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Professional Ethics for Economists: A Reflection on DeMartino's Oath
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-16)Economists and the discipline of economics occupy positions of immense institutional and intellectual authority in the world today. Decisions made based on the advice and expertise of economists influence the lives of ... -
Profiling Alloy Models
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-03)Modeling of software-intensive systems using formal declarative modeling languages offers a means of managing software complexity through the use of abstraction and early identification of correctness issues by formal ... -
Profiling Concurrent Programs Using Hardware Counters
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Concurrency is a programming tool that is widely used in applications. Concurrent user-level threads can be used to structure the execution of a program in a uniprocessor environment and/or speed up its execution in ... -
Profiling Municipal Decision Agendas: A Pilot Study of Southern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-24)Canadian local governments have been consistently described as having a relatively limited role in policymaking. It has been argued in the local government literature that municipalities abide by the mandate imposed by ... -
Profiling skin-associated archaea and bacteria with 16S rRNA and cpn60 genes
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-13)As the largest organ of the mammalian body, skin is associated with commensal microorganisms that impact host health. Characterizing host-microbe associations is critical to our understanding of skin health, function, and ... -
A profit Sharing Pension Plan
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-05)As Traditional Defined Benefit (DB) plans are declining, more companies are switching to Defined Contribution (DC) plans. However, DC plans have significant disadvantages since employees bear all investment and longevity ... -
Programmable Individual Addressing and Floquet Hamiltonian Dynamics in a Trapped Ion Quantum Processor
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-26)Trapped ions have been gaining traction as a platform for quantum information processing (QIP) in both academia and industry over the last decade. Their long coherence time, high fidelity gate operations, and built-in ... -
Programmable stimuli-responsive zwitterionic hydrogels for soft robotic applications
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-27)As a prominent class of actuators, stimuli-responsive hydrogels have attracted significant interest in the soft robotics community for biomedical applications. Key features of hydrogels, including high water content ... -
Progress on the application of the NS-alpha model to wall-bounded flows
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-09)In this thesis we study the NS-alpha model of flow turbulence. In this model the closure arises through a modified nonlinearity. For the NS-alpha model currently used in published numerical studies, the parameter representing ... -
Progress or the Status Quo? Systems-thinking and Targeted Practice in Development
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-14)The policy space in which development happens spans the globe and innumerable contexts depending on the geographical, cultural, or normative scope of the intervention. Taking the complexity of the policy space, the agents ... -
Progressing Towards Understanding Water Use Efficiency in Southern, Ontario Canada: Quantifying Water Use Efficiency Metrics (WUE) and Investigating Soil and Plant Physiology Influences on WUE
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-14)Climate change, and corresponding temperature increases of 1.4 - 4.8 ºC by the end of the century, are expected to cause shifts in agricultural production. Additionally, shifts in precipitation patterns are expected to ... -
Progressive Disc Herniation: An investigation of the mechanism using histochemical and microscopic techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Abstract Background: The process that involves the migration of the nucleus pulposus from the innermost annular layers and culminates with the final extrusion of the nucleus has been limited to a few studies. This ... -
Progressive Lossless Image Compression Using Image Decomposition and Context Quantization
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-25)Lossless image compression has many applications, for example, in medical imaging, space photograph and film industry. In this thesis, we propose an efficient lossless image compression scheme for both binary images and ... -
Progressive-Failure Analysis of Steel Building Structures under Abnormal Loads
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-18)Engineered structures are designed to resist all expected loadings without failure. However, structural failures do occasionally occur due to inadequate design and construction, especially for extreme and abnormal loads. ... -
Prohibition, the Great War and Political Advocacy: The Wartime Campaign for Prohibition
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-18)Once a fundamental aspect of American life, by 1920 the 18th Amendment to the constitution prohibited consumption of alcoholic beverages. Prohibition challenged traditional dogmas and called into question what constituted ... -
Project Finance Contribution to Environmental and Social Sustainability: An Inquiry into the Implementation of the Equator Principles
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-24)The Equator Principles are at the center of the financial industry’s voluntary codes for assessing environmental, social, and sustainability risks in project finance transactions. The financial industry’s umbrella association ... -
Project Management: A Socio-Technical Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-22)This dissertation presents a study on project management and its effectiveness in a multinational pharmaceutical company (MPC). A mixed qualitative-quantitative method consisting of a case study (33 managers) and a follow-up ... -
Projected and Perceived Destination Images of Qingdao, China
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-29)The images of tourist destinations significantly influence travel choices. Accordingly, destination marketers make great efforts to inform their potential consumers about their destinations using deliberately designed ... -
Projected implications of climate change for rainfall-related crash risk
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-16)It has been well established in previous research that driving during rainfall is associated with increased risk of traffic collision involvement. Of particular concern are heavy rain events, which result in elevated risks ... -
Projecting the Hydrological and Geochemical Evolution of a Constructed Fen Watershed in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-11)Ongoing commercial bitumen surface mining operations have fundamentally altered large areas of forested uplands and fen peatlands in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR), Alberta, Canada. Returning fen peatland functions ...