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Gespürte Heimat. Das Heimatkonzept in Stephan Thomes Roman Grenzgang.
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-26)This thesis explores the representation of Heimat in Stephan Thome’s novel Grenzgang (2009). The concept of Heimat is a subjective and therefore challenging idea, as a result there is no generally accepted definition of ... -
Gesta Principium: A Study of the Frankish and Turkic-Syrian Field Armies at the Battle of Dorylaeum, 1097 AD
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-19)The purpose of this study is to showcase the Battle of Dorylaeum, fought between the Frankish invading forces of the First Crusade and the defending Turkic-Syrian armies of late eleventh-century Anatolia, as a military ... -
The Gesture and the Drip
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-22)The Gesture and the Drip investigates our increasing reliance on digital media as a means to encounter and view art works online as photographic documentation. This body of work attempts to place significance on the human ... -
Gesture-Based Image Acquisition between Smartphone and Digital Signage
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-28)Mobile phones have formed a social network within the phone subscriber population by allowing the phone subscribers to exchange information. Nowadays, smartphones have been improved with a variety of functionalities, such ... -
Getrennt schreiben oder zusammenschreiben? Eine Untersuchung zu den Regeln der Getrennt- und Zusammenschreibung der zusammengesetzten Verben
(University of Waterloo, 2005)This thesis explores the usage of the new spelling rules in the complex area of separate and compound spelling. This area was a main topic in the reform of German orthography 1996/98. The old rules can be characterized ... -
Getting into the Game: The Precursors of Immersion into Violent Video Games and the Effect of Immersion on Post-Game Aggression
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-22)The hours many of us spend watching movies and television, playing video games, and reading books illustrate the prevalence of fantasy in our lives. But does spending so much time in fantasy worlds shape our real-world ... -
Getting Started with Topic Modeling and MALLET
(The Editorial Board of the Programming Historian, 2012-09-02)In this lesson you will first learn what topic modeling is and why you might want to employ it in your research. You will then learn how to install and work with the MALLET natural language processing toolkit to do so. ... -
Gewalt und Spiele in den Filmen Michael Hanekes
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)This dissertation examines the intersection of violence and games in six of Michael Haneke’s movies, Benny’s Video (1992), Happy End (2017), Le Temps du loup (2003), Funny Games (1997/2007), 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie ... -
Geworfen in Welt, Gesellschaft und Sprache. Existentialismus und Identität in Ingeborg Bachmanns Erzählband 'Das dreißigste Jahr'
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-29)The following thesis deals with the problem of self-identity in Ingeborg Bachmann’s narrative cycle Das dreißigste Jahr (The Thirtieth Year) and discusses the terms and conditions of developing one’s own, authentic ... -
A Giant's Quiet Decay: The Latency of Superior North
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)What happens after a place has been exploited, isolated, and neglected? What occurs when that place is bound – confined – by impenetrable voids of dereliction? Its core, slowing diffracting, with no opportunity to ... -
Gibberellin Biosynthesis in Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA110
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-28)Biosynthesis of gibberellin (GA) by bacteria has been studied for nearly 50 years. Early on, bacterial culture extracts were analyzed for the presence of bioactive compounds, thought to be gibberellins. In the 1980s, ... -
Gibbs Energy Dynamic Yield Method (GEDYM): Predicting microbial growth yields under energy-limiting conditions
(Elsevier, 2018-11-15)Biomass-explicit biogeochemical models assign microbial growth yields (Y) using values measured in the laboratory or predicted using thermodynamics-based methods. However, Y values are rarely measured under the low energy ... -
The Gift of Policing: Understanding Image and Reciprocity
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-09)The Community Based Policing model has been adopted by the large majority of policing agencies as another tool on an officer’s duty belt that allows them to do their job more effectively and efficiently. The model is ... -
Gini-type measures of risk and variability: Gini shortfall, capital allocations, and heavy-tailed risks
(Elsevier, 2017-10-01)We introduce and explore Gini-type measures of risk and variability, and develop the corresponding economic capital allocation rules. The new measures are coherent, additive for co-monotonic risks, convenient computationally, ... -
The Girl in the Wood Frock
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-17)A GIRL, forced to marry her father after he sees her playing in his dead wife’s wedding gown, runs away wearing five dresses. Four dresses are of silk and they are beautiful. The last dress is of wood. It is in this ... -
Girls Gone Wild: A Speculative 3D Rendering of the Lesser Attalid Monument Amazonomachy
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)Using the surviving historical and archaeological remains, as well as contemporary stylistic reference, this thesis reconstructs one battle of the lost Lesser Attalid Monument in its entirety. This is done through digital ... -
GIS and Location Theory Based Bioenergy Systems Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-20)This research is concerned with bioenergy systems planning and optimization modelling in the context of locating biomass power plants and allocating available biomass feedstock to the active plants. Bioenergy, a promising ... -
A GIS Approach for Evaluating Municipal Planning Capability: Residential Built Form in Markham and Vaughan, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This research describes a methodology for measuring built form patterns using spatial data and GIS that is amenable to the study of large geographical areas. This methodology was used to investigate the capability of ... -
GIS Tools to Improve the Transit Planning Process
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-10)Public transit provides an important community service by reducing pollution, traffic congestion, and by providing transportation for those who do not or cannot drive. Yet since the 1950s, real investment levels in transit ... -
A GIS- Based Material Stock-Flow Analysis of Antigua & Barbuda through the lens of the built and socio-economic environment
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-31)Small island developing states (SIDS) in the Caribbean are centered around a service-based economy, where the built environment (or material stocks) functions as the backbone of their social and economic wellbeing. The ...