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MORE THAN JUST SMOKE AND LIGHTS: THE ARCHITECTURE OF CONCERT STAGE DESIGN
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-25)Live music creates an environment that allows your mind to go silent, where all your senses are stimulated in perfect harmony. It’s a heightened sense of reality, a place to escape and be consumed in something that feels ... -
More than just “Hello” and “Nihao”: Exploring bars and intercultural communication in a touristic town, Yangshuo, China
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-15)The purpose of this research is to explore the communication and interaction between westerners and Chinese people in western bars in the touristic town of Yangshuo in southern China. Yangshuo is worldly famous for its ... -
Morphing Parallel Graph Drawings
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-23)A pair of straight-line drawings of a graph is called parallel if, for every edge of the graph, the line segment that represents the edge in one drawing is parallel with the line segment that represents the edge in the ... -
Morphing planar triangulations
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-09)A morph between two drawings of the same graph can be thought of as a continuous deformation between the two given drawings. A morph is linear if every vertex moves along a straight line segment from its initial position ... -
Morphological and Apoptotic Alterations in Skeletal Muscle of Mice Deficient in Apoptosis Repressor with Caspase Recruitment Domain
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-05)Altered apoptotic signaling in skeletal muscle has been observed in a number of disease states associated with skeletal muscle atrophy. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms that lead to increased skeletal muscle apoptosis ... -
Morphological and Doppler UHR-OCT Imaging of Retinal Degeneration Induced by Sodium Iodate Toxicity in a Rat Model
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-29)A high speed, high resolution spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) system was used to study in-vivo early morphological changes and optical nerve head (ONH) blood flow in the Long Evans rat retina, induced ... -
Morphological and molecular determination of Fucus (Fucales, Heterokontophyta) biogeography across North American shores
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-21)The genus Fucus (Phaeophyceae) has nine commonly accepted species, six of which inhabit North American shores: F. gardneri, F. serratus, F. distichus, F. evanescens, F. vesiculosus, and F. spiralis. Fucus inhabit the ... -
Morphological and Multifractal Analyses of Retinal Amyloid Deposits for Staging in Alzheimer's Disease
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-12)Dementia is a neurodegenerative condition that leads to loss of cognitive ability, typically in older adults. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and affects millions of people worldwide. The ... -
Morphology Control and Ordering of PS-b-PMMA Block Copolymer by The Use of Neutral Monolayer and E-beam Lithography
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-29)As the conventional nanofabrication methods are reaching their limits of miniaturization, new methods are being studied to overcome this miniaturization challenge. Among the new emerging nanofabrication methods, bottom-up ... -
Morphometric Characterization of Limbal Vasculature using Ultra-high Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)Purpose: The aim of the present study was to compare and investigate morphometric characteristics of limbal vasculature within the superior and inferior limbal regions using ultra-high resolution optical coherence ... -
Mortality Prediction using Statistical Learning Approaches
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-21)Longevity risk, as one of the major risks faced by insurers, has triggered a heated stream of research in mortality modeling among actuaries for effective design/pricing/risk management of insurance products. The idea of ... -
MoS2 Thin Film Transistors using PECVD Dielectrics and Optical Contrast Modeling for Thickness Measurement
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-16)The discovery of graphene has led to considerable interest in the use of two-dimensional materials for use in transistors. Unlike graphene TMDCs such as MoS2 possess a band gap allowing them to obtain sufficient on/off ... -
Mothers with Lower-Incomes and Community Programming: Illuminating Narratives of Access and Experience in Kitchener
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-07)While motherhood is a wonderful experience full of love and joy, it continues to involve tremendous amounts of change in all areas of a new mother’s life. While leisure activities, such as the ones offered at community ... -
Motion Planning and Observer Synthesis for a Two-Span Web Roller Machine
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)A mathematical model for a Two-Span Web Roller machine is defined in order to facilitate motion planning, motion tracking and state observer design for tracking web tension and web velocity. Differential Flatness is utilized ... -
Motion Planning and Safety for Autonomous Driving
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-11)This thesis discusses two different problems in motion planning for autonomous driving. The first is the problem of optimizing a lattice planner control set for any particular autonomous driving task, with the goal of ... -
Motion Processing of Reverse Phi
(University of Waterloo, 2019-11-18)Introduction: When the contrast of the successive images is reversed for a target in an apparent motion stimulus, the perceived direction is reversed, i.e., opposite of phi motion, which is an integration of the sequential ... -
Motion with Moisture: Creating Passive Dynamic Envelope Systems Using the Hygroscopic Properties of Wood Veneer
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-24)This thesis presents research into the creation of an autonomously responsive envelope system capable of adaptation to variation in relative humidity through the use of wood veneer and its hygroscopic material properties. ... -
Motionscapes, Waterland, Maritime Theatre: Three Temporalities in Contemporary Jiangnan
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-24)Jiangnan is on the brink of revolution: a network of bullet train lines will re-territorilize this region of China, including Shanghai, drawing its 80 million inhabitants within a single hour’s commute of one another. From ... -
Motivated Resistance to Counterattitudinal Arguments: The effects of affirmation, argument strength and attitude importance
(University of Waterloo, 2000)In this study we explored some of the factors associated with biased processing of attitude-relevant information. We were particularly interested in the possibility that a self-affirmation, by reducing self-evaluative ... -
Motivating change through vision: The influence of personal values, self interest, motivational orientation and affect on people’s responses to a visionary presentation about diversity
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-21)When the case for organizational change is presented as a “vision,” is action to support the change more likely? This notion was tested in two studies in the context of diversity issues at work. Diversity was selected as ...