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Living whose best life? An intersectional feminist interrogation of postfeminist #solidarity in #selfcare
(NECS European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, 2021-06-05)This article argues that one of the many ways that white supremacy functions within digital culture is to obscure the realities of social inequity via neoliberal dictums for self-improvement and individ-ualist calls to ... -
Living with a Chronic Illness in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-10)This study explored the lived experiences of chronic illness during adolescence and emerging adulthood. Previous research has indicated that chronic illness can result in disruptions to people’s lives because of the related ... -
Living with hope in the midst of Change: The meaning of leisure within the context of dementia
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-26)Research exploring identity in the dementia context reveals that some aspects of personal and social identity persist in dementia while others evolve as persons living with dementia find ways to live with the changes in ... -
Living, Together:Tools for Building an Intergenerational Community
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-23)Population aging is poised to become the most critical global demographic shift of this century. Particularly in highly developed regions, the proportion of older adults is growing more quickly than other age groups as a ... -
Load Balancing Schemes for Distributed Real-Time Interactive Virtual World Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2000)Over the last several years, there has been tremendous growth in online gaming (i. e. playing games over the internet). The Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) is one type of online game. An ... -
Load balancing schemes for distributed real-time interactive virtual world simulations
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Load path sensitivity and fatigue life estimation of 30CrNiMo8HH
(Elsevier, 2012-04-01)A set of strain-controlled biaxial proportional and non-proportional tests were conducted on solid and tubular specimens of 30CrNiMo8HH steel. The effect of the phase angle on fatigue life was studied. This effect becomes ... -
LOAD PREDICTION FOR A MOORED CONICAL DRILLSHIP IN LEVEL UNBROKEN ICE: A DISCRETE ELEMENT AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-22)This thesis is composed of theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies. In Part I, it discusses fundamental challenges of the discrete element method, provides a set of algorithms for addressing them, and presents ... -
Load-sharing and kinematics of the human cervical spine under multi-axial transverse shear loading: combined experimental and computational investigation
(National Library of Medicine, 2021-06)The cervical spine experiences shear forces during everyday activities and injurious events yet there is a paucity of biomechanical data characterizing the cervical spine under shear loading. This study aimed to 1) ... -
Loading… Loading… The Influence of Download Time on Information Search
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-22)When browsing online, there is considerable variation in the amount of time that one has to wait for content to appear once the link to that content has been activated (i.e., clicked). In two experiments we examined how ... -
Lobbying for the "Public Good": A Case Study of a Nonprofit Sector Lobbying Effort in Alberta, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-24)Political advocacy research has often relied on concepts from social movement literature to explain the success or failure of lobbying efforts. The following study builds on recent efforts to partner social movement concepts ... -
Local and Cooperative Autonomous Vehicle Perception from Synthetic Datasets
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)The purpose of this work is to increase the performance of autonomous vehicle 3D object detection using synthetic data. This work introduces the Precise Synthetic Image and LiDAR (PreSIL) dataset for autonomous vehicle ... -
Local and landscape drivers of aquatic biodiversity in urban stormwater management facilities
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)Stormwater management facilities (SWMFs) are often constructed in urban areas to provide flood mitigation and runoff control, and thus replace some wetland functions. Yet, their suitability as habitat for wetland biota is ... -
Local Binary Pattern Approach for Fast Block Based Motion Estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-09)With the rapid growth of video services on smartphones such as video conferencing, video telephone and WebTV, implementation of video compression on mobile terminal becomes extremely important. However, the low computation ... -
Local Calibration of AASHTOWare® Using Ontario Pavement Management System Data PMS2
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-23)Well designed built and maintained pavements will sustain the safe and comfortable transportation of people and goods. Effective monitoring requires information about evolving pavement condition, including details about ... -
The Local Chromatic Number
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)A graph vertex colouring is called k-local if the number of colours used in the closed neighbourhood of each vertex is at most k. The local chromatic number of a graph is the smallest k for which the graph has a proper ... -
The local control of blood flow in the resting and exercising human forearm
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Local controls on tree seedling growth following mounding on peatland seismic lines in Brazeau County and Lac La Biche, Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-22)Seismic lines in boreal peatlands are struggling to restore native canopy level vegetation. Mounding is a common restoration method that provides an advantageous growing environment for native tree seedlings. Although many ... -
Local Food in Perth County
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-07)Interest in local food has increased during recent years; however, the necessary infrastructure is not yet in place for farmers to fully access local markets. While consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits ... -
A Local Food System for Saskatoon: Envisioning Prosperous Rural Communities and Food-secure Cities on the Canadian Prairies
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-06)Perhaps nowhere in the world is the unsustainability of our current agricultural system more obvious than on the Canadian Prairies. Based not upon the ecological capacity of the land or the well-being of those who care ...