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The Gaze Cueing Effect and Its Enhancement by Facial Expressions Are Impacted by Task Demands: Direct Comparison of Target Localization and Discrimination Tasks
(Frontiers, 2021-03-11)The gaze cueing effect is characterized by faster attentional orienting to a gazed-at than a non-gazed-at target. This effect is often enhanced when the gazing face bears an emotional expression, though this finding is ... -
Gaze strategies for coping with glare under intense contra light viewing conditions – A pilot study
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)Purpose: This is a pilot study to investigate gaze strategies for coping with glare when performing a simple visual task under intense contra light viewing conditions. Method: Twenty-four normally sighted participants ... -
Gazing back: A feminist postcolonial lens on tourism in the townships of South Africa
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-18)Encountering poverty in tourism is a morally fraught experience. Growing numbers of tourists are desirous of exploring off-the-beaten path adventures and this invariably leads to encounters with the Other in increasingly ... -
Gearbox Fault Detection using Synchro-squeezing Transform
(Elsevier, 2016)This paper presents a novel fault-detection method for gearbox vibration signatures using synchro-squeezing transform (SST). Premised upon the concept of time-frequency (TF) reassignment, SST provides a sharp representation ... -
Gecko Adhesion and Gecko-Inspired Dry Adhesives: From Fundamentals to Characterization and Fabrication Aspects
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-19)This study focuses on fabrication of dry adhesives mimicking gecko adhesion. We also look into the origin of the supreme adhesion of geckos, which have inspired the fabrication of fibrillar dry adhesives during the last ... -
Gelatin Methacrylate as a Controlled Release Vehicle for Treatment of Recurrent Corneal Erosion
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-04)Patients with recurrent corneal erosions (RCE) experience unpredictable and painful episodes, caused by the loss of superficial corneal epithelial cells. The erratic nature of RCE often leads to patient anxiety, and can ... -
Gelatin/PEDOT: PSS Modified Manganese Dioxide Cathode in Aqueous Rechargeable Zinc-ion Batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-11)The global energy crisis and greenhouse effect have become important problems in the 21st century, and researchers have paid attention to renewable energy, including hydro, wind, solar, and nuclear energy sources. However, ... -
Gem-Difluorination of α-Diazo Amides Using (Difluoroiodo)toluene
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-25)Fluorination chemistry is a branch of study that appeals to the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries. Drawbacks of popular methods of forming carbon-fluorine bonds include high cost or hazardous conditions that are ... -
Gender and Physically Active Leisure: Testing Constraints as Mechanism
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-26)Most adults fail to achieve the minimum amount of exercise for an active lifestyle (Troiano et al., 2008), which is at least 150 minutes per week of moderate-intensity exercise or 75 minutes per week of vigorous-intensity ... -
Gender Differences in Chronic Disease Risk Behaviours and their Association with Body Mass Index: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Multilevel Analyses Among a Large Sample of Youth.
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-20)Obesity has become a worldwide concern due to the escalating number of individuals who have overweight or obesity. The prevalence of overweight/obesity among youth aged 12-17 years old was 37% in 2012-2013, as reported in ... -
Gender Differences in Control Intervention Use: A Population-Based Cohort Study of Acute Psychiatric Hospital Patients in Ontario, Canada between 2006-2018
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-09)Background: Both gender differences (GDs) have been explored in various areas of mental health including disease epidemiology, treatment, risk factors and community engagement. However, few articles examine GDs in quality ... -
Gender Differences in Engineering Education: An Exploratory Study
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-18)Despite significant efforts to boost female enrollment levels and retention rates in engineering programs, females continue to make up only a small portion of the Canadian undergraduate engineering student population. ... -
Gender Differences in Engineering: A Data-Driven Study
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-27)The gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) is well known. Not only do fewer women apply to and earn engineering degrees, but also more women leave engineering programs and careers. Past ... -
„Gender fluidity“: Die Identitätskrise als Aufbrechen der Geschlechterrollen in Annemarie Schwarzenbachs 'Flucht nach oben'
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-02)The Swiss author Annemarie Schwarzenbach created literary figures that resist being classified according to a gender binary and heterosexual norm. She thereby, already in the 1930s, imagined something akin to the recent ... -
Gender in The Generationed City: Current and Future Residential Location Preferences Among Young Adults
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-21)This thesis contributes to a better understanding of how housing demand varies among young adults. Specifically, it explores gender differences in North American metropolitans and urban versus suburban residential locations ... -
Gender Interplay in Nonnos' Dionysiaka: The Cases of Deriades and Aura
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-22)This thesis presents the relation between the gendered language of Nonnos and the ironic undertones he employs to describe two main plot points in the Dionysiaka. I focus on Dionysos’ battle with Deriades, the Indian king, ... -
Gender Stereotypes and the Relational Consequences of Interpersonal Justice Violations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-30)A large body of organizational justice research has demonstrated that manager-subordinate relationships are damaged when managers violate justice rules. Yet, this relational damage may be unequal across managers. In the ... -
Gender, race and socioeconomic status attainment, assessing the double negative
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Gender, Schooling, and Antisocial Behaviour: Perspectives of School Personnel
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-11)This thesis examines gender, schooling, and antisocial behaviour and aims to shed light on how gender contextualizes the interpretations and reactions by personnel working in secondary schools. Drawing on data from 49 ... -
Gender, Social-Ecological Regime Shifts and Governance in Small-Scale Fishery Commons of Chilika Lagoon
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-07)A social-ecological systems perspective can be used to analyze the connections between human and ecological components in complex and dynamic natural resource commons systems, such as fisheries. When fishery commons ...