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Making Spaces: Mapping Opportunities for Improved Equity in Makerspaces and Virtual Reality
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-01)The promise of "making"—that is, learning, experimenting, DIY, creation, reappropriation, or otherwise—has become a popular topic in human-computer interaction (HCI) research, and a subject of interest for public institutions ... -
Making the Child's World: Fostering Permanence
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Making the Child's World: Fostering Permanence, is a redefining, reordering and recalibration of the planning of a centre for children in transition within the child welfare system that would operate alongside foster homes. ... -
Making the City : A Document on Tactical Urbanism
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-22)In the past decade city of Toronto has seen an unprecedented growth in its population. This surge on growth of the city poses questions about the quality of its future public and private spaces and its patterns of growth. In ... -
Malaria in the Amazon: An Agent-Based Approach to Epidemiological Modeling of Coupled Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-21)The epidemiology of malaria considers a complex set of local interactions amongst host, vector, and environment. A history of reemergence, epidemic transition, and ensuing endemic transmission in Iquitos, Peru reveals an ... -
MALLOCALYPSE: the loss of great space
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)The contemporary North American believes that you can purchase happiness. We search in boxes labeled new and improved, looking for products that are forever bigger, stronger, and faster. We want these things because they ... -
The mammalian skin microbiome
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-23)Skin constitutes the primary physical barrier between mammals and their external environment. Characterization of the microorganisms on skin is essential for understanding how a host evolves in association with its microbial ... -
Management of a River Recreation Resource: Understanding the Inputs to Management of Outdoor Recreational Resources
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-21)Research into the use of natural resources and protected areas for the pursuit of outdoor recreational opportunities has been examined by a number of researchers. One activity with growth in recent years is river recreation, ... -
The Management of Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-10)Abstract: Pharmaceuticals and their metabolites, collectively known as pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs), have been detected in surface water, groundwater, and drinking water, in a number of countries, since ... -
Management of introduced American bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeiana Shaw 1802) in the South Okanagan, British Columbia
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-10)Introduced invasive species threaten biodiversity on a global scale. An estimated fifteen new species introduction and establishments occur in aquatic systems per decade in Canada. A particular introduced aquatic species ... -
Management of Urban Ecosystems and the Application of the Novel Ecosystem Evaluation Framework in the City of Kitchener
(University of Waterloo, 2016-03-31)Increasing urbanization and the impacts associated with human settlements are major factors in the degradation of ecological integrity and main contributors to the emergence of novel ecosystems. As landscapes across Southern ... -
Managing Accessibility: A Case Study at the University of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-23)This study examined how a quality management system, which includes a crowdsourcing application, could improve accessibility. As a result this research captured the interactions a person with impairment has with the built ... -
Managing an urban forest: Have street tree populations of Acer platanoides invaded forested parks?
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-13)This study examined the existing, or potential, risk of invasion by street trees into an urban forested park (Breithaupt Park, a 32.5 hectare semi-forested park, and its surrounding residential neighbourhood in the City ... -
Managing and Complementing Public Key Infrastructure for Securing Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-28)Recently, vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) has emerged as an excellent candidate to change the life style of the traveling passengers along the roads and highways in terms of improving the safety levels and providing a ... -
Managing Cache Consistency to Scale Dynamic Web Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-24)Data caching is a technique that can be used by web servers to speed up the response time of client requests. Dynamic websites are becoming more popular, but they pose a problem –- it is difficult to cache dynamic content, ... -
Managing Change: Considering the Relevance of Place Identity for Planning in British Columbia?s Communities in Transition. An Applied Research Case Study of Three Vancouver Island Communities.
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Beginning in 1980, large forestry corporations in British Columbia began to rapidly downsize and restructure their operations. The combination of volatile international market conditions, increasing demands for environmental ... -
Managing Children with Asthma at Home Daycares: The Views of Providers
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-20)Background: Over 180,000 deaths annually are caused by asthma. It is expected that more than 80% of these deaths could be avoided with proper educational and chronic disease management programs. For example, Rayne Stanley, ... -
Managing Consistency of Business Process Models across Abstraction Levels
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-08)Process models support the transition from business requirements to IT implementations. An organization that adopts process modeling often maintain several co-existing models of the same business process. These models ... -
Managing Exposure to Pipeline’s Risks: Improving Brazil’s Risk-Based Regulatory Process
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-15)Traditional risk-based decision-making processes have limitations that often compromise the management of technological hazards. The research is organized into three major components. Firstly, it investigates concepts and ... -
Managing for Ecosystem Resilience in Fathom Five National Marine Park, Lake Huron, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-22)Protected areas are considered to be the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation strategies and are valued sources of human well-being and ecosystem services. Yet they are not immune to the unprecedented impacts being ... -
Managing HBM’s bandwidth in Multi-Die FPGAs using Overlay NoCs
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-18)We can improve HBM bandwidth distribution and utilization on a multi-die FPGA like Xilinx Alveo U280 by using Overlay Network-on-Chips (NoCs). HBM in Xilinx Alveo U280 offers 8GBs of memory capacity with a theoretical ...