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Creating a Timeless Tradition: The Effects of Fundamentalism on the Conservative Mennonite Movement
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-14)Revivalism and fundamentalism were significant forces that greatly influenced the life and theology of North American Mennonites during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. After World War II, the (Old) Mennonite Church ... -
Creating an Emotion Responsive Dialogue System
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-19)The popularity of deep neural networks and vast amounts of readily available multi-domain textual data has seen the advent of various domain/task specific and domain agnostic dialogue systems. In our work, we present a ... -
Creating and probing laser-cooled atomic ensembles inside a hollow-core optical fibre
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-26)A laser-cooled atomic ensemble confined inside a hollow-core optical fiber offers a unique platform for enhanced light-matter interactions and their applications. At the same time, transferring a cloud of laser-cooled ... -
Creating and shaping light at single photon level
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-26)The ability to control light at the single photon level is essential for fully harnessing the power of quantum information theory, and precision measurements. In this thesis, we study two phenomena which can help us to ... -
Creating Healthy Communities Through Urban Form
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-18)ABSTRACT The manner in which we design and build our communities can affect our physical and mental health. When we think about urban planning, we reflect on the form and arrangement of community, of urban, city and town ... -
Creating Usage Models to Identify Misbehaving Applications on Mobile Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-16)Limited battery capacity is currently a major pain point for mobile users. The problem is made worse when poorly designed applications consume a significant amount of power in the background when they are not actively ... -
Creating Your Bubble: Personal Space On and Around Large Public Displays
(ACM, 2016-05)We describe an empirical study that explores how users establish and use personal space around large public displays (LPDs). Our study complements field studies in this space by more fully characterizing interpersonal ... -
Creation of a gridded time series of hydrological variables for Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2009-07-24)There is a lack of measured, long-term, reliable, and well-distributed hydrological variables in Canada. These hydrological variables include, but are not limited to: temperature, precipitation, ground runoff, evapotranspiration, ... -
Creative Destruction and Participatory Tourism Planning in Rural British Columbia: The Case of Salt Spring Island
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-28)This study determines if participatory tourism planning has played a role in the creative destruction process on Salt Spring Island. This is important because it links together two bodies of literature that have formerly ... -
Creative Destruction and Rural Tourism Planning: The Case of Creemore, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-23)This study assesses the relationship between planning and creative destruction in the village of Creemore, Ontario. The study has four objectives. The first is to describe the evolution of tourism in Creemore by tracking ... -
the Creative Destruction of Hamilton: a Cultural approach to the Urban Regeneration of a City in Economic Transition
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-25)Charles Darwin proclaimed, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change”. At the time, he probably did not fathom the ... -
The Creative Food Economy and Culinary Tourism through Place Branding: Terroir into a Creative and Environmentally Friendly Taste of a Place
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-13)Culinary tourism can contribute to the economic development of many rural communities. Creating competitive advantage for a rural community by establishing a culinary cluster requires a strategy designed to leverage the ... -
Creativity During Threat to Organizational Survival: The Influence of Employee Creativity on Downsizing Survival Selection
(Sage, 2023-11-30)Although research consistently shows that employee creativity contributes to positive outcomes for teams and organizations, we have limited insight into how employee creativity shapes the outcomes of those employees who ... -
Credit-Based User Authentication for Delay Tolerant Mobile Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-21)Wireless Internet has become increasingly popular due to anywhere anytime access feature. The Internet architecture was designed underlying the existing of the end-to-end path connection. The promise of wireless Internet ... -
The Creek and the Garden:An insertion of Community Garden System in a Neighborhood Park along the Garrison Creek
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-09)‘The Creek and the Garden’ is about actively preparing Toronto for the surge for gardening and food production within the city and developing a strategy to ensure the future’s growing need for urban food garden space. ... -
The Creek That is Not: A Composite Park-way at the Garrison Creek
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-19)A century after the burial of Garrison Creek, Toronto continues to experience urban floods and unpleasant sewer problems as a result of the unsettling creek. And as gentrification spreads westwards in the city, the ... -
Creep Behaviour of Post-Installed Adhesive Anchors under Various Sustained Load Levels and Environmental Exposures
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-16)This thesis describes an experimental study on the long-term creep behaviour of adhesive anchors under sustained tensile loads in combination with different environmental exposures. A comprehensive background and literature ... -
Creep Deformation and Thermal Aging of Random Glass-Mat Polypropylene Composite
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-23)The current research is part of a wider experimental program on creep modeling of glass mat reinforced polypropylene composites which are increasingly being used in molding automotive parts. This specific study is focused ... -
Crest Factor Reduction and Digital Predistortion of RF Power Amplifiers Driven by Carrier Aggregated Signals
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-24)Advanced modulation techniques and access technologies are enabling higher data-rate communication at the cost of stringent signal requirements affecting radio transceivers’ efficiency and cost. One of the major problems ... -
Crime Prevention in a World without Free Will: Derk Pereboom’s Quarantine Analogy
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-01)The purpose of this paper is to evaluate Pereboom’s attempt to use his quarantine analogy to justify his theory of crime prevention and the use of preventative detainment in place of punishment. Specifically, I will examine ...