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Dissonant Child: Grassroots Interfaith in a Multicultural Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-19)While Canada's increasing ethnic and racial diversity have received a great deal of attention in recent years, the pluralization of its religious makeup has been largely ignored. As a result, political and societal responses ... -
Distance Measurement-Based Cooperative Source Localization: A Convex Range-Free Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-19)One of the most essential objectives in WSNs is to determine the spatial coordinates of a source or a sensor node having information. In this study, the problem of range measurement-based localization of a signal source ... -
Distance Measures for Probabilistic Patterns
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-07)Numerical measures of pattern dissimilarity are at the heart of pattern recognition and classification. Applications of pattern recognition grow more sophisticated every year, and consequently we require distance measures ... -
Distance, Gaze and the Intimacy Equilibrium Model in Audio/Video-Mediated and Face-to-Face Dyads
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10)This experiment, from 1976 but until now unpublished, focused on the Argyle-Dean Intimacy Equilibrium Model, to consider gaze and social distance in face-to-face and audio/video-mediated dyads. It was found that, during ... -
A distance-based neural network model for sequence processing
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Distance-Biregular Graphs and Orthogonal Polynomials
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-15)This thesis is about distance-biregular graphs– when they exist, what algebraic and structural properties they have, and how they arise in extremal problems. We develop a set of necessary conditions for a distance-biregular ... -
Distant agricultural landscapes
(Springer, 2015-04-01)This paper examines the relationship between the development of the dominant industrial food system and its associated global economic drivers and the environmental sustainability of agricultural landscapes. It makes the ... -
Distinction of Individual Lanthanide Ions with a DNAzyme Beacon Array
(American Chemical Society, 2016-06-24)Developing chemical probes to distinguish each lanthanide ion is a long-standing challenge. Aside from its analytical applications, solving this problem will also enhance our knowledge in metal ligand design. Using in vitro ... -
Distinguishing Burials in Thebes, Greece: Using MNI and MLNI as a Differentiation Technique
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-22)The objective of this thesis was to determine an additional method to help distinguish between types of burials in Thebes, Greece and generally in archaeological remains. Using two quantification methods, MNI and MLNI, ... -
Distinguishing Low, Moderate, and High Test Anxiety
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-26)It is very common and understandable for post-secondary students to feel anxious leading up to a test. However, test anxiety can be a serious problem for some students. It is important to identify these individuals, given ... -
Distinguishing successful from unsuccessful venture capital investments in technology-based new ventures: How investment decision criteria relate to deal performance
(University of Waterloo, 2001)This study investigates variability in the importance of investment decision criteria used by venture capitalists in assessing new technology-based ventures and relates the criteria to the subsequent performance of the ... -
DistNeo4j: Scaling Graph Databases through Dynamic Distributed Partitioning
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-16)Social networks are large graphs which require multiple servers to store and manage them. Providing performant scalable systems that store these graphs through partitioning them into subgraphs is an important issue. In ... -
Distorted Wave Born Approximation For Inelastic Atomic Collision
(University of Waterloo, 2007-07-17)An investigation of the problem of inelastic scattering process under the Coulomb Born approximation is given. Different approaches to calculate Coulomb wavefunctions in the momentum space representation are analyzed and ... -
Distortions in the digital looking glass: Information and communication technologies and bodily self-conceptions in men seeking men
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-10)Internet-enabled information and communication technology (ICT) use has become so diffuse as to be considered a hallmark of modern life. Between 2000 and 2019, the proportion of US adults who reported using some kind of ... -
Distributed Approaches for Location Privacy
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-21)With the advance of location technologies, people can now determine their location in various ways, for instance, with GPS or based on nearby cellphone towers. These technologies have led to the introduction of ... -
Distributed Document Clustering and Cluster Summarization in Peer-to-Peer Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-14)This thesis addresses difficult challenges in distributed document clustering and cluster summarization. Mining large document collections poses many challenges, one of which is the extraction of topics or summaries from ... -
Distributed Key Generation and Its Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-30)Numerous cryptographic applications require a trusted authority to hold a secret. With a plethora of malicious attacks over the Internet, however, it is difficult to establish and maintain such an authority in online ... -
Distributed Medium Access Control for QoS Support in Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-01)With the rapid growth of multimedia applications and the advances of wireless communication technologies, quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning for multimedia services in heterogeneous wireless networks has been an important ... -
Distributed Multi-Robot Coverage Control of Non-Convex Environments With Guarantees
(IEEE, 2022-09-28)In this article, we revisit the problem of distributed coverage with a fleet of robots in convex and nonconvex environments. In the majority of approaches for this problem, the environment is partitioned, each robot is ... -
Distributed Multiagent Resource Allocation using Reservations to Improve Handling of Dynamic Task Arrivals
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-26)In the artificial intelligence subfield of multi-agent systems, there are many applications for algorithms which optimally allocate a set of resources among many available tasks which demand those resources. In this thesis ...