferschmidt / kupferschmid / kupferschmidte is a sculpture and installation-based thesis exhibition which uses materiality and autobiography to question the role of preservation in my life, as a Jewish woman. In this ... -
Kylie Jenner and Her Instagram Audience: A Lacanian Cultural Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-27)This thesis aims to examine the perception of female gender on Instagram by utilizing a conceptual framework based on the Mirror Stage theory of Jacques Lacan. Taking Kylie Jenner’s Instagram profile as an example of ... -
L'Enfant migrant dans la littérature pour la jeunesse : une analyse de six albums illustrés
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-19)Cette thèse vise à mettre en lumière la représentation de l’enfant migrant dans la littérature pour la jeunesse à travers l’analyse de six albums illustrés francophones : Nul poisson où aller (2003) de Marie-Francine Hébert ... -
L'image de la prison dans la littérature française et québécoise du 20e siècle
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-25)Cette thèse se consacre à l’analyse de l’image de la prison dans la littérature française et québécoise du 20e siècle et du début du 21e siècle. Elle examine un corpus vaste et varié constitué d’ouvrages de fiction et de ... -
L'intériorité des personnages dans les nouvelles de Maurice Henrie
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)On trouve dans l’écriture de l’auteur franco-ontarien Maurice Henrie certains thèmes, tels l’isolement et la dépression. Cette thématique apparaît particulièrement dans ses recueils de nouvelles, dont il a publié six. Dans ...