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Meaningful design in a multicultural community. A case study on multi-functional urban parks.
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-26)Urban planning is responsible for the arrangement of environments that we are living in as well as for the design of urban parks that allow us to escape from everyday stressors. However, we no longer live in culturally ... -
Meanings of Leisure in the Everyday Lives of Chinese University Students
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-28)While meanings of leisure have been widely studied from Western perspectives, to date, few researchers have explored the meanings of leisure in non-Western cultural contexts. However, in an era of globalization, it is ... -
The Means of Relief: Transitional Housing in the Region of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-26)The unfortunate paradox of the architectural profession is that it prides itself on being of service to the public, yet it is those most in need of an architect’s service that can least afford it. With conditions of ... -
Means-end Search for Hidden Objects by 6.5-month-old Infants: Examination of an Experiential Limitation Hypothesis
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Three experiments were conducted to investigate the hypothesis that young infants? failures to search for occluded objects arises, not from deficiencies in their object representations, but from limitations in experience ... -
The Measure Of Meaning
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)There exists a broad inclination among those who theorize about mental representation to assume that the meanings of linguistic units, like words, are going to be identical to, and work exactly like, mental representations, ... -
MeasureIt-ARCH: A Tool for Facilitating Architectural Design in the Open Source Software Blender
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)This thesis discusses the design and synthesis of MeasureIt-ARCH, a GNU GPL licensed software add-on developed by the author in order to add functionality to the Open Source 3D modeling software Blender that facilitates ... -
Measurement and Characterization of Heat and Mass Diffusion in PEMFC Porous Media
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-19)A single polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is comprised of several sub-millimetre thick layers of varying porosity sandwiched together. The thickness of each layer, which typically ranges from 10 to 200μm, is ... -
Measurement and Factor Structure of Developmental Trauma Disorder Symptoms in Children Involved in Child Welfare
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-09)Childhood trauma is associated with a wide array of neurodevelopmental, physiological, psychosocial, and emotional challenges beyond those captured by posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)—especially in instances of multiple ... -
Measurement and Modeling of Entropy Generation in Microchannels
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-09)Entropy based design is a novel design method that incorporates the second law of thermodynamics with computational and experimental techniques to achieve the upper limits of performance and quality in engineering technologies. ... -
Measurement Devices for Custom Shoe Manufacturing
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)The majority of North Americans suffer from foot problems at some point in their lives. These foot problems can be divided into three domains ranging from mismatch on healthy feet, to small injuries and deformities and ... -
Measurement Error and Misclassification in Interval-Censored Life History Data
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-04)In practice, data are frequently incomplete in one way or another. It can be a significant challenge to make valid inferences about the parameters of interest in this situation. In this thesis, three problems involving ... -
Measurement of Fuel Regression Rate of a Pool Fire in Crosswind With and Without a Large Downwind Blocking Object
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)Transportation accidents and the resulting fires are an important field of study. At the University of Waterloo Live Fire Research Facility (UWLFRF), an experiment was conducted in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories ... -
THE MEASUREMENT OF INTER-PARTICLE DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS IN MINE WASTES
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-04)Acid mine drainage (AMD) is the release of acidic waters from mines, waste-rock piles and mine tailings impoundments containing high concentrations of SO4, Fe(II) and other metal(oid)s. The bulk of AMD generation occurs ... -
Measurement of Surface Tensions in Aggregated Cells of the Embryonic Chick
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-23)Cell surface properties are crucial to the mechanisms by which groups of cells organize themselves during embryogenesis, cancer metastases and tissue engineering. Measured surface tension values provide a quantitative ... -
Measurement of Tensile Forces in Xenopus laevis Neural Tissue
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)Neurulation is critical for the proper development of the central nervous system during embryogenesis. This process requires coordinated morphogenetic movements driven by localized cell movements. The key morphogenetic ... -
Measurement of the Quality Factor for the Micro Electromechanical System Cantilever Devices by Using Non-Destructive Test Methodology
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-01)Development of the reliability and the performance of Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) devices are the most challenging tasks of scientists and engineers. At the same time, there is a need for advance and more complex ... -
Measurement of Ventilation and Drying of Vinyl Siding and Brick Clad Wall Assemblies
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Control of moisture and heat flow through building enclosure assemblies is a critical component of overall building performance. This thesis shows that significant drying of moisture in wall assemblies is possible and ... -
Measurement System Assessment Studies for Multivariate and Functional Data
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-15)A measurement system analysis involves understanding and quantifying the variability in measurement data attributed to the measurement system. A primary goal of such analyses is to assess the measurement system's impact ... -
Measurement, Decision-Making and the Pursuit of Social Innovation in Canadian Social Finance
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-28)This dissertation explores the use of social financing as a strategy to generate social innovation in Canada. Social financing is a strategy intended on positively changing social-ecological systems through investments ... -
Measurement-based Admission Control for Real-Time Traffic in IEEE 802.16 Wireless Metropolitan Area Network
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-16)To support real-time applications, we present a Measurement-based Admission Control (MBAC) scheme with Modified Largest Weighted Delay First (M-LWDF) scheduling algorithm. The objective of the admission control scheme is ...