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Improving the plant-growth promoting ability of Azospirillum brasilense by genetic manipulation
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Improving the Reliability of Deep Learning Software Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-07)For the last decade, deep learning (DL) has emerged as a new effective machine learning approach that is capable of solving difficult challenges. Due to their increasing effectiveness, DL approaches have been applied widely ... -
Improving the School Health Action, Planning and Evaluation System (SHAPES) School Profile as a Knowledge Exchange Strategy: The Example of the Youth Smoking Survey (YSS) Profile
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-28)Objective: The objective of this study was to understand school administrators’ experience using the Youth Smoking Survey (YSS) school smoking profile to inform and improve future knowledge exchange strategies with schools. ... -
Improving the Understanding of Factors Influencing Cryptosporidium Removals Reported for Granular Media Filtration
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-13)Cryptosporidium is an important waterborne protozoan pathogen which has been implicated in several large gastrointestinal disease outbreaks attributable to inadequate treatment of drinking water. Unfortunately, Cryptosporidium ... -
Improving the VANET Vehicles' Localizatoin Accuracy using GPS Receiver in Multipath Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)The Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) has been studied in many fields since it has the ability to provide a variety of services, such as detecting oncoming collisions and providing warning signals to alert the driver. The ... -
Improving Tor using a TCP-over-DTLS Tunnel
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-24)The Tor network gives anonymity to Internet users by relaying their traffic through the world over a variety of routers. This incurs latency, and this thesis first explores where this latency occurs. Experiments discount ... -
Impulse Control in Finance: Numerical Methods and Viscosity Solutions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-05)The goal of this thesis is to provide efficient and provably convergent numerical methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) coming from impulse control problems motivated by finance. Impulses, which are ... -
Impulsive Control and Synchronization of Chaos-Generating-Systems with Applications to Secure Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2004)When two or more chaotic systems are coupled, they may exhibit synchronized chaotic oscillations. The synchronization of chaos is usually understood as the regime of chaotic oscillations in which the corresponding ... -
Impulsive Control of Dynamical Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-25)Dynamical networks (DNs) consist of a large set of interconnected nodes with each node being a fundamental unit with detailed contents. A great number of natural and man-made networks such as social networks, food networks, ... -
Impulsive observer design for a class of switched nonlinear systems with unknown inputs
(Elsevier, 2019-08)This paper investigates hybrid observer design of a class of unknown input switched nonlinear systems. The distinguishing feature of the proposed method is that the stability of all subsystems of the error switched systems ... -
Imputation, Estimation and Missing Data in Finance
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Suppose <em>X</em> is a diffusion process, possibly multivariate, and suppose that there are various segments of the components of <em>X</em> that are missing. This happens, for example, if <em>X</em> is the price of ... -
in a good way: (Re)grounding Contextual Narratives on Turtle Island
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-21)Canada is a settler-colonial nation built on Indigenous lands. Architecture in this context is not a neutral practice. Together with urban planning, it has played a key role in the genocidal dispossession, displacement, ... -
In Danger? An Exploration of Canadian Truck Drivers’ Health through the Canadian Community Health Survey
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-04)Background: There exists substantive evidence showing that the health status of truck drivers from the United States (US) is much poorer than the general US population. Comparatively there is much less research on Canadian ... -
In Debt to the State: Lived Experiences of Indebtedness in State-led Housing Projects in Istanbul
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-17)Over the last couple of decades, global debt has soared. Withdrawal of state welfare provision, expansion of financial markets, and dependency of people on credit for basic needs have led to increased indebtedness. Household ... -
In Defense of Moral Responsibility Skepticism
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-02)Moral responsibility skeptics have often focused on problems involving determinism in order to defend their position. I argue that this defense of moral responsibility skepticism is misplaced given that what really matters ... -
In Defense of Soil: an Ontario Greenbelt Regeneration Strategy
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-10)Ontario’s prime agricultural soils are in distress. Degraded by decades of intense conventional agricultural practices and threatened by the advancing footprint of suburban development, the once abundant layer of topsoil ... -
In Defense of the Systems Reply
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-29)In John Searle’s Minds, Brains, and Programs, he argues against the possibility of a digital computer capable of understanding. In particular, Searle puts forward the Chinese room thought experiment, which appears to ... -
In Perpetuity: Governance and Capacity Building of Local Land Trusts in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-15)This study examines the extent to which volunteer-run local land trusts in Ontario are governed in a manner that will allow them to protect valued ecosystems effectively in perpetuity. It also identifies needs and opportunities ... -
In Places Rarely Seen
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-25)In Places Rarely Seen is an interdisciplinary exhibition bringing together print installation, video, photography, sound and text. This thesis exhibition considers my own shifting perception of what Nature is and how I ... -
In Protection of No Woman: Consent, Illegitimacy, and Gender-Based Violence in Early Modern Somerset, 1600-1699
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-29)Over the course of the seventeenth century, 1298 women came before the Quarter Sessions to secure financial resources for the upkeep of their unborn children. These interactions with the legal system highlight the ways in ...