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Assessing Sensitivity of Subsurface Mine-Dewatering Activities to Climate Change
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-01)Underground mining activities require constant removal of groundwater from their void spaces to maintain dry and safely accessible excavations for ore extraction in a process known as dewatering. The nature and degree ... -
Assessing socio-economic determinants of energy-saving behavior in Waterloo Region
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-15)The residential sector is responsible for significant amounts of energy consumption; leading to several important social, economic, and environmental issues. The expected future population growth will require additional ... -
Assessing Stratigraphic Controls on the Secondary Detrital Footprint from Buried Mineralization and Alteration at the Highland Valley Copper Mine, British Columbia
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)Mineral exploration is progressively shifting to deeper targets, including those buried under thick unconsolidated sediments. It is thus becoming increasingly important to understand the sedimentary successions of the ... -
Assessing Taxonomic Issues with the Genera Anabaena, Aphanizomenon and Nostoc Using Morphology, 16S rRNA and efp genes
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-08)Cyanobacteria are an ancient lineage of gram-negative photosynthetic prokaryotes that play an important role in the nitrogen cycle in terrestrial and aquatic systems. Widespread cyanobacterial blooms have prompted numerous ... -
Assessing the Accuracy of Cosmological Parameters Estimated from Velocity – Density Comparisons
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-10)A promising method for measuring the cosmological parameter combination fσ₈ is to compare observed peculiar velocities with peculiar velocities predicted from a galaxy density field using linear perturbation theory, known ... -
Assessing the Active Transportation Potential of Neighbourhood Models Using GIS
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)This study sought to determine how five neighbourhood models (the Grid, Loop and Cul-de-Sac, Fused Grid, New Urbanist and Greenway) compare in terms of the characteristics known to affect active transportation rates, and ... -
Assessing the association between the error-related ERPs and trait anxiety using mass univariate statistics
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-28)Enhanced error monitoring, as reflected in increased amplitude of the error-related negativity (ERN) ERP component, has been suggested to be a vulnerability neuro-marker of anxiety disorders. However, the association between ... -
Assessing the Canadian Commercial Real Estate Sector's View and Preparedness regarding Flood Risk
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-29)The process of climate change, with its projected occurrence of extreme weather events, such as flooding, has clear implications on the Canadian Commercial Real Estate (CRE) business sector. CRE businesses, which are ... -
Assessing the challenges and potential of implementing composting as part of a municipal solid waste management system in Baisha, Hainan, China
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-24)China currently produces the largest quantity of municipal solid waste (MSW) in the world at 190, 000, 000 metric tones (World Bank 2005). China faces the continuing challenge of increased waste generation due to population ... -
Assessing the Circulation Response to Snow Albedo Feedback in Climate Change
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-19)Snow Albedo Feedback (SAF) in response to climate change is a process that can amplify the climate warming response to increases in anthropogenic atmospheric CO2 concentrations from the 20th to the 21st Century. Warmer ... -
Assessing the Connectivity of Groundwater Wells to Surface-Water Using a Volumetric Capture Delineation Tool
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-06)Existing groundwater modeling methods for determining the degree of groundwater well connectivity to surface-water either provide weak guidance (i.e., analytical methods), only examine the hydrological impacts of pumping ... -
Assessing the Consistency of Subnational Agreements with International Norms: Water Policy in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Watershed
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-03)The purpose of this study is to assess whether the subnational water agreements that apply to the Great Lakes-St Lawrence River watershed are consistent with international norms and principles as articulated at United ... -
Assessing the Effects of Deep Release and Surface Release Reservoirs on Downstream Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities in the Grand River Watershed: Implications for Planning and Management
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-25)River regulation and reservoirs can provide a variety of services including flood protection, flow management and flow augmentation, however, there is increasing concern regarding these effects on downstream lotic environments ... -
Assessing the Effects of Disruptive Issues on the CSR of Canadian Multinational Gold Companies
(University of Waterloo, 2017-11-20)Mining activities provide significant economic and social benefits to Canada, and to the areas in which Canadian multinational mining companies operate internationally. However, mining activities also present both social ... -
Assessing the Environment Domain of the Canadian Index of Wellbeing: Potentials for Leveraging Policy
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-29)This thesis is aimed at understanding the environment domain of the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) and how it can further contribute to communicative strategies that promote strategic sustainable development. Several ... -
Assessing The Erodibility of Cohesive Media in Southwestern Ontario With In-Situ Mini-JET Methodology
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-25)Despite research indicating that the resistance of cohesive sediments to fluvial erosion is related to the geologic media, regulators and industry in Southern Ontario do not typically consider the diversity in geologic ... -
ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTIONS ON THE REPORTED PROBABILITY OF HEAT PUMP ADOPTION
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-10)It is regarded that targeted energy efficiency improvements to residential, commercial, and industrial buildings are essential components of an effective climate action plan. While the energy performance of buildings in ... -
Assessing the Impacts of Sea Level Rise in the Caribbean using Geographic Information Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)Numerous studies project that climate change will accelerate the rise in global sea levels, leading to increased coastal inundation, greater potential damage from storm surge events, beach erosion and other coastal impacts ... -
Assessing the Influence and Effectiveness of Watershed Report Cards on Watershed Management: A Study of Watershed Organizations in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-28)The concept and practice of watershed management have evolved since the early twentieth century and continue to change. Contemporary watershed management, as a means to improve environmental, social, and economic well-being, ... -
Assessing the influence of canopy snow parameterizations on snow albedo feedback in boreal forest regions
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-09)Variation in snow albedo feedback (SAF) among CMIP5 climate models has been shown to explain much of the variation in projected 21st Century warming over Northern Hemisphere land. Prior studies using observations and models ...