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The “Other” Cancún: Exploring Knowledge, Attitudes, And Practices Towards Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health in Two Ejido Settlements in Cancún, Mexico
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-27)Hundreds of millions of people globally are without access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and face a higher likelihood of contracting waterborne illnesses like cholera, dysentery, and typhoid. While the majority ... -
Our adventures make me feel secure: Novel activities boost relationship satisfaction through felt security
(Elsevier, 2020-07)Past research has established the relational benefits of engaging in novel tasks with a romantic partner. However, little empirical evidence exists for the mechanisms responsible. The current research examined growth ... -
Our Common Principles: Exploring Harm Reduction Based Drug Policy as an Avenue for Sustainable Development in Urban Contexts
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-20)This thesis explores the conceptual and practical relationship between the goals of sustainable development and of contemporary drug policy in Canadian provinces and municipalities. By failing to address the global issue ... -
Our Grand Domestic Revolution: (Re-)making home from Jaffna, Sri Lanka to the Greater Toronto Area
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-21)Displacement is seemingly irreconcilable with the grounding quality of domestic space; however, the practice of housework and homemaking allows forcibly displaced people to reconstruct home elsewhere. Centring the context ... -
Our Last Home: Designing for Care at the End of Life
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-15)In the last fifty years, hospice palliative care has changed the modern understanding of dying. Rather than focusing on death, it promotes the facilitation of optimizing life for patients whose conditions have worsened ... -
Out of the 'Broom Closet' and Into the Academy: The Development of Contemporary Pagan Studies and the Role of Scholarship in Shaping Legitimacy
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-30)Contemporary Pagan studies is an academic field that explores the beliefs, behaviours, practices, and identities of contemporary Pagans, borrowing lenses from such fields as religious studies, anthropology, sociology, ... -
Out-of-Distribution Detection for LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-18)3D object detection is an essential part of automated driving, and deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for this task. However, deep models are notorious for assigning high confidence ... -
Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Gigapixel Image Representation
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-18)This thesis addresses the significant challenge of improving the generalization capabilities of artificial deep neural networks in the classification of whole slide images (WSIs) in histopathology across different and ... -
Outcomes of Natural Play and Learning Spaces: A Collaborative Case Study with KidActive
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-22)It has been argued that contemporary environmental issues may be in part attributable to a growing disconnect with the natural world (Liefländer, Fröhlich, Bogner, & Schultz, 2012; Louv, 2005; E. K. Nisbet, Zelenski, & ... -
Outlook On A Worldwide Forest Transition
(Public Library of Science, 2013-10-09)It is not clear whether a worldwide "forest transition" to net reforestation will ever occur, and the need to address the main driver-agriculture-is compelling. We present a mathematical model of land use dynamics based ... -
Output Feedback Bilateral Teleoperation with Force Estimation in the Presence of Time Delays
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-28)This thesis presents a novel bilateral teleoperation algorithm for n degree of freedom nonlinear manipulators connected through time delays. Teleoperation has many practical uses, as there are many benefits that come from ... -
Outre Aesthetics
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-20)Since the revolutionary period in America, aesthetics has played a crucial role in political formation, social improvisation, and cultural imagination. Aesthetic contemplation offered a rich and evocative language for ... -
Outsourced Private Information Retrieval with Pricing and Access Control
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-24)We propose a scheme for outsourcing Private Information Retrieval (PIR) to untrusted servers while protecting the privacy of the database owner as well as that of the database clients. We observe that by layering PIR on ... -
Outta This World
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-21)Outta This World is a multidisciplinary show comprised of drawing, video, music, performance and installation. It was initiated by my interest in the concept of the nation-state, more particularly Canada, and the way it ... -
Overcoming acceptance insensitivity: Increasing low self-esteem individuals' perceptions of value to their partners
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-09)People with low self-esteem (LSEs) often have doubts about how much their romantic partners love and value them. These doubts, which undermine their relationships, are difficult to overcome because LSEs tend to downplay ... -
Overcoming Inequality: How Schools Compensate for Socioeconomic Gaps in Children’s Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-18)This dissertation views schools’ compensatory mechanisms from a mixed methods approach, consisting of both quantitative and qualitative data that were collected from a larger study on summer learning in Canada (see Davies ... -
Overcoming synthesizer phase noise in quantum sensing
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-23)Synthesizers are widely used in various quantum information platforms as microwave or radio frequency signal sources. The synthesizer phase noise plays a sensitive role in detecting spin dynamics which is similar to the ... -
Overconfidently Underthinking: Narcissism negatively predicts Cognitive Reflection
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)There exists a large body of work examining individual differences in the propensity to engage in reflective thinking processes. However, there is a distinct lack of empirical research examining the role of dispositional ... -
Overlap-Free Words and Generalizations
(University of Waterloo, 2007-11-15)The study of combinatorics on words dates back at least to the beginning of the 20th century and the work of Axel Thue. Thue was the first to give an example of an infinite word over a three letter alphabet that contains ... -
Overlay Token Ring Protocol for Vehicular Communication Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-20)Vehicular communication has been an emerging topic among current wireless research. The vehicular communication can be classified to Inter-Vehicle Communication (IVC) and Road-to-Vehicle Communication (RVC). IVC and RVC ...