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Poetics of Water
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-27)Dhaka was built on the banks of the river Buriganga around 700 AD. Over the last 400 years, it has grown into one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Every year, Dhaka sees an influx of migrants, who move ... -
La poésie engagée : la modernisation de l’imaginaire acadien dans les années 1970
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-01)Ce mémoire portera sur l’évolution de la notion d’imaginaire collectif en Acadie tel qu’elle apparaît dans trois œuvres poétiques majeures de la première moitié des années 1970. Il s’agit de Cri de Terre (1972) de Raymond ... -
Poincare Waves and Kelvin Waves in a Circular Lake
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-28)When wind blows over a stratified lake an interface tilt is often generated, and internal waves usually appear after the wind stops. Internal waves in lakes are studied in many literatures, but most assume a hydrostatic ... -
Point-to-Point Traffic in Wireless Mesh Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-29)Although most work on Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) has focused on traffic flowing in and out of the network via gateways, traffic within the WMN may also be significant in many environments. This point-to-point (P2P) ... -
Poissonian potential measures for Lévy risk models
(Elsevier, 2018-09-01)This paper studies the potential (or resolvent) measures of spectrally negative Lévy processes killed on exiting (bounded or unbounded) intervals, when the underlying process is observed at the arrival epochs of an independent ... -
A Polar Decomposition for Quantum Channels: Theory and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-23)Every potential benefit of quantum computers would be lost without methods to protect the computations from error. Quantum channels provide a framework for understanding error in quantum systems. In general, for a system ... -
Polarimetric and birefringence analysis of presumed amyloid-beta deposits in the retina in association with Alzheimer's disease
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-26)Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease which leads to symptoms such as loss of memory and other neurological dysfunctions, ultimately leading to death. Two key hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease are abnormally ... -
Polarity Control for Nonthiolated DNA Adsorption onto Gold Nanoparticles
(American Chemical Society, 2013-05-21)Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) functionalized with thiolated DNA have enabled many studies in nanoscience. The strong thiol/gold affinity and the nanoscale curvature of AuNPs allow the attached DNA to adapt an upright conformation ... -
Polarizability-Dependent Induced-Charge Electroosmotic Flow of Dielectric Particles and Its Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-06)To break the limit of the knowledge of the induced-charge electroosmotic flow, this thesis provides a new theoretical and numerical study of the polarizability-dependent induced-charge electroosmotic flow (ICEOF) of ... -
Polarization Effects of Mechanical Impacts on Dispersion Compensating Modules
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-22)Novel methods and apparatus used to measure high-speed state of polarization changes are developed. Knowledge of the effects of mechanical impacts on the state of polarization will benefit the reliability of optical ... -
Polarization Entangled Photon Sources for Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-27)Free-space quantum key distribution has recently achieved several milestones, such as the launch and results of the first quantum satellite, Micius. The emergence of quantum satellites has certainly made progress towards ... -
Police Officers’ Attitudes Toward Civilian Oversight Mechanisms in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-27)Police services in Canada were historically self-regulating institutions that managed internally their administrative affairs and allegations of professional misconduct. In recent decades, however, there has been an ... -
Policies and Regulations to Enable Innovation and Adoption of Health Technologies for Older Adults: Documented Problems and Proposed Solutions
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-18)Introduction Technologies can help older adults live independently in their homes, but innovators often struggle to get their technologies in the hands of older people, their families and the systems that help to care ... -
Policy Driven Software Monitoring
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-15)Software monitoring and logging is one of the most important tools a software engineer has when faced with the challenge of auditing or analysing a software system. However, the difficulty in effectively monitoring a ... -
Policy Explanation and Model Refinement in Decision-Theoretic Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)Decision-theoretic systems, such as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), are used for sequential decision-making under uncertainty. MDPs provide a generic framework that can be applied in various domains to compute optimal ... -
Policy Extraction via Online Q-Value Distillation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-27)Recently, deep neural networks have been capable of solving complex control tasks in certain challenging environments. However, these deep learning policies continue to be hard to interpret, explain and verify which limits ... -
Policy Resistance Undermines Superspreader Vaccination Strategies For Influenza
(Public Library of Science, 2013-03-01)Theoretical models of infection spread on networks predict that targeting vaccination at individuals with a very large number of contacts (superspreaders) can reduce infection incidence by a significant margin. These models ... -
Policy-Driven Framework for Static Identification and Verification of Component Dependencies
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-03)Software maintenance is considered to be among the most difficult, lengthy and costly parts of a software application's life-cycle. Regardless of the nature of the software application and the software engineering efforts ... -
Policy-Practice Mismatch? Sustainable Nature-Based Tourism in Trinidad and Tobago.
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-26)Trinidad and Tobago, a twin island Caribbean nation has always been heavily dependent on the oil and gas industry for its economic survival. Due to the volatility of the energy sector, government’s efforts are now geared ... -
Polis and Chora: Recalibrating Natural and Urban Harmony in Porto Rafti
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-13)The landscape of Attica in Greece suffers rapidly progressing urban sprawl in a culture of over privatization. In the absence of proper legislation, corruption and poor implementation of existing laws, the consequences ...