Browsing University of Waterloo by Title
Now showing items 10989-11008 of 18822
-
Mise en écriture des facteurs de risque liés au geste suicidaire : étude de trois romans de la littérature française du XXI ͤ siècle
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)La mort volontaire n’est plus associée uniquement à des facteurs psychologiques ou sociaux. En effet, les dernières recherches montrent que de multiples facteurs de risque sont capables d’influencer le développement d’un ... -
Misinformation Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-01)This work introduces the task of misinformation retrieval, identifying all documents containing misinformation for a given topic, and proposes a pipeline for misinformation retrieval on tweets. As part of the work, I curated ... -
Misjudging How to Help: Barriers to Effective Social Support Provision
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)Relying on others for support is a common coping strategy. However, support providers often fail to provide effective support. Past work suggests that support providers may prioritize help aimed at alleviating others’ ... -
A Misleading Tendency
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)Communication is a powerful tool. We use it to share information, express how we feel, coordinate in cooperative endeavors, and so much more. However, we regularly use standard communicative devices like speech and gesture ... -
Missed connections: looking for everything in the archives
(Active History, 2017-06-26)Archivists are commonly asked by researchers to produce everything available about a particular topic. While understandable from a researcher standpoint, fulfilling the request is a challenge. Unlike library holdings, ... -
The Missing Link: Explorations of Wellness when a Family Member Resides in Long-Term Care
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)With the aging of our population and the higher risk of chronic illness and disability with age, more and more family members may be faced with the experience of having a relative transition into a long-term care (LTC) ... -
Missing Persons and Social Exclusion
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-02)People who go missing are often perceived to have done so voluntarily, and yet, many missing persons in Canada are Aboriginal, visible minorities, homeless, and are fleeing from violence, abuse, and neglect. Integrating ... -
A missing piece of the puzzle: Health care providers’ experiences supporting older homeless adults in outreach settings
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-18)BACKGROUND: The older homeless population in Canada is on the rise. Older homeless adults often face multiple health and social challenges, as well as have distinct service needs. While more research is emerging on the ... -
Mit Texttieren jenseits der Grenze des Schweigens sprechen. Sprachkrise, Machtdiskurse und eine Poetologie des Offenen in der deutschsprachigen Nachkriegsliteratur am Beispiel Wolfdietrich Schnurres, Guenter Eichs und Ilse Aichingers
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-21)In this dissertation I analyze how the postwar German writers Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Günter Eich, and Ilse Aichinger negotiate anthropocentric and speciesist discourses via animal figures by drawing on such posthumanist ... -
MIT/PCM-based RF Switches for Tunable Filter Application
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-23)Tunable filters are promising for reducing the size of communication systems by replacing switch filter bank, also they are gaining more attention for satellite applications which will need to change the frequency bands. ... -
Mitbach Megasher: Israel's Immigration, Gastronomy, and Design
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-07)Israel, being the Jewish emigration nation, welcomed over 3.7 million people in the last century. The vast intake of new immigrants from various ethnicities and cultures created ample strains on the Israeli government. ... -
Mitigating Agricultural Impacts from Field to Stream: Optimizing Biochar Field Amendments and Novel Denitrifying Bioreactors for Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-01)Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from agricultural activities are a major contributor to total emissions in Canada and around the world. The application of synthetic and animal-manure fertilizers is common practice ... -
Mitigating bias from intermittent measurement of time-dependent covariates in failure time analysis
(Wiley, 2020-06-15)Cox regression models are routinely fitted to examine the association between time-dependent markers and a failure time when analyzing data from clinical registries. Typically, the marker values are measured periodically ... -
Mitigating Fiber Nonlinearity with Machine Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-20)Nowadays, optical communication transmission is based mainly on optical fiber networks. Increasing demands for higher-capacity systems are hampered by signal distortions due to nonlinear effects of the commercial optic ... -
Mitigating Human-Wildlife Conflict: social and ecological dimensions of snow leopard-livestock conflict in Shey Phoksundo National Park
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-28)Human-wildlife conflict is one of the world’s leading conservation challenges. Carnivores are often found at the forefront of these conflicts with humans, and livestock depredation as a leading cause of conflict between ... -
Mitigating the Uncertainty and Imprecision of Log-Based Code Coverage Without Requiring Additional Logging Statements
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-01)Understanding code coverage is an important precursor to software maintenance activities (e.g., better testing). Although modern code coverage tools provide key insights, they typically rely on code instrumentation, resulting ... -
Mitigation of Climate Change Impacts on Runway Friction Kuujjuaq Airport
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-17)In response to global climate change, Transport Canada has initiated a Climate Change Adaptation Study in order to provide an opportunity to improve knowledge of the impacts of climate change on transportation infrastructure ... -
Mitigation of Cyber-Physical Attacks in Multi-Area Automatic Generation Control
(Elsevier, 2019-11)In recent years, several cyber-attacks have been recorded against sensitive monitoring systems. Among them is the automatic generation control (AGC) system, a fundamental control system used in all power networks. AGC ... -
Mitigation of Memory Effects in High Power Microwave Amplifiers
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-02)This thesis expounds on the application of Doherty Power Amplifiers (DPA) along with baseband Digital PreDistortion (DPD) techniques to tackle the antagonistic demands of high power efficiency and linearity imposed by ... -
Mitigation of Peak Cooling Demand through the Combination of Residential Zoned Cooling and Window Shading: A Building Simulation Case Study
(International Building Performance Simulation Association, 2014-05)The present study expands on previous building simulation work con-cerning the potential benefits of residential zoned cooling systems during peak summer days. Such zoned systems provide an opportunity for peak reduction ...