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Marital Communication Behaviour: The Role of Marital Satisfaction, Depressive Symptoms and Proximal Appraisals of Marital Problem-Solving Ability.
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)According to Bradbury and Fincham’s contextual model of relationship conflict, communication behaviour is likely influenced by relationship factors at both the distal and proximal level. The overall goal of the present ... -
Maritime Trade of Classical Greece: Commodities Shipped in Transport Amphorae
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-04)Trade practices have long been a concern of anthropological studies but has fallen out of focus in archaeological research. Much can be learned about trade from material remains, especially those from shipwrecks. For this ... -
Market Adaptation to Climate Risk: Evaluating Property Insurance Pricing in Vulnerable Coastal Communities
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-22)Financial recovery through insurance is critical to restoring socio-economic livelihoods as severe weather and water damage rank as the leading causes for property insurance claims across Canada. As climate change increases ... -
The Market-oriented Contribution of Individuals: Translating Strategy into Action
(University of Waterloo, 2004)This research explores the management problem of how individuals can influence the development of a strategic orientation within a firm. A market orientation strategy builds upon three dimensions: the organisation-wide ... -
Market_based Framework for Mobile Surveillance Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-04)The active surveillance of public and private sites is increasingly becoming a very important and critical issue. It is therefore, imperative to develop mobile surveillance systems to protect these sites. Modern surveillance ... -
Marketing mix of used electric vehicles in Ontario, Canada.
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-25)Abstract Electric vehicles (EV) support sustainable transportation by contributing to the reduction of emissions from the light-duty (passenger) vehicles sector. Electric vehicle adoption is a topic that has been studied ... -
Marketplace Lending and Credit Unions: Where the Past and Future of Peer-to-Peer Finance Meet
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)Peer-to-peer (P2P) or marketplace lending has expanded rapidly since the 2008 global financial crisis. While the idea of pooling small amounts of money from several lenders is not new, advances in financial technology ... -
Markovian Approaches to Joint-life Mortality with Applications in Risk Management
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-16)The combined survival status of the insured lives is a critical problem when pricing and reserving insurance products with more than one life. Our preliminary experience examination of bivariate annuity data from a large ... -
Marriage and the Social Contract in British Romantic Discourse
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-29)This thesis investigates non-domestic discourses of British Romanticism to argue that there is no “outside” of the domestic; its key constituents, family and the marriage that legitimizes that family, are absent presences ... -
Martial Mind: Examining the Relationship among Martial Arts Participation, Identity, and Wellbeing
(University of Waterloo, 2010-11-10)For hundreds of years, supporters of the traditional Martial Arts have spoken of the ability to promote the personal development of the practitioner through serious training practices (Lu, 2008). The connection between ... -
Martingale Property and Pricing for Time-homogeneous Diffusion Models in Finance
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-09)The thesis studies the martingale properties, probabilistic methods and efficient unbiased Monte Carlo simulation methods for various time-homogeneous diffusion models commonly used in mathematical finance. Some of the ... -
Mary's Honour in The Protoevangelium of James
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-26)This thesis will argue that the Protoevangelium of James was an apologetic text written to demonstrate Mary’s ascribed and acquired honour. By establishing Mary’s honour the text also defends the honour of Jesus and early ... -
Masculinity in two reddit men’s communities: Feminism is foul, privilege is precarious, and being beta is bad.
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-29)TL;DR Work, social lives, and leisure practices are increasingly digitally mediated, and as more and more of our interactions move online, we seek out platforms and communities where we can share ideas and interact with ... -
Masked by Fire: A Pilot Study Analyzing Perimortem Ballistic Trauma in Burnt Remains
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-21)Fire is believed to destroy everything it comes into contact with, making it a popular choice for covering up crimes like murder. By warping and shrinking the bones, fire can pose quite a challenge to even the most experienced ... -
Masks and Caricatures: Prosopopoeia, Ethopoeia, and the Effect of Social Media on Canadian Political Leaders’ Debates
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-20)This dissertation examines the recent effect of social media on televised political leaders’ debates through the lens of ethos. It features two case studies from two Canadian federal elections: the 2015 Maclean’s Leaders’ ... -
Mass Housing for New Moscow
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)This thesis explores the highrise housing development industry within Moscow's recently expanded borders, where a large volume of what is commonly understood to be an outdated Soviet-era product continues to be built. The ... -
Mass Spectrometry Based De Novo Peptide Sequencing Error Correction
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-26)Extensive study has been conducted on the identification of peptide sequences with mass spectrometry. With the development of computer hardware and algorithms, de novo sequencing has drawn attention from researchers for ... -
Mass Transfer Mechanisms during the Solvent Recovery of Heavy Oil
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-18)Canada has the second largest proven oil reserves next to Saudi Arabia which is mostly located in Alberta and Saskatchewan but is unconventional heavy oil and bitumen. The tar sands are found at the surface and are mined, ... -
Mass Transfer to/from Distributed Sinks/Sources in Porous Media
(University of Waterloo, 2006-12-18)This research addresses a number of fundamental issues concerning convective mass transfer across fluid-fluid interfaces in porous media. Mass transfer to/from distributed sinks/sources is considered for i) the slow ... -
Mass-Selected Infrared Multiple-Photon Dissociation as a Structural Probe of Gaseous Ion-Molecule Complexes
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-31)Mass-selected infrared multiple photon spectroscopy (IRMPD), Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) kinetic experiments, RRKM and electronic structure calculations have been performed in order to propose a ...