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Displace and Urbanized: Or Why We Build
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)I embarked on this research with the aim to study the relationship between the city and the flood, understanding the waterfront as some blurred edge where wild and human forces mix. My hope was to propose a design strategy ... -
Displays of Adaptive Body Image by Others: Examining Their Influence on College Women's Body Image
(University of Waterloo, 2021-03-10)The negative impact of interacting with others who display maladaptive body image has been well documented. Only recently have researchers started to examine adaptive body image, thus the interpersonal impact of displays ... -
Disposable rocking bioreactors for recombinant protein production in Escherichia coli: Physical characterization and assessment of therapeutic protein expression
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-26)Disposable technology has gained increasing acceptance in the biopharmaceutical industry over the last decade, and provides many advantages over conventional stainless steel equipment. Disposable rocking bioreactors (RBs) ... -
The Disposal of Mine Tailings Material
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-29)The mining industry is an important component of the Canadian economy. The principal waste material from this industry is tailings. Numerous failures of tailings dams have caused loss of life and serious pollution ... -
Dispositional Pathways to Trust: The Interactive Effects of Self-Esteem and Agreeableness on Trust and Negative Emotional Disclosure
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-24)Expressing our innermost thoughts and feelings is critical to the development of intimacy (Reis & Shaver, 1988), but also risks negative evaluation and rejection. According to risk regulation theory (Murray, Holmes, & ... -
Dissimilar joining of Carbon/Carbon composites to Ti6Al4V and copper by reactive resistance spot welding
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-30)This study aims to develop an innovative and user-friendly method for dissimilar joining of the carbon/carbon (C/C) composites to Ti6Al4V and copper through reactive resistance spot welding to form the hybrid structures. ... -
Dissimilar laser welding of NiTi shape memory alloys
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-20)Welding of NiTi shape memory alloys has a great importance since it has a wide application in the medical industry due to the NiTi unique biocompatibility, superelasticity and shape memory effect. Laser microwelding is one ... -
Dissociating Response Prepotency and Response Conflict within Tasks of Action Inhibition among Individuals Scoring High on the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-30)Theories embedded within evolutionary neurobiology offer useful frameworks within which to understand cognitive impairment in schizophrenia (SCZ). The current research invokes the Dual Trends Theory (DTT), an evolutionary ... -
Dissolved inorganic nitrogen cycling in a river receiving wastewater: the response to changes in wastewater treatment effluent
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-27)Nitrogen is an essential element for all life forms, but when in excess in an aquatic ecosystem, it can cause an imbalance in the trophic status. A significant amount of nitrogen is released into the environment by wastewater ... -
Dissolved organic carbon concentration and character in northern hardwood-dominated headwater catchments: A paired-catchment investigation of legacy harvesting impacts
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-01)The water quality of forested source water regions can be degraded by natural and anthropogenic landscape disturbances such as wildfires and forest harvesting, the latter an economically important primary industry in Canada ... -
Dissolved organic carbon production and transport in a constructed watershed in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)Within the Western Boreal Plains, a significant amount of surface cover has been removed through open-pit oil sands mining activities, which includes fen peatlands. Fen construction has been performed on the post-oil sands ... -
Dissolved Organic Matter in the Anthropogenically Impacted Grand River and Natural Burnt River Watersheds
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-03)Dissolved organic carbon (DOM) is one of the largest cycled organic carbon pools on Earth and an important biogeochemical factor in aquatic systems. DOM can act as an energy source for microorganisms, alter the depth of ... -
Dissolved Organic Matter in the Canadian Arctic & Sub-Arctic: Importance of DOM Quality & Quantity in a Warming Climate
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-28)Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a ubiquitous component of aquatic and terrestrial systems and an important constituent that can influence aquatic health and drinking water quality. For instance, DOM can act as an important ... -
Dissolved Oxygen Dynamics in the Dunnville Marsh on the Grand River, Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2009-02-19)Dissolved oxygen (DO) is one of the most important environmental factors necessary to sustain aquatic life. The Southern Grand River is characterized with extensive marshes. This study focuses on the Dunnville Marsh in ... -
Dissonant Child: Grassroots Interfaith in a Multicultural Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-19)While Canada's increasing ethnic and racial diversity have received a great deal of attention in recent years, the pluralization of its religious makeup has been largely ignored. As a result, political and societal responses ... -
Distance Measurement-Based Cooperative Source Localization: A Convex Range-Free Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-19)One of the most essential objectives in WSNs is to determine the spatial coordinates of a source or a sensor node having information. In this study, the problem of range measurement-based localization of a signal source ... -
Distance Measures for Probabilistic Patterns
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-07)Numerical measures of pattern dissimilarity are at the heart of pattern recognition and classification. Applications of pattern recognition grow more sophisticated every year, and consequently we require distance measures ... -
Distance-Biregular Graphs and Orthogonal Polynomials
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-15)This thesis is about distance-biregular graphs– when they exist, what algebraic and structural properties they have, and how they arise in extremal problems. We develop a set of necessary conditions for a distance-biregular ... -
Distinguishing Burials in Thebes, Greece: Using MNI and MLNI as a Differentiation Technique
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-22)The objective of this thesis was to determine an additional method to help distinguish between types of burials in Thebes, Greece and generally in archaeological remains. Using two quantification methods, MNI and MLNI, ... -
Distinguishing Low, Moderate, and High Test Anxiety
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-26)It is very common and understandable for post-secondary students to feel anxious leading up to a test. However, test anxiety can be a serious problem for some students. It is important to identify these individuals, given ...