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The White House, and Other Counter-Narratives from the Lockdown
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-17)Contemporary emplacement demands movement, whether through migration, travel, or transcultural exchange. Identity, as positioned by the postcolonial writer Édouard Glissant, is linked fundamentally with change and contact ... -
White Noise
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-23)Abstract The paintings in White Noise are a response to temporal lighting conditions that occur at night. A discussion of sensory affect demonstrates how perception is inextricably connected to the body’s sensory ... -
Who Gets You Going and Who Keeps You Going: Motivational Relevance Determines Role Model Effectiveness
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-23)Role models are ubiquitous: They boost gym-goers’ motivation, encourage women to enter science-related fields, or even nudge people to eat the “right” kind of cereal. The present research provides an organizing framework ... -
Wholetoning: Synthesizing Abstract Black-and-White Illustrations
(University of Waterloo, 2009-02-18)Black-and-white imagery is a popular and interesting depiction technique in the visual arts, in which varying tints and shades of a single colour are used. Within the realm of black-and-white images, there is a set of ... -
Whose Lane is it Anyway? The Negligence Towards Cyclists within in a Mid-sized City
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-10)Urban cycling has been gaining momentum for decades, yet the need to upgrade infrastructure to accommodate cycling has never been greater. Urban development in North America continues to privilege car usage, despite growing ... -
Whose Parks? A Qualitative Exploration of the Governance of BC Parks
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-28)Good governance is of paramount importance to the survival and success of parks in achieving the dual mandate of conservation and recreation. However, there exists a lack of research on governance regarding the implications ... -
Whose Week Is It Anyways?: A Case Study of Collaboration Between Student Affairs and Student Volunteers
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-18)Student Affairs organizations are becoming the heartbeat of campus as the complex issues facing universities encourage Student Affairs professionals to seek out strategies to ensure they meet their purpose within their ... -
Why and when workplace interactions can go wrong: Multilevel mediation and moderation of workplace social stressor-strain relations
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-16)Negative interpersonal workplace behaviours are an important but relatively infrequently studied occupational-stressor. The present research investigated the connection between these behaviours and employee well-being. ... -
Why Did I Apologize? Apology Motives and Offender Perceptions in the Aftermath of Workplace Conflicts
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-29)Despite an abundance of research demonstrating the importance of apologies in restoring damaged relationships, relatively little is known about the offender perspective after apologizing. Recent research on apology suggests ... -
Why Do Canadian Employees Quit? Results from Linked Employee-Employer Data
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)Employee turnover is a fairly common phenomenon across organizations throughout the globe, which creates both direct and indirect costs to companies (Lambert et al., 2012). Though numerous authors have investigated the ... -
Why Do Compulsions Persist?
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-10)Leading models for understanding compulsive behaviour assert that concerns about the safety or well-being of oneself or others, combined with overestimates of responsibility for protecting oneself and others from harm, ... -
Why Do Inventors Continue When Experts Say Stop? The Effects of Overconfidence, Optimism and Illusion of Control
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Data shows that many inventors continue to expend resources on their inventions even after they have received expert advice suggesting that they cease effort. Using a sample of inventors seeking outside advice from a ... -
Why do people (not) take breaks? An investigation of individuals’ reasons for taking and for not taking breaks at work
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)Employees sometimes need breaks to deal with the demands of their jobs. Indeed, studies show that breaks allow employees to stay energized and maintain high levels of performance throughout the day. However, few studies ... -
Why Do You Care? Exploring The Experiences of Health Care Providers Supporting Patients with Dementia in Primary Care Memory Clinics
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-02)Background: Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) are often improperly or under-diagnosed in primary care; yet, it is expected that community-based care will be an increasingly important source of support for ... -
Why tourists choose Airbnb: A motivation-based segmentation study underpinned by innovation concepts
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-24)Every night, hundreds of thousands of tourists choose not to stay in a traditional tourism accommodation establishment, such as a hotel, and instead pay to stay in the residence of a stranger, found online via the company ... -
Wide bandgap conjugated polymer donors based on alkyloxime substituted thiophene for organic solar cells
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-23)Remarkable progress has been made for non-fullerene based organic solar cells (OSCs), with a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of over 18% having been achieved. Conjugated polymer donors consisting of alternating donor and ... -
Wide-bandgap Donor Polymers Based on Thiophene-Vinyl-Thiophene Ester (TVT-Ester) or Thiophene-Alkyloxime (TO) Units in Organic Solar Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-23)The organic solar cells (OSCs), a branch of the third-generation solar cell as a viable future energy resource has received a lot of attention in lab and industry today. The OSCs have advantages of low cost, light weight, ... -
Wideband Micro-Power Generators for Vibration Energy Harvesting
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-24)Energy harvesters collect and convert energy available in the environment into useful electrical power to satisfy the power requirements of autonomous systems. Vibration energy is a prevalent source of waste energy in ... -
Wideband Rectenna System for Microwave Power Transfer
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)One of the fundamental devices in Microwave Power Transfer (MPT) is the recenna or rectifying antenna, which collects the electromagnetic energy from the free space and convert it directly to a useful DC power. Although ... -
Widefield Computational Biophotonic Imaging for Spatiotemporal Cardiovascular Hemodynamic Monitoring
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-14)Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality, resulting in 17.3 million deaths per year globally. Although cardiovascular disease accounts for approximately 30% of deaths in the United States, many deleterious ...