Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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A theoretical and empirical investigation into the economic relationship between forested watersheds and water treatment costs
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-13)Forests around the world are believed to perform important chemical and nutrient retention functions. Chemical concentration levels have been found to be lower in surface water bodies located in areas with a higher forest ... -
A Theory of Gamification Principles Through Goal-Setting Theory
(Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2018-01-03)Goal-setting theory has been used for decades to explain how to motivate people to perform better in work-related tasks, but more recently gamification has also gained attention as an alternative method to increase engagement ... -
Therapeutic Benefits of an Enhanced Video Feedback Intervention for Socially Anxious Individuals
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-29)Video feedback (VF) has been widely integrated into cognitive behavioural treatment protocols for socially anxious individuals due to its presumed efficacy in improving negative self-perception and reducing underestimations ... -
Therapeutic Benefits of an Enhanced Video Feedback Intervention for Socially Anxious Individuals
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-24)Video feedback (VF) has been widely integrated into cognitive behavioural treatment protocols for socially anxious individuals due to its presumed efficacy in improving negative self-perception and reducing underestimations ... -
“They Built a Kingdom”: Developing a Free Reformed Church Community in Southern Ontario, 1950-1976
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-29)This thesis investigates the establishment and development of a religious community of immigrants from the Netherlands to Canada, whose lives centered around a small denomination called the Free Reformed Churches of North ... -
Thinking the Impossible: Counterfactual Conditionals, Impossible Cases, and Thought Experiments
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-22)In this thesis I present an account of the formal semantics of counterfactuals that systematically deals with impossible antecedents. This, in turn, allows us to gain a richer understanding of what makes certain thought ... -
The Third Distinction of Michael Scot's Liber quattuor distinctionum: a window into the social world of astrologers in the early thirteenth century
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)Michael Scot remains an under-studied figure of the early thirteenth century, in particular with regard to his main original work, the Liber introductorius. This work has never been comprehensively edited, although several ... -
Thirsty Land into Springs of Water: Negotiating a Place in Canada as Latter-day Saints, 1887-1947
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-17)This dissertation examines how Latter-day Saints—originally an American tradition—expanded into an international religion beginning with their settlement on Canadian soil. The “Americanization thesis” promoted by scholars ... -
This Site Is Under Construction: A Painting Installation
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-20)This paper is intended to serve as a supporting document for the exhibition This Site Is Under Construction that was held at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery, University of Waterloo, April 17th – May 14th, 2010. ... -
"This Third Space": Real-and-Imagined Spaces in Turn-of-the-Century American Settlement Fiction
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-22)This thesis is a literary analysis of American settlement fiction, using a spatially-informed cultural historicist approach. The settlement movement in the U.S. was both a Progressive Era reform movement and a precursor ... -
Thought Suppression
(Oxford University Press, 2020-01-30)The idea that suppressing an unwanted thought results in an ironic increase in its frequency is accepted as psychological fact. Wegner’s ironic processes model has been applied to understanding the development and persistence ... -
Threads of Memory: A Culture of Commemoration in Kenya Colony, 1918-1930
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-05)The centenary of the First World War (2014-2018) proffered new interpretations of the conflict as a global war that stretched far beyond the Western Front. Historians of the Great War, however, have continued to characterize ... -
Three Chapters on the Labour Market Assimilation of Canada's Immigrant Population
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-03)The three chapters of my dissertation examine immigrant assimilation in the Canadian labour market. Through three levels of analysis, which are distinguished by the sample restrictions that are employed, I investigate ... -
Three Empirical Essays on Job Training, Income Support Programs, and Household Debt
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-29)This thesis consists of three essays examining the effects of education and job-related training on promotions and wages in Germany, the effects of a reduction in Unemployment Insurance duration on the likelihood of joining ... -
Three Essays in Labour Economics and Public Finance
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-27)This three-chapter thesis evaluates the potential for two major government policy levers to influence income inequality in Canada: the tax and transfer system, and the labour relations framework. The first two chapters are ... -
Three Essays In Policy Evaluation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-20)This thesis consists of three chapters that study the effect of public policy on several economic and environmental outcomes. In the first chapter, we investigate the effect of a change in tax policy affecting cars on car ... -
Three Essays on Financial Modelling with Price Limits
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-21)In this thesis, a class of clustered censored distributions are proposed in various financial modelling processes. In particular, the proposed distribution can accommodate many stylized (observed) phenomena across different ... -
Three Essays on the Economics of Innovation as Adaptation to Climate Change
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-11)This thesis consists of three chapters on technological innovation as adaptation to climate change. The first chapter adopts a non-cooperative game theory model to investigate the relationship between adaptation technology ... -
Three Minutes to Midnight: Civil Defense in the Late Cold War Period
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-20)This thesis examines civil defense in the United States under the Nixon, Carter and Reagan administrations. Throughout the late Cold War period civil defense policy planners employed a philosophy of dual-use. The Defense ... -
Three Papers on the Effects of Competition in Engery Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-29)This thesis comprises three papers examining the impact of competitive pricing or competition on participants in energy markets. The scope of each paper is narrow but focused, dealing with one particular aspect of competition ...