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Exploring the Utility of Inter-Segmental Coordination to Assess Movement Competency During Lifting Tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-22)Pre-employment screens are used within the hiring process to determine the hiring or placement of employees in the workplace. It is important that such screens adequately replicate or generalize to the work of interest. ... -
Exploring the Utility of Patient Stories on Social Media for Healthcare Quality Improvement
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-03)This thesis explores the phenomenon of patient stories on social media. This phenomenon represents the intersection of two phenomena: patient experience and social media. Healthcare experience refers to the interactions ... -
Exploring the utility of state-level wise reasoning: New assessment and facilitation methods
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-11)Wisdom is considered the apex of human development, exemplified in various cultural traditions by optimal, balanced judgment and decision making that benefits others and the self. Contemporary psychological accounts ... -
Exploring the Ventral Hippocampal Formation
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-23)The hippocampus (HC) is important for both memory and spatial navigation. These functions are thought to be supported by spatial firing patterns of "place cells" which are active in only certain locations within environments. ... -
Exploring Therapeutic Relationships In Recreation Therapy at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-20)Therapeutic relationships were explored using participatory action research in recreation therapy at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (SHSC). The 22 recreation therapists at SHSC comprised the research team and were ... -
Exploring Toronto's Inner Frontier
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-05)It is without ceasing that urban spaces witness the cycle of their birth and death. Like the waves of an ocean repeatedly crashing into and withdrawing from the shoreline, the city’s sphere of production and human ... -
Exploring Usage of the Word "Values": Implications and Opportunities for Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Explicitly and implicitly, planners make choices about values and use values to make choices. Values are presented as reasons to do and not to do in setting goals and during participatory planning processes, cited in ... -
Exploring volunteering experiences of South Asian Indians and their intersections with community identity and daily life in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-19)There is abundant evidence that volunteering generates both positive and negative impacts on the daily lives of volunteers as well as individuals in the communities they serve (Cavanaugh et al., 2000; Han et al., 2020, ... -
Exploring Within and Between Subject Differences of the Role of Cervical Proprioception in the Postural and Spatial Orientation Perception of Young Healthy Adults
(University of Waterloo, 2020-11-18)A proportion of physiotherapy patients with neck pain, either from idiopathic or traumatic causes, will report symptoms of dizziness and postural imbalance in the absence of additional pathology. The term cervicogenic ... -
Exploring, Understanding, and Determining the Quality of Plan Monitoring and Evaluation in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-28)Planning takes place in the context of diverse stakeholder interests and complex decision-making processes. Planning activities are often complicated by a range of factors: increasing pressure on municipalities with ageing ... -
Exponentially Dense Matroids
(University of Waterloo, 2011-12-15)This thesis deals with questions relating to the maximum density of rank-n matroids in a minor-closed class. Consider a minor-closed class M of matroids that does not contain a given rank-2 uniform matroid. The growth ... -
Exposure and Perceptions of Caffeinated Energy Drink Marketing among Youth and Young Adults in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-30)BACKGROUND: Consumption of caffeinated energy drinks (CEDs) has become increasingly prevalent among youth and young adults, which is concerning given the association with adverse health effects and other risky behaviours. ... -
Exposure to fad diet advertising among youth and young adults in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Background: The prevalence of obesity in Canada continues to increase. Although many Canadians report trying to manage their weight, few follow dietary guidelines recommended by health authorities. In contrast, many consumers ... -
Expression Inactivating Mechanisms of Major Histocompatibility Class I Alleles in Melanogrammus aeglefinus
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-30)Melanogrammus aeglefinus, commonly known as haddock, is a commercially important marine fish species closely related to cod. Preliminary investigations into the immune function of this species has revealed several unique ... -
Expression of photosynthetic genes and possible regulatory mechanisms in the single-cell C4 species, Bienertia sinuspersici
(University of Waterloo, 2012-03-15)Bienertia sinuspersici is one of three terrestrial plants identified to perform C4 photosynthesis in a single chlorenchyma cell by compartmentation of organelles and photosynthetic enzymes. This thesis describes a study ... -
Expressive and Efficient Memory Representation for Bounded Model Checking of C programs
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-13)Ensuring memory safety in programs has been an important yet difficult topic of research. Most static analysis approaches rely on the theory of arrays to model memory access. The limitation of the theory of arrays in terms ... -
Extended Bandwidth Doherty Power Amplifier for Carrier Aggregated Signals
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)In the conventional classes of power amplifiers the efficiency drops at power back-off, whereas in order to maximize the spectral efficiency and data rate, wireless communication standards employ signals with high peak to ... -
Extended Nonlocal Games
(University of Waterloo, 2017-03-31)The notions of entanglement and nonlocality are among the most striking ingredients found in quantum information theory. One tool to better understand these notions is the model of nonlocal games; a mathematical framework ... -
Extended Range Electric Vehicle Powertrain Simulation and Comparison with Consideration of Fuel Cell and Metal-air Battery
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-14)The automotive industry has been in a period of energy transformation from fossil fuels to a clean energy economy due to the economic pressures resulting from the energy crisis and the need for stricter environmental ... -
Extended thermodynamics of Taub-NUT and Einstein-scalar spacetimes
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-12)The main objective of this thesis is to summarize recent developments on the thermodynamics of both AdS Einstein-scalar spacetimes and Lorentzian Taub-NUT spacetimes. We summarize and apply well-known techniques in black ...