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A rhetoric of abandonment, the act of representation and Toni Morrison's "Beloved"
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A rhetoric of colonial exchange, time, space, and agency in Canadian exploration narratives (1760-1793)
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The rhetoric of experience, explorations in experience as a key term in feminist discourse
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The Rhetoric of Silence: John Cage, Exigence and the Art of the Commonplace
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)This thesis approaches the work of American avant-garde composer John Cage from an unconventional perspective by utilizing rhetorical theory to examine the intellectual history informing his collected writings in the text ... -
A rhetorical analysis of the self within an organization, the production & reception of discourse in a Canadian bank
(University of Waterloo, 1998) -
Rhetorical and discursive constructions of Newfoundland regionality
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Rhetorical Figures in Music
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-01)This paper looks at rhetorical figures in music, focusing on figures within the chiastic suite. It argues for a cognitive provenance of these figures, accounting for their appearance in both literature and music. It looks ... -
The Rhetorical Life of Surgical Checklists: A Burkean Analysis with Implications for Knowledge Translation
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-10)This dissertation uses the terms of Kenneth Burke’s dramatism to identify rhetorical aspects of surgical team checklists as they have been promoted, performed, studied, and surveilled. I argue that these terms can help to ... -
Rhetorics Rising: The Recovery of Rhetorical Traditions in Ralph Ellison's <em>Invisible Man</em> and N. Scott Momaday's <em>House Made of Dawn</em>
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This study suggests, through a rhetorical analysis of the role of orators and oration in Ralph Ellison's <em>Invisible Man</em> and N. Scott Momaday's <em>House Made of Dawn</em>, that literature can be a valuable resource ... -
Rhyme, Rhythm, and Rhubarb: Using Probabilistic Methods to Analyze Hip Hop, Poetry, and Misheard Lyrics
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-30)While text Information Retrieval applications often focus on extracting semantic features to identify the topic of a document, and Music Information Research tends to deal with melodic, timbral or meta-tagged data of songs, ... -
Richard Rorty's metaphilosophy and the consequences for edifying theology
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Ridership Modeling at Stop Level
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-27)This thesis presents a ridership modeling method at stop level for public transit using multiple linear regression and Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis tools. This modeling method is applied to one express and ... -
Riemann solvers with non-ideal thermodynamics: exact, approximate, and machine learning solutions
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-22)The Riemann problem is an important topic in the numerical simulation of compressible flows, aiding the design and verification of numerical codes. A limitation of many of the existing studies is the perfect gas assumption. ... -
The right tree at the right place: Exploring urban foresters' perceptions of assisted colonization
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-25)Urban forests feature harsh growing conditions for trees. Urban trees are surrounded by heavy anthropogenic disturbances, they often have low genetic diversity, and it is difficult for managers to maintain them because of ... -
Right Ventricular Function, Peripheral Edema, and Acute Kidney Injury in Critical Illness
(Elsevier, 2017-11-01)The cardiorenal syndrome generally focuses on left ventricular function, and the importance of the right ventricle as a determinant of renal function is described less frequently. In a cohort of critically ill patients ... -
Rigid Designation, the Modal Argument, and the Nominal Description Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2005)In this thesis, I describe and evaluate two recent accounts of naming. These accounts are motivated by Kripke?s response to Russell?s Description Theory of Names (DTN). Particularly, I consider Kripke?s Modal Argument ... -
Rigid Pavement: Ontario Calibration of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide Prediction models
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)The Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) has been introduced to transportation agencies as an innovative method for analysis and design of pavements. However, the MEPDG cannot be used by highway agencies ... -
Rigid Quasilocal Frames
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)This thesis begins by introducing the concept of a rigid quasilocal frame (RQF) as a geometrically natural way to define an extended system in the context of the dynamical spacetime of general relativity. An RQF is defined ... -
Rigidity of near-optimal superdense coding protocols
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-19)Rigidity in quantum information theory refers to the stringent constraints underlying optimal or near-optimal performance in certain quantum tasks. This property plays a crucial role in verifying untrusted quantum devices ... -
Rigorous Validation of Hydrologic Models in Support of Decision-Making
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)Hydrologic models are often relied upon to inform decisions in hydrology and water resources applications. Typically, hydrologic models are validated (i.e., deemed fit-for-purpose) using the split-sample test introduced ...