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Why Do Canadian Employees Quit? Results from Linked Employee-Employer Data
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)Employee turnover is a fairly common phenomenon across organizations throughout the globe, which creates both direct and indirect costs to companies (Lambert et al., 2012). Though numerous authors have investigated the ... -
Why Do Compulsions Persist?
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-10)Leading models for understanding compulsive behaviour assert that concerns about the safety or well-being of oneself or others, combined with overestimates of responsibility for protecting oneself and others from harm, ... -
Why Do Inventors Continue When Experts Say Stop? The Effects of Overconfidence, Optimism and Illusion of Control
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Data shows that many inventors continue to expend resources on their inventions even after they have received expert advice suggesting that they cease effort. Using a sample of inventors seeking outside advice from a ... -
Why do people (not) take breaks? An investigation of individuals’ reasons for taking and for not taking breaks at work
(Springer, 2023)Although breaks can help employees stay energized and maintain high levels of performance throughout the day, employees sometimes refrain from taking a break despite wanting to do so. Unfortunately, few studies have ... -
Why do people (not) take breaks? An investigation of individuals’ reasons for taking and for not taking breaks at work
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)Employees sometimes need breaks to deal with the demands of their jobs. Indeed, studies show that breaks allow employees to stay energized and maintain high levels of performance throughout the day. However, few studies ... -
Why do you ask? The effects of perceived motives on the effort that managers allocate toward delivering feedback
(Springer, 2021)Although people are generally motivated to perform well at work, there is often ambiguity regarding whether they are meeting their organization’s standards. As such, people often seek feedback from others. To date, ... -
Why Do You Care? Exploring The Experiences of Health Care Providers Supporting Patients with Dementia in Primary Care Memory Clinics
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-02)Background: Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) are often improperly or under-diagnosed in primary care; yet, it is expected that community-based care will be an increasingly important source of support for ... -
Why libraries aren’t dead: open access and the evolving liaison role
(The Editorial Board of the Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 2011)This is the second in a series of commentaries from members of the Open Access Interest Group of Canadian Health Libraries Association / Association des bibliothèques (CHLA / ABSC). Devon Greyson’s inaugural contribution ... -
Why tourists choose Airbnb: A motivation-based segmentation study underpinned by innovation concepts
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-24)Every night, hundreds of thousands of tourists choose not to stay in a traditional tourism accommodation establishment, such as a hotel, and instead pay to stay in the residence of a stranger, found online via the company ... -
Wide bandgap conjugated polymer donors based on alkyloxime substituted thiophene for organic solar cells
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-23)Remarkable progress has been made for non-fullerene based organic solar cells (OSCs), with a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of over 18% having been achieved. Conjugated polymer donors consisting of alternating donor and ... -
Wide-bandgap Donor Polymers Based on Thiophene-Vinyl-Thiophene Ester (TVT-Ester) or Thiophene-Alkyloxime (TO) Units in Organic Solar Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-23)The organic solar cells (OSCs), a branch of the third-generation solar cell as a viable future energy resource has received a lot of attention in lab and industry today. The OSCs have advantages of low cost, light weight, ... -
Wideband Micro-Power Generators for Vibration Energy Harvesting
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-24)Energy harvesters collect and convert energy available in the environment into useful electrical power to satisfy the power requirements of autonomous systems. Vibration energy is a prevalent source of waste energy in ... -
Wideband Rectenna System for Microwave Power Transfer
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)One of the fundamental devices in Microwave Power Transfer (MPT) is the recenna or rectifying antenna, which collects the electromagnetic energy from the free space and convert it directly to a useful DC power. Although ... -
Widefield Computational Biophotonic Imaging for Spatiotemporal Cardiovascular Hemodynamic Monitoring
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-14)Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality, resulting in 17.3 million deaths per year globally. Although cardiovascular disease accounts for approximately 30% of deaths in the United States, many deleterious ... -
Widely Linear MIMO MMSE Filter and Joint MLSE for VAMOS
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)Currently, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards body is working actively to specify Voice services over Adaptive Multi-user channels on One Slot (VAMOS), an enhanced transmission scheme to double the ... -
Widening the View: A Standardized Approach to Capturing Family Members’ Perspectives on Quality of Life in Long-term Care
(University of Waterloo, 2023-11-20)Background and Rationale: Family members provide important functional and socio-emotional support to residents living in Long-Term Care (LTC). With high rates of cognitive impairment among residents, family member input ... -
Wider das System: Gesellschaftliche Aussteiger bei Genazino, Kleist und Kafka
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-28)This thesis deals with the sociological conception of the dropout (Aussteiger) figure in Wilhelm Genazino’s Ein Regenschirm für diesen Tag (2001) and, in terms of the history of ideas, his predecessors in Heinrich von ... -
Wie lebendig ist die Popliteratur um die Jahrtausendwende? Judith Hermanns "Nichts als Gespenster" in Gegenüberstellung zu Christian Krachts "Faserland".
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The focus of this master?s thesis is on determining whether Judith Hermann?s book of collected short stories, <em>Nichts als Gespenster</em> (2003) can be assigned to the so-called category <em>Popliteratur</em> which had ... -
Wigner negativity on the sphere
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-15)The rise of quantum information theory has largely vindicated the long-held belief that Wigner negativity is an indicator of genuine nonclassicality in quantum systems. This thesis explores its manifestation in spin-j ... -
Wikipedia as an arena for public scholarship
(Centre for Career Action, 2020-10-14)Wikipedia provides scholars with an avenue for meaningfully contributing to the widely used public knowledge platform despite contribution guidelines that restrict the use of original research. This slide-based learning ...