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Emotional expressivity in early adulthood as a predictor of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in late adulthood
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-23)Background: As the global population ages, the prevalence of age-related disorders, such as dementia, is increasing. Dementia is a condition of progressive deterioration of cognitive ability that leads to functional deficits. ... -
Emotional Labour in the Global Context: The Roles of Intercultural and Intracultural Service Encounters, Intergroup Anxiety, and Cultural Intelligence on Surface Acting
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)Research on emotional labour has shown that surface acting is the main correlate of employee ill-being such as emotional exhaustion, but culture moderates this relationship, highlighting the importance of considering the ... -
Emotional Reactivity, Negative Affect, and Executive Functioning: Does Physiology Matter?
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-12)Emotional reactivity reflects the activation, intensity, and duration of an emotional event. Although it is well-established that emotional reactivity has negative implications on psychological functioning, studies have ... -
Emotions and Context in Decision-making for a Socially Intelligent Agent
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-03)Artificial intelligence (AI) research has largely focused on rational thinking, decision making, goal achievement, and reward maximization. Emotions have been considered nonessential, or even detrimental, when designing ... -
Emotions and the Environment: The Variable Effect of Environmental Complexity on Pleasure and Interest
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-03)This dissertation establishes a more comprehensive examination of the often discussed environmental complexity effect on emotional response by addressing four specific considerations. First, positive emotional response was ... -
Emphasize the Gap! Towards a Žižekian Definition of Critical-Emancipatory Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-22)Confronted with issues, whose (socioeconomic) causes cannot be resolved through the modification of the built environment, architectural interventions may often inadvertently aid the reproduction of the problems they seek ... -
Empirical Analysis and Modelling of Information and Communications Technology in Agriculture for Southern Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2017-02-22)Information and communications technology (ICT) represents an important enabling technology for on-farm operations that helps to maximise yield and minimise on-farm inputs. This study investigates the adoption factors and ... -
Empirical Analysis of Algorithms for Block-Angular Linear Programs
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-29)This thesis aims to study the theoretical complexity and empirical performance of decomposition algorithms. We focus on linear programs with a block-angular structure. Decomposition algorithms used to be the only way to ... -
Empirical and Kinetic Models for the Determination of Pharmaceutical Product Stability
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-01)Drug stability is one of the vital subjects in the pharmaceutical industry. All drug products should be kept stable and protected against any chemical, physical, and microbiological degradation to ensure their efficacy and ... -
Empirical Design Rules for Binder Jetting Additive Manufacturing
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-23)Metal binder jetting additive manufacturing (BJAM) is an additive manufacturing (AM) process that builds parts from a feedstock metal powder material by spreading a layer of powder, then depositing liquid binder over the ... -
Empirical Essays in Water and Electricity Use
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-30)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays evaluating the impacts of educational attainment and average income at the community level on water consumption, the effects of different sources of energy on wholesale ... -
An Empirical Evaluation of the Viability of the Serverless Paradigm for Scientific Workflows
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-22)Scientific workflows are typically data-intensive. They consist of many stages, each of which may contain hundreds to even thousands of tasks. Traditionally, scientific workflows have been executed using the serverful ... -
Empirical Game Theoretic Models for Autonomous Driving: Methods and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-16)In recent years, there has been enormous public interest in autonomous vehicles (AV), with more than 80 billion dollars invested in self-driving car technology. However, for the foreseeable future, self-driving cars will ... -
An Empirical Investigation of Internet Privacy: Customer Behaviour, Companies’ Privacy Policy Disclosures, and a Gap
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)Privacy emerges as a critical issue in an e-commerce environment because of a fundamental tension among corporate, consumer, and government interests. By reviewing prior Internet-privacy research in the fields of information ... -
Empirical Likelihood and Bootstrap Inference with Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-18)Empirical likelihood and the bootstrap play influential roles in contemporary statistics. This thesis studies two distinct statistical inference problems, referred to as Part I and Part II, related to the empirical ... -
Empirical Likelihood Inference for Two-Sample Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)In this thesis, we are interested in empirical likelihood (EL) methods for two-sample problems, with focus on the difference of the two population means. A weighted empirical likelihood method (WEL) for two-sample problems ... -
Empirical Likelihood Method for Ratio Estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2011-03-17)Empirical likelihood, which was pioneered by Thomas and Grunkemeier (1975) and Owen (1988), is a powerful nonparametric method of statistical inference that has been widely used in the statistical literature. In this ... -
Empirical Likelihood Methods for Pretest-Posttest Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-21)Pretest-posttest trials are an important and popular method to assess treatment effects in many scientific fields. In a pretest-posttest study, subjects are randomized into two groups: treatment and control. Before the ... -
Empirical Likelihood Methods for Some Incomplete Data Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-18)Incomplete data often brings difficulty to estimations and inferences. A complete case (CC) analysis, in most cases, leads to biased estimates, or it may not have the desired estimation efficiency. In this thesis, we develop ... -
Empirical Likelihood Quantile Regression for Right-Censored Data
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-17)Quantile estimation of time-to-event data plays a key role in many medical applications, especially conditional on covariates of interest. In such settings, bias due to model misspecification is an important concern. As ...