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Tourist Motivations: Differences Between Anglophone and Francophone Tourists
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-10)Culture has been demonstrated in the literature to have an effect on tourism behavior, including the way that tourists perceive their travel experience; different cultures often hold different values (LeBlanc, 2004 & Sussman ... -
Tourist Perceptions of Destination Branding: A Case Study of Saint Lucia
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-30)The intent of this research was to identify the effectiveness of a destination brand as determined by international tourists visiting the destination. The Caribbean can be viewed as a homogeneous region to many individuals ... -
Tourist Philanthropy, Disparity and Development: The Impacts of Tourists' Gift-giving on Developing Communities. Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus, Cuba.
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-24)For more than a decade tourists originating in developed nations have been giving various gifts to locals of tourism communities in developing nations. This occurrence is commonly associated with the Caribbean, and is ... -
Tourists' Awareness, Attitudes, and Perceptions of Wildlife Souvenirs: A Case Study in Cuba
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-23)Considerable research has been conducted on tourist souvenirs but one area that has been widely neglected in souvenir literature is the concept of wildlife souvenirs. Many tourists purchase wildlife products when they go ... -
Toward a Model of Boredom: Investigating the Psychophysiological, Cognitive, and Neural Correlates of Boredom
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)Boredom is a universal human experience that has the potential to impact a broad range of activities, especially when experienced at chronic and/or elevated levels. Despite this, research is only beginning to gain a better ... -
Toward a theory of everything
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-21)A physical theory of everything is supposed to tell us: (1) The dynamical laws for matter and gravity; (2) The boundary condition of the universe; (3) The relation between the theory and experience. I present a personal ... -
Toward a unified global regulatory capital framework for life insurers
(University of Waterloo, 2011-03-07)In many regions of the world, the solvency regulation of insurers is becoming more principle-based and market oriented. However, the exact forms of the solvency standards that are emerging in individual jurisdictions are ... -
Toward A Value Proposition of Digital Opportunity Trust
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-28)This study aims to advance the understanding of Digital Opportunity Trust’s (DOT) value proposition by characterizing the ‘modus operandi’ and to develop a method to explore the impact of entrepreneurship in the developing ... -
Toward an improved understanding of software change
(University of Waterloo, 2003)Structural changes, including moving, renaming, merging and splitting are important design change decisions made by programmers. However, during the process of software evolution, this information often gets lost. ... -
Toward an Interoperable and Centralized Consent Centric Access Control Model for Healthcare Resources: Model and Implementation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-29)Although patients have the legal right in Canada and many other countries to specify how, when and by whom their medical records can be accessed, the harsh reality is that in almost all cases using existing systems and ... -
Toward an Understanding of "Weak Signals" of Technological Change and Innovation in the Internet Industry
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-02)Identifying the emergence and development of new technologies has become an essential ability for firms competing in dynamic environments. Nonetheless, current technology intelligence practices are unstructured and vaguely ... -
Toward an Understanding of Software Code Cloning as a Development Practice
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)Code cloning is the practice of duplicating existing source code for use elsewhere within a software system. Within the research community, conventional wisdom has asserted that code cloning is generally a bad practice, ... -
Toward Automated Ice-Water Classification on Large Northern Lakes Using RADARSAT-2 Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-22)Changes to ice cover on lakes throughout the northern landscape has been established as an indicator of climate change and variability. These changes are expected to have implications for both human and environmental ... -
Toward Canonical General Relativity in the Loop Gravity Phase Space
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-07)The continuous, kinematical Hilbert space of loop quantum gravity is built upon a family of spaces $\mathcal{H}_\Gamma$, each associated to a different \textit{graph} $\Gamma$, i.e. a network of interconnected one-dimensional ... -
Toward High Performance Broad-band Frequency Comb Operation of Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-16)Recent advances in Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser (THz QCL) development are pushing this technology ever closer to practical application, particularly within the spectroscopic field. For this reason, optimizing the operation ... -
Toward High-Performance Blockchains
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-31)The decentralized nature of blockchains has attracted many applications to build atop them, such as cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, and non-fungible tokens. The health and performance of the underlying blockchain systems ... -
Toward Improved Understanding and Management of Software Clones
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-03)The cloning of code is controversial as a development practice. Empirical studies on the long-term effects of cloning on software quality and maintainability have produced mixed results. Some studies have found that cloning ... -
Toward Optimization of the Baculovirus Expression Vector System - Development of Genetic Tools to Improve Biologics Production
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)Small-molecule drugs have dominated the pharmaceutical industry and physician's prescription pads since the beginning of modern medicine. The most recent decades, however, are most aptly characterized as the era of ... -
Toward Precision Medicine in Intensive Care: Leveraging Electronic Health Records and Patient Similarity
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-28)The growing adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems has resulted in an unprecedented amount of data. This availability of data has also opened up the opportunity to utilize EHRs for providing more customized ... -
Toward Secure Trust and Reputation Systems for Electronic Marketplaces
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-03)In electronic marketplaces, buying and selling agents may be used to represent buyers and sellers respectively. When these marketplaces are large, repeated transactions between traders may be rare. This makes it difficult ...