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Skeletons in Wells: Post-Mortem Treatments in Roman Eretria, Greece
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-09)This thesis is an osteoarchaeological analysis of adult and juvenile human skeletal remains (more specifically, crania and long bones) that were excavated by the Swiss School of Archaeology from a 3rd century CE Gymnasium ... -
Skeptics and Unruly Connectives: A Defence of and Amendment to the Non-Factualist Justification of Logic
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-04)This thesis attempts to positively solve three problems in the foundations of logic. If logical connectives are defined by their introduction and elimination rules, then how might one prohibit the construction of dysfunctional ... -
Ski Operations Managers’ Decision Making Under Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-20)Abstract This study explores decision making amongst ski area management. In particular, it examined how ski area managers are challenged by the risk and uncertainty as a result of weather and visitor activity patterns. ... -
Skill mismatch in the labour market
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-02)This thesis contains three chapters on skill mismatch in the labour market. Chapter 1 provides a theory of ex ante skill mismatch, which we define as a situation where firms create jobs that workers search for and ... -
Skipping Through the Shadowlands: Exploring the Relationship between Game Narrative and Player Experience in World of Warcraft
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)Video games feature narratives in non-traditional formats, such as fragments mixed in with gameplay and spread across the game environment and even the real world. These fragments connect with each other. They form a system ... -
Skyfarming
(University of Waterloo, 2012-03-15)Food production is unquestionably the most important industry to the well being of humanity. Unfortunately, it is also the industry that best exemplifies our species’ destructive impact on the rest of the Earth’s ecology. ... -
SkypeMorph: Protocol Obfuscation for Censorship Resistance
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-24)The Tor network is designed to provide users with low-latency anonymous communication. Tor clients build circuits with publicly listed relays to anonymously reach their destinations. Low-latency anonymous communication is ... -
A Sleep-Scheduling-Based Cross-Layer Design Approach for Application-Specific Wireless Sensor Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The pervasiveness and operational autonomy of mesh-based wireless sensor networks (WSNs) make them an ideal candidate in offering sustained monitoring functions at reasonable cost over a wide area. To extend the functional ... -
Sliding Window Query Processing over Data Streams
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Database management systems (DBMSs) have been used successfully in traditional business applications that require persistent data storage and an efficient querying mechanism. Typically, it is assumed that the data are ... -
Slip Prediction for Upper-Limb Prosthetics
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-02)Amputees have greatly benefitted from improved prosthetic technologies, increasing dexterity, degrees of freedom, and attachment to the body, however sensory feedback has made comparatively little improvement. Osseointegration ... -
Slip/Jump Effects in Catalytic Reacting Flows in Microchannels
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-05)In order to meet the increased power demand for micro-devices in almost every field of engineering, scaling down of conventional power supplies to micro-heat engines, micro fuel cells, micro-turbines and combustors has ... -
Slow and Steady Improves Accuracy in Attention Tasks: Implications for Evaluating Attention Training
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-29)There have been increased efforts to develop methods for improving attention across a range of tasks including those assessing sustained attention. Using a variety of techniques, researchers have reported modest reductions ... -
Slow Food in China: An Exploratory Study
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-09)The Slow Food movement, since 1985, has been drawing more and more western people’s attention to ‘good, clean, and fair’ food standards and the preservation of local culture and businesses (Slow Food, 2014). The idea has ... -
SMA Actuator Priming using Resistance Feedback
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-19)Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are a group of alloys that demonstrate the unique ability of returning back to a previously defined shape or size if subjected to the appropriate thermal procedure. They have been implemented ... -
Small and Medium-size Enterprise Leadership in Sustainable Development, a Case Study of the Tourism Industry in Jamaica
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-21)This research addresses the evolution in the role of businesses in sustainable development as they shift from the traditional corporate responsibility practices to the contemporary approaches that see businesses adding ... -
Small Farms, Big Impacts: A Case Study in the Development of a Sustainable Farming Livelihood for Direct-Marketing Farmers in Southwestern Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-10)Direct-marketing farms play an important role in fostering healthy communities in an era of rapid climate change and unsustainable global agro-industrial practices. Canadian cities intimately depend on foodstuffs imported ... -
Small Holds Sway: How Small Businesses Mobilize Knowledge to Support Action in Learning Processes for Sustainability Transformations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-13)Transformations of the industrialized food sector toward more sustainable food production, manufacturing, and consumption take place through individual and collective learning processes. Achieving transformational change ... -
Small scale energy harvesting for use with an electronic door strike
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-18)Smart or connected devices are becoming more and more prevalent in modern society. These devices typically consist of miniature sensors and actuators to automate and control common daily activities. The spread of these ... -
Small Towns in Transitions, an Exploratory Study in Collingwood, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-25)Collingwood, Ontario is experiencing an economic and social transition away from resource-dependent orient toward place-based development trajectory, after its economic breakdown of the traditional industries (e.g., ... -
Small Worlds: An Exhibition of Wall Drawing
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-01)Small Worlds is an installation of wall drawing that explores the possibilities of shape and colour through repetition and scale. Combining drawing materials with printmaking techniques, I use my hands and body to replace ...