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Snow Depth Retrieval from Wide Band Radar in Trail Valley Creek
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-18)Snow is an essential component in hydrology systems, and more speci cally, monitoring variations in snow cover can provide valuable information about water supply, wildlife habitats, and climate changes. In recent years, ... -
Snow Mapping from Passive Microwave Brightness Temperature and MODIS Snow Product with Machine learning Approaches
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-25)Snow cover is one of the cryosphere's most critical components, representing a vital geophysical variable for climate and hydrology. Monitoring snow cover in Arctic regions has gained increasing significance, particularly ... -
Snow Properties Retrieval Using Passive Microwave Observations
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)Seasonal snow cover, the second-largest component of the cryosphere, is crucial in controlling the climate system, through its important role in modifying Earth’s albedo. The temporal variability of snow extent and its ... -
SO2 Gas Abatement Using Ionic Liquids for Marine Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-19)Sulphur dioxide (SO2) emission has become one of the major challenging issues for clean marine transportation globally and especially in zero discharge zones Canada-wide with the implementation of the International ... -
SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE AND SELF-ESTEEM: TUNING THE SOCIOMETER TO INTERPERSONAL VALUE
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-14)The author drew on sociometer theory to propose that self-esteem is attuned to traits that garner others’ acceptance, and the traits that garner acceptance depend on one’s social role. Attunement of self-esteem refers to ... -
The social acceptance of energy storage in Canada and the United Kingdom: Media and public framing of an energy transition technology
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-26)Growing climate and energy security pressures call for more ambitious deployment of transformative low-carbon energy technologies worldwide. By supporting renewable energy integration and evolving power grids, energy storage ... -
The Social Acceptance of School-based Solar Photovoltaic Projects: An Ontario, Canada Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)The installation of solar photovoltaic (solar PV) technology on elementary and secondary schools has been undertaken around the world in an attempt to tie together positive environmental action, innovative environmental ... -
Social and Spatial Determinants of Adverse Birth Outcome Inequalities in Socially Advanced Societies
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-27)The incidence of adverse birth outcomes, such as low birth weight and preterm births, has steadily risen in recent years in Canada. Despite the fact that numerous individual and neighbourhood risk factors for low birth ... -
Social Anxiety and Negotiation: The Effects of Attentional Focus
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-18)Negotiation poses a unique challenge in the modern workplace which is likely to be especially difficult for socially anxious individuals. Previous research has shown that externally focused attention strategies are useful ... -
Social Anxiety and the Generation of Positivity During Dyadic Interaction: Curiosity and Authenticity are the Keys to Success
(Elsevier, 2021-03-31)What drives positive affective and interpersonal experiences during social interaction? Undergraduates with high (n = 63) or low (n = 56) trait social anxiety (SA) were paired with unfamiliar low SA partners in a 45-minute ... -
Social Anxiety and the Nature and Function of Social Pain
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-09)Humans have a fundamental need to belong that drives many of our present-day emotions and behaviours. When the need to belong becomes threatened, people experience “social pain,” which has been conceptualized as an adaptive ... -
Social anxiety in the digital age: The measurement and sequelae of online safety-seeking
(Elsevier, 2019-01-01)Online communication is essential to modern life, but its features may also afford socially anxious individuals the ability to conceal themselves, or parts of themselves, from evaluation by others. In this way, Internet-based ... -
Social Anxiety is Associated with Impaired Memory for Imagined Social Events with Positive Outcomes
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Cognitive models of social anxiety disorder suggest that memory biases for negative social information contribute to symptoms of social anxiety (SA). However, it remains unclear whether memory biases in SA are related to ... -
Social Anxiety: Perceptions of Impressions, Anxiety and Anxious Appearance
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-23)Schlenker and Leary (1982) and Clark and Wells (1995) each propose two highly influential models of social anxiety disorder with important implications for theory and treatment. In the current study, overlapping and ... -
Social Capital and the Significance of Pre-Migration Context among Burmese Refugee Communities In Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2004)What happens in the case of immigrant groups who have had such pre-migration experiences as to require specialized assistance in the adaptation process, and yet whose population is not substantial enough to convince ... -
Social capital, collective action and the water-health nexus in rural Kenya
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-20)Access to safe water and adequate sanitation is widely recognised as an important means of protecting public health and human dignity. For example, the introduction of clean water and sewerage disposal (the Sanitary Movement) ... -
Social Choice for Partial Preferences Using Imputation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-21)Within the field of multiagent systems, the area of computational social choice considers the problems arising when decisions must be made collectively by a group of agents. Usually such systems collect a ranking of the ... -
Social comparisons in everyday life, the validity of a diary method and the roles of depressive personality styles and dysphoria
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Social Connection, Judgments of Similarity and Intergroup Relations
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)The purpose of this research is to test the idea that creating a social connection with an outgroup member by thinking about how the self is similar to this outgroup member produces positive intergroup outcomes, whereas ... -
The Social Dimension of the Self: Self-formation as Revealed by Depersonalization
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)In this thesis I investigate the social and cultural dimensions of the self through an examination of the psychiatric disorder of depersonalization. Specifically, I apply Thagard's Multilevel Interacting Mechanisms framework ...