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Novelty Detection by Latent Semantic Indexing
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-23)As a new topic in text mining, novelty detection is a natural extension of information retrieval systems, or search engines. Aiming at refining raw search results by filtering out old news and saving only the novel messages, ... -
Novelty Detection for SilGeo Hardware Assurance
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-05)In today's world, electronic hardware-level threats have become increasingly common. These threats can range from the infiltration of counterfeit or malicious hardware in the supply chain to the use of electronic attack ... -
Novelty Detection in Airport Baggage Conveyor Gear-Motors Using Synchro-Squeezing Transform and Self-Organizing Maps
(Prognostic and Health Management Society, 2013)A powerful continuous wavelet transform based signal processing tool named Synchro-squeezing transform (SST) has recently emerged in the context of non-stationary signal processing. Founded upon the premise of time-frequency ... -
Novelty Seeking Preferences of Chinese and Indian Overseas Tourists in Canada Using the International Tourist Role (ITR) Scale: An Exploratory-Comparative Study
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-30)The concept of novelty seeking has been used by over decades to study consumer behaviour in tourism. Cohen (1972) differentiated international tourists based on the degree to which they seek novelty in their travel experience, ... -
Novice, Generalist, and Expert Reasoning During Clinical Case Explanation: A Propositional Assessment of Knowledge Utilization and Application
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-28)Objectives: The aim of the two exploratory studies presented here, was to investigate expert-novice cognitive performance in the field of dietetic counseling. More specifically, the purpose was to characterize the knowledge ... -
Novice-Centric Visualizations for Machine Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-26)This thesis focuses on visualizations for machine learning tasks. More specifically, we create a taxonomy for existing machine learning visualizations, and design a system to help machine learning novices perform labelling ... -
An Npz Model With State-Dependent Delay Due To Size-Structure In Juvenile Zooplankton
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2016)The study of planktonic ecosystems is important as they make up the bottom trophic levels of aquatic food webs. We study a closed nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton (NPZ) model that includes size structure in the juvenile ... -
Nuclear magnetic resonance and relaxation studies of simple cobalt complexes
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Nuclear Spin Dynamics Under Above-Bandgap Optical Pumping in Silicon
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-26)Phosphorus defects in silicon have been proposed as candidates for quantum information and quantum sensing applications, with proposals utilizing both the donor electron spin as well as the 31P nuclear spin. Initialization ... -
Nucleotide coordination with 14 lanthanides studied by isothermal titration calorimetry
(Elsevier, 2017-06-09)With their hydrolytic, optical and magnetic properties, lanthanide ions (Ln3+) are versatile probes for nucleic acids. In addition, nucleotide-coordinated Ln3+ ions form useful nanoparticles. However, the thermodynamic ... -
Nudging Toward Sustainability: A Pilot Study on Promoting Pro-Environmental Behavior and Reducing Carbon Emissions in a Net-Zero Carbon Building
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-13)As the building industry grapples with the challenges of sustainability and climate change, the role of individual behavior in resource and energy conservation practices has received less attention than technical options. ... -
Nuisance to Crisis: Conceptualizing Terrorism During the Nixon Administration
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-03)The study of terrorism has gained attention and prominence post-September 11, 2001. Much of the literature on terrorism is teleological, and many authors focus their research on America’s involvement with terrorism in the ... -
The Number Field Sieve for Barreto-Naehrig Curves: Smoothness of Norms
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-20)The security of pairing-based cryptography can be reduced to the difficulty of the discrete logarithm problem (DLP) in finite fields of medium characteristic. The number field sieve is the best known algorithm for this ... -
Number of prime factors with a given multiplicity
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-03)Let k ⩾ 1 be a natural number and ωk (n) denote the number of distinct prime factors of a natural number n with multiplicity k. We estimate the first and second moments of the functions ωk with k ⩾ 1. Moreover, we prove ... -
The number of valid factorizations of Fibonacci prefixes
(Elsevier, 2019-07-05)We establish several recurrence relations and an explicit formula for V(n), the number of factorizations of the length-n prefix of the Fibonacci word into a (not necessarily strictly) decreasing sequence of standard Fibonacci ... -
The number of valid factorizations of Fibonacci prefixes
(Elsevier, 2019-07-05)We establish several recurrence relations and an explicit formula for , the number of factorizations of the length-n prefix of the Fibonacci word into a (not necessarily strictly) decreasing sequence of standard Fibonacci ... -
Numeric and Traffic Light Calorie Labels on Cafeteria Menus: Noticing, Use, and Perceptions Among Young Adults
(Oxford, 2020-05-29)Objectives The objective of this study was to examine the impact of numeric versus interpretive calorie labelling on consumer noticing, use, and perceptions of labels. We hypothesized that due to their at-a-glance format, ... -
Numerical analysis and simulation of graphene assisted silicon-nitride waveguide
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-20)To address the increased demand for high performance nonlinear integrated photonic devices, this thesis investigates a potential solution to the intrinsic low nonlinear response of silicon nitride waveguides by integrating ... -
Numerical Analysis of Convective Heat Transfer in Fenestration with Between-the-Glass Louvered Shades
(Elsevier, 2009-10)A two-dimensional steady laminar natural convection model of a window cavity with between-panes louvers (i.e., slats) was developed by approximating the system as a vertical cavity with isothermal walls at different ... -
Numerical Analysis of Crack Induced Debonding Mechanisms in FRP-Strengthened RC Beams
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-22)The continual deterioration of infrastructure has motivated researchers to look for new ways of repairing and monitoring existing structures. A particularly challenging problem confronting engineers in the revival of the ...