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Factors influencing individuals' decision-making during high-risk short-notice disasters: the case study of the August 21st, 2011 Goderich, Ontario tornado
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-23)The hazards literature has identified many factors as being influential in the decision making process during high risk, short-notice disasters. Risk perception and previous disaster experience are commonly identified as ... -
Factors Influencing Landowner Support for Stewardship in the Carolinian Life Zone
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-09)Stewardship is a key tool for the protection of natural areas at the landscape-scale. This is nowhere more evident than in the Carolinian Life Zone of Southern Ontario, where habitat exists for approximately 80% of Canada’s ... -
Factors Influencing Measures of Trochanteric Soft Tissue Thickness
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-02)Introduction: Trochanteric soft tissue thickness (TSTT), which attenuates the force applied to the hip upon impact, has emerged as a potential factor that may improve the assessment of the risk of a hip fracture. However, ... -
Factors influencing the occurrence of energy wellbore leakage in Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2016-03-22)Wellbore leakage refers to the unwanted leakage of subsurface fluids along the annuli of oil and gas wellbores. Wellbore leakage is of concern because it may cause natural gas - and exceptionally other fluids such as brine, ... -
Factors involved in the regulation of purine degradation genes in Sinorhizobium meliloti
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-07)Genes involved in purine degradation in Sinorhizobium meliloti to date remain largely uncharacterized. Analysis of the bdhAxdhA2xdhB2 operon established a link between the degradation of purines and the carbon storage ... -
Factors of Haptic Experience across Multiple Haptic Modalities
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-08)Haptic Experience (HX) is a proposed set of quality criteria useful to haptics, with prior evidence for a 5-factor model with vibrotactile feedback. We report on an ongoing process of scale development to measure HX, and ... -
Factors that Facilitate and Impede the Implementation of Evidence-Informed Chronic Disease Prevention Programs and Policies in Rural Ontario Public Health Units
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-19)Practitioners, research funders, and policymakers acknowledge the need to implement evidence-informed public health (EIPH) practice to reduce the prevalence of chronic diseases. Although it is difficult to estimate how ... -
Factors that Influence Short-term Learning of Visual-Tactile Associations: An Investigation of Behavioural Performance and the Associated Electrophysiological Mechanisms
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-29)Neuroplasticity is a mechanism whereby the brain changes its configuration and function through experience. Short-term learning (i.e. minutes to hours) is associated with early phases of neuroplasticity whereby the cortical ... -
Fading Inner Suburbs? A Historio-Spatial Analysis of Prosperity Indicators in the Urban Zones of the 15 Largest Census Metropolitan Areas.
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-16)The possibility of urban decline in metropolitan post-war inner suburbs is currently being examined in the planning literature, particularly in the United States. Inner suburbs are built between 1946 and 1971 and are ... -
The Fading Village: An Archive of Exile and Errantry
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-19)Institutional archives—our hegemonic repositories of cultural memory—are in the midst of an identity crisis. They are no longer seen as neutral sites of knowledge retrieval, but rather as instruments of knowledge production. ... -
Failing Fast: How And Why Business Angels Rapidly Reject Most Investment Opportunities
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-23)Seed technology ventures require external sources of debt and equity funding, once they have exhausted founders personal resources, to achieve their potential economic impact. The primary source of equity finance for seed ... -
Failure Analysis of Brazed Joints Using the CZM Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-16)Brazing, as a type of joining process, is widely used in manufacturing industries to join individual components of a structure. Structural reliability of a brazed assembly is strongly dependent on the joint mechanical ... -
Failure Analysis of Thick Wire Bonds
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-24)In the last decade, reliability problems have become a critical subject in power modules. Understanding design weakness and failure mechanisms of thick wire bond are two critical steps in managing the risk of wire bond ... -
Failure Characterization of Hot Formed Boron Steels with Tailored Mechanical Properties
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-01)This thesis presents the results from characterization of the failure behaviour of hot stamped USIBOR® 1500-AS steel sheet with tailored properties. A phenomenological approach is used in which failure strain is characterized ... -
Failure Localization Aware Protection in All-Optical Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)The recent development of optical signal processing and switching makes the all-optical networks a potential candidate for the underlying transmission system in the near future. However, despite its higher transmission ... -
Failure Time Analysis with Discrete Marker Processes under Intermittent Observation
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-28)Regression analysis for failure time data is often directed at studying the relationship between a time-dependent biomarker and failure. The Cox regression model and the associated partial likelihood on which inference ... -
Fair and Efficient Resource Scheduling in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-22)The performance of machine-learning applications heavily relies on the choice of the underlying hardware architecture, encompassing factors such as computational power, scalability, memory, and storage capabilities. These ... -
Fair Compression of Machine Learning Vision Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-01)Model pruning is a simple and effective method for compressing neural networks. By identifying and removing the least influential parameters of a model, pruning is able to transform networks into smaller, faster networks ... -
Fair Value Accounting and Informational Efficiency: A Look at the Confirmatory Role of Financial Reports
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-02)Prior analytical research suggests that independently verified financial reports can enhance informational efficiency by serving a confirmatory role, where they discipline managers’ unverified, but more timely, voluntary ... -
FairBlock: Preventing Blockchain Front-running with Minimal Overheads
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-17)While blockchain systems are quickly gaining popularity, front-running remains a major obstacle to fair exchange. Front-running is a family of strategies in which a malicious party manipulates the order of transactions ...