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Does NME even know what a music blog is?: The Rhetoric and Social Meaning of MP3 Blogs
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-19)MP3 blogs and their aggregators, which have risen to prominence over the past four years, are presenting an alternative way of promoting and discovering new music. I will argue that MP3 files greatly affect MP3 blogs in ... -
Does Posture Influence the Stroop Effect ?
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-23)Rosenbaum, Mama, and Algom (2017, Psychological Science, 28, 1864-1867) reported that participants completing the Stroop task (i.e., name the hue of a colour word when the hue and word meaning are congruent or incongruent), ... -
Does the Financial Reporting Transparency of Securitization Affect Bank Lending Decisions?
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-06)This thesis examines the effect of financial reporting transparency for securitization on banks' mortgage lending decisions. Prior research (e.g., Mian & Sufi 2009, Keys, Mukherjee, Seru, & Vig 2010} shows that securitization ... -
Does the Squeaky Wheel Get the Grease? Negative Expressivity and Partner Responsiveness in Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)Feeling that a partner is responsive to one’s needs is crucial to intimacy (Reis, Clark, & Holmes, 2004). Just as the well-known expression, “the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” suggests that people who voice the most ... -
Does unfairness have a ripple effect? The impact of independent and interdependent self-construals
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-22)In the present research, I examine whether independent and interdependent self-construals influence behaviour toward innocent others following unfair treatment from an authority. Fairness researchers have documented many ... -
Dogs, Cats, and Their People: The Place of the Family Pet and Attitudes about Pet Keeping
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-01)The perception of pets as ‘family members’ is an important area of research in the study of human-animal relationships. The objective of this thesis is to assess the ways in which pets are integrated into the home, and to ... -
Doing Transparent and Reproducible Quantitative Sociology
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-08)The ongoing replication crisis (Baker 2016; Gelman and Loken 2016; Freese and Peterson 2017; Wiggins and Christopherson 2019; Bird 2020; Colling and Szűcs 2021) has laid bare quantitative sociology’s need for better ... -
dollhouse: An Exhibition of Installation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-17)"dollhouse" is a dreamy, peachy, pretty little private space saturated with sickly sweetness. The installation consists of three rooms built inside the shell of a 1971 Airstream trailer, filled with objects, forms, and ... -
Domestic Terrorism in the Canadian News Media: a Framing Analysis of Canadian-Connected Terrorism in 2013 Newspaper Articles
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-28)Terrorism is one of the most politically and rhetorically significant issues shaping the world today, and a popular topic in the news media. Canada is no exception. Recently, the problem of domestic (or homegrown) terror ... -
"Don Juan ist ein anderer" Peter Handkes Don Juan (erzählt von ihm selbst) in der literarischen Tradition des Don Juan-Stoffes
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-25)The figure of Don Juan with its numerous variations and adaptations has been widely discussed in secondary literature. However, one of the most recent adaptations of the character, Peter Handke’s novel Don Juan (erzählt ... -
Don’t Ask, I’ll Tell: Investigating Strategy Use During Disability Disclosure at Work
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-31)The nature and effects of workplace disability disclosure—sharing disability-relevant information with others at work—is of great interest to researchers and human resources professionals. In this dissertation, I investigate ... -
Dopaminergic contributions to distance estimation in Parkinson’s disease: A sensory-perceptual deficit?
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-01)Recent research has found that perceptual deficits exist in Parkinson’s disease (PD), yet the link between perception and movement impairments is not well understood. Inaccurate estimation of distance has the potential to ... -
Dorset Use of Caribou Bones at Mingo Lake (LdFa- 1): A Faunal Analysis and Application of 3D Technology for the Recovery of Bone Tool Blanks
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-17)The faunal remains from the Dorset culture component at the LdFa-1 site, located at Mingo Lake on Baffin Island, showcase extensive cutting on some caribou bones in the form of the groove and splinter technique. These bones ... -
Dose-dependent dissociation of pro-cognitive effects of donepezil on attention and cognitive flexibility in rhesus monkeys
(Elsevier, 2021-11)BACKGROUND Donepezil exerts pro-cognitive effects by non-selectively enhancing acetylcholine (ACh) across multiple brain systems. Two brain systems that mediate pro-cognitive effects of attentional control and cognitive ... -
The Downside of Building Up: An Exploration into the Psychological and Physiological Impacts of Exposure to High-Rise Buildings
(University of Waterloo, 2020-11-17)Cities are densifying at a rapid rate and, accordingly, are constructing high-rise buildings to accommodate more people. The aim of this dissertation was to quantify the physiological and psychological impacts of being in ... -
Drag Queens and Farting Preachers: American Televangelism, Participatory Media, and Unfaithful Fandoms
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-14)Studies of religion and fandom have generally considered sincere devotion a fundamental point of contact between the two cultural phenomena, an assumption not reflected in fan studies proper. This dissertation aims to ... -
Drawing Accuracy, Quality and Expertise
(University of Waterloo, 2012-11-20)Drawing from a still-life is a complex visuomotor task. Nevertheless, experts depict three-dimensional subjects convincingly with two-dimensional images. Drawing research has previously been limited by its general dependence ... -
Drawing as an Encoding Tool: Generalizing to Emotional and More Complex Stimuli
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)Drawing, as an encoding strategy has been shown to provide robust memory benefits primarily to memory for list of words. Past research has also shown that emotional compared to neutral information is typically better ... -
Drawing Lines
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)My work uses process as a course of action that marks the death of moments through a continuous stream of consciousness. I metaphorically link disparate pieces of information to the human condition in order to present ... -
Drawing on the Margins of History: English-Language Graphic Narratives in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-26)This study analyzes the techniques that Canadian comics life writers develop to construct personal histories. I examine a broad selection of texts including graphic autobiography, biography, memoir, and diary in order to ...