Browsing Theses by Title
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A Knowledge Perspective of Strategic Alliances and Management of Biopharmaceutical Innovation: Evolving Research Paradigms
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-08)Information from the Human Genome Project is being integrated into the drug discovery and development process to permit novel drug targets to be identified, clinical trial testing to be made more efficient, and efficacious ... -
Knowledge Transfer and Exchange in Work and Health Research
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-28)Knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) is the practice of preparing and disseminating research to those who can use it. The burden of workplace injury and illness can be great affecting workers, workplaces, the medical ... -
Knowledge, First Aid and the Moral Requirements of Rescue
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)In cases involving the rescue of people in need of immediate medical care, it is often thought that the responsibility to save the lives of the imperilled falls to advanced professionals, such as paramedics, doctors, nurses, ... -
Knowledge, Justice, and Subjects with Cognitive or Developmental Disability
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-20)This thesis includes four research papers, each devoted to a topic in philosophy of cognitive disability and its intersection with other areas of philosophy. Three focus on issues of cognitive or developmental disability ... -
A Knowledge-based Energy-saving Approach to PWM Control of a Novel Integrated Pneumatic Valve
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-21)As manufacturers, the automotive industry, and many other sectors face an increasingly competitive global business environment; they seek opportunities to reduce production costs by reducing energy consumption. Energy costs ... -
Koblitz's Conjecture for the Drinfeld Module
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-01)Let $E$ be an elliptic curve over the rationals without complex multiplication such that any elliptic curve $\mathbb{Q}$-isogenous to $E$ has trivial $\mathbb{Q}$-torsion. Koblitz conjectured that the number of primes less ... -
"Kometensplitter einer Biographie" & die vielstimmige Beweglichkeit der Kunst. Autofiktionales Erzählen in Felicitas HOPPEs Hoppe
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-28)In this thesis I examine in how far, or to which degree, the concept of autofiction can be applied to Felicitas Hoppe’s text Hoppe (2012). Since the coinage of the term ‘autofiction’ by Serge Doubrovsky in the 1970s, ... -
Kommunikative Praktiken des Widerstands in psychotherapeutischen Gesprächen: Patientenwiderstand durch reaktive Ich-weiß-nicht-Konstruktionen / Communicative practices of resistance in psychotherapy interactions: Patients' resistance through reactive Ich-weiß-nicht-constructions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-30)In recent years, there has been an increase in conversation analytic research on psychotherapeutic interactions (Marciniak, Nikendei, Ehrenthal, & Spranz-Fogasy, 2016), particularly on the practices of patient resistance ... -
KPI Information Acquisition by Analysts: Evidence from Conference Calls
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-10)As performance measures based on generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) deteriorate in usefulness, information users are placing more reliance on alternative performance measures. Key performance indicators (KPIs) ... -
Kung Fu is Inside the Body: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Cultivating Martial Art Practices
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-20)The purpose of this phenomenological inquiry was to explore the meaning-making and cultivation of Kung Fu within a martial arts club. The inquiry focused specifically on the teachings of Grandmaster Qing Fu Pan, and how ... -
Kylie Jenner and Her Instagram Audience: A Lacanian Cultural Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-27)This thesis aims to examine the perception of female gender on Instagram by utilizing a conceptual framework based on the Mirror Stage theory of Jacques Lacan. Taking Kylie Jenner’s Instagram profile as an example of ... -
L'Enfant migrant dans la littérature pour la jeunesse : une analyse de six albums illustrés
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-19)Cette thèse vise à mettre en lumière la représentation de l’enfant migrant dans la littérature pour la jeunesse à travers l’analyse de six albums illustrés francophones : Nul poisson où aller (2003) de Marie-Francine Hébert ... -
L'image de la prison dans la littérature française et québécoise du 20e siècle
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-25)Cette thèse se consacre à l’analyse de l’image de la prison dans la littérature française et québécoise du 20e siècle et du début du 21e siècle. Elle examine un corpus vaste et varié constitué d’ouvrages de fiction et de ... -
L'intériorité des personnages dans les nouvelles de Maurice Henrie
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)On trouve dans l’écriture de l’auteur franco-ontarien Maurice Henrie certains thèmes, tels l’isolement et la dépression. Cette thématique apparaît particulièrement dans ses recueils de nouvelles, dont il a publié six. Dans ... -
L1-Penalized Ordinal Regression and Bayesian Variable Selection for Linear Models with Multiple Responses
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-20)Polychotomous ordinal response data are often analyzed by first introduce a latent continuous variable which can be modeled as an ordinary regression problem with the presence of covariates by using Markov chain Monte Carlo ... -
L2 discourse markers and the development of interactional competence during study abroad
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-25)In my dissertation, I use the theories and methodologies of Conversation Analysis (or “CA”, see Sacks et al., 1974) to investigate how speakers of a second language (or 'L2') develop the ability to interact in the L2 — or ... -
La chanson sociale québécoise et nicaraguayenne de 1960 à 1980.
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-27)L’étude qui suit a pour le but une juxtaposition des textes de chansons sociales produites au Québec et au Nicaragua de 1960 à 1980. Les auteurs choisis sont : Raymond Lévesque, Georges Dor, Carlos Mejía Godoy et Luis ... -
La dénomination dans Une enfance créole de Patrick Chamoiseau
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-23)Le nom propre occupe une place prépondérante dans la société antillaise en raison de l’histoire de la dénomination qui ne peut pas être séparée des réalités coloniales et de l’esclavage. Dans la présente étude, nous nous ... -
La dimension temporelle chez Emil Cioran
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-01)En étudiant quatre aspects du temps (le temps historique, le temps mythique, le temps existentiel, et le temps eternel) chez l’essayiste et le philosophe roumain d’expression française, Emil Cioran (1911-1995) en m’appuyant ... -
La représentation de la famille éclatée dans la littérature québécoise pour les adolescents
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-26)Notre thèse examine comment la réalité moderne de l’éclatement familial au Québec est représentée dans cinq romans récents destinés à un public adolescent : No man’s land et La liberté? Connais pas... de Charlotte ...