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Mental Health Service Use Among Children with Chronic Physical Illness
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-31)Background: Children with chronic physical illness (e.g., diabetes, epilepsy) are significantly more likely to experience adverse mental health. While mental health service use (MHSU) amongst Canadian children has increased ... -
Mental Model Updating and Eye Movements
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-31)Two studies investigated what eye movements can reveal about how we process surprising information and use it to update mental models. Mental models guide our actions to make decisions in a dynamic environment. Participants ... -
Mercury dynamics in the anadromous Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) and food webs of inner Frobisher Bay, Nunavut
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-06)Mercury (Hg) is a ubiquitous toxic metal that bioaccumulates in organisms and biomagnifies in food webs. Evaluating Hg bioaccumulation and biomagnification in Arctic marine ecosystems is critical for understanding Hg ... -
Mercury Exposure Analyses Amongst Dene and Métis Communities of the Northwest Territories
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-09)Background: Fish is an important food source for many Indigenous communities within the Dehcho and Sahtú regions of Northwest Territories (NWT). However, environmental toxicants, such as mercury (Hg), can bioaccumulate and ... -
Mercury Stabilization in Contaminated Sediment by Co-blending with Solid-Phase Reactive Media
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-01)Mercury (Hg) is a toxic heavy metal and environmental contaminant that can accumulate in both terrestrial and aquatic environments. Pollutant Hg is derived primarily from anthropogenic sources such as mining, coal burning ... -
Mercury Transformation and Release from Contaminated Soil Following Perturbations in Solution Chemistry and Application of Polysulfide
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-09)Mercury (Hg) is a contaminant of concern due to the very high toxicity and bioaccumulating nature of organic Hg and the persistent leaching of Hg to water bodies from contaminated soils and sediments. The deleterious ... -
Merging the Real and the Virtual: An Exploration of Interaction Methods to Blend Realities
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-20)We investigate, build, and design interaction methods to merge the real with the virtual. An initial investigation looks at spatial augmented reality (SAR) and its effects on pointing with a real mobile phone. A study ... -
Merleau-Ponty and the Preconceptions of Objective Thinking
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-18)Maurice Merleau-Ponty thinks that many classical theories of perception, especially reductionism, are influenced by the objective and the scientific form of thinking. Such influence is expressed in two preconceptions. The ... -
Meso – and Neoarchean tectonic evolution of the northwestern Superior Province: Insights from a U-Pb geochronology, Nd isotope, and geochemistry study of the Island Lake greenstone belt, Northeastern Manitoba
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-21)What tectonic processes were operating in the Archean, and whether they were similar to the “modern-style” plate tectonics seen operating today, is a fundamental question about Archean geology. The Superior Province is the ... -
Mesoscale Hydrological Model Validation and Verification using Stable Water Isotopes: The isoWATFLOOD Model
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-11)This thesis develops a methodology for mesoscale model verification and validation that is founded on the rigorous constraint imposed by the need to conserve both water mass and isotopes simultaneously. The isoWATFLOOD ... -
Mesoscale modeling and direct simulation of explosively dispersed granular materials
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-09)Explosively dispersed granular materials frequently exhibit macroscale coherent particle clustering and jetting structures. The underlying mechanism is of significant interest to study instability and mixing in high-speed ... -
Message Authentication and Recognition Protocols Using Two-Channel Cryptography
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-02)We propose a formal model for non-interactive message authentication protocols (NIMAPs) using two channels and analyze all the attacks that can occur in this model. Further, we introduce the notion of hybrid-collision ... -
Message Forwarding and Scheduling in Delay Tolerant Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-15)Delay-tolerant networking (DTN) has recently received considerable attention from the research community. This type of networks is characterized by frequent disconnections due to propagation phenomena, node mobility, and ... -
Message Order and Culture: The Relationship between Cognitive Thinking Styles, Response Mode, and Order Effects
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)Previous research has documented the prevalent effects of message order on message persuasiveness. Based on the Belief Updating Model (Hogarth and Einhorn, 1992), response mode has been found as one moderator of primacy ... -
Messier 87: A Laboratory for Exploring AGN Variability using the Event Horizon Telescope
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-17)At a distance of 50 million light years at the heart of the Virgo cluster, lies the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87. This galaxy has at its center a brilliant relativistic jet, observable at all wavelengths, and at the ... -
Meta-learning Performance Prediction of Highly Configurable Systems: A Cost-oriented Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-27)A key challenge of the development and maintenance of configurable systems is to predict the performance of individual system variants based on the features selected. It is usually infeasible to measure the performance of ... -
Metabolic Analysis of a CHO Cell Line in Batch and Fed-batch Culture
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)Animal cell culture is widely used as a platform for the production of a variety of biopharmaceuticals. The development of an efficient and productive cell culture requires a deep understanding of intra-cellular mechanisms ... -
Metabolic Engineering Sinorhizobium meliloti and Pseudomonas putida for Novel Polymer Production
(University of Waterloo, 2015-03-03)S. meliloti belongs to nitrogen-fixing Rhizobia, the members of the Rhizobiales order of the α-proteobacteria. It can establish a symbiotic relationship with the Leguminosae family of flowering plants. In addition, it is ... -
Metabolism, transport, and physiologically based pharmacokinetic modelling of novel tacrine derivatives
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-26)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of dementia affecting the elderly population, and its burden is rapidly growing both in Canada and worldwide. As a result, there is a substantial need for more effective ... -
Metabolomic Profiling of Nutrient Solutions for Characterization of Human Gut Microbiota
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-06)Studying the metabolite output, the “exometabolome,” of bacterial communities provides insight into the metabolic interactions occurring within that ecosystem. As such, a metabolomic approach can be used to gain further ...