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Disability Drama: Semiotic Bodies and Diegetic Subjectivities in post-WWI German Expressionist Drama
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-05)In this dissertation, I examine discourses on disability and the body in three German Expressionist dramas written directly after WWI both for the discursive work they do in this context and for their relevance today: Ernst ... -
Disablement, Diversity, Deviation: Disability in an Age of Environmental Risk
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-21)This dissertation brings disability studies and postcolonial studies into dialogue with discourse surrounding risk in the environmental humanities. The central question that it investigates is how critics can reframe and ... -
Disabling cities
(Oxford University Press, 2017-01-13)Geographic research on disability and cities is wide-ranging and encompasses the lives of people dealing with disability, physical impairment, and issues of mental ill health. This chapter focuses on what makes cities more ... -
Disappearing Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-25)Disappearing Architecture Media facades dominate the skylines of many of our cities. A quick stroll through today’s urban areas involves a one-sided conversation directed at pedestrians. Advertisements aggressively ... -
Disaster Risk Reduction and Local Knowledge in Flood-Prone Communities: A Nigerian Case Study.
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-27)There has been a long debate regarding the value of traditional/indigenous/local knowledge in disaster risk reduction. Often viewed as ‘backwards’, governments instead have emphasised ‘advanced’ technologically sophisticated ... -
Disasters in Abstracting Combinatorial Properties of Linear Dependence
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-15)A notion of geometric structure can be given to a set of points without using a coordinate system by instead describing geometric relations between finite combinations of elements. The fundamental problem is to then ... -
Disciplinary directors: Evidence from the appointments of outside directors who have fired CEOs
(Elsevier, 2018-11-01)By examining board appointments of outside directors who have previously fired a CEO, we study how directors’ willingness to take disciplinary actions is related to a firm's performance and risk-taking. Such directors ... -
Disciplinary Inequality, Collective Agency, and Interprofessional Collaboration in Health Care
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-05)In this thesis, I apply collective responsibility theory to the problem of health care inequality between physicians and nurses. This analysis is conducted in the context of physician-nurse interprofessional collaboration ... -
DISCONNECT: Assessing and Managing the Social Effects of Development in the Athabasca Oil Sands
(University of Waterloo, 2003)This research investigated the system by which the social effects of oil sands development on Fort McMurray, a city in northeastern Alberta, are assessed and managed. The research focused on Social Impact Assessment ... -
Disconnected Connections: Extending Peripersonal Space with a Virtual Hand
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-28)Peripersonal (reachable) and extrapersonal (beyond reach) space is linked to hand perception. Using a tool to reach farther than normal recalibrates previously unreachable space as peripersonal, evidenced by Intraparietal ... -
The Discontinuous Galerkin Method Applied to Problems in Electromagnetism
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-23)The discontinuous Galerkin method (DGM) is applied to a number of problems in computational electromagnetics. This is achieved by obtaining numerical solutions to Maxwell's equations using the DGM. The aim of these ... -
The discontinuous Galerkin method on Cartesian grids with embedded geometries: spectrum analysis and implementation for Euler equations
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-21)In this thesis, we analyze theoretical properties of the discontinuous Galerkin method (DGM) and propose novel approaches to implementation with the aim to increase its efficiency. First, we derive explicit expressions ... -
Discours protestant et parcours féminin dans Delphine (1802) de Madame de Staël
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-29)Notre travail se consacre à une analyse sociohistorique de la représentation du protestantisme dans le roman épistolaire Delphine (1802). Dans ce premier roman, Madame de Staël dépeint une héroïne dont le parcours offre ... -
Discovering Domain Orders through Order Dependencies
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-28)Most real-world data come with explicitly defined domain orders; e.g., lexicographic order for strings, numeric for integers, and chronological for time. Our goal is to discover implicit domain orders that we do not already ... -
Discovering new viral lineages and estimating their abundance in wastewater
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-27)Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 has emerged as a critical tool for tracking the spread of COVID-19. In addition to estimating the relative case numbers using qPCR, SARS-CoV-2 genomic RNA can be extracted from wastewater ... -
Discovering Patterns from Sequences with Applications to Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-30)Understanding Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA interaction is of fundamental importance in deciphering gene regulation and other biological processes in living cells. Traditionally, new interaction knowledge is discovered ... -
Discovering Play Store Reviews Related to Specific Android App Issues
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Mobile App reviews may contain information relevant to developers. Developers can investigate these reviews to see what users of their apps are complaining about. However, the huge volume of incoming reviews is impractical ... -
Discovering Protein Functional Regions and Protein-Protein Interaction using Co-occurring Aligned Pattern Clusters
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-30)Bioinformatics is a rapidly expanding field of research due to multiple recent advancements: 1) the advent of machine intelligence, 2) the increase of computing power, 3) our better understanding of the underlying biomolecular ... -
Discovering Protein Sequence-Structure Motifs and Two Applications to Structural Prediction
(University of Waterloo, 2004)This thesis investigates the correlations between short protein peptide sequences and local tertiary structures. In particular, it introduces a novel algorithm for partitioning short protein segments into clusters of ...