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An Off-Lattice Model of the Sanchez-Lacombe Equation of State for Polymers with Finite Flexibility
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-19)An extension to the off-lattice Sanchez Lacombe equation of state is proposed by including internal degrees of freedom to account for the finite flexibility of polymer molecules. The extension allows polymer molecules to ... -
Offender Gender, Mental Illness and Trauma Experience in Relation to Re-contact with the Criminal Justice System
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Female offenders’ experiences within the criminal justice system and the way in which they become involved with the criminal justice system are very different than that of male offenders. Previous research that has been ... -
Offline Evaluation via Human Preference Judgments: A Dueling Bandits Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-22)The dramatic improvements in core information retrieval tasks engendered by neural rankers create a need for novel evaluation methods. If every ranker returns highly relevant items in the top ranks, it becomes difficult ... -
Offset Surface Light Fields
(University of Waterloo, 2003)For producing realistic images, reflection is an important visual effect. Reflections of the environment are important not only for highly reflective objects, such as mirrors, but also for more common objects such as ... -
An Offshore Wind Farm Featuring Differential Power Processing
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-22)Offshore wind farms are a rapidly growing technology used to harvest wind energy on the open seas where wind speeds are significantly higher and steadier than onshore. Current wind farms located far away from shore (e.g., ... -
Oh The Places We'll Go: The Game of Children's Spaces
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)Play is inarguably an important part of human development. Through play, children as young as three years of age learn social skills and values that will form the foundation of their development in to adult life. Children ... -
Oil Adsorption Performance and Efficiency Study on Novel Silane Functionalized Graphene Polyurethane Sponge
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-30)Oil-water separation has been vital in many aspects of our society’s operations. This is particularly highlighted during the environmental cleanups of industrial oily wastes and disasters involving petroleum oil spills. ... -
Oil Sands Bitumen Emulsion Upgrading by Using In Situ Hydrogen Generated through the Water Gas Shift Reaction
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-09)Canada has a large reserve of oil sands bitumen which is highly viscous and contains high percentages of asphaltenes and heteroatoms. Currently hot water extraction or steam injection is used in recovering the bitumen as ... -
The Ojibwa: 1640-1840 Two Centuries of Change from Sault Ste. Marie to Coldwater-Narrows
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-15)no abstract in document -
Old Bones: A recent history of urban placemaking in Kitchener, Ontario through media analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)Kitchener, Ontario has experienced significant social and physical changes in its downtown in recent decades. Once an industrial hub, the City's urban core declined as suburban migration and deindustrialization gutted its ... -
Older Adult Mental Health Considerations and Differences in the COVID-19 Context: A Mixed Methods Study
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-25)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted older adult mental health in Ontario. Information around the aging and mental health considerations of older adults and their support network is lacking. There is also a ... -
Older Adult Volunteers: Understanding the meaning of volunteering in the transition to retirement
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-18)In the fall of 2015, Statistics Canada reported that for the first time in Canadian history that the number of Canadians over the age of 65 was greater than the number of Canadians under the age of 15 (Statistics Canada, ... -
Older Adults Living with Cancer: Supportive Care Needs and Utilization of Peer Support Services
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-21)BACKGROUND: Cancer is primarily a disease of older adults with sixty percent of all incidences occurring in individuals 65 years and over. Coping with cancer may entail additional challenges for older adults due to ... -
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 ... -
Older Adults' Experiences of Community in Municipal Recreation Contexts: A Case Study of the Burlington Seniors' Centre
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-10)In 2012, the first members of the baby boom cohort, those born between the years of 1946 and 1965, reached the age of 65 (Statistics Canada, 2012). The older adult population in Canada is expected to outnumber that of youth ... -
Older Stroke Survivors in Home Care: Factors Associated with the use of CCAC Rehabilitation Services
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-15)Purpose: Despite improvements in the prevention and management of stroke, it continues to have a significant impact on the Canadian population. For individuals who have suffered a stroke, rehabilitation is an important ... -
Omega-3 Fatty Acid Blood Biomarkers Before and After Acute Fish Oil Supplementation in Men and Women
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-17)Omega-3 fatty acids, particularly docosahexaenoic (DHA) and eicospentaenoic acid (EPA), are important mediators for cardiovascular disease, fetal/infant development, neurological disorders and inflammatory diseases. ... -
On 2-crossing-critical graphs with a V8-minor
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-22)The crossing number of a graph is the minimum number of pairwise edge crossings in a drawing of a graph. A graph $G$ is $k$-crossing-critical if it has crossing number at least $k$, and any subgraph of $G$ has crossing ... -
On [Re]building Downtown: Design Framework for the Core Area
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-22)Rapid condominium development in Toronto is consuming large areas of the ground plane in prominent corridors of the downtown core. This is the most popular development practice for Mixed-Use land use in Toronto. It is ... -
On A New Approach to Model Reference Adaptive Control
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-12)The objective of adaptive control is to design a controller that can adjust its behaviour to tolerate uncertain or time-varying parameters. An adaptive controller typically consists of a linear time-invariant (LTI) compensator ...