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Weldability of a Dual-Phase Sheet Steel by the Gas Metal Arc Welding Process
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-18)Dual-phase (DP) sheet steels have recently been used for automotive manufacturing to reduce vehicle weight and improve fuel economy. Dual-phase steels offer higher strength without reduced formability when compared to ... -
Weldability of AZ31B Magnesium Sheet by Laser Welding Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)Due to finite fossil fuel resources and the impact on our environment of burning fossil fuels, the automotive industry has been investigating ways to reduce the overall weight of automotive vehicles. This has led to ... -
"Wer nicht handelt, der stirbt”. Sex Work, Migration and Agency in Julya Rabinowich’s "Die Erdfresserin"
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-30)This thesis examines the depiction of migration and sex work through the lens of agency in Julya Rabinowich's Die Erdfresserin (2012). Most research present the novel's character – a Russian sex worker who migrates to ... -
Western European Arms Export and Asylum Immigration: A Connection? On the Determinants of Asylum Immigration to Western Europe
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-25)My contribution is focused to a modest framework creation for asylum-immigration theory. By means of arms-export data from 17 Western European countries, tested against inflow of asylum seekers to these countries, covering ... -
Wet Snow Mapping in Southern Ontario with Sentinel-1A Observations
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-30)Wet snow is defined as snow with liquid water present in an ice-water mix. It can be an indicator for the onset of the snowmelt period. Knowledge about the extent of wet snow area can be of great importance for the monitoring ... -
Wet Weather Performance of an Extensive Vegetated Roof in Waterloo, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-10)Vegetated roof technologies are increasingly being adopted as treatment measures to mitigate the effects of urban stormwater. A mass balance approach was used to assess the wet weather performance of a vegetated roof on ... -
Wetland birds and invasive plant management
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-31)The Great Lakes coastal wetlands are some of the most diverse ecosystems in Ontario. However, their ecological integrity is continually threatened by development, nutrient pollution, and invasive species. Over the past two ... -
Wetland Management in Ontario: A Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Niagara Falls’ Slough Forests
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-18)Wetlands are unique ecosystems that provide a multitude of direct and indirect services to the human population. Yet, these ecosystems continue to be one of the most threatened biomes in the world with unsustainable rates ... -
Wetland Reclamation in England: Medieval Risk Culture and the 1396 Commission of Sewers for Pevensey Levels
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-24)This paper examines wetland reclamation in England between the eighth and sixteenth centuries, with a special focus on the Pevensey Levels during the fourteenth century. Coastal marsh communities had access to significant ... -
Wetting & Capillarity: From Thin Film Mediated Processes to Droplet-Surface Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-27)Wetting and capillarity remain ubiquitous in both daily lives and industrial applications. The present thesis explores several fundamentally interesting problems of practical relevance in wetting and capillarity. Two primary ... -
Wetting of underliquid systems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-18)Wetting studies can be tracked back over the last few decades due to its applications in the development of water repellent (superhydrophobic), oil repellent (superoleophobic) surfaces. Despite the fact that these surfaces ... -
“We’re just trying to help...make it a positive place”: Community Organizations, Gentrification, and Neighbourhood Change in Hamilton, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-19)As a historic hub of steel manufacturing impacted by deindustrialization, Hamilton, Ontario has until very recently been positioned as a centre of decline. However, new narratives of revitalization have emerged alongside ... -
What are the Effects of Maternal Obesity on Synaptic Function in the Maternal and Offspring Hippocampus?
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-21)Obesity is a global epidemic that is associated with several adverse health consequences. In addition, there is also a growing prevalence of obesity in pregnancy. Maternal obesity places the fetus in an abnormal in utero ... -
What Are You Really Saying? Verbal Irony Understanding in Children with Social Anxiety Symptoms and Shy Negative Affect
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)Verbal irony, a form of figurative language, uses the discrepancy between a speaker’s intended meaning and the literal word meanings to achieve social goals. Yet, little research exists on individual differences that may ... -
What can detectors detect?
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-29)This thesis is focused on using a pair of Unruh-DeWitt detectors, which interact locally with a quantum field, to gain information about properties of the field and the underlying spacetime. First, we consider a massless ... -
What Clan Are You? An Exploration of Heritage and Ancestral Tourism with Canadian Scottish Descendents
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-23)A persistent trend in the tourism field is the emergence of different types of niche markets. One niche form of heritage tourism that has gained popularity in Scotland since the Millennium, is ancestral tourism. Ancestral ... -
What Conservation Can Do For Community: Maximizing the Contributions of Adaptive Reuse Interventions to Community Development
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-04)Small population centres across southern Ontario are in a period of transition motivated by macro-level environmental, political, economic and socio-cultural trends. These trends strain municipal resources, services and ... -
What do you think? Associations between social anxiety, mentalizing, and social competence in middle childhood.
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-21)Every individual brings a unique perspective and understanding to the social world that they inhabit. This is particularly true of socially anxious children, who view their social environments as a place of potential ... -
What Does Your Anxiety Mean About You? Evaluation of Anxious and Confident Partners in Social Anxiety Disorder
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-04)Individuals with social anxiety engage in maladaptive interpersonal transactional cycles. They expect others to respond negatively to them, and engage in socially undesirable behaviours that lead to their predictions being ... -
What Happens After The Mine?: A critique of approaches to the design, remediation, and perpetual care of post-extraction landscapes in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-28)Mining produces enormous amounts of waste, often toxic, that requires containment, record keeping, and monitoring in perpetuity to ensure it does not harm the surrounding ecosystem. Post-extraction landscapes in Canada ...