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Characterizing the Variability of Kinematic Outcome Measures and Compensatory Movements using Inertial Measurement Units
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-22)Cost-effective wearable sensors to measure movement have gained traction as research and clinical tools. The potential to quantify movement with a portable and inexpensive way could provide benefits to patient populations ... -
Characterizing Transient Regime Multi-frequency Raman Generation by the Aid of Spectral Phase Interferometry for Direct Electric-field Reconstruction
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-11)Multi-frequency Raman Generation (MRG) has been achieved in the transient regime excited by dual-wavelength chirped pump pulses. Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction (SPIDER) technique is ... -
Characterizing User Search Intent and Behavior for Click Analysis in Sponsored Search
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-24)Interpreting user actions to better understand their needs provides an important tool for improving information access services. In the context of organic Web search, considerable effort has been made to model user behavior ... -
Characterizing, optimizing and backtesting metrics of risk
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-12)Measures of risk and riskmetrics were proposed to quantify the risks people are faced with in financial, statistical, and economic practice. They are widely discussed and studied by literature in the context of financial ... -
Charge Density Wave Order in Cuprate Superconductors Studied by Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-22)Cuprate high temperature superconductors have been the subject of intense investigation since their discovery in 1986. The nature of the pairing mechanism in these unconventional superconductors does not seem to be mediated ... -
Charged Black Hole Solutions in Alternative Theories of Gravity
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-06)In my thesis, I examine charged black holes in two contexts. The first part covers the formation of something analogous to event horizons for a class of Lorentz-Violating theories which allow for signals to travel faster ... -
Charting the path from self-reflection to self-appraisal in social anxiety: What are the roles of self-immersion and self-distancing?
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-28)Past studies have suggested that individuals who adopt a psychologically immersed, as opposed to a psychologically distanced perspective when reflecting on negative emotional experiences, tend to experience greater negative ... -
Chasing Chopsticks Street: A Sequel to Foshan’s Forgotten Qilous
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-07)Since China’s economic reform in the late 1970s, large extents of its cities’ vernacular urban fabrics have been replaced by state-of-the-art high-rises in a building frenzy that was equally unprecedented in its destructive ... -
Chasing Leisure: A Hermeneutic of Late Modernity
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-29)This dissertation addresses shortcomings in the sociological study of leisure through providing a new conceptual approach for understanding human action and meaning making. It reformulates leisure as the leisure imaginary, ... -
Chasing Spadina
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-10)Toronto is a city that operates at the scale of automobiles and subways. Its environments are many and varied— layers of infrastructure, geography, and history create a heterogeneous mix of urban fabric. The Spadina ... -
Checkered Landscapes: Quantifying Dominant Control on Nitrogen Legacies and Time Lags along the River Continuum
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-20)In agricultural watersheds across the world, decades of commercial fertilizer application and intensive livestock production have led to elevated stream nutrient levels and problems of eutrophication in both inland and ... -
Chemical and Toxicological Characterization of Dissolved Organics from Oil Sands Waters
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-04)The surface mining of oil sands from the Athabasca deposit north of Fort McMurray, Alberta produces considerable tailings waste which is stored in large tailings ponds on industry lease sites. With the advent of oil sands ... -
Chemical biopsy via solid phase microextraction: strategies and applications for in vivo brain studies
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-19)Adequate and quantitative observation of neurochemical phenomena is instrumental in guiding efforts towards a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying brain functions. Although a plethora of highly focused mechanistic ... -
Chemical characterization of construction materials and solute transport in peat from the Nikanotee Fen watershed at the Athabasca oil sands region, Alberta, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2017-02-22)Overburden and tailings materials from oil sands production were used as construction materials as part of a novel attempt to create a self-sustaining, peat accumulating fen-upland ecosystem. To evaluate the potential for ... -
Chemical Composition of Soybean Root Epidermal Cell Walls
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The root epidermis, being the outermost cell layer of the organ, is in contact with the soil environment. The position of the epidermis determines its important roles, such as taking up water and ions from the surrounding ... -
Chemical Modification of Poly-α-1,3-Glucan
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-09)Sustainability is becoming a primary consideration in the development of new materials. Specifically, renewability and biodegradability are desirable properties for materials in a variety of applications, including packaging ... -
Chemical Modification of Polybutene-1 Resins
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-07)Controlled rheology polybutene (CRPB) resins have been produced by peroxide induced degradation during reactive processing in a batch mixing operation. Two grades of commodity polybutene-1 (PB-1) resins were selected for ... -
Chemical Modification of Polypropylene with Organo-functional Silanes
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-05)Conventional polypropylene (PP) suffers at higher service temperatures and its poor melt strength limits its application in some processes. PP also lacks functional groups necessary for good adhesion to synthetic or natural ... -
Chemical Tailoring of Lignin for Functional and Sustainable Material Solutions
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-01)Lignin, being the second most abundant natural biopolymer after cellulose, constitutes between 18 wt.% and 35 wt.% of wood. Due to its abundance, sustainability, renewability, and the amenability to undergo numerous ... -
Chemical-Looping Technology: Application of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control and Reactor Network Modelling Using Biomass as a Fuel
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-11)As climate change becomes a more pressing issue, there is increasing research being performed to investigate greenhouse gas reduction strategies such as carbon capture technology and sustainable fuels. To this end, ...