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Children's Communicative Decisions Are Influenced by Gender, Shyness, and Peer Experiences
(Wayne State University Press, 2020-01)The present study examined how school-age children's communicative decisions are influenced by the situation, their social partner, and their own characteristics (gender, shyness levels, and history of peer relationships). ... -
Children's Competence with Listener Dependent Prosodic Modifications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-11-04)A key component of communicative development is learning that different listeners are spoken to in different ways. Mature communicators not only adjust what they say when addressing children versus adults, for example, but ... -
Children's conflict scripts, an idiographic, nomothetic and idiosyncratic analysis
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Children's reactions to inequality: Associations with empathy and parental teaching
(Elsevier, 2020-09-24)While children generally prefer equal distributions of resources, we know little about the contextual and individual variability in these preferences. The present work examined experimental manipulations and associations ... -
Children's Selective Trust in Informants: The Role of Speech Characteristics
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-01)The main way children learn new information is through other people. However, not all people have information that is valuable and useful to them. Research suggests that children pay attention to many cues to help them ... -
Children's sharing with collaborators versus competitors: The impact of theory of mind and executive functioning
(Elsevier, 2018-09-07)While children show an appreciation for fairness, their sharing does not always reflect such principles. This work examined how contextual factors (competition/cooperation; self/other perspective) and socio-cognitive skills ... -
Children’s social perceptions and metaperceptions during an initial interaction with an unfamiliar peer
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-31)Background. Interacting with an unfamiliar social partner is a critical first step in forming a relationship (Hinde & Stevenson-Hinde, 1987). During these initial interactions, individuals tend to be more positive than ... -
Chimera Obscura
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)Across diverse territories - that might otherwise be considered separate from one another - similar morphogenetic and emergent processes appear to be at play. The continuous re-inscription of the world, and its inner ... -
Chinatown as Heterotopia: Culture and the Crisis of Commodification in Toronto's Chinatown(s)
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-09)This thesis studies the historical and present roles that culture plays in the formation of cities by analyzing the evolution of North American Chinatowns as heterotopias within the city throughout the cultural and social ... -
China’s Path in Developing Organic Agriculture: Opportunities and Implications for Small-scale Farmers and Rural Development
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-15)With the growing awareness of food safety and environmental sustainability, organic agriculture is developing rapidly worldwide. Previous studies on the issue of organic agriculture and small-scale farms have mainly focused ... -
Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in North America: Comparing Canadian and U.S. Attitude
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)As China’s economy becomes larger—naturally, the global outflow of China’s foreign direct investment (FDI) has also been increasing at a rapid pace. One of the most popular regions for Chinese investment today is North ... -
A Chinese Intellectual's Journey: Lin Shen's adaptation of Daoban Fushide (The Pirated Faust 1999)
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-27)This thesis has as its focus Daoban Fushide 盗版浮士德 (The Pirated Faust), a Chinese staging of Goethe’s Faust I and II, which premiered in Beijing in 1999. The research questions of the study are how the adaptation remains ... -
Chip geometry, cutting force, and elastic deformation prediction for gear hobbing
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-08)The machining industry is constantly challenged through increasing demands for productivity and stringent part quality requirements such as dimensional accuracy and surface quality. Physics-based models are becoming more ... -
Chipping, Shredding and Layering – Experiments in Geological Design Thinking
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-18)In the recent history of the earth, the last 200 years specifically, human activity has changed the very stratigraphy of the planet. This is a direct result of industrialization at the turn of the 19th century, which was ... -
Chiral auxiliary design for the stereoselective addition of alpha-alkoxymethyl carbanions to aldehydes and ketones
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Chirped-pulse interferometry: Classical dispersion cancellation and analogues of two-photon quantum interference
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-09)Interference has long been used for precision measurement of path-length changes. Since the advent of the laser, interference has become one of the most versatile tools in metrology. Specifically, ultra-short laser pulses ... -
Chitosan Edible Films Crosslinked by Citric Acid
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-14)Chitosan offers an exciting potential as a safe, biodegradable material for niche food packaging and coating applications. Barriers to getting this crustacean-derived polysaccharide to the packaging market include poor ... -
Chitosan-Sericin Blend Membranes for Controlled Release of Drugs
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-10)The peak and valley problems caused by oral administration, injection or other conventional methods, call for developing systems that can deliver therapeutics more effectively. As one of the techniques, diffusion-controlled ... -
Chivalry is far from dead: Misperceiving the link between men's benevolent and hostile sexism
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-30)Although prejudice has traditionally been conceptualized as a univalent antipathy towards a social group, sexist prejudice represents a more nuanced ambivalent attitude that mixes both hostile and benevolent elements. ... -
Chlorine and Bromine Isotopic Analyses of Groundwaters and Porewaters from the Bruce Nuclear Site
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-23)This study reports chlorine (δ37Cl) and bromine (δ81Br) isotopic values for groundwaters and pore fluids from early Paleozoic (Cambrian to Devonian) sedimentary rocks at the Bruce Nuclear Site near Kincardine, Ontario, ...