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Seasonal and environmental effects on physiological tolerances and gill adaptations of imperilled Eastern Sand Darter (Ammocrypta pellucida)
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-15)In the absence of accurate biological information, conservation and recovery strategies carry the risk of failing to meet their objectives. Understanding species-specific physiological tolerances is important for several ... -
Seasonal and Event-based Hydrological Response in a Hillslope-Riparian Zone setting of the Temperate Beverly Swamp
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-29)Wetland ecosystems are an integral part of the landscape, providing vital habitat for species at risk, while providing important services in hydrological and biogeochemical cycling. Since many of the habitats and ... -
Seasonal and Multi-year Variability of Ice Dynamics of South Croker Bay Glacier, Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic from 2015 to 2021
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-20)The effects of climate change have already been observed across the globe, impacting weather, ecosystems, and society. These effects have been most pronounced in polar regions, which experience warming at a faster rate ... -
A Seasonal Research Design Examining Macro-Level Factors and Micro-Understandings of Parent Engagement and Children’s Literacy Achievement
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-05)This dissertation takes a seasonal mixed methods approach to studying parent engagement and its influence on children’s literacy achievement. I draw on quantitative and qualitative data collected as a part of the Summer ... -
A Seat at My Table
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-18)At dinner, our interactions with the food, the table settings, and other diners show how we engage with the material world. Table manners and etiquette are a window into a convivial life. As a beginner potter and ... -
Seats of corporate convenience and international investment law
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-19)Seats of corporate convenience (SCCs) include tax havens, offshore finance centres and other locations frequently used by transnational corporations to channel their investments around the world. They form some of the ... -
The Second and Third Disasters: Education in Post-Disaster Recovery in Rural Nepal
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-20)Education is widely recognized as a fundamental part of recovery process after a natural disaster. Psychologically, it provides a sense of normality by reintroducing a daily routine, helps children cope with the trauma of ... -
Second Home
(University of Waterloo, 2016-11-18)This thesis proposes the design of a socially-driven building and public space located in a suburban neighborhood in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico. The goal of the project is to provide an environment that assists in the ... -
The Second Home Phenomenon in Haikou, China
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Second home ownership is a new and booming phenomenon in China. Although it has been widely discussed in newspaper, radio and other mass media, it has not raised much academic concern. This study is a preliminary ... -
Second homes in Mexico: An exploration of the social connections of international residents in the city of Merida
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-13)Owners of second homes construct complex relationships with the people and place they live in especially when the property is located across national borders. While previous research on second homes identified numerous ... -
The Second Line
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-04)A political boundary divided the City of Shenzhen in 1978. The southern portion is designated as a Special Economic Zone (SEZ), while the northern region remains a part of hinterland China. The divide creates a geographical ... -
Second Skin: Painting Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-08)This thesis is a creative and conceptual inquiry into the role of surface or skin in architectural theory and practice, and the nature of its relationship to architecture’s form, structure, and depth. The surface of ... -
“Second Tier Cool”: Residents’ Experiences of a Mid-Size City’s Gentrifying Downtown
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-27)Ubiquitous depictions of life in a big city evoke images of young professionals enjoying craft beers on patios, eating out at trendy bistro-lounges, and biking on dedicated cycling lanes to work. Positive portrayals of ... -
Second-Generation Stack Computer Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2007)It is commonly held in current computer architecture literature that stack-based computers were entirely superseded by the combination of pipelined, integrated microprocessors and improved compilers. While correct, the ... -
Second-tier Cache Management to Support DBMS Workloads
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-24)Enterprise Database Management Systems (DBMS) often run on computers with dedicated storage systems. Their data access requests need to go through two tiers of cache, i.e., a database bufferpool and a storage server cache, ... -
Secrecy Resilience of Authorization Policies and Its Application to Role Mining
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)We propose and study a new property that we call secrecy resilience in the context of authorization policies that are used to secure information systems. An authorization policy expresses whether a principal (e.g., a user ... -
Secure and Privacy-Preserving Vehicular Communications
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-13)Road safety has been drawing increasing attention in the public, and has been subject to extensive efforts from both industry and academia in mitigating the impact of traffic accidents. Recent advances in wireless technology ... -
Secure and Unclonable Integrated Circuits
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)Semiconductor manufacturing is increasingly reliant in offshore foundries, which has raised concerns with counterfeiting, piracy, and unauthorized overproduction by the contract foundry. The recent shortage of semiconductors ... -
A Secure Business Framework for File Purchasing Application in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-20)Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are gaining growing interest from both industry and academia. Driven by road safety requirements, the car manufacturers, transportation authorities and communications standards organizations ... -
Secure Cloud Storage
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-27)The rapid growth of Cloud based services on the Internet invited many critical security attacks. Consumers and corporations who use the Cloud to store their data encounter a difficult trade-off of accepting and bearing the ...