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Cardio-respiratory Health Monitoring Using a Wearable Radar System
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-13)Assessing cardio-pulmonary health is a crucial aspect of evaluating overall well-being. With the rise of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases worldwide, monitoring these physiological functions is vital for proper ... -
Cardiovascular Deconditioning Resulting from 28-hour Bed-rest and the Efficacy of the Fluid Loading Countermeasure
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-11)This study tested the hypotheses that 1) 28h head-down bed-rest (HDBR) would result in significant hypovolemia and cardiovascular deconditioning, and that 2) NASA’s fluid loading protocol (ingestion of 15 ml/kg water with ... -
Cardiovascular responses of women to orthostatic stress, the effects of the menstrual cycle and age, and a comparison to men
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-10)Young women are known to exhibit a greater incidence of orthostatic hypotension than men. The exact mechanisms for this are unclear and it has been proposed to be related to cardiac filling, peripheral resistance, and/or ... -
Care as Architectural Practice
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-30)The thesis explores the concept of care and its implications in public wellbeing through architectural practice. The Waterloo Region of Ontario, during the coronavirus pandemic, provides the setting of this investigation. ... -
Care Packages
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-25)This thesis illuminates the importance of care between individuals and within society. The exhibition, entitled Care Packages, uses installation and sculpture to encourage collective care and support. Through monumental ... -
Care Planning at the End-of-Life: Potential Use of the interRAI Palliative Care Assessment Instrument Clinical Assessment Protocols (interRAI PC CAPs) to Identify the Needs of Persons Receiving Palliative Home Care Services in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-29)Relief from pain and distressing symptoms associated with a life limiting illness is an issue relevant to all Canadians. Provision of high quality care for persons nearing the end of life may improve the health and quality ... -
Care Planning: It’s Not One Size Fits All - Cross-Sectoral and Individual Differences in Older Adults’ Expressed Goals of Care
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-12)Objective: This research explores the critical need for individualized care planning to ensure maximum cost savings by providing a balance between individuals’ care needs and care wishes. The primary objective of this ... -
Caregivers in distress: Using interRAI assessments to target and evaluate community based interventions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-19)Background: Informal caregivers have a fundamental role in our society with the provision of unpaid care for family members or friends that may otherwise be unable to live in their homes. However, caregivers may jeopardize ... -
Caregivers of long-term cancer survivors: The role leisure plays in improving psychological well-being
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)Cancer rates are on the rise and there is also an increase in the number of cancer survivors. This results in an increase of caregivers for those survivors. Many caregivers experience negative impacts of caregiving, including ... -
Caregiving in the information age: Examining the potential to include service providers in the online care networks of informal caregivers
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-04)As the population ages, older adults managing chronic conditions and associated functional impairments will turn to family members and friends to obtain assistive help as informal caregivers. Formal services are often ... -
Caribou Hunting at Mingo Lake: A Comparative Study of Pre-Dorset and Late Dorset Hunting Methods
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-12)Caribou are a very important resource in the Arctic because they provide food, raw material for weapons and tools and skins for warm winter clothing. The methods used to hunt these animals have been studied extensively by ... -
Caring in crisis: The experiences of local faith leaders meeting community food needs in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-22)Background: Unintended consequences from public health measures have inspired a wave of care during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the Philippines, where extensive and strict community quarantines exacerbated food insecurity, ... -
Carrier Managed Transportation in Supply Chain Management
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)Logistics Transportation is an indispensable step that connects production, storage, and the final customers. Plenty of previous research has been done to achieve the goals such as low cost, high accuracy in timing, good ... -
Carving Away: An Inquiry into the Act of Making
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)The act of creating anything, from a novel to a simple meal to a building, requires the combination of many elements. Broadly speaking, these elements are technique, technology, and materiality, the three of which are ... -
Cascaded Use and Sustainable Management of Lithium-ion Batteries in Mobility and Stationary Power
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-19)The purpose of this thesis is to assess —from a life cycle perspective — the environmental benefits of re-purposing electric vehicle Li-ion batteries to re-use in stationary applications. The thesis consists of three ... -
The Case for Stainless Steel Reinforcing Bars
(University of Waterloo, 2015-03-19)As Canada’s ever expanding transportation network continues to age, the costs associated with rehabilitating and replacing structural elements, such as bridges, continues to grow. This rehabilitation is often required ... -
Case Studies of a Machine Learning Process for Improving the Accuracy of Static Analysis Tools
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-18)Static analysis tools analyze source code and report suspected problems as warnings to the user. The use of these tools is a key feature of most modern software development processes; however, the tools tend to generate ... -
A case study assessment of the energy consumption of LEED certified academic buildings in Ontario: Is LEED certification necessarily better?
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-21)With “commercial and institutional buildings account[ing] for 12% of Canada’s secondary energy use and 11% of [the] national greenhouse gas emissions” (National Resources Canada, 2014), the energy consumption of Canada’s ... -
A Case Study for Assessing the Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change at the Watershed Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-23)Since the advent of the industrial era atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases have been on the rise leading to increasing global mean temperatures. Through increasing temperatures and changes to distributions of ... -
A Case Study of a Hotel Solid Waste Management Program in Bali, Indonesia
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The main objectives of this study were: to provide a review of key concepts and issues relevant to solid waste management in developing countries; to analyse and evaluate the hotel solid waste management (HSWM) program in ...