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Irritations from Shaving Peaks: Barriers to the Implementation of Residential Seasonal Water Rates in Southwestern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-01)The water soft path (WSP) has been formulated as a progressive paradigm in water management. The WSP has four main principles: water should be viewed as a service; ecological sustainability is of utmost importance; water ... -
Is a nutritionally-balanced and low-carbon diet affordable in Ontario?
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-19)Food plays an essential role in the path towards healthy growth and development, and enhancing the quality of life. Food systems contribute to food security, but also contribute to global environmental changes, such as ... -
Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? An Investigation into the Validity of 3D Computer Landscape Visualizations in Urban Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-14)This study examined the use of computer visualizations in urban planning and whether they facilitate effective decision-making and communication within community engagement. The objective was to determine the potential for ... -
Is blur sensitivity altered in children with progressive myopia?
(Elsevier, 2019-01)School aged children with progressive myopia show large accommodative lags to blur only cue which is suggestive of a large depth of focus (DOF). While DOF measures are lacking in this age group, their blur detection and ... -
Is cancer prevention influenced by the built environment? A multidisciplinary scoping review
(Wiley, 2019-07-09)Background: The built environment is a significant determinant of human health. Globally, the growing prevalence of preventable cancers suggests a need to understand how features of the built environment shape exposure ... -
Is competition sufficient to drive observed retail location and revenue patterns? An agent-based case study.
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-20)Agent-based models (ABMs) have been widely used to represent and investigate complex systems and are a contemporary modelling approach used in the study of land-use and land-cover change. While many ABMs have been constructed ... -
Is Free Recall Actually Superior to Cued Recall? Introducing the Recognized Recall Procedure to Examine the Costs and Benefits of Cueing
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-10)A vast literature and our own common sense tell us that free recall (i.e., recalling information without hints) is harder and less successful than cued recall (i.e., recalling information with hints). In this dissertation, ... -
Is it about me? Time-course of self-relevance and valence effects on the perception of neutral faces with direct and averted gaze
(Elsevier, 2018-05-01)Most face processing research has investigated how we perceive faces presented by themselves, but we view faces everyday within a rich social context. Recent ERP research has demonstrated that context cues, including ... -
Is it in the eyes? Dissociating the role of emotion and perceptual features of emotionally expressive faces in modulating orienting to eye gaze
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-03-21)This study investigated the role of the eye region of emotional facial expressions in modulating gaze orienting effects. Eye widening is characteristic of fearful and surprised expressions and may significantly increase ... -
Is Revenue Sharing Real Reconciliation? Recognizing the role of Indigenous law and governance in British Columbia Crown forestry agreements
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-27)From the banning of cultural protocols to the installation of assimilation and genocidal tactics, Indigenous law and governance within communities throughout British Columbia have experienced tremendous hardship and ... -
Is Semantic Activation from Print Automatic? An Investigation Using the Psychological Refractory Period and Task Set Paradigms
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-31)The view that various visual word recognition processes are automatic in the sense that they are ballistic, intention free, unconscious, and capacity free, dominates the reading literature. Though results from multiple ... -
Is Social Capital Mediating the Relationship Between Ethnicity and Health in Canada?
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-04)Ethnic minorities in Canada experience poorer health compared to their Canadian counterparts, on several important health outcomes. This study examines whether social capital – measured by social networks, civic engagement ... -
Is That How You Should Talk to Her? Using Appropriate Prosody Affects Adults’, But Not Children’s, Judgments of Communicators’ Competence
(Sage, 2019-08-31)Two studies explored whether the appropriateness of a speaker’s prosodic style (i.e., pitch, volume, speech rate) affects observers’ judgments of speakers’ and listeners’ competence. Adults and school-aged children ... -
Is the Association Between Education and Cognitive Resilience Modified by Brain Weight and Cortical Atrophy?
(University of Waterloo, 2017-02-22)Introduction: Some individuals are able to avoid reaching the threshold for clinical dementia despite the presence of Alzheimer neuropathology. This disparity between the neuropathologic and clinical symptoms required for ... -
Is the rapid adaptation paradigm too rapid? Implications for face and object processing
(Elsevier, 2012-03-29)Rapid adaptation is an adaptation procedure in which adaptors and test stimuli are presented in rapid succession. The current study tested the validity of this method for early ERP components by investigating the specificity ... -
Is there a relation between the cost of debt and environmental performance? An empirical investigation of the U.S. Pulp and Paper Industry, 1994-2005.
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-10)This study shows an economically significant relation between a firm’s environmental performance and its cost of debt. Firms that have poor environmental performance will face future environmental liabilities related to ... -
Is There No One In The World Who Can Fly
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-06)The exhibition Is There No One in the World Who Can Fly? consists of three connected bodies of works. Life On Earth is a series of photo-performances exhibited on digital screens. Some of the images are still others are ... -
Is Tourism the Solution to Rural Decline? Evaluating the "Promise of Rural Tourism" to Close the Gap between Rhetoric and Practice
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-03)Rural areas across the developed world have encountered economic decline due to trends of industrialisation and urbanisation (Lane, 1994). The damaging effects of the declining economy have persuaded governments to recognize ... -
Isaak Babel's Image of the Humanized Jew in the Odesskie rasskazy
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-28)Abstract The Russia in which Isaak Babel (1894-1940) wrote was one of deep seated anti-Semitic philosophies and prejudices, a place of pogroms and segregation. Literature of this era painted the Jew as a villainous, ... -
Ischemia reperfusion injury in isolated hearts from spontaneously hypertensive rats following chronic resveratrol treatment
(University of Waterloo, 2011-12-21)Hypertension is a risk factor for myocardial ischemia via the promotion of endothelial dysfunction and atherosclerosis (Ogita et al., 2004). Hypertension not only a predisposes the heart to ischemic events, but as shown ...