Browsing Waterloo Research by Type "Book Chapter"
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Assessing the Effect of Large Igneous Provinces on Global Oceanic Redox Conditions Using Non-traditional Metal Isotopes (Molybdenum, Uranium, Thallium)
(American Geophysical Union and John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2021-01-08)Large igneous provinces (LIPs) have occurred episodically throughout Earth’s history, with the most severe events causing profound disturbances to Earth’s climate and biosphere that likely influenced the course of metazoan ... -
Back to the Future of Postfeminist Film: Hallmark, Netflix, and the ‘New’ Woman’s Holiday Film
(Routledge, 2024)Within the context of shifting dialogues around feminism and women’s roles at work and home, and an increasing recognition of racial and sexual diversity within these conversations, this chapter considers the resurgent ... -
Back to the Future of Postfeminist Film: Hallmark, Netflix, and the ‘New’ Woman’s Holiday Film
(Routledge, 2024-03-04)Within the context of shifting dialogues around feminism and women’s roles at work and home, and an increasing recognition of racial and sexual diversity within these conversations, this chapter considers the resurgent ... -
Badges: Abzeichen als sprechende Objekte
(De Gruyter, 2017-05)This article presents early findings regarding the interplay between script (text) and image on medieval badges, which are small, brooch-like objects made from lead-tin alloy (pewter) and adorned with familiar images drawn ... -
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Applied to a Glass Vaporization Chamber for Introduction of Micro- or Nano-Size Samples into Lab-Based ICPs and to a CFD-Derived (and Rapidly Prototyped Via 3D Printing) Smaller-Size Chamber for Portable Microplasmas
(IntechOpen, 2018-02-14)Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is used extensively in many industries ranging from aerospace engineering to automobile design. We applied CFDs to simulate flows inside vaporization chambers designed for micro- or ... -
Critical Reading Across the Engineering Disciplines
(Association of College and Research Libraries a Division of the American Library Association, 2023-01)Engineering students spend a significant amount of time discovering, evaluating, and reading/interpreting information. This book chapter discusses the existing knowledge around undergraduate engineering student information ... -
Deiotaros Philorhomaios, Pontos und Kolchis
(Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020-12-01)Towards the end of the Third Mithradatic War (64 BC), Pompey promoted the Tolistobogian tetrarch Deiotaros to become the most powerful king of Asia Minor. Strabo describes his new territories as follows (Geogr. 12.3.13 ... -
Disabling cities
(Oxford University Press, 2017-01-13)Geographic research on disability and cities is wide-ranging and encompasses the lives of people dealing with disability, physical impairment, and issues of mental ill health. This chapter focuses on what makes cities more ... -
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 ... -
Endocrine Regulation of Phosphate Homeostasis
(Elsevier, 2018)Phosphate, a component of nucleic acids, DNA and RNA, is incorporated in the structure of phospholipids in cell membranes, and is involved in many biological functions such as cell signaling, energy metabolism, and bone ... -
The Erdős–Kac theorem and its generalizations
(American Mathematical Society, 2008)Abstract. We give a survey of the Erd}o-Kac theorem and its various generalizations. In particular, we discuss an open conjecture of Erd}os and Pomerance about the distribution of the number of distinct prime divisors of ... -
Finding the Win: Transforming STEM Learning and Information-Seeking Experiences
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2023-07)Transformative learning focuses on the idea that learners can adjust their thinking based on new information. This chapter explores how a STEM librarian can use transformative learning theory and pedagogy to change student ... -
Four-coloring P6-free graphs
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2019)In this paper we present a polynomial time algorithm for the 4-COLORING PROBLEM and the 4-PRECOLORING EXTENSION problem restricted to the class of graphs with no induced six-vertex path, thus proving a conjecture of Huang. ... -
Illustrating a new 'conceptual design pattern' for agent-based models of land use via five case studies—the MR POTATOHEAD framework
(Universidad de Valladolid, 2008)This chapter presents a "conceptual design pattern" (CDP) that represents key elements of standard ABM/LUCC models in a comprehensive logical framework and includes basic functionality and data often present in ABM/LUCC ... -
Introduction
(Société Latomus, Brussels, 2019-05-18)This introduction surveys recent trends in Seleukid scholarship and addresses the main points of discussion concerning the decline and disintegration of the Seleukid Kingdom in the course of the 2nd century BC. -
La gerçure énorme » de l’être à venir chez Yves Préfontaine
(Presses Universitaires du Québec, 2012)Dans l’article signé par Élise Lepage sur Pays sans parole (1967), d’Yves Préfontaine, on assiste au démantèlement de cet optimisme. Le corps, la parole et le territoire sont de partout craquelés, et l’aspiration verticale, ... -
Of, By, and For the Internet: New Media Studies and Public Scholarship
(Routledge, 2018)This paper proposes we must actively work to craft a new media studies of, by, and for the internet, one that must seek to transform rather than simply disrupt both scholarship and the broader social landscape, or our ... -
Path Following for Mobile Manipulators
(Springer, 2017-07-25)This paper presents a framework of path following via set stabilization for mobile manipulator systems. The mobile manipulator is modelled as a single redundant dynamic system. The mobile base considered belongs to a large ... -
The Philosophy of Behavioral Biology
(Springer, 2012)This volume offers a broad overview of central issues in the philosophy of behavioral biology, addressing philosophical issues that arise from the most recent scientific findings in biological research on behavior. It thus ... -
The Pivot of Athwartedness: Roy Kiyooka's "Pacific Windows"
(Guernica, 2020)Published as a full issue of The Capilano Review in August 1990, Roy Kiyooka’s “Pacific Windows” exists on the periphery of Kiyooka’s canon. Despite the various ways in which this text could be considered the culmination ...