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Is competition sufficient to drive observed retail location and revenue patterns? An agent-based case study.
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-20)Agent-based models (ABMs) have been widely used to represent and investigate complex systems and are a contemporary modelling approach used in the study of land-use and land-cover change. While many ABMs have been constructed ... -
Is Free Recall Actually Superior to Cued Recall? Introducing the Recognized Recall Procedure to Examine the Costs and Benefits of Cueing
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-10)A vast literature and our own common sense tell us that free recall (i.e., recalling information without hints) is harder and less successful than cued recall (i.e., recalling information with hints). In this dissertation, ... -
Is Revenue Sharing Real Reconciliation? Recognizing the role of Indigenous law and governance in British Columbia Crown forestry agreements
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-27)From the banning of cultural protocols to the installation of assimilation and genocidal tactics, Indigenous law and governance within communities throughout British Columbia have experienced tremendous hardship and ... -
Is Semantic Activation from Print Automatic? An Investigation Using the Psychological Refractory Period and Task Set Paradigms
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-31)The view that various visual word recognition processes are automatic in the sense that they are ballistic, intention free, unconscious, and capacity free, dominates the reading literature. Though results from multiple ... -
Is Social Capital Mediating the Relationship Between Ethnicity and Health in Canada?
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-04)Ethnic minorities in Canada experience poorer health compared to their Canadian counterparts, on several important health outcomes. This study examines whether social capital – measured by social networks, civic engagement ... -
Is the Association Between Education and Cognitive Resilience Modified by Brain Weight and Cortical Atrophy?
(University of Waterloo, 2017-02-22)Introduction: Some individuals are able to avoid reaching the threshold for clinical dementia despite the presence of Alzheimer neuropathology. This disparity between the neuropathologic and clinical symptoms required for ... -
Is there a relation between the cost of debt and environmental performance? An empirical investigation of the U.S. Pulp and Paper Industry, 1994-2005.
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-10)This study shows an economically significant relation between a firm’s environmental performance and its cost of debt. Firms that have poor environmental performance will face future environmental liabilities related to ... -
Is There No One In The World Who Can Fly
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-06)The exhibition Is There No One in the World Who Can Fly? consists of three connected bodies of works. Life On Earth is a series of photo-performances exhibited on digital screens. Some of the images are still others are ... -
Is Tourism the Solution to Rural Decline? Evaluating the "Promise of Rural Tourism" to Close the Gap between Rhetoric and Practice
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-03)Rural areas across the developed world have encountered economic decline due to trends of industrialisation and urbanisation (Lane, 1994). The damaging effects of the declining economy have persuaded governments to recognize ... -
Isaak Babel's Image of the Humanized Jew in the Odesskie rasskazy
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-28)Abstract The Russia in which Isaak Babel (1894-1940) wrote was one of deep seated anti-Semitic philosophies and prejudices, a place of pogroms and segregation. Literature of this era painted the Jew as a villainous, ... -
Ischemia reperfusion injury in isolated hearts from spontaneously hypertensive rats following chronic resveratrol treatment
(University of Waterloo, 2011-12-21)Hypertension is a risk factor for myocardial ischemia via the promotion of endothelial dysfunction and atherosclerosis (Ogita et al., 2004). Hypertension not only a predisposes the heart to ischemic events, but as shown ... -
Islands at Risk - Analyzing Resource-use Dynamics from a Socio-metabolic Research Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-19)Our resource-use dynamics have contributed significantly to the improvement in global material standards of living through the provisioning of essential societal services. Nonetheless, these dynamics have also impacted on ... -
THE ISLINGTON GALLERY OF ART: An Architectural Implementation of the 'Third Place'
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-22)This thesis proposes turning a Toronto subway station into a gallery that will display temporary exhibitions of contemporary art. Islington subway station, on the corner of Bloor Street West and Islington Avenue, will ... -
An Isogeny-Based Adaptor Signature Using SQISign
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-19)Transactions on blockchains can prove very costly, so as a solution to avoid these large costs, schemes involving payment channel networks have been developed. One approach to implementing these off-chain forms of payment ... -
Isolation and characterization of bacterial phosphorous metabolism genes from complex microbial communities
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-05)Phosphorous (P) is an essential nutrient, playing a central role in the life of a bacterial cell. It is involved in cellular metabolic pathways, cell signaling and is a component of many of the cell’s macromolecules. Since ... -
Isolation and Characterization of Host Mutations that Suppress the Bacteriophage Lambda (λ) Rex Phenotype
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-01)The Bacteriophage lambda (λ) T4rII exclusion (Rex) phenotype is defined as the inability of T4rII mutant bacteriophage to form plaques on a lawn of E. coli lysogenized by bacteriophage λ. More than six decades have passed ... -
Isotope hydrology and paleohydrology of the Slave River Delta, NWT
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-30)Water isotope tracers and multi-proxy paleolimnological approaches are used to characterize the present and past hydrology of the Slave River Delta (SRD), NWT. This research addresses crucial gaps in knowledge about the ... -
Isotope-Inferred Water Balance of Slave River Delta Lakes, NWT, Canada.
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)The use of the stable isotopes, 18O and 2H, has proven to be a valuable tool in determining the importance of various hydrological controls on the modern water balances of Slave River Delta lakes, NWT, Canada. Samples ... -
Isotopic niche use by the invasive mysid Hemimysis anomala in the Laurentian Great Lakes basin
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-03)Invasive species are a known stressor on aquatic ecosystems, particularly in the waters of the Great Lakes basin. A recent invader, Hemimysis anomala, has had significant impacts on the food webs of Europe, where it invaded ... -
Isotropic-Helicoidal Transition of Semiflexible Polymers Confined to a Spherical Surface
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-15)A semiflexible polymer confined to a spherical surface is used as a basic model for understanding DNA conformation in restricted space. By means of Monte Carlo simulation for a bead-rod chain generated on a spherical ...