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Personal Endorsement of Ambivalent Sexism and its Impact on Objective and Subjective Career Success
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-04)The gender wage gap is a persistent problem that has remained stubbornly stagnant over recent decades. Although significant efforts have been expended to understand why it exists and persists, we argue that an important ... -
Personality Traits of GitHub Maintainers and Their Effects on Project Success
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)Online collaborative environments have become important virtual workplaces for developers to work on a common problem. GitHub is an example of such environment that hosts a wealth of open source software projects. Questions ... -
Personality Type and Language Learning Strategy use by University Students: Where the MBTI and SILL Intersect
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-24)This thesis explores the relationship between personality type, as defined by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (“MBTI®”), and the learning strategies employed by learners enrolled in undergraduate foreign language courses ... -
Personalization in Serious and Persuasive Games and Gamified Interactions
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2015-10)Serious and persuasive games and gamified interactions have become popular in the last years, especially in the realm of behavior change support systems. They have been used as tools to support and influence human behavior ... -
Personalized Defect Prediction
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)Academia and industry expend much effort to predict software defects. Researchers proposed many defect prediction algorithms and metrics. While previous defect prediction techniques often take the author of the code into ... -
Personalizing Persuasive Strategies in Gameful Systems to Gamification User Types
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2018-04-21)Persuasive gameful systems are effective tools for motivating behaviour change. Research has shown that tailoring these systems to individuals can increase their efficacy; however, there is little knowledge on how to ... -
Perspective in Two Dimensions for Computer Graphics
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-28)Computer graphics perspective is based on photography, the pin-hole camera model. This thesis examines the perspective as practiced by artists, who develop the picture geometry within the planar surface of the canvas. Their ... -
Perspective: Maintaining surface-phase purity is key to efficient open air fabricated cuprous oxide solar cells
(AIP Publishing, 2015-02-01)Electrochemically deposited Cu2O solar cells are receiving growing attention owing to a recent doubling in efficiency. This was enabled by the controlled chemical environment used in depositing doped ZnO layers by atomic ... -
The Perspectives and Roles of Multinational Enterprises in Local Sustainable Development
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-27)As the rate of urbanization increases, cities face mounting socio-ecological challenges. At the local level, businesses are essential for developing cities and livelihoods and providing services to local communities. Local ... -
Perspectives écopoétiques dans le récit québécois contemporain
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)La présente étude a pour objectif de mettre en évidence les multiples perspectives que la littérature contemporaine québécoise offre sur la nature et les problématiques environnementales. Si le Québec fait figure de proue ... -
Perspectives from Pharmacists, Prescribers and Patients on Sharing Medication Reason for Use
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-05)Pharmacists rarely receive the reason a medication was prescribed, often referred to as reason for use (RFU). Pharmacists can use this information to better counsel patients, support patients in taking medications safely, ... -
Perspectives of Older Adult Cyclists on E-bikes As a Way to Prolong Mobility
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-13)In Canada, population aging will become an increasingly challenging issue as the proportion of the senior population is rapidly growing where it is expected to increase from 15.6% to 23% of Country’s total population by ... -
Perspectives on software-defined networks: interviews with five leading scientists from the networking community
(SpringerOpen, 2015-10-30)Software defined Networks (SDNs) have drawn much attention both from academia and industry over the last few years. Despite the fact that underlying ideas already exist through areas such as P2P applications and active ... -
Perspectives on the Formalism of Quantum Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-26)Quantum theory has the distinction among physical theories of currently underpinning most of modern physics, while remaining essentially mysterious, with no general agreement about the nature of its principles or the ... -
Perspectives on the Municipal Role in Effectuating Sustainable Industrial Park Development and Operations: The Hamilton, Ontario Case
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-28)Within the greater movement of sustainable development, industrial practices have been identified as a key area in which much improvement is both necessary and possible. The development and operation of industrial parks ... -
Persulfate Oxidation Coupled With Microbial Sulfate Reduction as a Combined Remedy
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-20)Groundwater contamination by petroleum hydrocarbon (PHC) compounds including the high impact and persistent aromatic compounds such as benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene and xylene (BTEX) poses serious risk to human health ... -
Persulfate Persistence and Treatability of Gasoline Compounds
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-06)Petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) such as gasoline are ubiquitous organic compounds present at contaminated sites throughout the world. Accidental spills and leakage from underground storage tanks results in the formation of ... -
Perturbations to nutrient and carbon cycles by river damming
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-30)The damming of rivers represents one of the most far-reaching human modifications to the flows of water and associated matter from land to sea. Globally there are over 70 000 large dams whose reservoirs store more than ... -
Pervaporation dehydration of isopropanol-water systems using chitosa membranes
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Pessimistic Hazmat Network Design Problem with Emergency Team Location Considering Uncertain Response Time
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-24)Focusing on a road network where hazmat shipments need to be transported from the origins to destinations, this thesis proposes a pessimistic approach to mitigate the risk associated with the transportation of hazardous ...