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Learning While Bidding in Real Time Auctions with Multiple Item Types and Unknown Price Distribution
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-14)A Real-Time Bidding (RTB) network is a real-time auction market, primarily used for advertising space sales. Within this environment, clients participate by bidding on preferred items and subsequently purchasing them ... -
Learning with non-Standard Supervision
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-26)Machine learning has enjoyed astounding practical success in a wide range of applications in recent years-practical success that often hurries ahead of our theoretical understanding. The standard framework for ... -
Learning-based Image Scale Estimation for Quantitative Visual Inspection of Civil Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-25)The number of assets of civil infrastructure (e.g., bridges or roads) have been increasing to meet the demands of growing populations around the world. However, they degrade over time due to environmental factors and must ... -
Learning-Free Methods for Goal Conditioned Reinforcement Learning from Images
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-27)We are interested in training goal-conditioned reinforcement learning agents to reach arbitrary goals specified as images. In order to make our agent fully general, we provide the agent with only images of the environment ... -
"The Least Possible Fuss and Publicity": The Politics of Immigration in Postwar Canada, 1945-1963.
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-31)This thesis examines immigration policy in postwar Canada. Its focus is on the changes to immigration policy implemented between 1945 and 1963 by the governments of Mackenzie King, Louis St. Laurent, and John Diefenbaker, ... -
Least Squares Based Adaptive Control and Extremum Seeking with Active Vehicle Safety System Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-15)On-line parameter estimation is one of the two key components of a typical adaptive control scheme, beside the particular control law to be used. Gradient and recursive least squares (RLS) based parameter estimation ... -
A Least-Cost Strategy for Evaluating a Brownfields Redevelopment Project Subject to Indoor Air Exposure Regulations
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)Over the course of the past several decades the benefits of redeveloping brownfields have been widely recognized. Actions have been taken to foster sustainable redevelopment of brownfields by government, policy makers and ... -
Least-Privilege Identity-Based Policies for Lambda Functions in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-21)We address least-privilege in a particular context of public cloud computing: identity-based policies for callback functions, called Lambda functions, in serverless applications of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud ... -
Least-Squares Based Adaptive Source Localization with Biomedical Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-22)In this thesis, we study certain aspects of signal source/target localization by sensory agents and their biomedical applications. We first focus on a generic distance measurement based problem: Estimation of the location ... -
Legacy Forest Harvesting Impacts on Phosphorus Transport Dynamics in Hardwood Dominated Canadian Shield Catchments: Evaluating Changing Source Availability and Source Channel Connectivity
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-08)Forests are critical to the safe provision of drinking water across the globe and provide over 4.1 trillion USD per year in savings to drinking water treatment costs. These supplies are threatened by climate change-exacerbated ... -
The Legacy of 48 Abell: Tales From A Gentrifying Neighbourhood
(University of Waterloo, 2010-03-01)Constructed in 1886 by Mr. John Abell, the former engine and machine works factory at 48 Abell Street is located near Queen and Dufferin Streets in Toronto, Ontario. This 100,000 square foot heavy timber and red brick ... -
Legacy Phosphorus Across Canada: Insights from a 60-Year Dataset
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-15)Human activities over decades of agriculture and urbanization have altered phosphorus (P) cycling, posing a threat to water quality and ecosystem function. Algal blooms have become a pervasive problem in both small and ... -
Legitimacy, legality and secession
(University of Waterloo, 2000) -
Lehmer Numbers with at Least 2 Primitive Divisors
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-24)In 1878, Lucas \cite{lucas} investigated the sequences $(\ell_n)_{n=0}^\infty$ where $$\ell_n=\frac{\alpha^n-\beta^n}{\alpha-\beta},$$ $\alpha \beta$ and $\alpha+\beta$ are coprime integers, and where $\beta/\alpha$ is ... -
Leisure and spiritual well-being, a social scientific exploration
(University of Waterloo, 1999) -
Leisure and stress-coping, reconceptualizations and analyses
(University of Waterloo, 1998) -
Leisure in a time of transition: A qualitative investigation into the leisure involvement of first-year university students
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-26)Every September, tens of thousands of students enter the world of higher education for the first time, and face numerous new challenges without their traditional support systems. The literature indicates that leisure ... -
Leisure Patterns and Constraints Reported by Selected Chinese University Students
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-11)Leisure constraints research has been well established in the past three decades. However, the dominant studies have been conducted in the western settings, and are based on the western cultures and values. Hence, the ... -
A Leisurely Experience (Sometimes): Understanding Sexual Experiences for Couples in a Committed Relationship
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-25)Sexual experiences are an important part of everyday life, yet little research has taken place to understand it’s implication in the leisure realm. As leisure scholars adopt a holistic view of the individual, one’s sexual ... -
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, zur rezeption und wirkung eines dilettanten
(University of Waterloo, 1997)