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Environmental Resource Management at the Urban Interface: Social Monitoring in Waterloo, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-27)The purpose of this research is to measure impacts on environmental constraint areas due to the presence of new suburban populations, to assess attitudes and behaviours of residents toward greenspaces incorporated into the ... -
Environmental sensitivities of coupled biogeochemical cycles in anoxic conditions: from soil batch experiments to a bioenergetics approach
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)The ongoing displacement of climate zones has aggravated warming effects at regions from mid- to high-latitudes, affecting terrestrial organic carbon (C) stores. Amplified effects of warming occurring through the winter ... -
Environmental taxation: The impact of carbon tax policy commitment on technology choice and social welfare
(Elsevier, 2022-01)Motivated by multiple real-world settings, we determine a social welfare-maximizing regulator's tax policies that induce a profit-maximizing polluting firm to make green technology choices. Using a game-theoretic approach ... -
Environmental taxation: The impact of carbon tax policy commitment on technology choice and social welfare
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-17)Motivated by multiple real-world settings, we determine a social welfare-maximizing regulator’s tax policies that induce a profit-maximizing polluting firm to make green technology choices. Using a game-theoretic approach ... -
Environmental Technology Management
(University of Waterloo, 2008-03-25)With steadily increasing emissions regulations being imposed by government agencies, automobile manufacturers have been developing technologies to mitigate NOX emissions. Furthermore, there has been increasing focus on CO2 ... -
Environmental variability and intraspecies diversification in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-17)Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) exhibit what is arguably the greatest observed range of phenotypic and ecological diversity within a single vertebrate species. The patterns of adaptive diversity that have developed among ... -
An Environmentally Conscious Robust Optimization Approach for Planning Power Generating Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-28)Carbon dioxide is a main greenhouse gas that is responsible for global warming and climate change. The reduction in greenhouse gas emission is required to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. Looking at CO2 emissions distribution ... -
Envisioning a Future City with Autonomous Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)The evolution and formation of our urban fabric have an inextricable relationship with transportation and urban mobility. The revolution in speed and power of transportation as a result of the automobile in the early ... -
Envisioning sustainable forestry communities in Northern Ontario: the role of architecture and design
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-16)This thesis envisions sustainable forestry communities in Northern Ontario. Forestry communities struggle to maintain a quality of life against obstacles such as external (often global) economic pressures on the community’s ... -
Envisioning the Downtown - The Design of Third Places to Revitalize Town-Gown Downtowns
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-28)This thesis redefines the typology of Third Places and the design considerations that influence envisioning downtown revitalization of mid-size cities that are embracing a town-gown partnership. The exercise ultimately ... -
Enzymatic degradation of PET plastic
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-02)Previous work has shown that the degradation of plastics such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) using commercial grade enzymes is possible and highly effective in lab settings. However, the environmental factors controlling ... -
Enzyme-instructed siRNA Release and Functional Self-assembly of Peptide-based Delivery System
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)Cell-penetrating peptide (CPP)-based small interfering RNA (siRNA) delivery is one of the approaches with great potential to achieve RNA interference (RNAi) applied in gene therapy. CPP-based siRNA carriers hold many merits, ... -
Ephemeral Embraces: milkweed fibres from land to body
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-24)Garments historically originate from organic fibres harvested from the Earth, however the visual and physical qualities of materials and their origins are not typically foregrounded in modern garment architecture. This ... -
Epidemic Models with Pulse Vaccination and Time Delay
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-22)In this thesis we discuss deterministic compartmental epidemic models. We study the asymp- totic stability of the disease-free solution of models with pulse vaccination campaigns. The main contributions of this thesis ... -
An Epidemiological Analysis of Smoking and Smoking Cessation among Persons Undergoing Inpatient Treatment for Psychiatric Illness
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-14)Background: Tobacco use increases the odds of suffering and dying prematurely from a host of chronic disease, including heart disease, stroke, cancer, lung diseases, and mental illness. There is limited published data ... -
The epidemiology and healthcare costs of pregnancy-related listeriosis in British Columbia, Canada, 2005-2014
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-29)Introduction: Listeriosis, a disease caused by the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes, remains relatively rare in Canada. However, the case-fatality rate from listeriosis is high at 20-30%. Listeriosis in pregnancy is of ... -
The Epidemiology of Acute Gastrointestinal Illness in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Tanzania
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-26)Gastrointestinal infections transmitted by food are a global concern and most severe in African low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs), though in these countries accurate data on acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) are ... -
Epigenetics in teleost fish: from molecular mechanisms to physiological phenotypes
(Elsevier, 2018-10)While the field of epigenetics is increasingly recognized to contribute to the emergence of phenotypes in mammalian research models across different developmental and generational timescales, the comparative biology of ... -
The Episodic Nature of "Blessedness" in Spinoza's Ethics
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)The final chapter of Spinoza’s Ethics has elicited numerous interpretations, and in this work, I discuss Jonathan Bennett’s and Harry Wolfson’s. Bennett claims that the doctrine of blessedness is unintelligible, while ... -
Epoxy Adhesives, Correlation between Strain Whitening and Damage Using a Macroscopic Optical Method
(University of Waterloo, 2019-03-12)The success of lightweight automotive multi-material assemblies depends on selecting appropriate joining techniques that can provide the expected day-to-day operational strength while delivering occupant protection during ...