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Toronto's Ravines: Conditions and Visitor Perspectives
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)This thesis evaluates whether there are significant similarities and/or differences between how visitors perceive ravine park management and the consultation process in six sites across the City of Toronto. This was done ... -
Torque Control Strategies for AWD Electric Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2007-02-21)There is a fundamental shift occurring in the design of passenger vehicles for North American markets. While for decades automotive manufacturers have relied on internal combustion engines burning fossil fuels, the early ... -
Torsion in Helically Reinforced Prestressed Concrete Poles
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-22)Reinforced concrete poles are commonly used as street lighting and electrical transmission poles. Typical concrete lighting poles experience very little load due to torsion. The governing design loads are typically bending ... -
Total Relation Recall: High-Recall Relation Extraction
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-28)As Knowledge Graphs (KGs) become important in a wide range of applications, including question-answering and recommender systems, more and more enterprises have recognized the value of constructing KGs with their own data. ... -
Total Retinal Blood Flow and Retinal Oxygen Saturation in the Major Retinal Vessels of Healthy Participants
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)Introduction: Oxygen delivery, or utilization, is a function of retinal blood flow and blood oxygen saturation. The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), in particular, has been shown to have the highest levels of metabolic ... -
Touch and Emotion in Haptic and Product Design
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-24)The emotional experience of products can have enormous impact on the overall product experience: someone who is feeling positive is more likely to be accepting of novel products or to be more tolerant of unexpected or ... -
Touch Crossing-Based Selection and the Pin-and-Cross Technique
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-13)This thesis focuses on the evaluation, exploration and demonstration of crossing paradigm with touch modality. Under the scenario of crossing selection, the target is selected by stroking through a boundary 'goal' instead ... -
Tour Guides and Sustainable Development: the Case of Hainan, China
(University of Waterloo, 2007-02-20)Tour guides are one of the most visible players in tourism but little scholarly attention has been given to the links that tour guides may have with sustainable development. This study addresses the gap by promoting an ... -
Tourism as a Livelihood Strategy in Indigenous Communities: Case Studies from Taiwan
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Tourism has become an important option for economic development and the cultural survival of aboriginal people, yet the academic work has overlooked an issue of cultural sustainability and the majority of the literature ... -
Tourism Development and the Environment on the Egyptian Red Sea Coast
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-29)Tourism has become one of Egypt’s main sources of income and has undergone rapid privatization and subsequent growth. This has resulted in numerous policy and implementation gaps including those in environmental policy. ... -
Tourism, Development, and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study from Nkhata Bay, Malawi
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-28)Development agencies and policymakers are increasingly advocating tourism as a viable and legitimate poverty reduction strategy in least-developed countries (LDCs). However, the rhetoric surrounding tourism development ... -
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. ...