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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, ... -
The Public Space of LRT Boulevards: The Waterloo Region ION Corridor as an Urban Place
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)In 2018, the ION transit corridor will begin the process of linking the Tricities – Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge – into a linear metropolitan area, which will offer many economic and infrastructural development ... -
Public Spaces of Tehran; Official Repression, Subversive Alternative
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-21)The idea of democracy, in Western societies is inseparable from the public space. As an accessible space for all, public space provides a realm for everyday activities, social interaction, communication, and the practice ... -
Public Transportation Electrification with the Support of Mobile Energy Storage
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-24)In recent decades, fossil fuels and carbon emissions reduction have become an increasingly popular global phenomenon; therefore, a number of governments worldwide have allocated substantial funds to transportation ... -
Public Willingness to Pay for Water Quality Improvements in the Great Lakes Basin Before and During Covid-19
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-15)Economic valuation of water quality improvements is an essential input to inform policy and decision-making towards sustainable watershed management. The economic values provide important insight in the wide variety of ... -
Pulse Flow Enhancement in Two-Phase Media
(University of Waterloo, 2001)This laboratory project has been done to evaluate pressure pulsing as an Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) technique. To perform the study, a consistent laboratory methodology was developed, including the construction of a ... -
Pulsed Active Steering Hardware in the Loop Experiment
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-25)Active safety vehicle systems are continuously being researched to make vehicles safer to drive. Active steering is a new active safety system that involves controlling the vehicle steering angle during the vehicle's loss ... -
Pulsed Biosparging of the E10 Gasoline Source in the Borden Aquifer
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-27)Air sparging is a technique used to remediate gasoline contamination. In sparging, air is injected below the target zone and removes contamination via two separate mechanisms; volatilization and biodegradation. In ... -
Pulsed Nd:YAG Laser Processing of Nitinol
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-08)The excellent pseudoelasticity, shape memory and biocompatibility of Nitinol have made it a leading candidate for applications in various fields, including aerospace, micro-electronics and medical devices. Challenges ... -
Pulsing Territories, Perpetual Frontiers
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-11)The construction of the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali in 1969 facilitated the birth of mass tourism on the island, as well as an increasing concentration of tourist-centered developments. As the tourism industry ... -
Punching Shear Retrofit Method Using Shear Bolts for Reinforced Concrete Slabs under Seismic Loading
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-10)Reinforced concrete slab-column structures are widely used because of their practicality. However, this type of structures can be subject to punching-shear failure in the slab-column connections. Without shear reinforcement, ... -
Punching Shear Retrofit of Concrete Slab-Column Connections with GFRP Shear Bolts
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-24)Over the life span of a structure it may become necessary to retrofit, or strengthen certain components or elements. This may be due to construction errors, changes in use and occupancy, or changes due to material ...