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Life Cycle Assessment of Medical Oxygen
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-15)Medical oxygen is a vital healthcare resource provided to a patient to achieve their minimum required oxygen blood saturation. There is a growing interest in medical oxygen due to supply shortages experienced during COVID-19. ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of Residential Buildings Considering Photovoltaic Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-05)Nowadays, energy consumption in the building sector is considered one of the main contributors to increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, which is having an enormous negative environmental impact worldwide. Correspondingly, ... -
Life cycle sustainability assessment of asset management plans for municipal wastewater systems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-24)Municipal governments have the responsibility to provide safe drinking water and handle polluted water to protect their citizen’s health and safety. Maintaining water infrastructure systems, including wastewater collection ... -
Life History Analysis with Response-Dependent Observation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-14)This thesis deals with statistical issues in the analysis of dependent failure time data under complex observation schemes. These observation schemes may yield right-censored, interval-censored and current status data and ... -
Life history and population dynamics of Eastern Sand Darter (Ammocrypta pellucida) in the lower Thames River, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-17)Eastern Sand Darter (Ammocrypta pellucida) is listed as Threatened under the Canadian Species at Risk Act. Canadian populations are declining primarily due to the siltation of sandy depositional areas, the preferred habitat ... -
Life history characteristics of Lake Whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis), Cisco (Coregonus artedi), and Northern Pike (Esox lucius) in rivers of the Hudson Bay Lowlands
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-15)Many northern fishes display plasticity in life history and trophic ecology that can influence productivity of fisheries and bioaccumulation of contaminants, such as mercury. Cisco (Coregonus artedi), Lake Whitefish ... -
Life History of Dwarf Longnose Sucker (Catostomus catostomus) in the Elk River Watershed
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-01)In 2004, a population of dwarf longnose sucker was discovered co-existing with the normal form within the Elk River Watershed of south-eastern British Columbia. This thesis evaluated morphological, genetic and life history ... -
Life of the Woods: A Study of Emily Dickinson
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-24)Beginning with T.W. Higginson, the poet’s first public critic and posthumous editor, the prevailing view of Emily Dickinson has been of a maker of “wonderful strokes and felicities, and yet an incomplete and unsatisfactory ... -
Life on Mars: Palimpsests of the Forthcoming Martian Res Publica
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-21)Mars is set to be the new frontier of humanity, and as a result poses a unique set of architectural and engineering challenges to be overcome. Interest into both small and large-scale Martian settlements has greatly increased ... -
The Life-Cycle Assessment of a Single-Storey Retail Building in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-26)In North America, the operation of buildings accounts for approximately one third of the total energy use and greenhouse gas emissions annually. Office buildings are responsible for roughly 35% of the total commercial/in ... -
The Lifecycle of a Whiteboard Photo: Post-meeting Usage of Whiteboard Content Captured with Mobile Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-15)The traditional dry-erase whiteboard is a ubiquitous tool in the workplace, particularly in meeting spaces where they are a key collaboration tool. Although research on whiteboard use and the development of whiteboard ... -
The Lifestyles and Sexual Health of Canadian Snowbirds
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-13)Background. Little is known about HIV risk-behaviour and testing amongst older Canadians. In the United States the prevalence of HIV for those aged 50+ is highest in Florida, a location where many Canadian seniors winter. ... -
The LIFT House: An amphibious strategy for sustainable and affordable housing for the urban poor in flood-prone Bangladesh
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-02)Bangladesh is known for two things: poverty and floods. It is a delta country burdened with draining large amounts of water from surrounding countries and a heavy monsoon season that have caused numerous severe floods with ... -
The Liftable Mapping Class Group
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-19)Broadly, this thesis lies at the interface of mapping class groups and covering spaces. The foundations of this area were laid down in the early 1970s by Birman and Hilden. Building on these foundations, there has been a ... -
“Lifting As We Climb”: The Emergence of an African-Canadian Civil Society in Southern Ontario (1840-1901)
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-18)This dissertation examines Black civil society organizations that brought the African-Canadian community closer to their rights as citizens of Canada West from 1840-1901. Past scholars have applied the concept of civil ... -
LIGAND TRANSFER REACTIONS OF HYPERVALENT IODINE REAGENTS WITH PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)Many hypervalent iodine compounds are used as versatile reagents in synthetic organic chemistry. Hypervalent iodine reagents are capable of oxidizing trivalent phosphorus compounds into pentavalent, by transferring their ... -
Light Delivery In Turbid Media
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-17)Light delivery and sample handling systems are essential for any high performance imaging application. The custom design for two such devices with medical imaging applications are presented. The first device, a galvanometer-stage ... -
Light Rail Transit in the Region of Waterloo: A qualitative examination of urban rail’s effects on real estate, development and urban identities
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)Transit oriented development has become a staple of contemporary planning practice that is applied in cities throughout the world to help guide the development of sustainable, economic, and social outcomes in urban regions. ... -
Light, Dark, and all That’s in Between: Revisiting the Role of Light in Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-23)Natural light, aside from its functional roles, has little significance in many contemporary spaces. The decline of its earlier shared cultural values and lack of any other to replace these translates into an impoverishment ... -
Light-Fueled Liquid Crystal Networks for Aquatic Soft Robotics
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-21)The field of soft robotics has developed in response to the need for mechanisms that can operate safely in interaction with humans. Within the field of soft robotics, there is a growing demand for the development of ...