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In Debt to the State: Lived Experiences of Indebtedness in State-led Housing Projects in Istanbul
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-17)Over the last couple of decades, global debt has soared. Withdrawal of state welfare provision, expansion of financial markets, and dependency of people on credit for basic needs have led to increased indebtedness. Household ... -
In Defense of Moral Responsibility Skepticism
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-02)Moral responsibility skeptics have often focused on problems involving determinism in order to defend their position. I argue that this defense of moral responsibility skepticism is misplaced given that what really matters ... -
In Defense of Soil: an Ontario Greenbelt Regeneration Strategy
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-10)Ontario’s prime agricultural soils are in distress. Degraded by decades of intense conventional agricultural practices and threatened by the advancing footprint of suburban development, the once abundant layer of topsoil ... -
In Defense of the Systems Reply
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-29)In John Searle’s Minds, Brains, and Programs, he argues against the possibility of a digital computer capable of understanding. In particular, Searle puts forward the Chinese room thought experiment, which appears to ... -
In Perpetuity: Governance and Capacity Building of Local Land Trusts in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-15)This study examines the extent to which volunteer-run local land trusts in Ontario are governed in a manner that will allow them to protect valued ecosystems effectively in perpetuity. It also identifies needs and opportunities ... -
In Places Rarely Seen
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-25)In Places Rarely Seen is an interdisciplinary exhibition bringing together print installation, video, photography, sound and text. This thesis exhibition considers my own shifting perception of what Nature is and how I ... -
In Protection of No Woman: Consent, Illegitimacy, and Gender-Based Violence in Early Modern Somerset, 1600-1699
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-29)Over the course of the seventeenth century, 1298 women came before the Quarter Sessions to secure financial resources for the upkeep of their unborn children. These interactions with the legal system highlight the ways in ... -
In Search of a Scalable Geo-Distributed Consensus Protocol
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-20)Byzantine fault tolerant consensus protocols are a crucial component in blockchain systems. Traditional BFT consensus protocols have poor scalability, and their performance is sensitive to the latency between their ... -
In Search of an Ideal Modulator for Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-24)Gas chromatography has been a prevailing technique to separate different mixtures of volatile and semi-volatile compounds in order to qualitatively and quantitatively identify each individual component. With more complex ... -
In Search of Lost Time
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-16)In Marcel Proust's most famous novel, In Search of Lost Time, a Madeleine cake elicited in him a nostalgic memory of Combray. Here we present a computational hypothesis of how such an episodic memory is represented in a ... -
In Search of Manual Asymmetries in Aging during Performance of Activities of Daily Living: Does Upper Limb Performance Become More Symmetric with Age?
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)Introduction: A common disorder arising most frequently after a left hemisphere stroke is limb apraxia. Limb apraxia is a deficit of skilled movement, such as performance of activities of daily living (ADLs), that is not ... -
In Search of the Childhood : Re-imagining Street Children Care Centers in Tehran
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-20)The phenomenon of street children is a serious social issue in developing countries such as Iran. Despite the unavailability of official statistics, unofficial data determines that over 200,000 street children currently ... -
In Search of Wholeness
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-29)In Search of Wholeness is an exhibition of sculpture, alternative photography, and video. The work examines connections to healing and being. “The English ‘health’ derives from Old English ‘hælth’, which is related to ... -
In Silico Investigation of the Light Transmission Profiles of Sand-Textured Soils
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-14)Sand-textured soils are found in a wide range of landscapes, from dune fields to coastal areas. The quantification of light penetration through these soils, particularly considering possible variations in the presence ... -
In situ Chemical Oxidation of Creosote/Coal Tar Residuals: Experimental and Numerical Investigation
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Coal tar, coal tar creosote and oily wastes are often present as subsurface contaminants that may migrate below the water table, leaving a widely distributed residual source of contaminants leaching to the ground water. ... -
In situ chemical oxidation using unactivated sodium persulphate at a former fuel storage facility
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-21)Petroleum hydrocarbon (PHC) contamination poses a serious threat to aquifer systems worldwide. Accidental releases of PHCs due to gasoline spills and leakage from underground storage tanks can often result in PHC subsurface ... -
In situ Chemical Oxidation using Unactivated Sodium Persulphate at a Former Gasoline Station
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-09)The contamination of aquifer systems by petroleum hydrocarbons is a global problem. Underground storage tanks used for storing these hydrocarbons often leak, resulting in subsurface contamination. The hazards associated ... -
In Situ Measurements of Acoustic Properties of Surfaces
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-03)The primary goal of this work is to measure the acoustic properties of a surface in situ. This generally involves sound pressure measurements and a calculation of the acoustic reflection factor of a surface, which may then ... -
In situ Plasticization of Starch and Coblending with Bio-based Polyesters: An Investigation into The Process Parameters for Continuous Thermoplastic Starch Co-Polyester Manufacturing
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-01)Today’s industry seeks to engage in change which provides both environmentally and economically sustainable manufacturing solutions. The plastic industry’s current challenge is to produce bio-based polymers which offer ... -
In the Eye of the Beholder: Perceptions of Ecotourism in Algonquin Provincial Park
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-24)Since its inception, ecotourism has been promoted as a solution to some of the problems of biodiversity conservation. It has been touted as having the potential to balance the diverse interests of various publics by ensuring ...