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The ordinary Niagara Falls
(University of Waterloo, 2024-03-11)Tourism is a practice traditionally geared away from the ordinary; by virtue of its opposition from everyday life tourism is an act through which we see and do extraordinary things (Urry, 1992). Over time, tourism scholars ... -
Organic and Inorganic Nanostructured Materials as Electrodes for Hybrid Capacitors
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-03)Global energy demands are expected to continuously grow in the coming decades, while the dominant source of energy remains finite fossil fuels. In addition to this challenge, excessive consumption of fossil fuels has ... -
Organic matter decomposition at a constructed fen in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region in Alberta, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2019-03-13)Resource mining and extraction in northern Alberta has resulted in substantial disturbances across a variety of ecosystems, including fen peatlands. Provincial regulations require companies to reclaim disturbed areas to ... -
Organic Semiconductor Detector for Large Area Digital Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-09)Organic semiconductor technology has gained attention in both the sensor and display markets due to its low cost and simple fabrication techniques. The ability to fabricate organic semiconductor devices such as photodetectors ... -
Organic Thin Film Transistor Integration
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-23)This thesis examines strategies to exploit existing materials and techniques to advance organic thin film transistor (OTFT) technology in device performance, device manufacture, and device integration. To enhance device ... -
Organic Thin-Film Transistor Based Gas Sensors for Putrescine Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-11)The application of organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) has been progressing in the area of sensors for decades now. For accomplishing gas sensing in ambient conditions, polymers with good air stability and high enough ... -
Organic Tissue Stoichiometry of Cladophora glomerata and its Relation to Coastal Land Use in the Laurentian Great Lakes
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-04)The relationships between C:N:P (carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) stoichiometry of Cladophora glomerata and land use characteristics in selected nearshore areas of the lower Laurentian Great Lakes were determined during ... -
Organic Volunteering: Exploring Understandings and Meanings of Experience
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)Volunteer tourism, a sub-sector of the tourism industry, is growing at an accelerated pace subsequently creating socio-cultural, political, cultural, and environmental impacts. Current tourism literature suggests volunteer ... -
Organic-Inorganic Nanomaterial Based Highly Efficient Flexible Nanogenerator for Self-Powered Wireless Electronics
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-01)As the world progresses towards artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT), self‐powered sensor systems are increasingly vital for sensing and detection. Nanogenerators, a new technology in energy research, ... -
Organically Grown Microgrids: the Development and Simulation of a Solar Home System-based Microgrid
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-16)The United Nations has declared 2012 the ``International Year of Sustainable Energy for All''. A substantial portion of the world's population (some 1.3 billion people) currently live without electricity and development ... -
Organization and Provider Factors That Influence the Utilization of Arthritis Best Practices in Primary Care
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)Background: Most treatment for people with arthritis occurs at the primary care level yet many studies have documented the need for improved arthritis management in this environment. The dissemination of clinical practice ... -
Organizational Climate and Turnover in the Health Sector.The Case of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana.
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-15)The study examined organizational climate and turnover in the health sector of Ghana with particular reference to a case study on the country’s premier teaching hospital formally called Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. In the ... -
Organizational Knowledge Creation to Enhance Adaptive Capacity: Exploratory Case Studies in Water Resource Management
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-07)This research focuses on how conservation authorities create organizational knowledge to enhance adaptive capacity to improve environmental policy. Organizational knowledge creation refers to the ability to create, disseminate ... -
Organizational strategy, technology and public participation in municipal planning
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-23)Research focused on public participation in municipal planning typically seeks to evaluate and improve methods for integrating community input into planning decision processes. Research in the use of information and ... -
The Organizational Structure and Effectiveness of Canadian National Sport Governing Bodies
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-15)In this study, voluntary amateur sport organizations were examined from an organizational perspective using Weber's theory of bureaucracy as a conceptual framework. The first purpose was to examine the relationships between ... -
Organized youth sport, parenthood ideologies and gender relations: Parents' and children's experiences and the construction of "team family".
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-25)While the importance and scope of children’s sport participation has been a topic of research, to date, few researchers have explored the impact organized youth sport may have on family life. In particular, little attention ... -
Organocatalytic Asymmetric Conjugate Addition of Heteroaryl Moieties to α,β-Unsaturated Enones Using Boronates and 3,3ʹ-Disubstituted Binaphthols
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-30)Asymmetric conjugate addition is an important methodology for carbon-carbon bond formation in organic synthesis. While there is extensive literature on the asymmetric conjugate addition of a wide selection of donors to ... -
Orientation and Transitions of Lyotropic Lamellar Phase under Shear
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-24)The intention of this study is to investigate the evolution and transition of lyotropic lamellar phase and the formation of multi-lamellar vesicles (MLVs) under shear flow, since the shear technology can be used to produce ... -
Orienting to probable stimuli increases speed, precision, and kurtosis. A study in perceptual estimation.
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-15)Stimulus probabilities affect detection performance. Rare targets, even in security or medical screenings, are missed more often than frequent ones. To minimize such probability-related costs, there is a need to understand ... -
Origin of NMR Spectral Features in MCM-41 at Low Hydrations
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-01)Although extensive literature exists on NMR of water in MCM-41, the origin of a number of NMR spectral features in this material had not been understood. Specifically, the OH proton resonance observed in the dry material ...