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Dynamic Judgments of Spatial Extent: Behavioural, Neural, and Computational Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-20)Judgments of spatial relationships are often made when the object or observer are moving. Behaviourally, there is evidence that these ‘dynamic’ judgments of spatial extent differ from static judgments. Here I used three ... -
Dynamics of Parent-Child Relationships and Conflict in Chinese, Eastern European and European Canadian Families
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-11)In my thesis, I studied patterns of associations between the quality of parent-child relations and components of parent-child conflict in families with preadolescent children from European Canadian families, as well as ... -
Dynamis in Rome? Revisiting the South Frieze of the Ara Pacis Augustae
(Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020-12-01)The Senate voted to build the Ara Pacis to welcome home Augustus after restoring order in the western provinces, while Agrippa pursued a similar mission in the East. Agrippa had settled the turmoil in the Bosporus by ... -
Dysphoria and facial emotion recognition: Examining the role of rumination
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-12)Rumination has been shown to be an influential part of the depressive experience, impacting on various cognitive processes including memory and attention. However, there is a dearth of studies examining the relationship ... -
Dystopian Present and Future: The Temporal Orientation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s We and Andrei Platonov’s The Foundation Pit
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-03)A recent genre study by Erika Gottlieb (2001) divides dystopian literature into two temporal categories, which she calls West and East. Within this framework, Gottlieb places Evgenii Zamiatin’s We (1921) within her Western ... -
Each Woman Dies Her Death A Thousand Times: Voices Of Female Experience In The Holocaust
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-16)While the experiences of Holocaust victims are well studied in history, the nuances of female-centric elements of these experiences have been under-represented in Holocaust historiography until relatively recently. While ... -
Early sensitivity for eyes within faces: A new neuronal account of holistic and featural processing
(Elsevier, 2014-08-01)Eyes are central to face processing however their role in early face encoding as reflected by the N170 ERP component is unclear. Using eye tracking to enforce fixation on specific facial features, we found that the N170 ... -
ECOLOGICAL CRISIS AND HUMAN NATURE: The Green and Liberal Approaches
(University of Waterloo, 2003)The concept of human nature profoundly shapes our understanding of how political and social life ought to be organised. This thesis examines the concept of human nature developed by the Green political perspective and ... -
Ecological modernisation? An ecolinguistic analysis of German, Canadian and European techno-fix approaches to climate change.
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-26)Analyzing how climate change is situated in ‘discourse,’ the socially constituted and constitutive use of language, can tell a great deal about how the human subject sees itself in relation to nature and what problematic ... -
The Economic Integration of Recent Immigrants to Canada: A Longitudinal Analysis of Dimensions of Employment Success
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-22)The employment success of immigrants to Canada has been a primary focus of sociological research on immigrant integration. However, much of this research has examined the concept of “employment success” solely in terms ... -
Economic Sanctions and Nuclear Non-proliferation: A Comparative Study of North Korea and Iran
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-14)The history of using economic sanctions to curb nuclear proliferation has had mixed results. The goal of this research project is to determine why economic sanctions are more effective in some cases than they are in others. ... -
Economics of Ramping Rate Restrictions at Hydro Power Plants: Balancing Profitability and Environmental Concerns
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-01)This thesis consists of three essays on the economics of ramping rate restrictions at hydro power plants. The first essay examines the impact of ramping rate restrictions imposed on hydro operations to protect aquatic ... -
The Economics of Waste Clean-Up from Resource Extraction Projects: Environmental Bonds versus Strict Liability
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-08)This thesis contains three essays spanning the fields of environmental economics and investment in a non-renewable resource under uncertainty. All essays relate to the analysis of the clean-up of hazardous waste resulting ... -
The Economics of Water Conservation Regulations in Mining: An Application to Alberta's Lower Athabasca River Region
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-21)Large demands for water by the mining industry are of increasing concern around the world and access to water is seen as a significant constraint on future mine development. Citizens, environmental groups and other ... -
Education in the 21st Century: Human Rights and Individual Actions
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-09)This dissertation has three goals. The first goal is to outline how twentieth century advocates qualify education as a human right. The second goal is to offer an integrative account which argues that, to defend a right ... -
The Education of Demea in Terence’s Adelphi
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-07)The aim of this thesis was to gather an in-depth understanding of the changes in the role of the Roman father during the Middle Roman Republic by analyzing a play called The Adelphi by Terence. A literature review was ... -
The effect of anxiety on memory accuracy, response time, and confidence
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-29)Anxiety is an emotional state that has been associated with negative outcomes on cognitive tasks, as well as low confidence in responses, specifically in the domain of long-term memory. The following series of experiments ... -
The Effect of Canadian Tax Policy on Executive Equity Grants: Corporate Tax Planning and Managerial Power
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-20)This study examines how the tax treatment of corporate tax-deductible restricted share units and employee tax-favoured stock options at the employer and employee level affect the extent of their use in executive equity ... -
The Effect of Group Identity on Sabotage Induced by Relative Performance Information
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-29)Organizations commonly provide relative performance information (RPI) as part of their management control systems to motivate employees. Despite the benefits of RPI that have been well-documented in the literature, RPI can ... -
The effect of inconsistent affective cues on children's judgments of speakers
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-13)What speakers say is sometimes incongruent with the manner in which it is said. As a result, listeners are exposed to inconsistencies in communication: for example, when a speaker’s words are discrepant with her demonstrated ...