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An Empirical Model of Area MT: Investigating the Link between Representation Properties and Function
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-16)The middle temporal area (MT) is one of the visual areas of the primate brain where neurons have highly specialized representations of motion and binocular disparity. Other stimulus features such as contrast, size, and ... -
An Empirical Study of Bicyclists' Turning Behaviour at Signalized Intersections
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-23)Efforts to increase cycling mode share have seen some success in North America, though challenges persist due to real and perceived safety issues. Of particular concern are left turns at signalized intersections. Left turns ... -
AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF DIFFERENT BRANCHING STRATEGIES FOR CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Many real life problems can be formulated as constraint satisfaction problems <i>(CSPs)</i>. Backtracking search algorithms are usually employed to solve <i>CSPs</i> and in backtracking search the choice of branching ... -
An Empirical Study on Bash Language Usage in Github
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-27)The Bourne-again shell (Bash) is a prevalent scripting language for orchestrating shell commands and managing resources in Unix-like environments. At the time of writing, it is one of the mainstream shell dialects that ... -
Empirical validation of the Gamification User Types Hexad scale in English and Spanish
(Elsevier, 2018-10-13)Gamification, the use of game elements in non-game systems, is now established as a relevant research field in human-computer interaction (HCI). Several empirical studies have shown that gameful interventions can increase ... -
Empirical Valuation of Watershed Services: A Spatial Instrumental Variable Regression Model of Treatment Plants in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-14)We investigate the impact of forest cover on drinking water treatment costs in Canada using the 2015 Survey of Drinking Water Plants (SDWP). We estimate proportion of forest, urban, and agricultural land cover in the sub-sub ... -
Empirical, Mechanistic and Hybrid Models for Mammalian Cell Cultures
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-27)To reach the increasing demand for monoclonal antibodies the pharmaceutical industry has been looking into ways to optimize productivity. Monoclonal antibodies (mAb) are commonly synthesized in mammalian cell cultures. ... -
Employee Gratitude: A New Direction for Understanding Organizational Citizenship Behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-08)Organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) is extra-role behaviour that is not formally required by organizations, but benefits the organization and its members (Organ, 1988). OCB is considered to be a core dimension of ... -
Employee's Perceptions of Work-Life Balance
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-25)There has been an increased focus on balancing multiple life roles and managing the boundary between work and family. To minimize employees’ work life balance issues, organizations have turned to policies such as flextime, ... -
Employing Community-based Participatory Research Approaches to Improve Local Influenza Pandemic Preparedness in Remote and Isolated Canadian First Nations Communities
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-31)Background: Public health emergencies, such as influenza pandemics, continue to disproportionately impact Aboriginal Canadians (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis), especially those populations residing in geographically ... -
Empowering Architecture: Citizen Participation in the Design of Urban Public Spaces
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-10)As our contemporary cities continue to revitalize, redefine, and reassert themselves on an international scale, public spaces provide an opportunity to lend the sense of place which makes cities unique and compelling. ... -
Empowering Los Angeles: A Vision for a New Urban Ecology
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-11)This thesis addresses the future of sustainable energy distribution and transportation in the United States. Predictions of future energy and transportation demands promote localized energy as the most likely situation. ... -
Empowering User Participation Through Technological Mediation: Rethinking Citizen Agency in the Quayside Public Realm
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)The idea of public space has moved from a critique to an orthodoxy, embraced by most stakeholders as an important part of urban development. In the last few decades there is an increase in a particular landscape of projects, ... -
EMS Response Time Models: A Case Study and Analysis for the Region of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-19)Ambulance response time is a key measure used to assess EMS system performance. However, the speed with which ambulances respond to emergencies can be highly variable. In some cases, this is due to geography. In dense urban ... -
EMTP, transient stability and power flow models and controls of VSC based FACTS controllers
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Emulation of Anyonic Statistics using High-Fidelity NMR Quantum Information Processing (QIP) Techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-30)NMR control techniques have made many important contributions in developing set of tools for optimal quantum control, ranging from spin echo to dynamical decoupling. Using such optimal quantum control techniques, the ... -
(En)activist Drag: Kings reflect on Queerness, Queens, and Questionable Masculinities
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-07-20)In recent years, media attention to drag performers has increased transforming the once-hidden leisure activity of gay men and lesbians into a publicly recognized phenomenon. Many of these representations of drag have ... -
Enabling Censorship Tolerant Networking
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Billions of people in the world live under heavy information censorship. We propose a new class of delay tolerant network (DTN), known as a censorship tolerant network (CTN), to counter the growing practice of Internet-based ... -
Enabling Cross-lingual Information Retrieval for African Languages
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-28)Language diversity in NLP is critical in enabling the development of tools for a wide range of users. However, there are limited resources for building such tools for many languages, particularly those spoken in Africa. ... -
Enabling Efficient Communications Over Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO Channels Using Hybrid Beamforming
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-29)The use of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) over millimeter wave (mmWave) channels is the new frontier for fulfilling the exigent requirements of next-generation wireless systems and solving the wireless network ...