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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 ... -
Widely Linear MIMO MMSE Filter and Joint MLSE for VAMOS
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)Currently, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards body is working actively to specify Voice services over Adaptive Multi-user channels on One Slot (VAMOS), an enhanced transmission scheme to double the ... -
Widening the View: A Standardized Approach to Capturing Family Members’ Perspectives on Quality of Life in Long-term Care
(University of Waterloo, 2023-11-20)Background and Rationale: Family members provide important functional and socio-emotional support to residents living in Long-Term Care (LTC). With high rates of cognitive impairment among residents, family member input ... -
Wider das System: Gesellschaftliche Aussteiger bei Genazino, Kleist und Kafka
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-28)This thesis deals with the sociological conception of the dropout (Aussteiger) figure in Wilhelm Genazino’s Ein Regenschirm für diesen Tag (2001) and, in terms of the history of ideas, his predecessors in Heinrich von ... -
Wie lebendig ist die Popliteratur um die Jahrtausendwende? Judith Hermanns "Nichts als Gespenster" in Gegenüberstellung zu Christian Krachts "Faserland".
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The focus of this master?s thesis is on determining whether Judith Hermann?s book of collected short stories, <em>Nichts als Gespenster</em> (2003) can be assigned to the so-called category <em>Popliteratur</em> which had ... -
Wigner negativity on the sphere
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-15)The rise of quantum information theory has largely vindicated the long-held belief that Wigner negativity is an indicator of genuine nonclassicality in quantum systems. This thesis explores its manifestation in spin-j ... -
Wikipedia-Based Semantic Enhancements for Information Nugget Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-16)When the objective of an information retrieval task is to return a nugget rather than a document, query terms that exist in a document often will not be used in the most relevant nugget in the document for the query. In ... -
Wild fish responses to wastewater treatment plant upgrades in the Grand River, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-24)Municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent is a major point source of contaminants (nutrients, pharmaceuticals, estrogens, etc.) which can harm aquatic life. Many studies have investigated the effects of WWTP ... -
The Wilderness
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-19)This thesis is a critical cultural investigation into the meaning of wilderness. It is based on the premise that as a constructed, imaginary landscape wilderness is an expression of cultural impulses. It suggests that the ... -
Wildfire and Forest Harvesting Effects on Natural Organic Matter: Implications to Drinking Water Treatability
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-19)Forested catchments are critical for water supply globally and provide ~60% of the water supplies for the world’s 100 largest cities and 2/3 of all water supplies, including drinking water for ~180 million people in the ... -
Wildfire Impacts on Water Quality and Treatability
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-31)Forests are critical source areas for downstream drinking water supplies in many parts of the world. However, large-scale landscape disturbance by insect infestation and wildfire—exacerbated by warming climate—can have a ... -
Wildlife & Roadways: Incorporating Wildlife-Management Strategies Into Road Infrastructure in Southern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-05)Wildlife-road conflict has a profound negative impact on both wildlife populations and society. Ecological effects, human safety concerns, and economic consequences all contribute to the need to mitigate against wildlife-road ... -
"Will I Be Happy in High School?” Exploring How Interpersonal and Executive Functions Influence Adolescent Subjective Well-Being Across the Transition to High School
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-11)The transition to high school is a stressful life event, with teenagers typically facing increased demands for independent academic work coupled with the need to establish new social networks. Students who successfully ... -
Will the Mediterranean Become "Too Hot" for Tourists?: A Reassessment
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)Numerous studies emphasize that climate, particularly temperature, is one of the most important resources of a tourist destination. With the onset of climate change, this climatic parameter of tourist destinations may ...