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A Metamotivational Approach to Understanding Managers’ Beliefs About Motivationally Diverse Teams in the Domain of Regulatory Mode
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-26)Cultivating effective teams requires managers to integrate the efforts of individuals who often vary in their backgrounds, skills, and identities. One way that team members can differ from each other is in their motivational ... -
Metamotivational Beliefs about Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-30)Although intrinsic motivation is often viewed as preferable to more extrinsic forms of motivation, there is evidence that the adaptiveness of these motivational states depends on the nature of the task being completed ... -
Metasploit for Cyber-Physical Security Testing with Real-Time Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-29)Metasploit is a framework for cybersecurity testing. The Metasploit Framework introduced the Hardware Bridge API to enable security testing of cyber-physical systems. Cyber-physical systems and tests/attacks on the systems ... -
Metasurfaces for Antennas, Energy Harvesting and Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-03)Metamaterials are materials with artificial structures, engineered to produce electromagnetic properties not readily available in nature. Metamaterials have generated broad interest and utilization in various applications ... -
Methane cycling in horticultural extracted, restored, and unrestored peatlands in central Alberta, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)Horticulture peat extraction drastically changes peatland ecosystems and their carbon and greenhouse gas balance. Comprehensive study on the combined response of methane (CH4) cycling (i.e., CH4 production, oxidation, ... -
Methane Cycling in Northern Peatlands Following Wildfire
(University of Waterloo, 2024-03-26)Peatlands are an important component of the global carbon (C) cycle, they operate as long-term global sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and sources of methane (CH4). However, they are becoming increasingly ... -
Methane Dynamics in a Southern Ontario Calcareous Fen
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-07)Peatlands are important ecosystems that are pivotal for the global carbon budget. They have the ability to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it within peat, which has very slow decomposition rates. Peatlands ... -
Methane dynamics of a constructed fen in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-18)Oil sands mining activities in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region in northeastern Alberta, Canada have resulted in an extensive amount of land disturbance. The Alberta government requires some reclamation of disturbed land to ... -
Method development for the analysis of soil bacterial communities
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-23)Due to the tremendous diversity and abundance of microbes in environmental and host-associated environments, adequate characterization of these samples remains a challenge for microbiologists. In order to increase the depth ... -
A Method for Evaluating and Prioritizing Candidate Intersections for Transit Signal Priority Implementation
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-18)Transit agencies seeking to improve transit service delivery are increasingly considering the deployment of transit signal priority (TSP). However, the impact of TSP on transit service and on the general traffic stream ... -
Method of Moments in Approximate Bayesian Inference: From Theory to Practice
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-12)With recent advances in approximate inference, Bayesian methods have proven successful in larger datasets and more complex models. The central problem in Bayesian inference is how to approximate intractable posteriors ... -
A Method to Symbolically Compute Convolution Integrals
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-22)This thesis presents a method for computing symbolic solutions of a certain class of improper integrals related to convolutions of Mellin transforms. Important integrals that fall into this category are integral transforms ... -
Method-Specific Access Control in Java via Proxy Objects using Annotations
(University of Waterloo, 2010-03-31)Partially restricting access to objects enables system designers to finely control the security of their systems. We propose a novel approach that allows granting partial access at method granularity on arbitrary objects ... -
Methodologies for capture zone delineation for the Waterloo Moraine well fields
(University of Waterloo, 2000)The Region of Waterloo relies mainly (75 %) on local groundwater resources for its drinking water supply. The water demand is increasing with the growth of the population and there is a need to enhance the present water ... -
Methodologies for Evaluating User Centric Performance of Mobile Network Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)Performance is an important attribute of mobile software applications, having a direct impact on end-user's experience. One of the obstacles that make software performance testing difficult to pursue is the lack of performance ... -
Methodologies for Obtaining Reliable Indicators for the Environmental Stress Cracking Resistance of Polyethylene
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-13)Environmental stress cracking (ESC) is one of the main, and probably the most common, failure mechanisms involved in polymer fractures. This type of failure is critically important as it occurs suddenly, without any visible ... -
Methodology Development for the Electrophilic Aromatic Amination of Secondary Amides
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-25)The intramolecular electrophilic aromatic amination of secondary amides was developed. Secondary N-methoxy and N-p-methoxyphenyl amides were cyclized to oxindoles by triflic anhydride mediated electrophilic activation and ... -
A Methodology for Data-Informed Process Control in Progressive Die Sheet Metal Forming
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-25)This thesis investigates the coupled relationship between the strip transfer and forming operations in progressive die sheet metal forming, including the effects of the strip layout geometry, and its effect on the process ... -
A Methodology for Design and Adaptation of Infrastructure Under Deep Climate Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-03)Proper decision-making in design, and adaptation management of infrastructure is essential, in the face of environmental uncertainties. As and example, current climate change models yield a range of widely diverging ... -
A methodology for designing 2.45 GHz wireless rectenna system utilizing Dickson Charge Pump with Optimized Power Efficiency
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)In the present thesis, I have proposed methodology of two stages Dickson charge pump, which is capable of harvesting energy at 2.45 GHz RF signal to power any low powered device. Presented design uses a simple and inexpensive ...