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INTERPRETATION OF PROCESSES IN DEVELOPING A NEW PROVINCIAL EDUCATION POLICY TO INCREASE STUDENT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-01)Objective: Significant efforts have been made to address childhood obesity. Overtime we have realized obesity requires strong political leadership and population level interventions, considering there are many environmental ... -
Interpretation of redox potential and assessment of oxyanion (As, Sb, Cr) mobility during oxic-anoxic oscillations
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-10)Electron transfer (redox) reactions are key processes in the biogeochemical functioning of natural systems. Redox reactions control the speciation and mobility of major elements (e.g., carbon, nitrogen, iron, and manganese) ... -
Interpreting and Answering Keyword Queries using Web Knowledge Bases
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-22)Many keyword queries issued to Web search engines target information about real world entities, and interpreting these queries over Web knowledge bases can allow a search system to provide exact answers to keyword ... -
Interpreting Balinese Culture: Representation and Identity
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-20)The representation of Balinese people and culture within scholarship throughout the 20th century and into the most recent 21st century studies is examined. Important questions are considered, such as: What major themes ... -
Interpreting Barriers to Energy Efficiency within Southern Ontario Municipal Buildings: A Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-21)Recent concerns regarding climate change, environmental degradation, human health and energy security associated with the consumption of energy have raised questions about the sustainability of current energy systems. ... -
Interpreting Jane Austen for a Contemporary Audience: Lost in Austen's Reworking of Pride and Prejudice
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-16)This thesis argues that Lost in Austen, as a fantasy adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, reveals the feminist and empowering elements of Jane Austen's novels. This four-part TV series uses the element of time travel to ... -
Interpreting statements from others: The role of temperament, teasing experience, and social dominance
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-22)The ambiguity of our language system requires that listeners go beyond the words uttered, integrate contextual information, and recognize speaker cues in order to fully appreciate the intended meaning in messages. ... -
Interregnum: Queen Regency in the Seleucid Empire
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-03)An examination of the ancient sources indicates that there were possibly seven Queens Regent throughout the course of the Seleucid Dynasty: Apama, Laodice I, Berenice Syra, Laodice III, Laodice IV, Cleopatra I Thea, and ... -
Interrelationships among depression, anxiety, flourishing, and cannabis use in youth
(Elsevier, 2019-02-01)Aims The objective of the study was to examine if depression or anxiety was associated with youth cannabis use; and investigate whether flourishing moderates these associations. Methods Students (N = 8179) were recruited ... -
The intersection of water, sanitation, and gender-based violence in sub-Saharan Africa: A parallel case study of national policies and NGO interventions
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-27)Millions of people globally are without access to safe water, safely managed sanitation, and improved hygiene. Much of the global population who depend on unsafe water, have no access to safely managed sanitation and ... -
An Intersectional Colour-Blind Frame Analysis of Sports News Coverage on Athlete Activism in the WNBA, NBA, and NHL Following the Shooting of Jacob Blake
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-17)Despite Black women leading the way in athlete activism, there is little research and discussion on their experiences doing so. With the rapid progression of athlete activism in sport, it is important to understand the ... -
Intersperse Coloring
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)In this thesis, we introduce the intersperse coloring problem, which is a generalized version of the hypergraph coloring problem. In the intersperse coloring problem, we seek a coloring that assigns at least l different ... -
Interstitial Landscape as Interstitial Tissue: Parco degli Acquedotti al'Mandrione
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-03)This thesis emerged from a series of journeys / ‘percorsi’, conducted between 2007 and 2009 along the course of the aqueducts and railway lines in the south-east of Rome. During this time, my focus shifted from figure to ... -
Interstitial Urbanity: Fragments of Place Within the Post-Modern City
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis introduces <em>Interstitial Urbanity</em> as a strategy for addressing issues of urbanity and place within New York's peripheral developments. Driven primarily by market forces, these developer led office and ... -
The Intertextual Dynamics of Colluthus' Abduction of Helen
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-22)This thesis is devoted to an intertextual study of Colluthus’ late antique epyllion, the Abduction of Helen. Colluthus is a poet whose reputation has long suffered, but is currently under rehabilitation, and the aim of ... -
Intertextualität und Kanon in Walter Moers' Der Schrecksenmeister
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)This thesis will show that Walter Moers’ novel Der Schrecksenmeister, published in 2007, challenges the convention of the academic canon discussion. Der Schrecksenmeister is a work of fantasy literature; this is not a ... -
Interval Censoring and Longitudinal Survey Data
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-11)Being able to explore a relationship between two life events is of great interest to scientists from different disciplines. Some issues of particular concern are, for example, the connection between smoking cessation and ... -
Interval Type Inference: Improvements and Evaluations
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-20)Interval analysis estimates the run-time values of numerical expressions in the source code by computing a lower bound and an upper bound. Interval analysis for integral types is useful in providing facts of the target ... -
The Interval: in-between unmaking and remaking the body
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-19)By its individual terms, we can think of a body in two coincident ways that meet it in the middle: from the familiar inside-out and from the less familiar outside-in. To proceed from the middle of things conceives of a ... -
Intervals with few Prime Numbers
(University of Waterloo, 2004)In this thesis we discuss some of the tools used in the study of the number of primes in short intervals. In particular, we discuss a large sieve density estimate due to Gallagher and two classical delay equations. ...