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Practical Reasoning and Rationality
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)Theories of practical reasoning and rationality have been expounded at least as far back as the Greeks. Beginning with several historical perspectives, I attempt to answer the descriptive and normative questions of practical ... -
Practical Routing in Delay-Tolerant Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Delay-tolerant networks (DTNs) have the potential to connect devices and areas of the world that are under-served by traditional networks. The idea is that an end-to-end connection may never be present. To make ... -
Practical Systems for Personal Thermal Comfort
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-15)Conventional centralized HVAC systems cannot provide office workers with personalized thermal comfort because workers in a single zone share a common air handling unit and thus a single air temperature. Moreover, they heat ... -
Practice Molds Place: Communities of Pottery Production and Situated Identities at Location 3 (AgHk-54)
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-06)The archaeological study of Late Woodland communities in southern Ontario has identified two spatially and culturally distinct manifestations known as the Western Basin and Ontario Iroquoian Traditions. Recently, the ... -
A Practice-Based Exploration of Knowledge Utilization in the Canada Post Rural Mail Safety Review: Applying Pragmatic Inquiry and Engaged Scholarship to a Workplace and Public Health Challenge
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-08)The purpose of this research undertaking is to explore the form and content of one of the most extensive workplace occupational health and safety interventions undertaken to date by a Canadian employer: Canada Post ... -
Practices of Furtive Commoning in the [Post]Apartheid, [Post]Colonial City of Cape Town, South Africa
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-09)Contemporary neoliberal policies in Cape Town, South Africa repeat and perpetuate colonial and apartheid era patterns of socio-spatial segregation. These patterns result in the sustained quiet encroachment of informal ... -
Practices Surrounding Social Use of the Nintendo DS Handheld Gaming System
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-21)Ad-hoc wireless networking has recently become a standard feature of handheld video gaming systems. This capability, along with the portability of the devices, increases the number of places where people can easily engage ... -
Pragmatic Groundwater-Surface Water Model Coupling with Unstructured Grids
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-29)Faced with an array of water issues exacerbated by a rapidly changing climate, hydrologists and hydrogeologists have increasingly found themselves needing to simultaneously model the groundwater and surface water domains ... -
Pragmatic language use, inhibitory control, and attention in typically-developing preschoolers
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-28)Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by atypical levels of inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity, and which is estimated to affect approximately 5% of ... -
Pragmatism and Cooperation: Canadian-American Defence Activities in the Arctic, 1945-1951
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-02)During the early Cold War, as the Soviet menace placed Canada in between two hostile superpowers, the Canadian government decided to take steps to ensure that its sovereignty and national interests were not threatened by ... -
Prairie Fabric: Architectural Intensification in Saskatoon
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-05)The residential fabric has the capacity and role to interpret and employ the identity, priorities, values and aspirations of a society into physical manifestations of the built environment. To this effect, the residential ... -
Prandtl number dependence of stratified turbulence
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-15)Stratified turbulence is affected by buoyancy forces that suppress vertical motion, resulting in a horizontally-layered structure with quasi-two-dimensional vortices. The Prandtl number Pr quantifies the relative strengths ... -
Pre-Privacy Amplification: A Post-Processing Technique for Quantum Key Distribution with Application to the Simplified Trusted Relay
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-26)Until quantum repeaters and quantum error correcting codes can be made commercially viable, long distance quantum key distribution (QKD) will continue to rely on trusted relay satellites. Strongly constrained by weight ... -
Pre-Treatment Evaluation Prior to Ultrafiltration in Secondary Effluent Treatment for Water Reuse
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-17)Reusing wastewater can assist in solving water shortage problems, reduce the amount of wastewater discharged to surface water bodies and, by extension, alleviate its adverse effects on humans and the environment. Organics ... -
The Precariousness of the Non-Human Other: Situating Lyme Disease Within a Multispecies Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-14)Lyme disease, the fastest growing vector-borne infection, can be found at the convergence of human-animal-environmental health. The spread of the bacterium is accompanied by various factors, such as ecological changes ... -
Precast Concrete Inlay Panels: Rehabilitation Strategy for High-Volume Highways in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-03)The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) has responsibility for many high-volume highways throughout the province of Ontario, including the 400-series highways. Several of these highways have exhibited a premature ... -
The Precipitation Hardening and Annealing Behavior of a Laminated Al Alloy System
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-03)The laminated system processed using FusionTM technology is reported to contain a compositional gradient between the different layers. The interface region exhibits various precipitation characteristic during the subsequent ... -
Precise Timing of Digital Signals: Circuits and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-15)With the rapid advances in process technologies, the performance of state-of-the-art integrated circuits is improving steadily. The drive for higher performance is accompanied with increased emphasis on meeting timing ... -
Precision Control of High Speed Ball Screw Drives
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-16)Industrial demands for higher productivity rates and more stringent part tolerances require faster production machines that can produce, assemble, or manipulate parts at higher speeds and with better accuracy than ever ... -
Precision Control of High Speed Drives using Active Vibration Damping
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-02)In order to meet industry demands for improved productivity and part quality, machine tools must be equipped with faster and more accurate feed drives. Over the past two decades, research has focused on the development of ...