Browsing Theses by Subject "social networks"
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Connecting gender and social networks to explore health service access and use in Negros Occidental, Philippines: A qualitative study
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-25)Background: In early 2019, the Universal Health Care Bill was signed into law in the Philippines with the intention of enabling all citizens to access a comprehensive range of health care services without bearing costs. ... -
Consumer Decision Making and Word of Mouth Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-26)Word of mouth (WOM) communication has been a form of additional information for consumers wishing to make a purchase decision where there was uncertainty, lack of knowledge or just a general desire for more information. ... -
Design and Analysis of Experiments on Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-17)In the design and analysis of experiments, it is often assumed that experimental units are independent, in the sense that the treatment assigned to one unit will not affect the potential outcome of another unit. However, ... -
Design of a Recommender System for Participatory Media Built on a Tetherless Communication Infrastructure
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-18)We address the challenge of providing low-cost, universal access of useful information to people in different parts of the globe. We achieve this by following two strategies. First, we focus on the delivery of information ... -
Expanding the Role of Power in Employees’ Interpretations of and Reactions to Leader Behaviors
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-13)Though research on the impact of leader behaviors is generally grounded in the notion that organizational leaders hold formal power over subordinate employees, this conceptualization overlooks the power that employees may ... -
Exploring Pathways for Social-ecological Transformation in the Cau Hai Lagoon, Vietnam
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-23)The concept of transformations is used in this dissertation to engage with questions surrounding what profound social and ecological changes mean for small-scale fisheries communities, and the implications of such change ... -
Finding Communities in Typed Citation Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-25)As the Web has become more and more important to our daily lives, algorithms that can effectively utilize the link structure have become more and more important. One such task has been to find communities in social network ... -
How Leader Role Identity Influences the Process of Leader Emergence: A Social Network Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-01)Contemporary literature on leadership emphasizes the importance of having a leader identity in building leadership skills and functioning effectively as leaders. We build on this approach by examining and unpacking the ... -
Keeping Up With the Joneses: Electricity Consumption, Publicity and Social Network Influence in Milton, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)Abstract This study used an exploratory research focus to investigate if making electricity consumption public and subject to social norms and networks resulted in consumption decreases for households in Milton, Ontario. ... -
The Moderation of Contentious Content on Twitter
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)Retweeting posts is Twitter's most important feature, playing a vital role in enabling the platform to be a virtual town hall that fosters timely discussions. This attribute has been instrumental in drawing a younger, ... -
A Privacy-Friendly Architecture for Mobile Social Networking Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-23)The resources and localization abilities available in modern smartphones have provided a huge boost to the popularity of location-based applications. In these applications, users send their current locations to a central ... -
Researching the Researcher: A Social Network Analysis of the Multidisciplinary Knowledge Creation Process
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This research describes the relationship between several social network characteristics and knowledge creation outputs in the form of patented intellectual property of researchers by investigating the case of the University ... -
The role of social preferences in the organization of a gregarious mammal colony
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-02)Social preferences are often demonstrated to exist in “intelligent”, long-lived species, such as cetaceans and primates, where individuals have the opportunity to form relationships with conspecifics through repeated ... -
The ties that bind: Connections, patterns, and possibilities for marine protected areas
(University of Waterloo, 2015-11-30)The purpose of this doctoral research is to characterize and assess how social networks enhance and inhibit the governance of marine protected areas (MPAs). Specifically, I examine the structure and function of multiple ... -
Two Coalitional Models for Network Formation and Matching Games
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-23)This thesis comprises of two separate game theoretic models that fall under the general umbrella of network formation games. The first is a coalitional model of interaction in social networks that is based on the idea ... -
Understanding island-wide intersectional disaster risk governance: the place of social networks in the Commonwealth of Dominica.
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-26)The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction promotes deliberative, inclusive and bottom-up processes to disaster risk reduction. Further, the growing focus on stakeholder engagement within disaster risk governance ...