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The Effects of Juicy Game Design on Exergames
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-21)Visual embellishments(VEs) have been increasingly included in most modern video games and in various digital applications. One aspect of these graphical inclusions is called Juicy game design. It refers to user feedback ... -
Effects of Knee Brace On Anterior Ligament Strain During Drop Landing
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-16)Knee is one of the most commonly injured joint in the human body and majority of the injuries are associated with ligaments which have detrimental effects on joint’s stability and function. Bracing has often been used as ... -
Effects of Land Use and Hydrophysical Drivers on Temporal and Spatial Variability of Phosphorus and Nitrate Export in an Agricultural Subwatershed in Southern Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-18)The eutrophication of streams and lakes has been a long recognized problem in North America, particularly in Lake Erie where harmful and nuisance algal blooms have had many deleterious effects on aquatic ecosystems. Non-point ... -
Effects of Laser Welding on Formability Aspects of Advanced High Strength Steel
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-24)Limiting dome height (LDH) tests were used to evaluate the formability of both base metal and laser butt welded blanks of AHSS (including High strength low alloy (HSLA), Dual phase (DP) steels of different grades). ... -
The effects of low temperature and vacuum on the fracture behavior of organosilicate thin films
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-05)A novel load-displacement sensing instrument has been designed and fabricated to characterize the fracture properties of brittle thin films at low temperature (-30 °C) and pressure (1.6e-4 Pa). In this study, the instrument ... -
The Effects of Macroscopic Heterogeneities of Pore Structure and Wettability on Residual Oil Recovery Using the Gravity-Assisted Inert Gas Injection (GAIGI) Process
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-18)To recover oil remaining in petroleum reservoirs after waterflooding, the gravitationally stable mode of gas injection is recognized as a promising tertiary oil recovery process. Understanding the phenomena occurring over ... -
Effects of Martensite Tempering on HAZ-Softening and Tensile Properties of Resistance Spot Welded Dual-Phase Steels
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)The main purpose of this thesis is to improve the fundamental knowledge of non-isothermal tempering of martensite phase and its effects on the reduction in hardness (softening) with respect the base metal occurring at the ... -
Effects of Metal Cations and Cyclodextrins on 1,3 Diphenyltriazenes Isomerization and Decomposition
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-18)Triazenes are molecules characterized by having the triazeno group (–N=N–N<). They are known as photoactive molecules due to trans-cis photoinduced isomerization around the N=N bond. Their nucleophilic character makes them ... -
Effects of Metallic Coatings on Resistance Spot Weldability of Hot Stamping Steel
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-10)Advanced high strength steels (AHSS) are being increasingly incorporated into automotive body structure to reduce vehicular weight without adversely affecting crashworthiness. Ultra-high strength steel (UHSS), a sub-set ... -
The Effects of Methacrylated Glucosamine on the Mechanical Properties of Gelatin Methacryloyl Hydrogels and Gelatin-Methacryloyl/Nanohydroxyapatite Composite Materials.
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-10)Gelatin-methacryloyl (GelMA) has been a material of keen research interest in the past few decades, with diverse potential applications such as drug delivery, tissue engineering, and 3D bioprinting, due to it possessing ... -
Effects of Mixed Stabilizers (Nanoparticles and Surfactant) on Phase Inversion and Stability of Emulsions
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-24)Immiscible dispersions of oil and water are encountered in many industries such as food, pharmaceuticals, and petroleum. Phase inversion is a key phenomenon that takes place in such systems whereby the dispersed phase and ... -
Effects of ML-7 on the Actomyosin Networks of the Avian Crystalline Lens
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)Assemblies of contractile proteins such as actin, myosin and myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) are found on the posterior surface of the lens fibre cells. The mechanical properties of chicken lenses, as well as their focal ... -
The effects of multi-walled carbon nanotube exposure on soil organisms
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)With the rapid proliferation of carbon nanotube technologies and consumer products comes a need to research the toxicological and ecotoxicological effects of these materials. This research attempted to develop a baseline ... -
Effects of Myristoylation on the Structure and Stability of Hisactophilin
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-23)Hisactophilin is a histidine rich, actin binding protein from Dictyostelium discoideum. The structure of Hisactophilin, an all-beta protein, is typical of the beta-trefoil superfamily of proteins. In addition, hisactophilin ... -
Effects of Nanoparticle Interfacial Additives on Phase Inversion of Pickering Emulsions
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)Understanding the effects of interfacial additives such as surface-active nanoparticles on phase inversion of Pickering emulsions is important from a practical point of view. In this work, we studied the effects of ... -
The Effects of Narcissism and Perspective-taking on Managers’ Escalation of Commitment
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-19)Companies often have the opportunity to invest in capital assets. Unfortunately, the benefits of such investments are not always realized and managers are challenged with deciding whether they should withdraw their support ... -
The Effects of Nitrogen-Enriched Biochar on Maize (Zea mays) Productivity and Soil Organic Carbon
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-28)Loss of soil organic carbon (SOC) resulting from intensive agriculture practices has impacts on both climate change, through emissions of greenhouse gases, as well as food security because of declines in soil fertility. A ... -
The Effects of Nuclear Radiation on Aging Reinforced Concrete Structures in Nuclear Power Plants
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)In this thesis we look at one of the aging mechanisms that may have affected current aged Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs). Irradiation as an age-related degradation mechanism is studied for Reinforced Concrete (RC) in NPPs. ... -
The Effects of Nutrient and Peat Amendments on Oil Sands Reclamation Wetlands: A Microcosm Study
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-19)Oil sand mining operations in Alberta, Canada produce large quantities of process water and mature fine tailing (MFT) during the bitumen extraction process. Wet landscape reclamation is one of the reclamation strategies ... -
Effects of Nutrients, Photoinhibition & Photoacclimation on Photosystem II Function of Freshwater Phytoplankton Communities
(University of Waterloo, 2011-12-21)Electron flow through Photosystem II (PSII) is essential to all life on Earth. The efficiency of this process in freshwater phytoplankton can be depressed by nutrient limitation, ultraviolet radiation (UVR), and excessive ...