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Exploring Cornstalk and Corn Biomass Silage Retting as a New Biological Fibre Extraction Technique
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-21)Presently there are two forms of biological fibre extraction, water retting or dew retting, which use bacteria or fungi, respectively. Microbial action results in release of the cellulose fibres due to modification of the ... -
Exploring crime in Toronto, Ontario with applications for law enforcement planning: Geographic analysis of hot spots and risk factors for expressive and acquisitive crimes
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-29)This thesis explores crime hot spots and identifies risk factors of expressive and acquisitive crimes in Toronto, Ontario at the census tract scale using official crime offence data from 2006. Four research objectives ... -
Exploring Differences in Vascular Aging and Cerebrovascular Hemodynamics between Older Adults of White Caucasian and South Asian Origin
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-23)In Canada, the number of older adults has been on the rise over the past several decades. As the aging population continues to rise, the prevalence of chronic illnesses is projected to correspondingly increase at an ... -
Exploring End-of-Life Nutrition Care for Residents of Long-Term Care: A Retrospective Chart Review
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-22)Introduction: Eating challenges are prevalent in long-term care (LTC) and have been associated with mortality, particularly in older adults with advanced conditions such as dementia. However, changes to eating habits and ... -
Exploring factors that constrain and enable sustainable transboundary water governance in the Mackenzie River Basin
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-19)Governance of transboundary water systems is complicated by factors such as institutional fragmentation, social and environmental change, competing values for and uses of water and power dynamics. These challenges exist ... -
Exploring factors that contribute to between-subject variability of reaction time
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)For well over a century reaction time has provided researchers with a method to quantify information processing speed. Defined as the interval of time between the presentation of a stimulus to the onset of a response, ... -
Exploring Father Involvement: Fathers' Accounts of Paternal Involvement
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-09)Fathers with children at home account for a substantial portion of the Canadian population. In contemporary Canada, a father’s role no longer consists of distant breadwinning, but rather actively engaging in a family-centered ... -
Exploring functional annotation through genomic and metagenomic data mining
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-09)Functional profiling of genomes and metagenomes, as well as data mining for novel proteins, all rely on computational methods for functional annotation of protein sequences. Standard methods assign protein function based ... -
Exploring Health and Wellbeing in a Low-to-Middle Income Country: A Case Study of Kenya
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-15)The recent past has witnessed an increased interest in the concept of wellbeing both in academia and public policy. Governments and international organizations have developed a policy agenda with the broad goal of improving ... -
Exploring Household Vulnerability: The Compounding Loss of Resource and Service Access in Post-Cyclone Idai Beira, Mozambique
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-16)The rapid urbanization of secondary cities in the Global South poses significant challenges for equitable household access to basic services and resources. Climate-related disaster impacts within these secondary cities ... -
Exploring Householders' Interest in Home Energy Goal-Setting
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)The deployment of advanced metering infrastructure, most notably in the residential electricity sector, and the development of energy monitoring technology, has enabled and justified the exploration of more sophisticated ... -
Exploring Housing Market in Toronto, Ontario: Spatial Hedonic Modeling of Crime Rates, Subway Ridership, Dwelling Density and House Prices
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-10)This thesis explores house prices and its relationship to neighborhood characteristics in Toronto, Ontario. In particular, by applying spatial hedonic models at the census tract level, this study examines the association ... -
Exploring How Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Firms Create 'Value' for Organizational Stakeholders
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-09)The understanding of how firms create value for their stakeholders is important for advancing the empirical body of knowledge on stakeholder theory. This is especially relevant for the exploration of technology companies ... -
Exploring Human Teachers' Interpretations of Trainee Robots' Nonverbal Behaviour and Errors
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-22)In the near future, socially intelligent robots that can learn new tasks from humans may become widely available and gain an opportunity to help people more and more. In order to successfully play a role, not only should ... -
Exploring interactions between force, repetition and posture on low back joint loading and intervertebral disc injury
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-26)Low back pain (LBP) affects approximately 80% of the population at some point in their lives, with 65% of cases becoming chronic pain sufferers. Approximately 40% of LBP cases are attributed to intervertebral disc (IVD) ... -
Exploring Ligand Structure and Thermodynamics of the Malachite Green RNA Aptamer
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-20)RNA aptamers are in vitro sequences of RNA that have a high affinity for their target ligand. They have applications in therapeutics, biosensors and molecular machines. While the practical applications of aptamers are ... -
Exploring links between citizen environmental monitoring and decision making: three Canadian case examples
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Environmental decision making processes are subject to diverse and at times conflicting pressures. On one hand, an enlightenment perspective places high value on scientific information about complex environmental ... -
Exploring Local Economic Development: The Challenges of Cape Breton Island
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-13)Economic development in the declining Maritime Provinces has proven to be an intractable problem over the last 70 years. Efforts have ranged from capitalist industrial resource extraction to worker-owned producer co-operatives. ... -
Exploring long-stay seniors’ transitions from home care services to self-management
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-05)As a result of longer life expectancies and below-replacement fertility rates, the Canadian population is aging. Approximately 14.8% of the Canadian population was aged 65 years or older in 2011. The senior population is ... -
Exploring Low to Moderate Velocity Motor Vehicle Rear Impacts as a Viable Injury Mechanism in the Lumbar Spine
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-19)Epidemiological research suggests that up to 50% of individuals involved in low speed rear impact collisions develop acute onset low back pain. Given that little information is known about the low back injury mechanisms ...