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Leveraging Watermarks to Improve Performance of Streaming Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-28)Modern stream processing engines (SPEs) process large volumes of events propagated at high velocity through multiple queries. By continuously receiving watermarks, which are marker events injected into the stream to signify ... -
LEVI: Exploring Possibilities for an Adaptive Board Game System
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2023-08-03)Visual impairment can create accessibility barriers for players in board games because information about the gameplay is often communicated through visuals. We present LEVI, a standalone adaptive board game system (ABGs) ... -
Lexical Affinities and Language Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Understanding interactions among words is fundamental for natural language applications. However, many statistical NLP methods still ignore this important characteristic of language. For example, information retrieval ... -
Lexical semantic similarity and its application to business catalog retrieval
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Library : A Social Infrastructure
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)For many centuries, the mission of the library as a civic institution has been seen as the collection and dissemination of information. Likewise, the library typology continuously responds to the dominant paradigm of ... -
Library Impact Practice Brief: Supporting Bibliometric Data Needs at Academic Institutions.
(Association of Research Libraries, 2020-10-28)This practice brief presents research conducted by staff at the University of Waterloo Library as part of the library’s participation in ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative. The research addressed the question, ... -
Library Plus: Towards the Self-Curation of Healthcare
(University of Waterloo, 2015-11-02)Our heavily populated world is facing exponentially increasing healthcare demands that challenge existing healthcare infrastructure. Struggling to respond to the rapidly changing spatial needs of healthcare, the architecture ... -
License to Misbehave: Organizational Citizenship Behavior as a Moral License for Deviant Reactions to Abusive Supervision
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-29)Abusive supervision research has found that subordinates engage in deviance following abuse despite the negative consequences of doing so. Why do individuals engage in deviance despite the expected sanctions? To explain ... -
Lid-parallel conjunctival fold (LIPCOF) morphology imaged by optical coherence tomography and its relationship to LIPCOF grade.
(Elsevier, 2019-06)Purpose: Lid-parallel conjunctival folds (LIPCOF) are a well-accepted clinical sign in dry eye diagnosis. Commonly, LIPCOF is classified by grading the number of folds observed by slit-lamp microscope. This study investigated ... -
LIDAR Odometry with Joint Geometric and Appearance Landmarks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-08)Odometry is the problem of estimating the motion of a moving platform relative to its environment without measurements to a fixed reference point. This is a critical problem for mobile robotics applications where ... -
LiDAR-MIMO: Efficient Uncertainty Estimation for LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-09)The estimation of uncertainty in robotic vision, such as 3D object detection, is an essential component in developing safe autonomous systems aware of their own performance. However, the deployment of current uncertainty ... -
Life After Harm: Exploring the Impact of a Restorative Justice Peer Support Group for People Who Have Sexually Offended
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-25)In recent decades, restorative justice approaches such as victim-offender conferences and circle processes have emerged as a response to people who have caused sexual harm. The traditional legal responses to sexual offending ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of a Hybrid Biobased Panel for Insulated Concrete Forms Used in Residential Buildings
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-28)Buildings are a large contributor to climate change, as they require large amounts of fossil energy to maintain indoor comfort for occupants, either as heating in cold climates or cooling in warmer climates. Insulation ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of a Hybrid Poly Butylene Succinate Composite
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-24)Poly butylene succinate (PBS) is a biodegradable plastic polymer that has physical and mechanical properties similar to common petroleum plastics like polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE). PBS may be produced from ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of Medical Oxygen
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-15)Medical oxygen is a vital healthcare resource provided to a patient to achieve their minimum required oxygen blood saturation. There is a growing interest in medical oxygen due to supply shortages experienced during COVID-19. ... -
Life cycle assessment of organic photovoltaic charger use in Europe: the role of product use intensity and irradiation
(Elsevier, 2019-10-01)Solar chargers for mobile phones are the first integration of organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology into commercial products. Although environmental impacts of OPVs have been studied extensively, the performance of chargers ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of Residential Buildings Considering Photovoltaic Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-05)Nowadays, energy consumption in the building sector is considered one of the main contributors to increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, which is having an enormous negative environmental impact worldwide. Correspondingly, ... -
Life cycle sustainability assessment of asset management plans for municipal wastewater systems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-24)Municipal governments have the responsibility to provide safe drinking water and handle polluted water to protect their citizen’s health and safety. Maintaining water infrastructure systems, including wastewater collection ... -
Life History Analysis with Response-Dependent Observation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-14)This thesis deals with statistical issues in the analysis of dependent failure time data under complex observation schemes. These observation schemes may yield right-censored, interval-censored and current status data and ... -
Life history and population dynamics of Eastern Sand Darter (Ammocrypta pellucida) in the lower Thames River, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-17)Eastern Sand Darter (Ammocrypta pellucida) is listed as Threatened under the Canadian Species at Risk Act. Canadian populations are declining primarily due to the siltation of sandy depositional areas, the preferred habitat ...