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Lire la tragédie protestante française à la Renaissance: trois approches des oeuvres
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-12)Notre thèse, composée d’une introduction, d’un état de la recherche et de deux modules autonomes, porte sur certaines fonctions de la tragédie biblique d’inspiration calviniste à la Renaissance. Bien que le drame protestant ... -
List Coloring Some Classes of 1-Planar Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)In list coloring we are given a graph G and a list assignment for G which assigns to each vertex of G a list of possible colors. We wish to find a coloring of the vertices of G such that each vertex uses a color from its ... -
List colouring hypergraphs and extremal results for acyclic graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-21)We study several extremal problems in graphs and hypergraphs. The first one is on list-colouring hypergraphs, which is a generalization of the ordinary colouring of hypergraphs. We discuss two methods for determining the ... -
Listening to their peers: An assessment of toddlers' processing of other children's speech
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-29)Young language learners acquire their first language(s) from the speech they are exposed to in their environment. For at least some children (e.g., those in daycare), this environmental speech includes a large quantity of ... -
Listeria monocytogenes and Ready-to-Eat Meats: Tackling a Wicked Problem using Grounded Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-20)Background: Listeria monocytogenes and ready-to-eat meats have garnered considerable attention in Canada over the past decade as a result of foodborne outbreaks and product recalls that continue to transpire. A number of ... -
Literarische Wege zum Glueck: Die Repraesentation des Gluecks in gegenwaertiger deutscher Literatur in Kristine Bilkaus Die Gluecklichen und Schau mich an, wenn ich mit dir rede! von Monika Helfer
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-31)In this thesis, I set out to examine how two contemporary authors portray the motif Glueck in their novels. The analysis is based on the novel Schau mich an, wenn ich mit dir rede! written by Monika Helfer and Die Gluecklichen ... -
A Literature of Conscience: Yevtushenko's Post-Stalin Poetry
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-04)The tradition of civic poetry occupies a unique place in the history of Russian literature. The civic poet (grazhdanskii poet) characteristically addresses socio-political issues and injustices relevant to the era in ... -
Lithium ion conducting inorganic solid electrolytes and all solid-state lithium batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-08)As the world transitions away from fossil energy to green and renewable energy, electrochemical energy storage techniques, especially rechargeable batteries, increasingly become a vital component for this transition. High ... -
Lithium-Ion battery SOC estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)Lithium-ion batteries are frequently used in Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), which are taking the place of gas-engine vehicles. An important but not measurable quantity in HEVs is the amount of charge remaining in the ... -
Litter input, soil quality and soil carbon dioxide production rates in varying riparian land uses along a first order stream in Southern Ontario, Canada.
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-26)Forested riparian zones, which function as a buffer between agricultural fields and streams, filter out contaminants and sediment from the fields thereby improving water quality, cool the water with shade from trees, ... -
Live API Documentation
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-23)Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) provide powerful abstraction mechanisms that enable complex functionality to be used by client programs. However, this abstraction does not come for free: understanding how to use ... -
Live cell imaging, cell tracking and lineage analysis as a tool to investigate dynamic culture processes in heterogeneous cell systems
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-01)Live cell imaging can be used to study dynamic cellular systems at single cell resolution. In heterogeneous cell populations, analyzing cell properties at the single cell level reduces the generalization of results caused ... -
Lived Experiences of the Trails: Perspectives from Three Southwestern Ontario Trail Organizations
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-16)The purpose of this qualitative thesis is to describe the common elements of sense of place in the lived experiences of volunteer trail managers. Through a triangulation of data gathered from secondary research, interviews ... -
Living as a Self-sufficient Second-class Citizen: Chinese International Undergraduate Students’ Journey to Permanent Residency in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-24)In recent years, Canada has become one of the world’s most popular destinations for studying abroad, and China has become the top sending country of international students to Canada. In Canada’s 2015 International Student ... -
Living Beyond Subsistence
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-29)The residential tower is the setting for various manifestations of domestic environments. Every unit consists of a particular narrative of an individual within the larger collective. Yet this crucial microcosm that links ... -
Living on the Edge: Old Colony Mennonites and digital technology
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-18)Technology does not stand alone in any society. Each society negotiates its own relationship with technology and places its own value on it. Each chooses its own path. This thesis considers the path taken towards technology ... -
Living on the Edge: the Influence of Marginalization on Mental Health Needs and Service Use
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-27)Background: Persons with severe mental illnesses are a small portion of the population that require a disproportionate amount of health and social services to meet their complex needs. This group is particularly vulnerable ... -
A Living Room for Milton
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-17)Milton, Ontario is one of many smaller Canadian cities that has absorbed the sudden growth brought on by a combination of the lack of affordable housing prices and access to major employment lands in larger urban centres. ... -
Living with a Chronic Illness in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-10)This study explored the lived experiences of chronic illness during adolescence and emerging adulthood. Previous research has indicated that chronic illness can result in disruptions to people’s lives because of the related ... -
Living with hope in the midst of Change: The meaning of leisure within the context of dementia
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-26)Research exploring identity in the dementia context reveals that some aspects of personal and social identity persist in dementia while others evolve as persons living with dementia find ways to live with the changes in ...