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Exploration of reconstructed PET hydrolase ancestors by biophysical and computational methods
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-26)Ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR), originally developed for the study of molecular evolution, has gained attention as a promising method for protein engineering in the recent decade. The ancestors revived by this ... -
An Exploration of Residents' and Care Partners' Perspectives on 3D Printed Pureed Food in Long-Term Care Homes in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-30)Dysphagia, or swallowing difficulties, results in the inability to consume foods of regular texture and/or fluids of regular consistency. A large proportion of residents in long term-care (LTC) homes in Ontario suffer from ... -
An Exploration of Secure Circular Multi-Party Quantum Computation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)Multi party quantum computation (MPQC) is any quantum cryptographic protocol where multiple untrusted users collaborate to perform calculations on their combined data without revealing their private information. MPQC is ... -
An Exploration of Sherpas’ Narratives of Living and Dying in Mountaineering
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-16)Mountaineering is the cornerstone of Nepal’s $370-million-a-year adventure tourism industry. Each year, Climbing Sherpas lead foreign mountaineers (paying clients) up the Southeast ridge of Mt. Everest as they make their ... -
An Exploration of Tactile Warning Design Based on Perceived Urgency
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-31)When there is information overload on the visual modality, another system of warnings must be adopted to prevent potential risks—tactile warning systems present a viable alternative. Building on work on design approaches ... -
An Exploration of the Correlates and Causes of Boredom
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-19)Boredom has been defined as self-regulatory signal which tells us that whatever we are currently doing is failing to keep us engaged, pushing us to seek out more satisfying alternatives. It is a negatively valenced experience ... -
An Exploration of the Experiences of Community Integration for Older Adults with Mental Health Issues
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Community integration is vital for older adults with mental health issues, both as a process and as an outcome. The process of deinstitutionalization has made community integration a primary concern for these individuals. ... -
An Exploration of the Nexus Between Inner and Outer Sustainability
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-08)As sustainability challenges intensify, there is increasing interest in exploring how changes in individual mindsets can support positive transformations at scale. Researchers at the interface of inner and outer ... -
An exploration of the relationships between festival expenditures, motivations, and food involvement among food festival visitors
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-07)Food festivals and events are growing in popularity and warrant in-depth studies of festival visitors. Given the increasing socio-economic significance of this vibrant component of the world’s leisure industry, gaining ... -
An Exploration of the Scope of GPCR to RTK Transactivation in HT22 and SH-SY5Y cells
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-02)Receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) transactivation is a mechanism by which G proteincoupled receptor (GPCR) activity induces the activation of an RTK. As separate families of receptors, they were long thought to act ... -
An Exploration of the Shopping Experience
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-06)Recreational shopping has long been of interest to business academics and practitioners, but research on it has been underdeveloped in the leisure field. Although the leisure literature and business literature represent ... -
Exploration of the suitability of coated blade spray for rapid analysis of pesticides in agricultural commodities and byproducts
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-03)The multiresidue analysis of pesticides in domestic and imported agricultural products is completed on hundreds of thousands of samples yearly by regulatory agencies in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Currently, ... -
Exploration of the Underlying Visual Perceptual and Cognitive Mechanisms of Dynamic Visual Acuity
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-25)Purpose: Dynamic visual acuity (dynamic VA) is a complex, perceptual ability of the visual system that involves determining fine details of objects as they move across one’s field of view (1–4). Over the years, there has ... -
Explorations in black hole chemistry and higher curvature gravity
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-08)This thesis has two goals. The primary goal is to communicate two results within the framework of black hole chemistry, while the secondary goal is concerned with higher curvature theories of gravity. Super-entropic ... -
Explorations in machine learning for interacting many-body systems.
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-03)Most interacting many-body systems in physics are not analytically solvable. Instead, numerical methods are needed for the study of these complex and high-dimensional problems. At present, there are many interesting problems ... -
Explorations in Pairwise Measures of Dependence and Pooled Significance
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-22)In the exploration of data sets with many variables, the search for interesting pairs is often the first step of analysis. This search builds a road map of the entirety of data before looking at its details, and can provide ... -
Explorations in the Conformal Bootstrap
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-19)We investigate properties of various conformally invariant quantum systems, especially from the point of view of the conformal bootstrap. First, we study twist line defects in three-dimensional conformal field theories. ... -
Explorations of Black Hole Thermodynamics in de Sitter Spacetime
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)In this thesis I map out two approaches that are foundational to studying black hole thermodynamics in de Sitter spacetime. The first is to understand the "thermodynamic volume" of cosmological horizons in isolation. ... -
Explorations of Infinitesimal Inverse Spectral Geometry
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-04)Spectral geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the relationship between the geometry of Riemannian manifolds and the spectra of natural differential operators defined on them. The spectra of Laplacians are ... -
Explorative Making
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)This thesis asserts the notion of play and intuition are valuable resources within architectural design. The thesis further proposes a conceptual model of making that harnesses and integrates play, intuition, and other ...