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Confronting Hitler's Legacy: Canadian Jews and Early Holocaust Discourse, 1933-1956
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-19)
This dissertation examines Canadian Jewish thought from the Nazi period through to the immediate postwar era regarding the Nazis’ persecution and murder of European Jewry. It challenges the widely accepted position that ...
Older Adults Seeking Emergency Care: An Examination of Unplanned Emergency Department Use, Patient Profiles, and Adverse Patient Outcomes Post Discharge
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-19)
Purpose:
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the determinants of unplanned emergency department (ED) use by home care clients, the profile of older ED patients, their transitions from the ED, as well as the ...
Novel Polymer Electrolyte Nano-Composite Membranes for Fuel Cell Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-06)
Fuel cells are electrochemical devices which have been established to lead in the transition to clean energy technology and will become the energy efficient power source of the future. Among all the fuel cell systems, anion ...
Associations of Moral Disengagement, Passion, and Competitive Anger and Aggressiveness with Attitudes toward Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sport
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-05)
The main purpose of the study was to explore relationships between moral disengagement in sport and attitudes toward performance enhancing drugs. Additionally, the purpose was to explore specific mechanisms of moral ...
Fatigue Life Prediction Based on the Advanced Fatigue Crack Growth Model and the Monte-Carlo Simulation Method
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-05)
It is well-known that loss of the structural stability due to propagation of the dominant
crack is one of the main sources of fatigue failures. Therefore, computationally feasible
fatigue crack growth model is essential ...
The High German of Russian Mennonites in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-20)
The main focus of this study is the High German language spoken by Russian Mennonites, one of the many groups of German-speaking immigrants in Canada. Although the primary language of most Russian Mennonites is a Low German ...
Lone Mothers Exiting Social Assistance: Gender, Social Exclusion and Social Capital
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-14)
After the North American wave of “welfare reform” in the 1990s, much research has measured the success of the work-to-welfare model. Lone mothers as a group have proved a particularly intractable challenge to policies aimed ...
Quantum quenches and the holographic duality.
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-08)
We study quantum quenches in a strongly coupled conformal field theory, using the
gauge/gravity duality. In the first part of the thesis, we consider a perturbative thermal
quench of a field theory in four spacetime ...
Determinants of Undetected Unintentional Errors in Audited Financial Statements
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-18)
This dissertation investigates the associations between financial restatements and characteristics of the parties responsible for preventing and detecting unintentional errors, i.e., boards (through their audit committees), ...
Genesis and hydrological function of an African mire: understanding the role of peatlands in providing ecosystem services in semi-arid climates
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-06)
The effects of changes in climate or landscape on wetland ecosystems in drier regions need to be considered within the context of natural processes. Hydrological processes are a key component in the development and maintenance ...