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Healthy Competition: Federalism and Environmental Impact Assessment in Canada - 1985-1995
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The effect of federalism on the development of public policy is a widely debated topic. In terms of environmental policy, this issue assumes greater importance because of the lack of clarity in the constitutional division ... -
Healthy Food Zones Around Schools: Evaluating Projected Impacts of a Restrictive Food Planning Policy on Junk Food Availability after 10 years: An Equity- focused Simulation Study
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-22)Healthy diets are important for public health and health equity, given that globally, dietary risks currently comprise the largest burden of morbidity and mortality (Afshin et al., 2019). In Canada, diet quality is the ... -
'Healthy' Coreference: Applying Coreference Resolution to the Health Education Domain
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-26)This thesis investigates coreference and its resolution within the domain of health education. Coreference is the relationship between two linguistic expressions that refer to the same real-world entity, and resolution ... -
Heart Failure among Older Home Care Clients: An Examination of Client Needs, Medication Use and Outcomes
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-28)Population aging in Canada is associated with a rising burden of heart failure (HF), a condition associated with substantial morbidity, mortality and health service use. HF management involves pharmacotherapy, exercise, ... -
Heat Extraction from Shallow Ground using Closed Single-Phase Thermosyphons
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-19)Artificial ground freezing could be costly. Except for drilling and installation costs, they may also include maintenance and electricity consumption. What if we can build a device that naturally works without a need of ... -
Heat Generation Measurements of Prismatic Lithium Ion Batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)Electric and hybrid electric vehicles are gaining momentum as a sustainable alternative to conventional combustion based transportation. The operating temperature of the vehicle will vary significantly over the vehicle ... -
Heat Release Rate in Ventilation-Limited Furniture Fires
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-21)There has always been motivation to investigate and understand fires with hopes of implementing useful changes to fire safety procedures, standards, codes, and education. Due to the unpredictability and destructive nature ... -
Heat Shock Response Inhibition and Gene Expression in <em>Xenopus Laevis</em> Cultured Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Various genes have evolved to protect the cell against stressor-induced damage or death including the heat shock proteins (HSPs). Stressor-induced HSP gene expression involves the activation of heat shock factor (HSF), ... -
Heat Transfer Modeling of Roller Hearth and Muffle Furnace
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-28)In hot forming die quenching, furnaces are used to austenitize ultra high strength steel blanks. In the case of coated steels, like Usibor® 1500 P, furnace heating also transforms a protective Al-Si layer into a permanent ... -
Heavy as a Cloud
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-18)Heavy as a Cloud is a collection of phenomena that alludes to the fragility and transience of life; clouds drifting away, waves rolling in, flowers fading in the sun, a lingering fragrance, and crumbling sandcastles. Using ... -
Heavy-tail Sensitivity of Stable Portfolios
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)This thesis documents a heavy-tailed analysis of stable portfolios. Stock market crashes occur more often than is predicted by a normal distribution,which provides empirical evidence that asset returns are heavy-tailed. ... -
Hedging Contingent Claims in Markets with Jumps
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-25)Contrary to the Black-Scholes paradigm, an option-pricing model which incorporates the possibility of jumps more accurately reflects the evolution of stocks in the real world. However, hedging a contingent claim in ... -
Hedging Costs for Variable Annuities
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)A general methodology is described in which policyholder behaviour is decoupled from the pricing of a variable annuity based on the cost of hedging it, yielding two sequences of weakly coupled systems of partial differential ... -
Hedging in a Financial Market with Regime-Switching
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-06)It is well-known that in the complete standard financial market model driven solely by Brownian motion, one can always hedge a given contingent claim starting from an appropriate initial wealth. In other words, there always ... -
Hedging with a Correlated Asset: An Insurance Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Hedging a contingent claim with an asset which is not perfectly correlated with the underlying asset results in an imperfect hedge. The residual risk from hedging with a correlated asset is priced using an actuarial ... -
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah, Get me Ouddah Here: The Role of Attachment in Developmental Outcomes at Summer Camp
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-02)From a psychosocial perspective this work examines the role of attachment (Bowlby, 1973; 1988) in the nature of developmental outcomes related to participation in residential summer camp in Canada. Attachment theory posits ... -
Help-Seeking Behaviour in Computer-Mediated Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-19)Often when an individual decides to seek help, several communication media are available to him or her (e.g., email, phone, in-person), which means the help-seeker faces a media selection decision. To make this decision, ... -
Helping in a Random World: Evidence that Prosocial Intentions and Behavior can Satiate Compensatory Control Needs
(University of Waterloo, 2011-07-07)The present research examines a unique motivator of prosocial intentions and behavior: the need to believe that the world is an orderly, predictable place. Previous social psychological research has explained helping ... -
Hemi-Isoindigo Polymers and Oligomers for Temperature Sensing Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-09)Organic semiconductors are extensively used for electronic applications such as OFETs and OPVs due to their low-cost and well-defined manufacturing processes. This includes vacuum deposition, solution processing, and ... -
Hemodynamic effects of intermittent compression as a countermeasure to orthostatic stress
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-05)Upright posture can be associated with symptoms of dizziness, light-headedness and blurred vision, which are fundamentally caused by impaired cerebral hemodynamics. As gravity acts along the body’s longitudinal axis, pooling ...