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An Urban Morphology Analysis of Urban Innovation Districts in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-14)Since the economic transition towards a knowledge-based economy in the 1990s, technological innovation has been an essential driver of economic growth and development. As a reaction to such phenomena, Urban Innovation ... -
Urban Pathways: Redesigning Toronto's Mobility
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-06)As an increasing proportion of the world’s population travels ever-longer distances between their home and place of work, urban mobility networks have had to cope with this dramatic increase in movement. These networks ... -
Urban Regeneration through Public Space: A Case Study in Squares in Dalian, China
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Urban regeneration has been accompanying urban development since the earliest human settlement, and was emphasized after the World War Two. Several decades' experience and billions of dollars forced the decision makers ... -
Urban Renewal as Violence: Documenting the Erasure of Wooster Square
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-18)In American urban development, a defining period known as the urban renewal era took place in the decades after the Second World War. Many cities in the United States experienced a new interest in addressing urban decay; ... -
Urban Roadside Tree Inventory Using a Mobile Laser Scanning System
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-11)the road environment. Thus, effective methods are needed for the MLS data processing. The main goal of this thesis is to establish a feasible workflow by testing a series of methods to extract geometrical information of ... -
Urban Room - Dynamic reinterpretation of Toronto’s urban voids
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-21)Over the past few decades, Toronto’s downtown core has experienced extreme and rapid intensification, seen through an exponential increase in both employees and residents. This growth has severely outpaced that of public ... -
Urban Sustainability Planning and the Ecosystem Services Approach in select Canadian cities and Ontario watersheds
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-06)Fifteen years ago, the 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a global assessment of the world’s ecosystems, found that 60% of global Ecosystem Services (ES) examined were being degraded or used unsustainably. Net economic ... -
Urban Tourism: Global-Local Relationships in Dalian, China
(University of Waterloo, 2007-02-19)China used to impress the outside world as a country that was focused on its own development with few links to the rest of the globe. However, things have changed and now China is an increasingly important global player. ... -
The Urban Web: Metonymic Representation in the Work of Charles Dickens and George Gissing
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-12)This dissertation deploys the resources of cognitive linguistics and ecocriticism to gain insight into the role of metonymy in the Victorian novel’s representation of an increasingly complex and interconnected urban world. ... -
The Usability and Learnability of Pen/Tablet Mode Inferencing
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-14)The inferred mode protocol uses contextual reasoning and local mediators to eliminate the need to access specic modes to perform draw, select, move and delete operations in a sketch interface. This thesis describe an ... -
Usability of the Access Control System for OpenLDAP
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)This thesis addresses the usability of the Access Control System of OpenLDAP. OpenLDAP is a open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), which is a protocol that communicates with a ... -
Use and Control of Co-Expression in the Baculovirus-Insect Cell System for the Production of Multiple Proteins and Complex Biologics
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-19)The ease of use and versatility of the Baculovirus Expression Vector System (BEVS) has made it one of the most widely used platforms for recombinant protein production. In the last ten years, the system has even gained ... -
Use of (Dihaloiodo)arene Reagents in Halogenation Reactions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-18)Halogenation of organic molecules is a fundamental transformation in organic chemistry. Introducing halogens into substrates can be a challenge since most methods for introducing fluorine or chlorine into molecules include ... -
The use of a filter product to remove phosphorus from surface runoff in agricultural fields
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-28)Nutrient losses from agricultural fields are the largest sources of phosphorus (P) entering the Great Lakes in North America. Research has suggested that multiple conservation practices (CPs) used together (stacked) are ... -
The Use of Artificially Intelligent Symptom checkers by University Students – An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Study
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-10)Rising healthcare costs, wait times, unnecessary care, and lack of access to a primary care provider, are pressing issues encountered by various health systems and in part, are a result of misinformed patient demand. The ... -
The Use of Coagulation as a Pre-treatment to Ultra-filtration Membranes
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-17)ABSTRACT With an increasing population density throughout the world and the current drive to provide fresh water to as many people as possible, innovative methods of providing safe drinking water are in very high demand. ... -
The Use of Control Interventions in Adult Mental Health Inpatient Services in Ontario Hospitals and Identification of Risk Factors
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)The use of control interventions (CI) such as mechanical/physical restraints (MP), chairs that prevent rising (Chair), and acute control medications (ACM) with mental health (MH) patients is not without controversy. ... -
Use of Drains for Passive Control of Flow Through a Permeable Reactive Barrier
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-28)Abstract Permeable reactive barrier technology is a cost effective means of treating near surface groundwater contaminant plumes. However, current reactive barrier technology lacks the capacity to manipulate flow rates ... -
THE USE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DNA TO CHARACTERIZE FISH ASSEMBLAGES IN TEMPERATE ESTUARIES OF VARYING LEVELS OF NUTRIENT IMPACT
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-23)The inner region has been identified as an important area for evaluating the health of estuaries, as many riverine inputs, like excessive nutrients (eutrophication), are more concentrated here than in the lower reaches of ... -
The use of facial features in facial expression discrimination
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-27)The present four studies are the first to examine the effect of presentation time on accurate facial expression discrimination while concurrently using eye movement monitoring to ensure fixation to specific features during ...