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Making Renewable Energy Certificates Efficient, Trustworthy, and Private
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-19)Although renewable energy costs are declining rapidly, producers still rely on additional incentives, such as Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), when making an investment decision. An REC is a proof that a certain amount ... -
Making sense of precarity: talking about economic insecurity with millennials in Canada
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)While there are many effective metrics for quantifying economic precarity, talking to young people about their experiences in the labour and housing markets reveals a gap in explanatory language around living in/through ... -
Making Sense of the Fractal Urban Form and Function: an Agent-Based Modelling Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-27)Despite their complexity, cities exhibit very similar fractal properties in various aspects of their form and function, including their social and spatial profiles. These similarities reveal underlying forces behind the ... -
Making Sense of Video Instruction: An Ethnomethodological Analysis of Following a YouTube Croissant Making Tutorial
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)With the use of video instruction becoming more prevalent, this thesis looks at the methods learners use to navigate video tutorials through an ethnomethodological lens. As ethnomethodology is concerned with the way members ... -
Making Spaces: Mapping Opportunities for Improved Equity in Makerspaces and Virtual Reality
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-01)The promise of "making"—that is, learning, experimenting, DIY, creation, reappropriation, or otherwise—has become a popular topic in human-computer interaction (HCI) research, and a subject of interest for public institutions ... -
Making the Child's World: Fostering Permanence
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Making the Child's World: Fostering Permanence, is a redefining, reordering and recalibration of the planning of a centre for children in transition within the child welfare system that would operate alongside foster homes. ... -
Making the City : A Document on Tactical Urbanism
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-22)In the past decade city of Toronto has seen an unprecedented growth in its population. This surge on growth of the city poses questions about the quality of its future public and private spaces and its patterns of growth. In ... -
Making the Most of Mealtimes (M3): protocol of a multi-centre cross-sectional study of food intake and its determinants in older adults living in long term care homes
(BioMed Central, 2017-01-13)Background: Older adults living in long term care (LTC) homes are nutritionally vulnerable, often consuming insufficient energy, macro-and micronutrients to sustain their health and function. Multiple factors are proposed ... -
Making-With the Burrowing Owl: Value Sensitive Design as Sympoietic Method in Environmental Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08)How can we learn to live with vulnerable species like the Burrowing owl? This paper looks to Value Sensitive Design methods as a way to expand upon Post-Humanist Design and answer Donna Haraway’s call to learn to live on ... -
Malaria in the Amazon: An Agent-Based Approach to Epidemiological Modeling of Coupled Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-21)The epidemiology of malaria considers a complex set of local interactions amongst host, vector, and environment. A history of reemergence, epidemic transition, and ensuing endemic transmission in Iquitos, Peru reveals an ... -
Male-female differences in households' resource allocation and decision to seek healthcare in south-eastern Nigeria: Results from a mixed methods study
(Elsevier, 2018-05-01)Ability to influence household decision-making has been shown to increase with improved social capital and power and is linked to better access to household financial resources and other services outside the household ... -
Maleation of polypropylene and EPDM through reactive extrusion using the Alder Ene reaction
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MALLOCALYPSE: the loss of great space
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)The contemporary North American believes that you can purchase happiness. We search in boxes labeled new and improved, looking for products that are forever bigger, stronger, and faster. We want these things because they ... -
The mammalian skin microbiome
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-23)Skin constitutes the primary physical barrier between mammals and their external environment. Characterization of the microorganisms on skin is essential for understanding how a host evolves in association with its microbial ... -
Management of a River Recreation Resource: Understanding the Inputs to Management of Outdoor Recreational Resources
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-21)Research into the use of natural resources and protected areas for the pursuit of outdoor recreational opportunities has been examined by a number of researchers. One activity with growth in recent years is river recreation, ... -
The Management of Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-10)Abstract: Pharmaceuticals and their metabolites, collectively known as pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs), have been detected in surface water, groundwater, and drinking water, in a number of countries, since ... -
Management of introduced American bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeiana Shaw 1802) in the South Okanagan, British Columbia
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-10)Introduced invasive species threaten biodiversity on a global scale. An estimated fifteen new species introduction and establishments occur in aquatic systems per decade in Canada. A particular introduced aquatic species ... -
Management of Urban Ecosystems and the Application of the Novel Ecosystem Evaluation Framework in the City of Kitchener
(University of Waterloo, 2016-03-31)Increasing urbanization and the impacts associated with human settlements are major factors in the degradation of ecological integrity and main contributors to the emergence of novel ecosystems. As landscapes across Southern ... -
Managing Accessibility: A Case Study at the University of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-23)This study examined how a quality management system, which includes a crowdsourcing application, could improve accessibility. As a result this research captured the interactions a person with impairment has with the built ... -
Managing an urban forest: Have street tree populations of Acer platanoides invaded forested parks?
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-13)This study examined the existing, or potential, risk of invasion by street trees into an urban forested park (Breithaupt Park, a 32.5 hectare semi-forested park, and its surrounding residential neighbourhood in the City ...