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A Dive into Chinese Science Fiction: A Language of the Chinese Dream
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-20)This thesis investigates an emerging international wave of fantastical writings that surfaced roughly a bit over a decade ago, the globalization of Chinese science fiction (SF or sci-fi). Underdiscussed in overseas modern ... -
Divergent affordability: Transit access and housing in North American cities
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-14)During the process of post-war Fordist suburban expansion, the American and Canadian city was expanded and built around the automobile as the dominant mode of transportation. This caused an inversion of the pattern of ... -
Divergent effects of distance versus velocity disturbances on emotional experiences during goal pursuit
(American Psychological Association, 2017-07-01)Disturbances are factors outside of a person’s control that influence goal progress. Although disturbances are typically included in theoretical accounts of goal pursuit, relatively little empirical research has explicitly ... -
Diverse forms of market engagement: Grounding food sovereignty in the experiences of Ontario's ecological grain farmers
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-20)In contrast to food movements’ enthusiasm towards localized fruit, vegetable, dairy, and meat production, grains are often the missing link in the local food equation. As grains begin to find a place in local food movements, ... -
The diversity and composition of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in streams in the Mackenzie River system, Northwest Territories
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)Impending natural resources development and concern about the effects of climate change have spurred increased efforts to study and monitor aquatic habitats in the Mackenzie River system. As part of Environment Canada’s ... -
Diversity and Reliability in Erasure Networks: Rate Allocation, Coding, and Routing
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-25)Recently, erasure networks have received significant attention in the literature as they are used to model both wireless and wireline packet-switched networks. Many packet-switched data networks like wireless mesh networks, ... -
Diversity Climate Perceptions and Employee Turnover Intentions: The Importance of Racial Group Identification
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)The workplace diversity climate shapes our perceptions of our workplaces and influences our intentions to leave or stay with an organization. In two studies we test how two variables – racial group membership and racial ... -
Diversity Management: Der programmatische Umgang mit kultureller Vielfalt. Eine sprachwissenschaftliche Analyse/Diversity Management: The Programmatic Treatment of Cultural Diversity. A Linguistic Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-30)Germany is a country characterized by diversity: many international companies are based in Germany and numerous German enterprises operate abroad. With 20.5 percent of the popula- tion being of migrant background, Germany ... -
Diversity Multiplexing Tradeoff and Capacity Results in Relayed Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-18)This dissertation studies the diversity multiplexing tradeoff and the capacity of wireless multiple-relay network. In part 1, we study the setup of the parallel Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) relay network. An ... -
Diversity of Viral Communities in a Northern Temperate Lake through Metagenomics
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-05)Viruses in oceanic environments play pivotal roles in regulating nutrient transfer and increasing rates of carbon transport. They have also been implicated in the regulation of micro-organism community dynamics through ... -
Diversity Techniques in Free-Space Optical Communications
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-23)Free-space optical (FSO) communication offers significant technical and operational advantages such as higher bandwidth capacity, robustness to electromagnetic interference, a high degree of spatial confinement (bringing ... -
Divesting and Re-investing into a Greener Future for Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2016-07-28)Whether Canada chooses to adhere to its responsibilities to meet its climate change targets or not, investors in Canada have a lot to be concerned about. The imminent threat of human induced climate change will have the ... -
Divided Cities & the In-Between
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)All cities set up a condition of disjunction as they are inherently manmade ‘built’ places separate from the natural wilderness they abut. The cities that emerge over time are then places held in tension between the kinetic ... -
Diving behavior of air-breathing vertebrates, allometry, classification, and interspecific comparisons
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Diving in: The Architecture of Urban Lake Swimming
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)In the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century, the Lake Ontario waterfront along the Greater Toronto Area was packed with swimmers enjoying its waters. Today, on a hot summer’s day, one could find the ... -
Diving into the consumer nutrition environment: A Bayesian spatial factor analysis of neighborhood restaurant environment
(Elsevier, 2018-02-01)Neighborhood restaurant environment (NRE) plays a vital role in shaping residents' eating behaviors. While NRE 'healthfulness' is a multi-facet concept, most studies evaluate it based only on restaurant type, thus largely ... -
Divisibility of Discriminants of Homogeneous Polynomials
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)We prove several square-divisibility results about the discriminant of homogeneous polynomials of arbitrary degree and number of variables, when certain coefficients vanish, and give characterizations for when the discriminant ... -
DNA Adsorption by Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) Nanoparticles
(American Chemical Society, 2015-01-13)The high conductivity and optical transparency of indium tin oxide (ITO) has made it a popular material in the electronic industry. Recently, its application in biosensors is also explored. To understand its biointerface ... -
DNA adsorption by magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles and its application for arsenate detection
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014-05-01)Iron oxide nanoparticles adsorb fluorescently labeled DNA oligonucleotides via the backbone phosphate and quench fluorescence. Arsenate displaces adsorbed DNA to increase fluorescence, allowing detection of arsenate down ... -
DNA Adsorption by ZnO Nanoparticles near Its Solubility Limit: Implications for DNA Fluorescence Quenching and DNAzyme Activity Assays
(American Chemical Society, 2016-06-07)Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a highly important material, and Zn2+ is a key metal ion in biology. ZnO and Zn2+ interconvert via dissolution and hydrolysis/condensation. In this work, we explore their interactions with DNA, which ...