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Disciplinary directors: Evidence from the appointments of outside directors who have fired CEOs
(Elsevier, 2018-11-01)By examining board appointments of outside directors who have previously fired a CEO, we study how directors’ willingness to take disciplinary actions is related to a firm's performance and risk-taking. Such directors ... -
Disciplinary Inequality, Collective Agency, and Interprofessional Collaboration in Health Care
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-05)In this thesis, I apply collective responsibility theory to the problem of health care inequality between physicians and nurses. This analysis is conducted in the context of physician-nurse interprofessional collaboration ... -
DISCONNECT: Assessing and Managing the Social Effects of Development in the Athabasca Oil Sands
(University of Waterloo, 2003)This research investigated the system by which the social effects of oil sands development on Fort McMurray, a city in northeastern Alberta, are assessed and managed. The research focused on Social Impact Assessment ... -
Disconnected Connections: Extending Peripersonal Space with a Virtual Hand
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-28)Peripersonal (reachable) and extrapersonal (beyond reach) space is linked to hand perception. Using a tool to reach farther than normal recalibrates previously unreachable space as peripersonal, evidenced by Intraparietal ... -
The Discontinuous Galerkin Method Applied to Problems in Electromagnetism
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-23)The discontinuous Galerkin method (DGM) is applied to a number of problems in computational electromagnetics. This is achieved by obtaining numerical solutions to Maxwell's equations using the DGM. The aim of these ... -
The discontinuous Galerkin method on Cartesian grids with embedded geometries: spectrum analysis and implementation for Euler equations
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-21)In this thesis, we analyze theoretical properties of the discontinuous Galerkin method (DGM) and propose novel approaches to implementation with the aim to increase its efficiency. First, we derive explicit expressions ... -
Discours protestant et parcours féminin dans Delphine (1802) de Madame de Staël
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-29)Notre travail se consacre à une analyse sociohistorique de la représentation du protestantisme dans le roman épistolaire Delphine (1802). Dans ce premier roman, Madame de Staël dépeint une héroïne dont le parcours offre ... -
Discovering Domain Orders through Order Dependencies
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-28)Most real-world data come with explicitly defined domain orders; e.g., lexicographic order for strings, numeric for integers, and chronological for time. Our goal is to discover implicit domain orders that we do not already ... -
Discovering new viral lineages and estimating their abundance in wastewater
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-27)Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 has emerged as a critical tool for tracking the spread of COVID-19. In addition to estimating the relative case numbers using qPCR, SARS-CoV-2 genomic RNA can be extracted from wastewater ... -
Discovering Patterns from Sequences with Applications to Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-30)Understanding Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA interaction is of fundamental importance in deciphering gene regulation and other biological processes in living cells. Traditionally, new interaction knowledge is discovered ... -
Discovering Play Store Reviews Related to Specific Android App Issues
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Mobile App reviews may contain information relevant to developers. Developers can investigate these reviews to see what users of their apps are complaining about. However, the huge volume of incoming reviews is impractical ... -
Discovering Protein Functional Regions and Protein-Protein Interaction using Co-occurring Aligned Pattern Clusters
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-30)Bioinformatics is a rapidly expanding field of research due to multiple recent advancements: 1) the advent of machine intelligence, 2) the increase of computing power, 3) our better understanding of the underlying biomolecular ... -
Discovering Protein Sequence-Structure Motifs and Two Applications to Structural Prediction
(University of Waterloo, 2004)This thesis investigates the correlations between short protein peptide sequences and local tertiary structures. In particular, it introduces a novel algorithm for partitioning short protein segments into clusters of ... -
Discovery and Analysis of Aligned Pattern Clusters from Protein Family Sequences
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-28)Protein sequences are essential for encoding molecular structures and functions. Consequently, biologists invest substantial resources and time discovering functional patterns in proteins. Using high-throughput technologies, ... -
Discovery of Flexible Gap Patterns from Sequences
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-06)Human genome contains abundant motifs bound by particular biomolecules. These motifs are involved in the complex regulatory mechanisms of gene expressions. The dominant mechanism behind the intriguing gene expression ... -
Discovery of function forms in three variables
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Discovery of New Features for Peptide Sequencing with Mass Spectrometry
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-21)Bioinformaticians have been working on peptide sequencing with tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) for decades. However, the results are still not perfect. A lot of research have been carried on two peptide sequencing methods, ... -
Discrete Logarithm Cryptography
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-27)The security of many cryptographic schemes relies on the intractability of the discrete logarithm problem (DLP) in groups. The most commonly used groups to deploy such schemes are the multiplicative (sub)groups of finite ... -
Discrete Path Planing Strategies for Coverage and Multi-Robot Rendezvous
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-22)This thesis addresses the problem of motion planning for autonomous robots, given a map and an estimate of the robot pose within it. The motion planning problem for a mobile robot can be defined as computing a trajectory ... -
Discrete Quantum Walks on Graphs and Digraphs
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-26)This thesis studies various models of discrete quantum walks on graphs and digraphs via a spectral approach. A discrete quantum walk on a digraph $X$ is determined by a unitary matrix $U$, which acts on complex functions ...