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Contemplating a New Danwei Urbanism
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-26)Market-driven Capitalist urbanization is no longer a viable option for China as it has produced increasingly monotonous and segregated cities that deny culture, history, ecology, and human connection. Cultural efficiencies ... -
A Contemplation on the Ideal Built Environment of Ethical Tourism
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-22)This thesis gives an overview and seeks to establish a framework for creating the built environments that would support an ethical and environmentally aware global counterculture in travel and tourism. It seeks to advocate ... -
Contemplative Space: Design for Generative Parametric Tessellations Applied to a Shell Structure
(University of Waterloo, 2017-02-21)This thesis focuses on surface articulation of a shell structure constructed through a generative, parametric, modular design process. The shell form uses vault topology that adapts to varying site conditions such as ... -
Contemporary Approaches to Elementary Piano Pedagogy: A Study of Original Pedagogical Pieces and Representative Elementary Learning Scenarios with a Study on the Integration of Visual Art and Literature into Music Instruction
(University of Waterloo, 2016)This thesis presents four original compositions for solo piano, each representing one of four elementary-level learning stages. These learning stages may be defined as the pre-reading level, the preparatory level, and Royal ... -
Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Dry Eye
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)Introduction Dry eye (DE) disease is characterized by symptoms including, but not limited to, ocular stinging, burning, and tearing. The symptoms can range from being mildly irritating, to severely debilitating and ... -
A Contemporary Examination of the A Fortiori Argument Involving Jewish Traditions
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-22)This study proposes to clarify the a fortiori argument’s components, structure, definitions, formulations, and logical status, as well as the specific conditions under which it is to be employed, both generally and in a ... -
Contemporary Forest Harvesting Impacts on Drinking Water Quality and Treatability
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-31)Forested watersheds supply ~75% of global accessible freshwater resources and serve as important sources of drinking water. Both natural and anthropogenic landscape disturbances in these regions can deteriorate water quality ... -
Content Caching and Delivery in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-06)Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), which enable information exchange and content delivery in real time, are expected to revolutionize current transportation systems for better driving safety, traffic efficiency, and ... -
A Content Delivery Model for Online Video
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-27)Online video accounts for a large and growing portion of all Internet traffic. In order to cut bandwidth costs, it is necessary to use the available bandwidth of users to offload video downloads. Assuming that users can ... -
A Content Enhancement Framework for Multi-Projector Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-04)Projectors are a convenient technology for displaying content on large, abnormal, or temporary surfaces where mounting other forms of light emitting devices is too impractical or too expensive. Common uses of projectors ... -
Content Selection and Curation for Web Archiving: The Gatekeepers vs. the Masses
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-06)Any preservation effort must begin with an assessment of what content to preserve, and web archiving is no different. There have historically been two answers to the question "what should we archive?" The Internet Archive's ... -
Content-Adaptive Non-Stationary Projector Resolution Enhancement
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-18)For any projection system, one goal will surely be to maximize the quality of projected imagery at a minimized hardware cost, which is considered a challenging engineering problem. Experience in applying different image ... -
Content-based Image Retrieval of Gigapixel Histopathology Scans: A Comparative Study of Convolution Neural Network, Local Binary Pattern, and Bag of visual Words
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-04)The state-of-the-art image analysis algorithms offer a unique opportunity to extract semantically meaningful features from medical images. The advantage of this approach is automation in terms of content-based image retrieval ... -
Contesting Identity, Space and Sacred Site Management at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-01)The purpose of my dissertation is to bring cultural geographic theory, including the ideas of representation, power, cultural and religious identity, and the contested and negotiated nature of places and identities, into ... -
Contesting Limits
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-23)After Israel’s triumphant victory over its Arab neighbors in the 1967 Six-Day War, the State immediately began a policy of territorial seizure in the newly occupied areas. Tracing these seizure practices, their supporting ... -
Contesting the centre: Low German-speaking Mennonite identity, language, and literacy constructions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-01)We make sense of who we are by talking about ourselves with others, telling stories about ourselves, our experiences, and our feelings. When we do this, we construct sociolinguistic spaces in which we speak, live, work, ... -
Context Adaptive Space Quantization for Image Coding
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-18)One of the most widely used lossy image compression formats in the world is JPEG. It operates by splitting an image into blocks, applying a frequency transform to each block, quantizing each transformed block, and entropy ... -
Context Augmented Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-14)Spectrum management has become a crucial issue in wireless networks. However, optimal utilization of the spectrum among the different users is not a trivial task. Over the last two decades, wireless communication has ... -
Context matters: criticism and accommodation by close others associated with treatment attitudes in those with anxiety
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-08-26)Background: Many people with anxiety do not seek therapy due to negative views of treatment. Although close others (e.g. romantic partners, family members, close friends) are highly involved in treatment decisions, the ... -
Context reinstatement reconsidered: Investigating boundary conditions of the effect
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-23)The context reinstatement (CR) effect suggests that target items are easier to recognize when encoding and retrieval contexts are matched. In this PhD thesis, I manipulated features of the target and the context, in ...