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ABCD and beyond: From grain merchants to agricultural value chain managers
(Canadian Food Studies, 2015-09-08)The world of agricultural commodity trading firms has changed over the years, although corporate concentration has long been a defining feature of this sector. The four dominant agricultural trading firms—the ABCDs (ADM, ... -
Abelian, amenable operator algebras are similar to C∗ -algebras
(Duke University Press, 2016-12)Suppose that H is a complex Hilbert space and that ℬ(H) denotes the bounded linear operators on H. We show that every abelian, amenable operator algebra is similar to a C∗-algebra. We do this by showing that if 𝒜⊆ℬ(H) is ... -
ABOVE WATER: An Educational Game for Anxiety
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-10-16)We present Above Water - a digital/physical hybrid game to inform people about the available strategies to cope with two types of Anxiety Disorders - Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder. The game teaches players ... -
ABOVE WATER: Extending the Play Space for Health
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-11-06)ABOVE WATER is a game that disseminates information about Clinical Anxiety Disorders, particularly Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder. This game focuses on teaching players about treatments as well as providing ... -
ABOVE WATER: Extending the Play Space for Health
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-11-06)ABOVE WATER is a game that disseminates information about Clinical Anxiety Disorders, particularly Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder. This game focuses on teaching players about treatments as well as providing ... -
Academic Librarians and Systematic Reviews: an emerging role in the social sciences
(2017-05-31)This conference presentation was delivered at CAPAL Conference on May 31, 2017, Toronto, Ontario. Abstract: Systematic review support is expanding beyond health and medical librarianship. The rise of knowledge translation ... -
Academic Status Institutional Comparisons Report
(Librarians' and Archivists' Association of the University of Waterloo, 2020-03)This report was distributed to Librarians' and Archivists' Association of the University of Waterloo members in advance of consultations pertaining to a potential change in employment status. -
Accelerating peroxidase mimicking nanozymes using DNA
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015-09-07)DNA-capped iron oxide nanoparticles are nearly 10-fold more active as a peroxidase mimic for TMB oxidation than naked nanoparticles. To understand the mechanism, the effect of DNA length and sequence is systematically ... -
Acceleration of Large Margin Metric Learning for Nearest Neighbor Classification Using Triplet Mining and Stratified Sampling
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-15)Metric learning is a technique in manifold learning to find a pro- jection subspace for increasing and decreasing the inter- and intra-class variances, respectively. Some metric learning methods are based on triplet learning ... -
Acceptance of Commercially Available Wearable Activity Trackers Among Adults Aged Over 50 and With Chronic Illness: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation
(JMIR Mhealth Uhealth., 2016-01-27)Background: Physical inactivity and sedentary behavior increase the risk of chronic illness and death. The newest generation of “wearable” activity trackers offers potential as a multifaceted intervention to help people ... -
Access roads impact enzyme activities in boreal forested peatlands
(Elsevier, 2019-02-15)We investigated the impacts of resource access roads on soil enzyme activities in contrasting forested boreal peatlands (bog and fen). In August 2016, a total of 72 peat samples were collected from twelve 20 m long transects ... -
Accumulative fold-forging (AFF) as a novel severe plastic deformation process to fabricate a high strength ultra-fine grained layered aluminum alloy structure
(Elsevier, 2018-02-01)A novel severe plastic deformation (SPD) process termed accumulative fold forging (AFF) is introduced to fabricate a homogenous ultra-fine grained (UFG) layered metal structure by repetitive folding and forging aluminum ... -
Accuracy of Parental Reporting of Preschoolers’ Dietary Intake Using an Online Self-Administered 24-h Recall
(MDPI, 2018-07-29)Parents are typically relied upon to report young children’s dietary intake. However, there has been limited research assessing the accuracy of such reports captured using novel dietary assessment tools. The purpose of the ... -
Accuracy of self-reported intake of signature foods in a school meal intervention study: comparison between control and intervention period
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-08-28)Bias in self-reported dietary intake is important when evaluating the effect of dietary interventions, particularly for intervention foods. However, few have investigated this in children, and none have investigated the ... -
Accurate determination of interface trap state parameters by admittance spectroscopy in the presence of a Schottky barrier contact: Application to ZnO-based solar cells
(AIP Publishing, 2013-04-14)This work shows that when a Schottky barrier is present in a photovoltaic device, such as in a device with an ITO/ZnO contact, equivalent circuit analysis must be performed with admittance spectroscopy to accurately determine ... -
Accurate Determination of the Diffusion Coefficient of Proteins by Fourier Analysis with Whole Column Imaging Detection
(American Chemical Society, 2015-01-21)Analysis in the frequency domain is considered a powerful tool to elicit precise information from spectroscopic signals. In this study, the Fourier transformation technique is employed to determine the diffusion coefficient ... -
Accurate viscous free surfaces for buckling, coiling, and rotating liquids
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2008-07)We present a fully implicit Eulerian technique for simulating free surface viscous liquids which eliminates artifacts in previous approaches, efficiently supports variable viscosity, and allows the simulation of more ... -
Acetic and Acrylic Acid Molecular Imprinted Model Silicone Hydrogel Materials for Ciprofloxacin-HCl Delivery
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2012-01-02)Contact lenses, as an alternative drug delivery vehicle for the eye compared to eye drops, are desirable due to potential advantages in dosing regimen, bioavailability and patient tolerance/compliance. The challenge has ... -
Acrylonitrile copolymer/graphene skinned cathode for long cycle life rechargeable hybrid aqueous batteries at high-temperature
(Elsevier, 2018-04-01)For aqueous rechargeable lithium battery (ARLB), excellent cycling stability at elevated temperature is highly desirable in its application of electric vehicles (EVs). However, most state-of-art ARLBs show poor durability ... -
The action mechanism of daptomycin
(Elsevier, 2016-12-15)Daptomycin is a lipopeptide antibiotic produced by the soil bacterium Streptomyces roseosporus that is clinically used to treat severe infections with Gram-positive bacteria. In this review, we discuss the mode of action ...