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The Liftable Mapping Class Group
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-19)Broadly, this thesis lies at the interface of mapping class groups and covering spaces. The foundations of this area were laid down in the early 1970s by Birman and Hilden. Building on these foundations, there has been a ... -
“Lifting As We Climb”: The Emergence of an African-Canadian Civil Society in Southern Ontario (1840-1901)
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-18)This dissertation examines Black civil society organizations that brought the African-Canadian community closer to their rights as citizens of Canada West from 1840-1901. Past scholars have applied the concept of civil ... -
Ligand Specificity and Affinity in the Sulforhodamine B Binding RNA Aptamer
(Elsevier Inc., 2020-07-18)Binding affinity and selectivity are critical properties of aptamers that must be optimized for any application. The sulforhodamine B binding RNA aptamer (SRB‐2) is a somewhat promiscuous aptamer that can bind ligands ... -
LIGAND TRANSFER REACTIONS OF HYPERVALENT IODINE REAGENTS WITH PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)Many hypervalent iodine compounds are used as versatile reagents in synthetic organic chemistry. Hypervalent iodine reagents are capable of oxidizing trivalent phosphorus compounds into pentavalent, by transferring their ... -
Light Delivery In Turbid Media
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-17)Light delivery and sample handling systems are essential for any high performance imaging application. The custom design for two such devices with medical imaging applications are presented. The first device, a galvanometer-stage ... -
Light Rail Transit in the Region of Waterloo: A qualitative examination of urban rail’s effects on real estate, development and urban identities
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)Transit oriented development has become a staple of contemporary planning practice that is applied in cities throughout the world to help guide the development of sustainable, economic, and social outcomes in urban regions. ... -
Light, Dark, and all That’s in Between: Revisiting the Role of Light in Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-23)Natural light, aside from its functional roles, has little significance in many contemporary spaces. The decline of its earlier shared cultural values and lack of any other to replace these translates into an impoverishment ... -
Light-Activated Metal-Coordinated Supramolecular Complexes with Charge-Directed Self-Assembly
(American Chemical Society, 2013-02-21)Metal-coordinated materials are attractive for many applications including catalysis, sensing, and controlled release. Adenine and its derivatives have been widely used to generate many coordination complexes, polymers, ... -
Light-Fueled Liquid Crystal Networks for Aquatic Soft Robotics
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-21)The field of soft robotics has developed in response to the need for mechanisms that can operate safely in interaction with humans. Within the field of soft robotics, there is a growing demand for the development of ... -
Light-Matter Interaction Models in Relativistic Quantum Information
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-21)In this thesis, we study the interaction of a first-quantized atomic system with the quantum electromagnetic field within the context of relativistic quantum information (RQI). To that end, we examine common classes of ... -
Light-weight verification of cryptographic API usage
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-15)A pluggable type system is a light-weight approach for compile-time program verification, which provides more powerful types to both developers and compilers. Developers use pluggable types to boost program understanding, ... -
The Lighthouse Keeper
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-25)Lighthouses are the heart and soul of hundreds of communities across Atlantic Canada; they were integral to the survival and growth of their people while acting as a safety net around the coasts. These communities no longer ... -
LightPlay: An Ambient Light System for Video Game Indicators and Notifications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-11)Video games often have indicators and notifications to convey in-game information. However, displaying these visuals on-screen come with trade-offs, such as consuming screen real estate and an inability for them to be ... -
Lightweight Cellular Concrete as Flexible Pavement Subbase Material: Field Performance and Sustainability Study
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-01)Enhancing the long-term performance of road infrastructure is an important goal for engineers in Canada, especially with changing climatic conditions. This has brought about varying approaches in design and construction ... -
Lightweight Cellular Concrete: Applicability of Pavement Subbase Layer Materials
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-06)Canada is the second-largest country in the world and has over 1.04 million km of roads. Residents and industries rely on the road network as it contributes significantly to quality of life. Pavement structures built over ... -
Lightweight Games User Research for Indies and Non-Profit Organizations
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-05-07)The Games User Research (GUR) community has thrived at CHI with four workshops and a course since CHI 2012; all of these were well attended. In line with the #chi4good spirit this year, the GUR field must advance towards ... -
A Lightweight Processor Core for Application Specific Acceleration
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Advances in configurable logic technology have permitted the development of low-cost, high-speed configurable devices, allowing one or more soft processor cores to be introduced into a configurable computing system. ... -
A Lightweight Type System with Uniqueness and Typestates for the Java Cryptography API
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-17)Java cryptographic APIs facilitate building secure applications, but not all developers have strong cryptographic knowledge to use these APIs correctly. Several studies have shown that misuses of those cryptographic APIs ... -
Lignin derived nano-biocarbon: its deposition on polyurethane foam for wastewater dye adsorption and as a filler for composite applications
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-31)The use of natural biopolymers has seen a resurgence, due to their performance in natural organisms and biodegradable properties from an environmental perspective. As countries around the world continue to implement green ... -
Like Parent, Like Millennial: Inherited and Switched (Non)Religion Among Young Adults in the U.S. and Canada
(Brill, 2020-05-27)Using novel quantitative data from the Millennial Trends Survey administered online in March 2019 with over 2,500 respondents between the ages of 18 and 35 in both Canada and the U.S., we examine in detail inherited ...