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Population-level Indicators of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Sleep in Canada based on Twitter
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-17)Social media platforms contain large amounts of freely and publicly available data that could be used to measure population characteristics across different geographical regions. Analyzing public data sources such as ... -
Pore Network Modeling of Hydrodynamic Dispersion and Irreversible Adsorption of Nanoparticles in Partially Saturated Granular Media
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-20)The transport of nanoparticles in porous media, whether deliberate or accidental, is of critical importance in several fields including migration of contaminants, wastewater clean-up, and enhanced oil recovery. Pore scale ... -
A Poroelastic Model of Transcapillary Flow
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)Transcapillary exchange is the movement of fluid and molecules through the porous capillary wall, and is important in maintaining homeostasis of bodily tissues. The classical view of this process is that of Starling's ... -
Porous Asphalt Pavement Designs: Proactive Design for Cold Climate Use
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-14)Porous asphalt pavements offer an alternative technology for stormwater management. A porous asphalt pavement differs from traditional asphalt pavement designs in that the structure permits fluids to pass freely through ... -
Porous Media Thermoacoustic Stacks: Measurements and Models
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)The present research analyzes random porous thermoacoustic stack systems analytically, experimentally, and numerically with a primary objective to develop a comprehensive analytical porous media modeling for random porous ... -
Porous MXene Synthesis and Applications for Batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-02)Efficient electrochemical energy storage devices are of particular importance for accelerating the widespread adaption of renewable energy, and electrode materials are critical to achieve optimal system performance. MXene ... -
Port Place Reconsidered: Genius Loci and the Renewal of Port Dalhousie
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)Port Dalhousie, a neighbourhood of St. Catharines located on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, has in recent years experienced an economic, cultural, and social decline. Once the northern terminus of the Welland Canal, ... -
Port-based teleportation of continuous quantum variables
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-27)Quantum teleportation allows to transmit quantum information using classical information and entanglement only. Port-based teleportation is a variation of this procedure that involves simpler recovery operations to obtain ... -
PORTA: THE LANGUAGE OF DOORS
(University of Waterloo, 2008-11-14)In my master design studio, I was asked to imagine what I would say, what would be my story, if I was a door.This is the poem I wrote as an answer to this query: IF I WAS A DOOR Come closer; Let me tell you how ... -
Portable Post-Disaster Home
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)According to the United Nations statistics, since 2008, an average of 26.4 million people have been displaced per year because of natural disasters. In other words, one person loses his/her home every second. This is ... -
Portfolio Selection Under Nonsmooth Convex Transaction Costs
(University of Waterloo, 2006)We consider a portfolio selection problem in the presence of transaction costs. Transaction costs on each asset are assumed to be a convex function of the amount sold or bought. This function can be nondifferentiable ... -
A Portrait of Porta Portese
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)This thesis investigates an informally self-organized street market, Porta Portese, in Rome, Italy. As a response to the contemporary phenomenon of migration, of people and goods, Porta Portese reflects the city’s evolving ... -
Portraits from the State Mental Hospitals
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-12)The thesis is a short book of fifty sketches. I felt I threw out a significant amount of other material – plans, sketchup models, physical models, and photographs. Many people I had shown my work to were uninterested in ... -
Portraits of a Landscape & The Trouble With Eden
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-29)If there was ever a question about the subject of this work, I had only to return to the landscape. There was a strangness, a newness, an inevitability to those urban spaces around the city that insisted on my attention. ... -
Pose Estimation and Segmentation for Rehabilitation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-01)The global population is getting older and the aging demographic is increasing demands on health-care industry. This will drive the demand for post stroke, joint replacement, and chronic disease management rehabilitation. ... -
Posets of Non-Crossing Partitions of Type B and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-19)The thesis is devoted to the study of certain combinatorial objects called \emph{non-crossing partitions}. The enumeration properties of the lattice ${\textsf{NC$^{\textsf{\,A}}$(n)}}\,$ of \emph{non-crossing partitions} ... -
Poshlost’ in Nabokov’s Dar through the Prism of Lotman’s Literary Semiotics
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-01)The word poshlost’ denotes the concepts of banality, vulgarity or phlistinism, and has been an intellectual and cultural obsession since the second half of the nineteenth century, lasting well into the twentieth century. ... -
Positive Affect, Mood Salience, and Intertemporal Decisions
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-12)The focus of this thesis is to explore the impact of positive affective state and mood salience on intertemporal decision making. We found that positive affect significantly influence intertemporal preference. We also ... -
Positive and Negative Analogical Transfer in Problem Solving
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)This thesis has investigated the positive and negative analogical transfer in which we proposed three hypotheses that shed more light on the process of human behaviour in problem solving. We have found that people exhibited ... -
Possibly, Maybe
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-22)Possibly, Maybe is an exhibition of polychromatic, process-based objects made out of acrylic paint. Working with and against the limits of the material, the paint is systematically cast, peeled, and stretched colour by ...