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Ecological Interface Design for Turbine Secondary Systems in a Nuclear Power Plant: Effects on Operator Situation Awareness
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-09)Investigations into past accidents at nuclear power generating facilities such as that of Three Mile Island have identified human factors as one of the foremost critical aspects in plant safety. Errors resulting from ... -
Ecological Interface Design in Neuro-Critical Care
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-02)Neuro-critical care is a data-intensive environment that requires physicians to integrate information across multiple screens, sources, and software. Despite the advances in neuromonitoring techniques, interfaces that ... -
Ecological legacies of long-term plant management along the Central Coast of British Columbia
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-22)Quantifying long-term human impacts to landscapes allows us to understand the ways in which ecosystems respond to constant human pressure and the effects this pressure has on permanently influencing ecological processes ... -
An Ecological Model Perspective of Children’s Experience of Active Play
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-06)Despite the many known benefits associated with active play, relatively little is known about the influences on and children’s experiences of engagement in active play. The purpose of this study was to investigate the ... -
Ecological Modelling of Lake Erie: Sensitivity Analysis and Simulation of Nutrient, Phytoplankton and Zooplankton Dynamics
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-02)Lake Erie has undergone a substantial amount of ecosystem changes over the past century; including cultural eutrophication and several invasions by industrious exotic species. Simple mass balance models for phosphorus have ... -
Ecological modernisation? An ecolinguistic analysis of German, Canadian and European techno-fix approaches to climate change.
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-26)Analyzing how climate change is situated in ‘discourse,’ the socially constituted and constitutive use of language, can tell a great deal about how the human subject sees itself in relation to nature and what problematic ... -
Ecology of Ammonia-oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria in Freshwater Biofilters
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-29)Aquarium biofilters are designed to promote the growth and activity of nitrifying microorganisms, which are primarily responsible for the removal of toxic nitrogen-cycle intermediates. Ammonia is a natural waste product ... -
Ecology of Juvenile Arctic charr in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-14)Increases in global temperatures resulting from climate change have raised concern over potential responses of Arctic charr, <i>Salvelinus alpinus</i>, a cold-adapted freshwater/anadromous fish species in the salmonid ... -
The ecology of the nuisance macroalga, Cladophora glomerata, and its resurgence in Lake Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2008-02-22)Cladophora glomerata is the dominant spring and summer epilithic macroalga in the lower Laurentian Great Lakes, and was a notorious nuisance prior to nutrient management of the early 1970s. It is an indicator of excessive ... -
Economic and Energy Impacts of Adaptive Reuse Building Construction
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-29)Adaptive reuse of buildings is an alternative to a building’s end-of-life where A building’s functional life may be extended to serve another purpose. Many studies suggest that adaptive reuse is more sustainable compared ... -
The Economic Case for Sustainable Design
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-15)This thesis considers the potential of engaging the development community as a primary means of solving the environmental crisis. Specifically, it addresses how the principles of sustainable design can be incorporated into ... -
Economic Change and the Inner City Landscape: A Case Study of Hamilton, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-26)The urban landscape reflects the social, economic, and policy changes that have taken place in a community. The inner city has been previosly called a microcosm that indicates the changes that are occurring in society. ... -
Economic Criticality of Ontario’s Highway Infrastructure
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-02)Ontario is the economic center of Canada and hence generates a significant amount of freight activity. Moving forward, population growth coupled with growing and diverse trade strategies are likely to place new and increased ... -
Economic Evaluation of an Advanced Super Critical Oxy-Coal Power Plant with CO2 Capture
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-03)Today’s carbon constrained world with its increasing demand for cheap energy and a fossil fuel intensive fleet of power producers is making carbon capture and storage (CCS) desirable. Several CCS technologies are under ... -
The Economic Integration of Recent Immigrants to Canada: A Longitudinal Analysis of Dimensions of Employment Success
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-22)The employment success of immigrants to Canada has been a primary focus of sociological research on immigrant integration. However, much of this research has examined the concept of “employment success” solely in terms ... -
Economic Model Predictive Control of Chemical Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2015-11-19)The objective of any chemical process is to transform raw materials into more valuable products subject to not only physical and environmental but also economic and safety constraints. To meet all these constraints in ... -
Economic Operation and Planning of Distribution System Sources
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-29)This thesis presents the findings of some research carried out pertaining to economic operation and planning distribution systems. An optimal capacitor switching algorithm is developed for distribution system based on ... -
Economic Pricing of Mortality-Linked Securities
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-26)In previous research on pricing mortality-linked securities, the no-arbitrage approach is often used. However, this method, which takes market prices as given, is difficult to implement in today's embryonic market where ... -
Economic Revitalization or the Creative Destruction of Heritage: A Case Study of Port Dalhousie at a Cusp
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-14)Ontario, Canada’s most populous province enacted its Heritage Act in 1975. The Ontario Heritage Act enables municipalities to conserve built heritage in a number of ways, including instituting heritage conservation districts. ... -
Economic Sanctions and Nuclear Non-proliferation: A Comparative Study of North Korea and Iran
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-14)The history of using economic sanctions to curb nuclear proliferation has had mixed results. The goal of this research project is to determine why economic sanctions are more effective in some cases than they are in others. ...