University of Waterloo: Recent submissions
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Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Riluzole for ALS in Ontario Home Care Setting
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-23)Objective: To identify the factors associated with the prescription of riluzole and assess its cost-effectiveness for patients diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in long stay home care in Ontario, Canada. ... -
High Aspect Ratio Polystyrene Structure and Nano-gap Electrode Fabrication Using Electron Beam Lithography
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-22)Nanotechnology has experienced a rapid growth over the past decade, thanks to the development of nanofabrication technologies needed to fabricate nano-devices. The key technique for nanofabrication is nano-lithography. ... -
Concurrent Dual-band Doherty Power Amplifiers for Carrier Aggregation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-21)Carrier aggregation is the main feature of the Long Term Evolution advanced (LTE-A) standard to increase the spectral efficiency and communication bandwidth. It calls for wireless transmitters to be multi-band and ... -
One box to search them all: Implementing federated search at an academic library
(Emerald, 2009)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present how, in May 2008, the Ad Hoc Committee on Federated Search was formed to prepare a preliminary report on federated searching for a special meeting of Librarians Academic ... -
Once you get them, how do you keep them? Millennial librarians at work
(Emerald, 2010)Purpose: To draw attention to the unique characteristics of Millennial librarians. These characteristics are related to larger issues having current and future relevance to Millennial librarians, colleagues of other ... -
Evolution of a summer research/writing workshop for first‐year university students
(Emerald, 2008)Purpose: To describe a framework for a summer research/writing workshop for new university students, and its evolution over time and across institutions. Design/Methodology/Approach: The University of Toronto at Scarborough ... -
Microgrid Enabling Towards the Implementation of Smart Grids
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-21)Smart grids have emerged as dominant platforms for effectively accommodating high penetration of renewable-based distributed generation (DG) and electric vehicles (EVs). These smart paradigms play a pivotal role in the ... -
Contributions to the Theory of Radicals for Noncommutative Rings
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-20)We consider several radical classes of noncommutative rings. In particular, we provide new results regarding the radical theory of semigroup-graded rings, monomial algebras, and Ore extensions of derivation type. In ... -
Why libraries aren’t dead: open access and the evolving liaison role
(The Editorial Board of the Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 2011)This is the second in a series of commentaries from members of the Open Access Interest Group of Canadian Health Libraries Association / Association des bibliothèques (CHLA / ABSC). Devon Greyson’s inaugural contribution ... -
Seeing Double at Memorial University: Two WorldCat Local Usability Studies
(The Editorial Board of Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2011)Obtaining user feedback is valuable yet often overlooked, so when Memorial University Libraries launched OCLC’s WorldCat Local discovery tool for Fall 2010, usability testing was a logical next step. Two branches, each ... -
Reflective Peer Mentoring: Evolution of a Professional Development Program for Academic Librarians
(The Editorial Board of Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2014)For librarians engaged in teaching and learning, reflection has the potential to create opportunities to examine one’s instructional practice, identify and address challenges, and find new instructional pathways. It can ... -
Mobile Device Use in Pharmacy: A Multi-Institutional Study
(The Editorial Board of the Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 2015)Although there are studies that explore the use of mobile devices by physicians and pharmacists, there has not been a study to date that examines the prevalence and usage patterns of mobile devices amongst pharmacy students ... -
Molybdenum Disulphide (MoS2) Nanosheet Inks Evaluated for Printed Electronics and Application to Thin-Film Transistors
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-20)Inkjet printing is a versatile deposition technique that has been used for the fabrication of electronic circuits, from simple conductive tracks to complete 3D logic circuits. The emergence of solution-processable 2D layered ... -
Optimal sampling methods for modelling the occupancy of Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) in the Canadian Barrenlands
(Canadian Science Publishing, 2017)In occupancy models, imperfect detectability of animals is usually corrected for by using temporally-repeated surveys to estimate probability of detection. Substituting spatial replicates for temporal replicates could be ... -
A New Technique for Characterizing Multi-Temperature Convection with Application in Building Energy Simulation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-19)Glazing systems with attachments such as shades and insect screens are known as complex fenestration systems (CFS). The ASHRAE Window Attachment Tool (ASHWAT) for modeling heat transfer through a CFS are based on a general ... -
Patients’ Accounts of Non-Acceptance and Non-Adherence to Drug Treatment in Depression A Scoping Review and Narrative Synthesis of Research Findings on Patients’ Views on Antidepressants
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-19)Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a disabling condition with a high frequency of recurrence and non-recovery, resulting in serious morbidity and mortality (Kessler & Bromet, 2013; Stotland, 2012; Alonso et al., 2013). ... -
Simulation-based Design of Temperature-responsive Nematic Elastomers
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-16)Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a class of polymer networks which involve the incorporation of liquid crystal (LC) molecules into their polymer backbone or side chain. This results in anisotropy in their mechanical, ... -
An investigation of low energy quasiparticle excitations via thermal transport measurements
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-16)Thermal transport measurements can provide a unique perspective of the nature of a system by exploring the behaviour of the low energy excitations from the ground state. Delocalized quasiparticle excitations can affect ... -
History of failure
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-16)The ability to project a virtual vision on the world and give it physical form sets the human apart. By shaping his surroundings at will, the human holds considerable power not only on the environment, but -on fellow humans ... -
Developing Control Strategies to Regulate Dissolved Oxygen Levels in a Biological Fermenter
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-16)Vaccine development comprises multiple stages, the first of which typically involves cultivating an organism in a microbial fermenter to produce a vaccine product. In order to ensure the optimal synthesis of the vaccine ...