Waterloo Research: Recent submissions
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Reduction of intersex in a wild fish population in response to major municipal wastewater treatment plant upgrades
(American Chemical Society, 2017)Intersex in fish downstream of municipal wastewater treatment plants (MWWTPs) is a global concern. Consistent high rates of intersex in male rainbow darter (Etheostoma caeruleum) have been reported for several years in the ... -
Modeling the exposure of wild fish to endocrine active chemicals: Potential linkages of total estrogenicity to field-observed intersex
(Elsevier, 2018-08-01)Decades of studies on endocrine disruption have suggested the need to manage the release of key estrogens from municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). However, the proposed thresholds are below the detection limits ... -
A regenerative NanoOctopus based on multivalent-aptamer functionalized magnetic microparticles for effective cell capture in whole blood
(American Chemical Society, 2019-01-16)Isolation of specific rare cell subtypes from whole blood is critical in cellular analysis and important in basic and clinical research. Traditional immuno-magnetic cell capture suffers from suboptimal sensitivity, ... -
Mortality management and climate action: A review and reference for using Terror Management Theory methods in interdisciplinary environmental research
(Wiley, 2022-03-23)Global climate change awareness is increasing, but efforts to convey information can trigger undesirable behaviors, including denial, scepticism, and increased resource consumption. It is therefore essential to more fully ... -
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 ... -
How to Use Creative and Embodied Methods
(SAGE Publications, 2022-07-12)This guide provides an overview of when, how, and why researchers can and should (re)engage with their bodily senses, affects, feelings, and motivations for the purposes of digital social science methodological inquiry. ... -
Using the Instructional Design Process to Effectively Apply UDL to OER: Considerations, Limitations, and Best Practices
(Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), 2024-03)The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework has begun to have a significant impact on the instructional sphere of academic libraries, shifting how programs are designed, developed, and delivered. In related work, ... -
Augmenting the Author: Exploring the Potential of AI Collaboration in Academic Writing
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2024-03-13)This workshop paper presents a critical examination of the integration of Generative AI (Gen AI) into the academic writing process, focusing on the use of AI as a collaborative tool. It contrasts the performance and ... -
Hazard Perception in Driving: A Systematic Literature Review
(Sage, 2022)Hazard perception (HP) is the process of detecting and identifying hazards. Drivers’ HP abilities are critical for driving safety. This paper presents a systematic literature review of driver HP, including scientific ... -
Assessment of Fluid Cavitation Threshold Using a Polymeric Split Hopkinson Bar-Confinement Chamber Apparatus
(Springer, 2018-10-02)Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) has been associated with blast exposure resulting from the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in recent and past military conflicts. Experimental and numerical models of head blast ... -
Optimal generic attack against basic Boneh-Boyen signatures
(Springer-Verlag, 2022-11-19)The Boneh-Boyen digital signature scheme is a pairing-based signature scheme that features short signatures consisting of one group element, the minimum possible size. In contrast to earlier short signature schemes such ... -
Advancing Public Health through Computational Thematic Analysi
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023-04-28)Public health researchers often use thematic analysis to develop human understandings of discussions from online communities. However, these analyses are difficult to conduct because of their and a general lack of programming ... -
Using Divergent Nozzle with Aerodynamic Lens to Focus Nanoparticles
(University of Waterloo, 2019-03-03)ANSYS Fluent will be used to simulate Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for an efficient lens and nozzle design which will be explained in this paper. We have designed and characterized an aerodynamic lens and a divergent ... -
Four-coloring P6-free graphs. II. Finding an excellent precoloring.
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2024)This is the second paper in a series of two. The goal of the series is to give a polynomial-time algorithm for the 4-coloring problem and the 4-precoloring extension problem restricted to the class of graphs with no induced ... -
Four-coloring P6-free graphs. I. Extending an excellent precoloring.
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2024)This is the first paper in a series whose goal is to give 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, ... -
Exploring Older Adult Mental Health Considerations in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Framework Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2024-03-08)Older adult mental health is a priority in Canada, especially with the deleterious effects of COVID-19. However, there is a gap in knowledge about the mental health-related considerations and concerns that are important ... -
List-3-Coloring Ordered Graphs with a Forbidden Induced Subgraph
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2024-03)Abstract. The List-3-Coloring Problem is to decide, given a graph G and a list L(v) ⊆ {1, 2, 3} of colors assigned to each vertex v of G, whether G admits a proper coloring ϕ with ϕ(v) ∈ L(v) for every vertex v of G, and ... -
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 ...