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Applying the Allostatic Load Model to Investigate the Biological Embedding of Psychosocial Stress in Firefighters
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-30)Overview Psychosocial factors are recognised as a significant source of stress in the workplace, and long-term exposure to such stressors may increase chronic disease risk through physiological wear and tear quantified ... -
Applying the Integrated Solid Waste Management Framework to the Waste Collection System in Aguascalientes, AGS, Mexico
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-16)The design of a waste collection system affects public health, the extent of participation in the system by residents, the recovery of resources from waste, and the cost of collection. Many developing countries use communal ... -
L'apprentissage du français langue seconde chez les immigrés chinois, coréens et japonais à Montréal
(University of Waterloo, 1997-06-01)Présentement au Canada il existe un nombre considerable d'immigrants asiatiques. Quoique la présence des immigrés ait des conséquences positives pour le Canada (pour son economie, pour ses relations internationales, etc.), ... -
Approach Motivation Gives Rise to Meaning in Life
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-18)Coherence, purpose, and significance have emerged as the three contributors to meaning in life. Current theories have primarily emphasized coherence as key to meaning, neglecting purpose and significance. A theoretical ... -
Approach to Evaluating Clustering Using Classification Labelled Data
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-17)Cluster analysis has been identified as a core task in data mining for which many different algorithms have been proposed. The diversity, on one hand, provides us a wide collection of tools. On the other hand, the profusion ... -
An approach to improve direct runoff estimates and reduce uncertainty in the calculated groundwater component in water balances of large lakes
(Journal of Hydrology, 2015-10-30)Groundwater is important in the overall water budget of a lake because it affects the quantity and quality of surface water and the ecological health of the lake. The water balance equation is frequently used to estimate ... -
An Approach to Quantifying Uncertainty in Estimates of Intensity Duration Frequency (IDF) Curves
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-22)Generally urban drainage systems are built to protect urban property and control runoff. Moreover, these systems collect the runoff for storage purposes to serve society through sufficient water supply to meet the needs ... -
Approaches and Techniques to Enhance Efficiency and Performance of Non-Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning Methods
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-31)Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have gained considerable attention in recent years due to their ability to learn useful representations of data without relying on labels during training. These methods have ... -
Approaches for Nonstationary Flood Frequency and Trend Analyses for Hydrometric Data
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-10)Peak hydrometeorological events have been the topic of much concern in recent years, chiefly their frequency and magnitude. According to the Fifth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ... -
Approaches to Tailoring the Structure and Properties of Polyethylene
(University of Waterloo, 2002)Alternative methods to control the molecular weight and short chain branching distribution of polyethylene were investigated. The ability to produce polyolefins with multimodal microstructural distributions using single ... -
Approaches to the Inhibition of Class II Fructose-1,6-Bisphosphate Aldolase
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-22)Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate (FBP) aldolase (E.C. 4.1.2.13) catalyzes the reversible aldol condensation of dihydroxyacetonephosphate (DHAP) and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (G3P) in glycolysis, gluconeogenesis and the Calvin ... -
Approaches to understanding and measuring women’s empowerment and its relationship with women’s and children’s dietary diversity in sub-Saharan Africa.
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-02)Background Women’s empowerment has been identified as a key component of development policies since in many cases, there are existing and widening gender gaps in wellbeing including in access to improved nutrition ... -
Approaches to “interculturality”, “transculturality” and “culture reflexivity” in self-help literature
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)Intercultural competence which is to be achieved via intercultural trainings has become in-creasingly relevant during the last decades: globalization is one factor to the reason why the necessity to include intercultural ... -
Approaching Vertical: A Guide Through Land-Use in Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment is a landscape 450 million years in the making. Over this immense time line, great natural forces of the earth have aggregated, eroded, and carved this landscape, a 725-kilometer scarp face ... -
Appropriateness of Imperfect CNFET Based Circuits for Error Resilient Computing Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-06)With superior device performance consistently reported in extremely scaled dimensions, low dimensional materials (LDMs), including Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor (CNFET) based technology, have shown the potential ... -
The appropriateness of using a counter app in experimental studies assessing unwanted intrusive thoughts
(Elsevier, 2020-07)The reliable and valid assessment of unwanted intrusive thoughts (UITs) is crucial. The main aim of the current research was to investigate if individuals who used a counter app (a program on a mobile device that is used ... -
Approximate Private Quantum Channels
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis includes a survey of the results known for private and approximate private quantum channels. We develop the best known upper bound for ε-randomizing maps, <em>n</em> + 2log(1/ε) + <em>c</em> ... -
Approximately Coloring Graphs Without Long Induced Paths
(Springer Nature, 2019)It is an open problem whether the 3-coloring problem can be solved in polynomial time in the class of graphs that do not contain an induced path on t vertices, for fixed t. We propose an algorithm that, given a 3-colorable ... -
Approximately Coloring Graphs Without Long Induced Paths
(Springer Nature, 2017)It is an open problem whether the 3-coloring problem can be solved in polynomial time in the class of graphs that do not contain an induced path on t vertices, for fixed t. We propose an algorithm that, given a 3-colorable ... -
Approximately Optimum Search Trees in External Memory Models
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-16)We examine optimal and near optimal solutions to the classic binary search tree problem of Knuth. We are given a set of n keys (originally known as words), B_1, B_2, ..., B_n and 2n+1 frequencies. {p_1, p_2, ..., p_n} ...