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Memory, Modernity, and the City: An Interpretive Analysis of Montreal and Toronto's Respective Moves From Their Historic Professional Hockey Arenas
(University of Waterloo, 2004)This thesis seeks to understand how and if the popular claims that hockey is an integral part of the culture in Toronto and Montreal are referenced, oriented to, and/or negotiated in everyday life. Taking the cases of ... -
MEMS Actuation and Self-Assembly Applied to RF and Optical Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The focus of this work involves optical and RF (radio frequency) applications of novel microactuation and self-assembly techniques in MEMS (Microelectromechanical systems). The scaling of physical forces into the micro ... -
MEMS Demodulator Based on Electrostatic Actuator
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)This thesis provides analysis and modeling for one of the Micro-Eletro-Mechanical System (MEMS) electrostatic actuator that consists of a micro-plate at the end of a cantilever beam, and introduces different type of MEMS ... -
MEMS Switches Implemented in Different Technologies for RF Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)Microfabrication technologies allow building micro-scale and nano-scale mechanical switches. Despite the fact that the solid-state switches exhibit superior performance as compared to their micro-mechanical competitors ... -
MEMS-Based Millimeter Front-end for Automotive Radar Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-18)Automotive front-end radars are key components in modern vehicles. They are used in automatic cruise control (ACC) for advanced drive-assistance and security functions, including collision-avoidance systems. Automotive ... -
Men against Power: Antistatism, Grassroots Organizing, and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-25)This dissertation examines the history of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) from its founding in 1967 through to the early 2000s. Whereas past scholars have interpreted VVAW’s activism as motivated by the therapeutic ... -
Mending the Broken Telephone: Moving Forward from Theory to Practice in Supporting the Well-being of Sensitive Children
(University of Waterloo, 2016)This project examines current and historical research in developmental psychology and neuroscience to support the idea that nurturing familial and school relationships will create empathic, compassionate and creative future ... -
The Mental and Physical Human Health Impacts of Residential Basement Flooding and Associated Financial Costs: Interviews with Households in Southern Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-31)This thesis summarizes primary research conducted on the mental and physical health impacts associated with residential basement flooding and their associated financial costs (e.g. days off work, visits to health services, ... -
MENTAL HEALTH INPATIENT USE OVER TIME: IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED USE FOLLOWING INDEX ADMISSION
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-06)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe patterns of inpatient mental health service following index admission and to identify individual and socio-environmental factors associated with high use following index ... -
Mental Health Service Use Among Children with Chronic Physical Illness
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-31)Background: Children with chronic physical illness (e.g., diabetes, epilepsy) are significantly more likely to experience adverse mental health. While mental health service use (MHSU) amongst Canadian children has increased ... -
Mental Model Updating and Eye Movements
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-31)Two studies investigated what eye movements can reveal about how we process surprising information and use it to update mental models. Mental models guide our actions to make decisions in a dynamic environment. Participants ... -
Mercury distribution and speciation in biochar particles reacted with contaminated sediment up to 1030days: A synchrotron- based study
(Elsevier, 2019-04-20)A previous long-term microcosm experiment showed mercury (Hg) in the aqueous phase of contaminated sediment was effectively stabilized through the addition of biochar. The present study focuses on the application of ... -
Mercury dynamics in the anadromous Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) and food webs of inner Frobisher Bay, Nunavut
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-06)Mercury (Hg) is a ubiquitous toxic metal that bioaccumulates in organisms and biomagnifies in food webs. Evaluating Hg bioaccumulation and biomagnification in Arctic marine ecosystems is critical for understanding Hg ... -
Mercury Exposure Analyses Amongst Dene and Métis Communities of the Northwest Territories
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-09)Background: Fish is an important food source for many Indigenous communities within the Dehcho and Sahtú regions of Northwest Territories (NWT). However, environmental toxicants, such as mercury (Hg), can bioaccumulate and ... -
Mercury Stabilization in Contaminated Sediment by Co-blending with Solid-Phase Reactive Media
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-01)Mercury (Hg) is a toxic heavy metal and environmental contaminant that can accumulate in both terrestrial and aquatic environments. Pollutant Hg is derived primarily from anthropogenic sources such as mining, coal burning ... -
Mercury Transformation and Release from Contaminated Soil Following Perturbations in Solution Chemistry and Application of Polysulfide
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-09)Mercury (Hg) is a contaminant of concern due to the very high toxicity and bioaccumulating nature of organic Hg and the persistent leaching of Hg to water bodies from contaminated soils and sediments. The deleterious ... -
Merging Features in Featured Transition Systems
(CEUR, 2015-09)Featured Transition Systems (FTSs) is a popular representation for software product lines: an entire product line is compactly represented as a single transition-machine model, in which feature-specific behaviour is guarded ... -
Merging the Real and the Virtual: An Exploration of Interaction Methods to Blend Realities
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-20)We investigate, build, and design interaction methods to merge the real with the virtual. An initial investigation looks at spatial augmented reality (SAR) and its effects on pointing with a real mobile phone. A study ... -
Merleau-Ponty and the Preconceptions of Objective Thinking
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-18)Maurice Merleau-Ponty thinks that many classical theories of perception, especially reductionism, are influenced by the objective and the scientific form of thinking. Such influence is expressed in two preconceptions. The ... -
Merlynne: Motivating Peer-to-Peer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with a Serious Game
(ACM, 2021-09)Human-Computer Interaction researchers have explored how online communities can be leveraged for peer support, but general disinterest and a lack of engagement have emerged as substantial barriers to their use in practice. ...