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Implications of Climate Change on the Growth of Two Tropical Agroforestry Tree Seedlings
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-18)Tropical agroforestry systems are perceived to have the capacity to be resilient to future changes in climate. This study quantifies the response of two tropical agroforestry tree seedlings; Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Walp ... -
Implications of copper and nickel exposure to different members of the Hyalella azteca species complex
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-25)Hyalella azteca, an amphipod crustacean, is frequently used in freshwater toxicity tests. Since the mid-1980s, numerous organizations have collected and established cultures of H. azteca originating from localities across ... -
Implications of Lateral Flow Generation on Land-Surface Scheme Fluxes
(University of Waterloo, 2002)This thesis details the development and calibration of a model created by coupling a land surface simulation model named CLASS with a hydrologic model named WATFLOOD. The resulting model, known as WatCLASS, is able to ... -
Implications of Low Water Levels for Canadian Lake Huron Marina Operations
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-06)Recreational boating in the Great Lakes is suggested to fuel tourism and the Ontario economy. Like many other tourism sectors, boating-tourism is a highly climate-sensitive economic sector which significantly relies upon ... -
Implications of Marine Protected Areas on Social-Ecological Wellbeing in the Bay of Fundy, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-03)Globally, marine protected areas (MPAs) are proliferating to meet Aichi Target 11 under the Convention on Biological Diversity – to protect 10% of coastal and marine areas by 2020. MPAs hold promise to enhance the ecological ... -
The Implications of Relational Activity Motivations for Relationship Well-Being and Daily Relational Functioning in Marriage
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-02)People experience autonomy when they perceive their behaviour to be volitional and they feel controlled when their behaviour is driven by external demands or internal pressures. Gaine and La Guardia (2009) developed the ... -
The Implications of Sea-level Rise for Tourism in St. Lucia
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-21)Sea-level rise is one of the most certain impacts of climate change that will have major long-term implications for tourism in the Caribbean. Sea-level rise will impact coastal tourism through inundation and erosion, damage ... -
Implicit Leadership: Exploring the Role of Leaders on the Implicit Activation of Self-Interest
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Lord and Brown (Lord, Brown, & Freiberg, 1999; Lord & Brown, 2004) suggest that leaders may impact followers by priming certain goals or ideals in their followers’ minds, which in turn influence judgment and behaviour. The ... -
Implicit Loss of Surjectivity and Facial Reduction: Theory and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-09)Facial reduction, pioneered by Borwein and Wolkowicz, is a preprocessing method that is commonly used to obtain strict feasibility in the reformulated, reduced constraint system. The importance of strict feasibility is ... -
Implicit Processes in Smoking Interventions
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-19)Although explicit attitudes have traditionally been used in predictive models of health behaviour, recent theorizing suggests that implicit attitudes might be more useful in predicting socially undesirable or addictive ... -
Implied Volatility Modelling
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-08)We propose extensions on calibrating the volatility surface through multi-factor regression models. The proposed models are back-tested against the historical S&P 500 prices during both the volatile and non-volatile periods ... -
The Importance of Fracture Geometry and Matrix Data on Transient Hydraulic Tomography in Fractured Rocks: Analyses of Synthetic and Laboratory Rock Block Experiments
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-15)The accurate characterization of hydraulic properties within fractured geologic media as well as the imaging of fracture patterns and their connectivity have been difficult to accomplish over the last few decades. Recently, ... -
The Importance of Institutional Arrangements for Sustainable Livelihoods: The Case of Tun Sakaran Marine Park, Sabah, Malaysia
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-11)Although there has been growing research examining ecotourism from a livelihoods perspective, there is still lack of explicit and critical analysis of how people relate to the institutional environment, where power lies, ... -
The importance of long-term capture-mark-recapture archives for wildlife monitoring and research: Two examples from bat populations
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-05)Long-term capture-mark-recapture (CMR) projects provide useful data to study and monitor wildlife. Specifically, CMR data can help identify how an animal interacts with its environment and how these interactions change ... -
The Importance of Place: A Role for the Built Environment in the Etiology and Treatment of Problematic Substance Use
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-07)Faced with the growing North American drug crisis, and in light of the history of ineffective or even harmful approaches to treating problematic substance use, it is time to examine the problem from a new angle. There is ... -
The Importance of Social and Emotional Needs for the Psychological Well-Being of Cancer Survivors: An Application of Socioemotional Selectivity Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-26)As the number of cancer survivors continues to rise, there is an increasing need for psychological research to better understand and help individuals cope with their cancer journey. According to Socioemotional Selectivity ... -
Importance Sampling and Stratification Techniques for Multivariate Models with Low-Dimentional Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-22)Many problems in finance and risk management involve the computation of quantities related to rare-event analysis. As many financial problems are high-dimensional, the quan- tities of interest rarely have analytical forms ... -
The Impress Context Store: A Coordination Framework for Context-Aware Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The dream of weaving technology into our everyday fabric of life is recently being made possible by advances in ubiquitous computing and sensor technologies. Countless sensors of various sizes have made their way into ... -
The Impression Management Strategies of Leaders in the Nonprofit Sector
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-02)Leadership represents a diverse and dynamic area of study, occupying a vast area in sociological literature. However, the nonprofit sector is somewhat neglected in literature that examines leadership as a performance. ... -
An Improved Algorithm for Tor Circuit Scheduling
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-08)Tor is a popular anonymity-preserving network, consisting of routers run by volunteers all around the world. It protects Internet users’ privacy by relaying their network traffic through a series of routers, thus concealing ...