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The psychology of bullshitting: Measurement, correlates, and outcomes of the propensity to mislead others
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-15)Recent psychological research has identified important individual differences associated with receptivity to bullshit, which has greatly enhanced our understanding of the processes behind susceptibility to pseudo‐profound ... -
The Psychology of Nature: Our Dwellings, Well-being, and Evolutionary Preferences
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)Nature has always played a significant role in the human experience. Throughout prehistory, our early ancestors experienced life through a purely natural world. As an evolutionary mechanism aiding their survival and ... -
Psychometric correlates of multisensory integration as potential predictors of cybersickness in virtual reality
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-16)Humans are constantly presented with rich sensory information through the environment that the central nervous system (CNS) must process to form a coherent perception of the world. While the CNS may be efficient in doing ... -
Psychometric Properties and Informant Agreement of the WHODAS 2.0 in Youth with Mental Disorder and their Parents
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-21)Background: Mental disorders affect one in five youth and the impact of these disorders extend across the life course. Functional impairment moderates many of the negative effects of mental disorders; however, its assessment ... -
Psychophysical and Clinical Investigations of Ocular Discomfort
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-26)Purpose To investigate ocular surface sensations, specifically ocular discomfort using psychophysical and clinical techniques. The measurement of discomfort on the ocular surface has been limited to the use of traditional ... -
A psychophysical investigation of grip types with specific application to job rotation
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-09)Job rotation is recommended to prevent musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). The premise is by involving different tissues a “working rest” for other tissues is created. The possible health benefits from this relief have not ... -
Psychophysical Studies Of Motion Perception In Autism Spectrum Disorders
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)Introduction Studies have shown considerable evidence of visual dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Motion perception research in ASD reports a superior performance in processing motion information of fine ... -
PTAF Polygon Tessellation to Approximate Frame. A Method for the Design and Analysis of Complex Frames
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Complex frames are difficult to model because there are so many elements and redundant load paths. In order to explore the realm of complex frames, there needs to be a technique for approximate modelling to allow for rapid ... -
PTSD as a social wound, do social wounds require social healing?
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PtSe2 and HfSe2: New Transition Metal Dischalcogenides for Switching Device Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-03)Recently, silicon-based complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology has been struggling in keeping the continuous improvement predicted by Moore’s Law. Hence, significant efforts have been made to find ... -
PtSe2 Field-Effect Transistors: New Opportunities for Electronic Devices
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-11-15)PtSe2, a new family of transition metal dichalcogenides, has been explored for electronic device applications using density functional theory (DFT) and non-equilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) within the third nearest ... -
Public Attention to Environmental Hazards
(University of Waterloo, 2017-11-21)Although public attention has been noted as being influential within the hazard-response cycle, it has received almost no consideration within the risk and hazards literature. This is surprising, as attention is often noted ... -
Public Health and Sanitation in Colonial Lahore, 1849-1910
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-30)The British annexation of the Punjab in 1849 had important consequences for the city of Lahore. Indeed, the British occupation prompted Lahore’s transformation into a “modern” colonial city. New designs for urbanization, ... -
Public Health Monitoring of Behavioural Risk Factors and Mobility in Canada: An IoT-based Big Data Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-06)Background: Despite the presence of robust global public health surveillance mechanisms, the COVID-19 pandemic devastated the world and exposed the weakness of the public healthcare systems. Public health surveillance has ... -
Public Housing Redevelopment: Residents' Experiences with Relocation from Phase 1 of Toronto's Regent Park Revitalization
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-30)Regent Park is Canada’s largest and among its oldest public housing developments. Like similar large-scale public housing developments across North America, Regent Park has come under considerable criticism for isolating ... -
Public involvement in business planning, the Mistik experience
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Public Participation in Integrated Water Resource Management: Villages in Lao PDR and the Mekong River Basin
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-08)Several authors have challenged Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) as inoperable and technocratic for the issues surrounding water resources known as contemporary water resource politics. As a result, new methods ... -
Public participation in the Geoweb era: Geosocial media use in local government
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-21)Advances in spatially enabled information and communication technologies (ICTs) have provided governments with the potential to enhance public participation and to collaborate with citizens. This dissertation critically ... -
Public Salience and International Financial Regulation. Explaining the International Regulation of OTC Derivatives, Rating Agencies, and Hedge Funds
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-21)What explains the shift towards greater direct public oversight of financial markets in international financial regulation that has characterized the response to the global financial crisis of 2007-2010? Over this period, ... -
Public Servants or Professional Alienists?: Medical Superintendents and the Early Professionalization of Asylum Management and Insanity Treatment in Upper Canada, 1840-1865
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)In nineteenth-century Upper Canada (Ontario), professional work was a primary means by which men could improve their social status and class position. As increasing numbers of men sought entry into these learned occupations, ...