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Landscape analysis & boundary detection of bog peatlands’ transition to mineral land: The laggs of the eastern New Brunswick Lowlands, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-29)The wet zone – the lagg – that tends to form at the edge of ombrotrophic peatlands is believed to play an important role in promoting and maintaining the health of bog systems. The lagg is well-recognized by peatland ... -
Landscape characteristics influencing the genetic structure of greater sage-grouse within the stronghold of their range: a holistic modeling approach
(Wiley, 2015-05-01)Given the significance of animal dispersal to population dynamics and geographic variability, understanding how dispersal is impacted by landscape patterns has major ecological and conservation importance. Speaking to the ... -
Landscape Connectivity Analysis for Conservation Planning in Southern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-02)The strategic planning of land conservation is a critical undertaking in urban/peri-urban areas. Natural areas in cities and their surroundings exist in an environment of competitive land use pressures, where the allocation ... -
Landscape Effects on Breeding Habitat Selection and Incubation Behaviour in Boreal Nesting Ducks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-26)Canada’s western boreal forest is the second most important breeding area for North American duck populations. Over the last several decades, this region has experienced a considerable expansion of industrial development ... -
Landscape Grammar
(University of Waterloo, 2002)The protection and enhancement of visual resources constitute an on-going challenge to the planning authorities in many communities. The crux of this challenge is to guide development towards built and natural landscape ... -
Landscapes for Energy and Wildlife: Conservation Prioritization for Golden Eagles across Large Spatial Scales
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Proactive conservation planning for species requires the identification of important spatial attributes across ecologically relevant scales in a model-based framework. However, it is often difficult to develop predictive ... -
Landscapes in Motion: Active Aging in China
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-26)Aging in China does not mean slowing down or losing flexibility. On the contrary, aging in China is about regaining youth and becoming a younger replica of oneself. Seniors are becoming more mobile and agile through various ... -
Landscope | Interpreting Environmental Consciousness
(University of Waterloo, 2008-07-04)This thesis proposes a way in which architecture and the built environment might work to integrate human consciousness and natural process. A theoretical design entitled Landscope is presented as a responsive, sustainable ... -
Landslide damming in Western Sichuan Province, China, with special reference to the 1786 Dadu River and 1933 Diexi events
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-04)Landslides and landslide damming events can be triggered by various processes, and they can also cause catastrophic damage. With the help of historical documents and Geographic Information System (GIS), historical landslide ... -
Landslide Geoanalytics Using LiDAR-derived Digital Elevation Models
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-24)Landslides are natural hazards that contribute to tremendous economic loss and result in fatalities if there is no well-prepared mitigation and planning. Assessing landslide hazard and optimizing quality to improve ... -
Landslide Hazard and Climate Change in the Mountain Glacial Environment of Northwest North America
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-21)The aim of this thesis was to improve the understanding of the complex interactions between climate change and landslide behavior in the periglacial mountain environment of northwest North America. In particular, this ... -
Landslides triggered by the 1946 Ancash Earthquake (Peru) and geologic controls on the mechanisms of initial rock slope failure
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-22)The 1946 M7.3 Ancash earthquake triggered a large number of landslides in an epicentral area along the continental divide in the Andes of Peru. Reconnaissance reports by Silgado (1947, 1951), Heim (1949) and Rüegg (1950) ... -
Laneway Infill: Re-Creating an Urban Housing Typology
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-04)This thesis proposes an incremental response to the challenge of creating increased density within urban residential communities. Responding to the growing need for smaller urban dwellings, and the projected needs caused ... -
The Lang-Trotter conjecture for Drinfeld modules
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-22)In 1986, Gupta and Murty proved the Lang-Trotter conjecture in the case of elliptic curves having complex multiplication, conditional on the generalized Riemann hypothesis. That is, given a non-torsion point P∈E(ℚ), they ... -
Langmuir Films of Graphene-Based Materials: Towards Large Area Monolayer Deposition
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-20)Graphene-based materials have attracted considerable interest due to their potential use in a broad range of applications including membrane separations, electronic devices and biomaterials. Their performance in many of ... -
Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayer Studies of Mixed Gemini Surfactant-Phospholipid Monolayers system for Gene Therapy Applications.
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-23)Gene delivery relies upon the encapsulation of a gene of interest, which is then ideally delivered to target cells. For gene therapy applications, viral vectors are the most efficient vectors currently being studied, ... -
Language Evolution to Reduce Code Cloning
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Domain-specific languages can significantly speed up the development of software applications. However, it usually takes a few iterations of the language design before it achieves such power. At the same time, many domains ... -
Language Frequency Profiling of Written Texts by Students of German as a Foreign Language
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-02)The present work contributes to the ongoing discussion of the factors involved in perfecting foreign language learning through a close examination of vocabulary use. Motivated by Laufer’s (1991) argument that the use of ... -
Language Shift Processes in the German-speaking Community of Waterloo Region
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-06)This Master’s Thesis is an analysis of the language shift process in the German-speaking community in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Through the analysis of 110 transcripts of interviews with members of this community, the ... -
Large Aperiodic Semigroups
(World Scientific Publishing, 2015-11-01)We search for the largest syntactic semigroups of star-free languages having n left quotients; equivalently, we look for the largest transition semigroups of aperiodic finite automata with n states. We first introduce ...