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Development, Validation, and Application of a Multidimensional Definition of Healthy Aging
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-22)The progressive aging of the population corresponds with a movement in gerontology focusing on factors that promote the positive aspects of aging. The concept of healthy aging corresponds with the multifaceted nature of ... -
Development, Validation, Uptake Rate Modeling and Field Applications of a New Permeation Passive Sampler
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-15)Passive air sampling techniques are an attractive alternative to active air sampling because of the lower costs, simple deployment and retrieval methods, minimum training requirements, no need for power sources, etc.. ... -
Developmental and Current Relational Influences on Motivations Toward Academic Identity
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-23)The purpose of the present study was to assess the developmental and current relational variables that play a role in the development and maintenance of academic identity. Specifically, I was interested in identifying ... -
Developmental and Situational Factors Contributing to Changes in Eating Behaviour in First-Year Undergraduate Women
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-28)The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the importance of developmental history and current life events in predicting changes in eating behaviour in undergraduate women. The developmental variables tested were ... -
Developmental Defects in Ancient Context – Causations of Cleft Palate in the Athenian Agora
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-21)This research looks at the infant cleft palates recently identified in the Athenian Agora. This assemblage provided the opportunity to expand the ways which bioarchaeology may study developmental defects which affect the ... -
Developmental Evaluation: The Experience and Reflections of Early Adopters
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)The term developmental evaluation first entered in the literature in 1994 when Michael Quinn Patton used the phrase in an article exploring the relationship between evaluation and organizational development. Since then, ... -
The Developmental History of a Cupriferous Swamp in Southeastern New Brunswick, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)Cupriferous swamps are characterized by high concentrations of copper in the soil and water. The Aboushagan swamp, situated 8km northwest of Sackville, New Brunswick is a unique metalliferous wetland where copper is ... -
Developmental trends in skilled locomotor behavior over uneven terrain
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Developments and applications of solid phase microextraction (SPME) coupled to direct analysis in real time (DART) and approaches towards small volume analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-21)Solid phase microextraction (SPME) has been rapidly developing since its invention in 1990. Due to a flexible design and the ability to implement various extractive coatings, SPME has found use in numerous applications. ... -
Developments in Informal Multi-Criteria Calibration and Uncertainty Estimation in Hydrological Modelling
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-22)Hydrologic modelling has benefited from significant developments over the past two decades, which has led to the development of distributed hydrologic models. Parameter adjustment, or model calibration, is extremely important ... -
Developments in the Centroid Phase Space Formulation of Quantum Statistical Mechanics
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-25)The centroid formalism provides a phase space representation of quantum statistical mechanics based on the Feynman path integral. Real time quantum correlation functions can be exactly calculated using the centroid formalism, ... -
Developments Towards Chromophore-Selectivity in Photoacoustic Remote Sensing Microscopy
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-28)Medical imaging serves to diagnose and monitor illnesses in clinical settings. Several modalities such as X-Ray and Ultrasound have become ubiquitous due to their high utility. Photoacoustic microscopy, based on the ... -
Deviant labels and generic social processes, inter-group relations of a hunting dog club
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Deviant peer preferences: A simplified approach to account for peer selection effects
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)The goal of this study is to present and validate a simple method for accounting for peer selection on offending based on a respondent’s self-reported preferences for friends who engage in criminal behavior. Using primary ... -
Deviant peer preferences: A simplified approach to account for peer selection effects
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-09)The goal of this study is to present and validate a simple method for accounting for peer selection on offending based on a respondent’s self-reported preferences for friends who engage in criminal behavior. Using primary ... -
Deviant Society: The Self-Reliant "Other" in Transcendental America
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-23)This dissertation utilizes theories of deviance in conjunction with literary methods of reading and analyzing to study a range of deviant or transgressive characters in American literature of the 1840s and 50s. I justify ... -
Device Architectures for Improved Temporal Response with Amorphous Selenium Radiation Detectors
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-29)Amorphous selenium (a-Se) is a commercially mature direct conversion photoconductor capable of very high spatial resolution that enables the early detection of small and subtle lesions in breast cancer screening and ... -
A Device for Measuring Groundwater Velocity in the Capillary Fringe
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-22)Groundwater flow in the capillary fringe is rarely measured during hydrogeological studies because of the difficulties associated with investigating this region. Previous research using a point velocity probe (PVP) to ... -
Devices for satellite-assisted quantum networks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-24)Quantum networks, quantum nodes interconnected by quantum channels, offer powerful means of secure communications and quantum computations. They are crucial elements in a broad area of quantum technologies including quantum ... -
Le déclin de l'idéal utopique : l'uchronie dans La Trilogie de la Lune de Johan Heliot
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-01)Les êtres humains aiment les questions. Dès notre plus jeune âge, nous posons des questions sur tout et n'importe et quoi : Qui ? Quoi ? Où ? Quand ? Pourquoi ? Comment ? Ces six questions nous accompagnent tout au long ...