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Geographic and Demographic Suitability of Cycling in North American Cities
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-13)With interest in cycling increasing in recent decades, local authorities and planners have been eager to enact policies to expedite a mode shift from driving to more sustainable, equitable and accessible transportation ... -
A Geographic Exploratory Analysis of Health and Crime in Toronto Neighbourhoods
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-12)Crime impacts may pose a health risk to victims and result in potential demands on healthcare services. However, the impacts from crime on health are complex and diverse. It is difficult to measure and quantify such impacts, ... -
The Geographical and Spatial Imaginings of Islamist Extremism/Terrorism
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The contemporary Islamist extremist/terrorist phenomenon has emerged as one of the most significant threats to both regional and international peace, security, and stability. As the international community struggles to ... -
Geographically Distributed Database Management at the Cloud's Edge
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-24)Request latency resulting from the geographic separation between clients and remote application servers is a challenge for cloud-hosted web and mobile applications. Numerous studies have shown the importance of low latency ... -
Geographies of Urban Filth
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)This thesis studies how our cultural understanding of dirt and cleanliness are bound to issues of class and race and how they are manifested within urban and spatial design. Boundaries are formed between clean and dirty, ... -
Geologic Control: Studies on the Colonial Afterlife of Limestone in Montreal, Quebec Through Artifact
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-01)This research traces colonial legacies and settler imaginaries of the present across the urban environment of Montreal, Quebec through a single geologic material: limestone. French settlers extracted limestone upon arrival ... -
Geology, geochemistry and Cr-Ni-Cu-PGE mineralization of the Bird River sill: Evidence for a multiple intrusion model
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-09)The Bird River sill (BRS) is composed of layered mafic-ultramafic intrusive bodies which intruded the Bird River greenstone belt in southeastern Manitoba. Layered intrusions, such as those that collectively make-up the ... -
Geomechanics of Fluid Injection in Geological Reservoirs
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-27)Numerous petroleum engineering, mining, and enhanced geothermal energy operations involve cyclic injection of fluids into geological formations. Geomechanics of injection operations in weakly consolidated or unconsolidated ... -
Geomechanics-Reservoir Modeling by Displacement Discontinuity-Finite Element Method
(University of Waterloo, 2008-07-29)There are two big challenges which restrict the extensive application of fully coupled geomechanics-reservoir modeling. The first challenge is computational effort. Consider a 3-D simulation combining pressure and heat ... -
A Geometric Approach to Pattern Matching in Polyphonic Music
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The music pattern matching problem involves finding matches of a small fragment of music called the "pattern" into a larger body of music called the "score". We represent music as a series of horizontal line segments in ... -
Geometric Approximation Algorithms in the Online and Data Stream Models
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-23)The online and data stream models of computation have recently attracted considerable research attention due to many real-world applications in various areas such as data mining, machine learning, distributed computing, ... -
A Geometric B-Spline Over the Triangular Domain
(University of Waterloo, 2003)For modelling curves, B-splines [3] are among the most versatile control schemes. However, scaling this technique to surface patches has proven to be a non-trivial endeavor. While a suitable scheme exists for rectangular ... -
A geometric investigation of non-regular separation applied to the bi-Helmholtz equation & its connection to symmetry operators
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-23)The theory of non-regular separation is examined in its geometric form and applied to the bi-Helmholtz equation in the flat coordinate systems in 2-dimensions. It is shown that the bi-Helmholtz equation does not admit ... -
Geometric On-line Ray Searching Under Probability of Placement Scenarios
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-28)Online computation is a model for formulating decision making under uncertainty. In an online problem, the algorithm does not know the entire input from the beginning; the input is revealed in a sequence of steps. At each ... -
Geometric Optimization of Solar Concentrating Collectors using Quasi-Monte Carlo Simulation
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)This thesis is a study of the geometric design of solar concentrating collectors. In this work, a numerical optimization methodology was developed and applied to various problems in linear solar concentrator design, in ... -
Geometric Ramifications of the Lovász Theta Function and Their Interplay with Duality
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)The Lovasz theta function and the associated convex sets known as theta bodies are fundamental objects in combinatorial and semidefinite optimization. They are accompanied by a rich duality theory and deep connections ... -
Geometrical Frustration and Static Correlations in a Simple Glass Former
(American Physical Society, 2012-01-18)We study the geometrical frustration scenario of glass formation for simple hard-sphere models. We find that the dual picture in terms of defects brings little insight and no theoretical simplification for the understanding ... -
Geometrical frustration and static correlations in hard-sphere glass formers
(American Institute of Physics, 2013-03-28)We analytically and numerically characterize the structure of hard-sphere fluids in order to review various geometrical frustration scenarios of the glass transition. We find generalized polytetrahedral order to be correlated ... -
Geometry and Anchoring Effects on Elliptic Cylinder Domains of Nematic Phases
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-20)Compounds which exhibit liquid crystal phases have been widely used in display technology. The majority of display applications utilize the nematic liquid crystal phase, which is a liquid-like phase which has partial ... -
Geometry of convex sets arising from hyperbolic polynomials
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-09)This thesis focuses on convex sets and convex cones defined using hyperbolic polynomials. We first review some of the theory of convex sets in $\R^d$ in general. We then review some classical algebraic theorems concerning ...