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Beyond Genius Loci: An Analysis of Architectural Design Strategies of Place
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-17)This thesis explores the contributive role of the genius locus, or “spirit of place”, in the identity of cities and the production of meaningful places. The research addresses the analysis of genius loci as historical ... -
Beyond Natural Language Processing: Advancing Software Engineering Tasks through Code Structure
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-25)Machine learning-based approaches have been widely used to address natural language processing (NLP) problems. Considering the similarities between natural language text and source code, researchers have been working on ... -
Beyond positive affect: enhancing our understanding of diminished positive emotions and experiences in social anxiety
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-28)Social anxiety disorder (SAD) has been found to be associated with decreased positive affect (PA) that is not attributable to depression or comorbidity with other disorders (e.g., Kashdan, 2007). Despite this, little is ... -
Beyond Ruins: The Role of Cultural Capital in Post-Disaster Tourism Revival in Kathmandu Valley
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-25)This study offers an in-depth analysis of the nexus between cultural capital, tourism, and disaster recovery, with a particular focus on the aftermath of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Utilizing ... -
Beyond Shelters: An Urban Based Model to Alleviate Homelessness
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-16)The historic connection between homelessness and severe economic depression has disappeared as a shortage of affordable decent housing prevails even during periods of strong economic growth. New factors such as the ... -
Beyond the Boundaries of English: Nonsense Language in Children's Literature
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-04)This thesis examines the relationship between nonsense language and children’s literature. Nonsense language as a field of study provides linguists with a means of examining language within the bounds of natural languages ... -
Beyond the Dataset: Understanding Sociotechnical Aspects of the Knowledge Discovery Process Among Modern Data Professionals
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-01)Data professionals are among the most sought-out professionals in today’s industry. Although the skillsets and training can vary among these professionals, there is some consensus that a combination of technical and ... -
Beyond the emotional impact of dissonance: Inharmonic music elicits greater cognitive interference than does harmonic music
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-29)The present research evaluates whether task-irrelevant inharmonic music produces greater interference with cognitive performance than task-irrelevant harmonic music. Participants completed either an auditory (Experiments ... -
Beyond the Ice: An Exploratory Investigation into Social Responsibility within Major Junior Hockey
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-07)Major Junior hockey organizations are viewed as the rallying point for many small communities throughout North America, and as their presence in society continues to grow as does their increased ability and desire to give ... -
Beyond the Minimum: A Durable Emergency Shelter
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-17)The number of states requiring humanitarian assistance after a disaster has doubled every decade since 1960. Extreme weather like flooding and violent storms associated with climate change are predicted to continue to ... -
Beyond Utility: Analyzing Unseen Infrastructures of Necromobility
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-06)The year 2020 was unprecedented on varying accounts but will undoubtedly be remembered by a global pandemic bringing the world to a shuddering halt. As nations scrambled to flatten the outbreak’s curve, the virus tested ... -
Beyond Wayfinding : Sensory Focused Design for the Non-Sighted
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)While visually oriented architectural design has long been used to enhance the perceptions that shape the world of an existing ocular-centric norm, this has led to a less than satisfactory experience for users with ... -
A BI-CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF NIGERIAN CANADIAN IMMIGRANTS WITH RESPECT TO ACCULTURATIVE STRESS, COPING, EGO INVOLVEMENT AND PARTICIPATION IN LEISURE
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-07)There have been few African studies that examined relationships between acculturation, a process where immigrants assimilate the culture of their host country, coping, acculturative stress and enduring involvement in ... -
Bi-objective p-hub Location Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-09)In this thesis, we introduce, model, and solve bi-objective hub location problems. The two well-known hub location problems from the literature, the p-hub median and p-hub center problems, are uni ed under a bi-objective ... -
Bi-objective short-term scheduling in a rolling horizon framework: a priori approaches with alternative operational objectives
(Elsevier, 2019-11)This study addresses short-term scheduling problems with throughput and make-span as conflicting objectives, focusing on a priori multi-objective methods. Two contributions are presented. The first contribution is to propose ... -
Bias in the Estimate of a Mean Reversion Parameter for a Fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-19)In this thesis we studied the estimation bias of the least squares estimate of the mean reversion parameter, when the underlying dynamics is governed by fractional Brownian motions. Fractional Brownian motion is a ... -
A Bias-Variance-Privacy Trilemma for Statistical Estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)The canonical algorithm for differentially private mean estimation is to first clip the samples to a bounded range and then add noise to their empirical mean. Clipping controls the sensitivity and, hence, the variance of ... -
Biaxial fatigue crack growth and crack closure under constant amplitude and periodic compressive overload histories in 1045 steel
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Bibliometrics & The Modern Academic Library: A Unique Cross-Campus Partnership At The University Of Waterloo
(2016-01-28)As one measure used to capture research productivity trends, and elements of research impact, the University of Waterloo recognizes bibliometric measures as an important piece of evidence-based research assessment. Join ... -
Bibliometrics and Research Impact at University of Waterloo: An Exciting Campus Partnership
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-03)In 2012, the Bibliometrics Working Group at the University of Waterloo, composed of the Library, the Office of Research, Institutional Analysis and Planning (IAP) and faculty representatives, began its work. In 2015, a new ...