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Beyond the emotional impact of dissonance: Inharmonic music elicits greater cognitive interference than does harmonic music
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-29)The present research evaluates whether task-irrelevant inharmonic music produces greater interference with cognitive performance than task-irrelevant harmonic music. Participants completed either an auditory (Experiments ... -
Beyond the Ice: An Exploratory Investigation into Social Responsibility within Major Junior Hockey
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-07)Major Junior hockey organizations are viewed as the rallying point for many small communities throughout North America, and as their presence in society continues to grow as does their increased ability and desire to give ... -
Beyond the Minimum: A Durable Emergency Shelter
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-17)The number of states requiring humanitarian assistance after a disaster has doubled every decade since 1960. Extreme weather like flooding and violent storms associated with climate change are predicted to continue to ... -
Beyond Utility: Analyzing Unseen Infrastructures of Necromobility
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-06)The year 2020 was unprecedented on varying accounts but will undoubtedly be remembered by a global pandemic bringing the world to a shuddering halt. As nations scrambled to flatten the outbreak’s curve, the virus tested ... -
Beyond Wayfinding : Sensory Focused Design for the Non-Sighted
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)While visually oriented architectural design has long been used to enhance the perceptions that shape the world of an existing ocular-centric norm, this has led to a less than satisfactory experience for users with ... -
A BI-CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF NIGERIAN CANADIAN IMMIGRANTS WITH RESPECT TO ACCULTURATIVE STRESS, COPING, EGO INVOLVEMENT AND PARTICIPATION IN LEISURE
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-07)There have been few African studies that examined relationships between acculturation, a process where immigrants assimilate the culture of their host country, coping, acculturative stress and enduring involvement in ... -
Bi-objective p-hub Location Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-09)In this thesis, we introduce, model, and solve bi-objective hub location problems. The two well-known hub location problems from the literature, the p-hub median and p-hub center problems, are uni ed under a bi-objective ... -
Bi-objective short-term scheduling in a rolling horizon framework: a priori approaches with alternative operational objectives
(Elsevier, 2019-11)This study addresses short-term scheduling problems with throughput and make-span as conflicting objectives, focusing on a priori multi-objective methods. Two contributions are presented. The first contribution is to propose ... -
Bias in the Estimate of a Mean Reversion Parameter for a Fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-19)In this thesis we studied the estimation bias of the least squares estimate of the mean reversion parameter, when the underlying dynamics is governed by fractional Brownian motions. Fractional Brownian motion is a ... -
A Bias-Variance-Privacy Trilemma for Statistical Estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)The canonical algorithm for differentially private mean estimation is to first clip the samples to a bounded range and then add noise to their empirical mean. Clipping controls the sensitivity and, hence, the variance of ... -
Biaxial fatigue crack growth and crack closure under constant amplitude and periodic compressive overload histories in 1045 steel
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Bibliometrics & The Modern Academic Library: A Unique Cross-Campus Partnership At The University Of Waterloo
(2016-01-28)As one measure used to capture research productivity trends, and elements of research impact, the University of Waterloo recognizes bibliometric measures as an important piece of evidence-based research assessment. Join ... -
Bibliometrics and Research Impact at University of Waterloo: An Exciting Campus Partnership
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-03)In 2012, the Bibliometrics Working Group at the University of Waterloo, composed of the Library, the Office of Research, Institutional Analysis and Planning (IAP) and faculty representatives, began its work. In 2015, a new ... -
Bichromatic dressing of Rydberg atoms and on the correctness of many-mode Floquet theory
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-20)Many-mode Floquet theory [T.-S. Ho, S.-I. Chu, and J. V. Tietz, Chem. Phys. Lett. 96, 464 (1983)] was designed as an extension of Floquet theory suitable for solving the time-dependent Schrodinger equation with multiple ... -
Biconfessionalism and Tolerance: The Peace of Augsburg in Three Imperial Cities
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-14)In contrast to the atmosphere of mistrust and division between confessions that was common to most polities during the Reformation era, the Peace of Augsburg, signed in 1555, declared the free imperial cities of the Holy ... -
Bicultural Identity Integration at Work: Effects of Identity Conflict on Role Conflict Perceptions and Exhaustion
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-20)Identifying with more than one culture has been found to confer numerous benefits, including greater psychological and emotional well-being. However, it is not clear how bicultural identity integration (BII; defined as ... -
bicycle factory » a post-post-Fordist urban intervention
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-24)Cities were once filled with bicycles and factories—urban typologies now regarded as anachronistic elements of the landscape, as their relationship to the built environment evolved throughout the Industrial Revolution, ... -
Bicycle-Light Rail Transit Integration in Kitchener-Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)Active transportation, such as walking and cycling, are typically considered the first and last mile options for people who live close to transit corridors or transit hubs. Compared to walking, cycling allows faster travel ... -
Bidirectional Learning in Recurrent Neural Networks Using Equilibrium Propagation
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-26)Neurobiologically-plausible learning algorithms for recurrent neural networks that can perform supervised learning are a neglected area of study. Equilibrium propagation is a recent synthesis of several ideas in biological ... -
Bidirectional mapping between self-consistent field theory and molecular dynamics
(AIP Publishing, 2007-10-08)A bidirectional mapping scheme that bridges particle-based and field-based descriptions for polymers is presented. Initial application is made to immiscible homopolymer blends. The forward mapping (upscaling) approach ...