Waterloo Research
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Maternal ezetimibe concentrations measured in breast milk and its use in breastfeeding infant exposure predictions
(Springer, 2024-01-26)Background: Lactating mothers taking ezetimibe, an antihyperlipidemic agent, may be hesitant to breastfeed despite the known benefit of breastfeeding to both mother and infant. Currently, no data exist on the presence or ... -
“Vital acts of transfer”: Affective economies and embodied knowledge in #MeToo
(Intellect, 2021-01-22)This book chapter situates the #MeToo movement as a live, ongoing performance within the digital media sphere. It argues that performance theory offers a unique means of grasping at the movement’s significance and on-going ... -
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 ... -
Connecting the Dots in the Sky: Website Fingerprinting in Low Earth Orbit Satellite Internet
(Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2024-03-01)Despite the implementation of encrypted channels, such as those offered by anonymity networks like Tor, network adversaries have demonstrated the ability to compromise users’ browsing privacy through website fingerprinting ... -
The Queer and Feminist Worlds of Witches & Magical Beings in Feminist YA Graphic Novels
(MAI, 2023-03-30)The figure of the witch currently offers a compelling manifestation of the desires and anxieties of our social moment particularly around gender, equity, and misogyny. With this current reemergence of the witch figure in ... -
Witches in Swamps, Sirens at Sea, Leviathans of the Deep: Feminist Figures that Haunt our Social Media World
(University of Waterloo, 2024)This article considers the resurgence of the monstrous feminine in digital culture, focusing on the memetic manifestation of witches, sirens, and leviathans. We trace the histories of these figures in the digital present, ... -
Whodunit: Classifying Code as Human Authored or GPT-4 generated- A case study on CodeChef problems
(Mining Software Repositories, 2024-04-15)Artificial intelligence (AI) assistants such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT, built on large language models like GPT-4, are revolutionizing how programming tasks are performed, raising questions about whether code is authored ... -
A novel cohesive zone modelling approach to represent mixed mode loading and bond line thickness effects
(Taylor and Francis, 2023-02-28)Accurate representation of the traction-separation response for mixed mode loading in a cohesive zone model (CZM) is critical to predicting the response of adhesive joints in a number of applications, including transportation ... -
Voicing Dissonance: Resistant Soundscapes in 1960s Feminist Experimental Film
(University of California Press, 2015-10-01)This article examines how sound was used as an effective tool of formal resistance in the work of influential feminist filmmakers, Carolee Schneemann (United States), Gunvor Nelson (Sweden), and Joyce Wieland (Canada). ... -
The Psychogeographies of Site-Specific Art
(HAL Open Science, 2018-07-16)Contemporary efforts at urban revitalization have encouraged an increased production of site-specific public art events that temporarily inhabit popular city hubs. These “pop up†interventions range from loosely assembled ... -
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 ... -
Materializing Data: New Research Methods for Feminist Digital Humanities
(Open Library of Humanities, 2020-11-24)This paper argues that materializing data may be a useful methodology in intersectional feminst digital humanities, because it requires close attention not only to the content of data and the contexts in which it is produced, ... -
Living whose best life? An intersectional feminist interrogation of postfeminist #solidarity in #selfcare
(NECS European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, 2021-06-05)This article argues that one of the many ways that white supremacy functions within digital culture is to obscure the realities of social inequity via neoliberal dictums for self-improvement and individ-ualist calls to ... -
“All Your Faves Are Problematic”: The Performative Spectatorship of Drunk Feminist Film
(Duke University Press, 2022-09-01)This article looks at the work of the Drunk Feminist Film (DFF) collective from Toronto, Canada. DFF screenings offer interactive in‐person and online events that combine watching popular Hollywood films with simultaneous ... -
Meme-ifying Data: The Rise of Public Health Influencers on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter during Covid-19
(DIGSUM, 2023-09-01)This article argues for the importance of the memetic tactic of bricolage within contemporary social media science communication for its capacity to curate and distill approachable, accessible, and shareable Covid-19 ... -
Dwelling as Method: Lingering in/with Feminist Curated Data Sets on Instagram
(DIGSUM, 2024)This article proposes and delineates “digital dwelling” as one method of grappling with a central methodological challenge that we, as feminist researchers, face of how researchers might account for the multiple entanglements ... -
Feminist Shadow Networks: 'Thinking, Talking, and Making' as Praxes of Relationality and Care
(Open Library of Humanities, 2023-10-17)In the face of the constraints and pressures of the neoliberal university, this article argues for the importance of feminist shadow networks as a response to the unequal academic grounds on which scholars and students are ... -
PEGylated MoSe2 Nanomaterials with Limited Oxidation via Femtosecond Laser Ablation for Photothermal Therapy
(American Chemical Society, 2024)MoSe2 nanomaterials are promising photothermal agents for non-invasive cancer treatment. Their surfaces usually need to be functionalized with biocompatible polymers to improve their biocompatibility and colloidal stability ... -
Gamification and Gaming in Cryptocurrency Education: Perspectives of Cryptocurrency Investors and Potential Investors
(Sage, 2024-01-22)Introduction: In recent years, cryptocurrency has increasingly sparked interest among investors. Many people have invested in this field without adequate knowledge. Existing research has shown that using game design elements ... -
Modeling of Microplastic Emission, Transport, and Retention in Urban Stormwater Ponds
(University of Waterloo, 2024)Urban areas are the major sources of microplastics to the environment, given their high concentration of people, road traffic, and mismanaged waste. Stormwater runoff, one of the major carriers of urban-derived MPs to ...