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Hospital
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)The former Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto was a sight in need of little description: beyond the fenced property, the building, recognizably a postwar hospital, uncaringly dismantled its red brick and regularly spaced ... -
Hospital Air Emission Capture and Recovery
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-12)Inhaled anesthetics used in hospital surgeries are typically volatile halogenated hydrocarbons. Very few of them are absorbed or metabolized by the patient during use, and, therefore, most of the exhaled gases are collected ... -
Hostility in the context of depression: Testing the relevance of perceived social ranking
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-29)Theoretical positions (Sloman & Gilbert, 2000), current research (Robbins & Tanck, 1997) and clinical observations (APA, 1994) have generally concluded that depressed populations tend to demonstrate an elevated level of ... -
Hosting Regional Sport Events: Insights from Emerging Sport Tourism Destinations
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-07)The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate and gain stakeholder insights into the nature of hosting sport tourism events and using them as a regional development strategy in two emerging sport tourism markets ... -
Hot Forging Tool Design for a Magnesium Alloy Front Lower Control Arm
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-22)In an effort to improve fuel economy standards in the automotive industry, the use of lightweight materials to manufacture fatigue-critical components is investigated by a large group at the University of Waterloo. Prior ... -
Hot Forming of Boron Steels with Tailored Mechanical Properties: Experiments and Numerical Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-13)Hot forming of boron steels is becoming increasingly popular in the automotive industry due to the demands for weight reduction and increased safety requirements for new vehicles. Hot formed components offer a significant ... -
The HOT Solution: An examination of the desirability for High Occupancy/Toll (HOT) lanes in the Greater Toronto Area
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-03)This study assessed the desirability for High-Occupancy/Toll (HOT) lanes in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) through stated preference and revealed traffic volume data gathering and analysis techniques. 4,000 surveys, ... -
Hot Stamping of a Boron Steel Side Impact Beam with Tailored Flange Properties - Experiments and Numerical Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-01)The effect of tailoring of hot stamped components is investigated, specifically the introduction of a tailored (locally softened) flange within an otherwise martensitic hot formed side impact beam. The effect of tailoring ... -
The HOTHEAD Protein: Assessing Enzymatic Activity using Computational and Recombinant Protein Expression Approaches
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)In Arabidopsis thaliana, a number of genes regulating cuticle synthesis have been identified by virtue of organ fusion phenotype. One such gene, HOTHEAD (HTH) was among those originally identified by this phenotype but its ... -
Hotspots for Vessel-to-Vessel and Vessel-to-Fix Object Accidents Along the Great Lakes Seaway
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-14)This research focuses on the freight vessel accidents occurring on the Great Lakes Seaway (GLS) extending from Rimouski (on the St. Lawrence) to Sault Ste. Marie (connecting Lake Huron to Lake Superior). Over the past ... -
The House of Matter
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-19)Everything falls apart, but some materials do it with a specific panache, and once design leaves paper to be built, no project is complete until it falls. As creatures subject to time, we identify with things in which we ... -
A House of No Importance: The rise and fall of Nasr City’s middle class extended family houses
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-23)Since its urban boom around the mid 1980s, the Cairene residential district of Nasr City has been the hub for a unique housing phenomenon. It has seen middle class professionals appropriating its apartment building typologies ... -
The House of Ontario: Restoring Meaning and Identity to Queen's Park
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)“It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed ... -
House of Reconciliation
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-23)The signing of the Ta'if Agreement on October 22, 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the divisive and destructive Lebanese Civil War that had raged since 1975. The war was finally ended in March 1991, when the new ... -
The House of Uncommon Grounds
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-09)Demographically open public spaces provide valuable grounds for engaging diverse ideologies. While the rise of society and passive consumption of mass culture excludes “action” and “speech” from the public realm and threatens ... -
House Price Risk in Mortgage Contracts
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-25)Research has shown that mortgage default is closely related to house prices. When house prices fall the borrower has an incentive to default. Since default incurs substantial cost to the lender, the borrower and many other ... -
a House to be Home
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-19)Architecture exists in context. Buildings are designed for, and exist in, a place and time. The vast majority must adhere to a relative strict set of construction, regulatory, and cultural considerations; all of them are ... -
House(Craft): Mobile Housing for a New Generation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-14)We have been called the “entitled” generation. We want to be your boss before we’ve stepped through the door. We grew up in the Internet Age; being told we were special, unique, and capable of anything we wanted. We are ... -
Household Decision-Making Dynamics Associated with the Adoption of High-Involvement Renewable Energy Technologies: A Case Study of Consumer Experiences in the Adoption of Residential Ground Source Heat Pump Systems in Rural Southwestern Ontario (Canada)
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-22)In the province of Ontario, 88 percent of residential energy demand is for space heating, cooling and water heating, accounting for 99 percent of the residential sector's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (data are for 2011 ... -
Household Food Insecurity in Canada Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the International Food Policy Study 2018-2020
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-13)Background: Food insecurity refers to constrained food access due to inadequate financial resources. Those living in food-insecure households are at risk for compromised nutrition, including inadequate nutrient intakes. ...