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Nomadic Passage: Water Conservation and Land Preservation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-24)“Nomadic Passage: Water Conservation and Land Preservation” investigates the dynamic and sustainable qualities of Somali nomadic life, in regards to their livelihood, communal spaces, and traditional practices that are ... -
(Non)-Invertible Topology in Quantum Field Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-05)This thesis aims to highlight aspects of mathematics and physics that arise in topological field theories. We will consider invertible and noninvertible topological theories. In the former case, we compute the classification ... -
Non-Adaptive Matroid Prophet Inequalities
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-04)We consider the problem of matroid prophet inequalities. This problem has been ex- tensively studied in case of adaptive prices, with [KW12] obtaining a tight 2-competitive mechanism for all the matroids. However, the ... -
Non-Body Conformal Grid Methods for Large-Eddy Simulations of Compressible Flows and their Applications in Computational Aeroacoustics
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-17)In the applications of computational aeroacoustics (CAA) involving far-field noise predictions, the most common solution strategy is the \textit{hybrid method} which combines a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver for ... -
Non-commuting n-tuples of operators and dilation theory
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Non-compact groups, tensor operators and applications to quantum gravity
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-23)This work focuses on non-compact groups and their applications to quantum gravity, mainly through the use of tensor operators. Non-compact groups appear naturally if the space-time is of Lorentzian signature, but can also ... -
Non-Constructivity in Security Proofs
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-10)In the field of cryptography, one generally obtains assurances for the security of a cryptographic protocol by giving a reductionist security proof, which is comprised of a reduction from breaking a mathematical problem ... -
Non-destructive Evaluation of Damage in Concrete with Applications in Shallow Foundations
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)The most widely used material for civil infrastructure is reinforced concrete. The concrete deteriorates over time because of several reasons, and therefore, inspection of concrete is necessary to ensure its compliance ... -
Non-Destructive Passive Magnetic and Ultrasonic Inspection Methods for Condition Assessment of Reinforced Concrete
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-15)Sustainability, reliability, and safety of complex industrial infrastructure are crucial worldwide issues. Long-term sustainable life quality, services and economic growth provided by modern life is dependent on the quality ... -
Non-erotic thoughts and sexual functioning in a community sample: Associations with thought content, affect and attentional control
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-28)According to Barlow’s model of sexual dysfunction (1986; Sbrocco & Barlow, 1996), anxiety in sexual situations leads to attentional focus on sexual performance at the expense of erotic cues, which compromises sexual arousal. ... -
Non-Government Organization Leadership in National Healthy Public Policy for Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: A Grounded Theory Study
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-12)Chronic non-communicable diseases are leading causes of avoidable premature disease, disability, and mortality in Canada and abroad. Non-government organizations (NGOs) play a key role in national healthy public policy ... -
The non-injective hidden shift problem
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-19)In this work, we mostly concentrate on the hidden shift problem for non-injective functions. It is worthwhile to know that the query complexity of the non-injective hidden shift problem is exponential in the worst case by ... -
A Non-Intersecting R-Tree
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-12)Indexes for multidimensional data based on the R-Tree are popularly used by databases for a wide range of applications. Such index trees support point and range queries but are costly to construct over datasets of millions ... -
Non-Intrusive Computing
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-17)Pervasive computing is an important trend today. It concerns devices and services in a smart space that interact with users in a simple, natural, and harmonious way. Many problems in this domain have been studied from ... -
Non-Intrusive Program Tracing of Non-Preemptive Multitasking Systems Using Power Consumption
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-19)System tracing, runtime monitoring, execution reconstruction are useful techniques for protecting the safety and integrity of systems. Furthermore, with time-aware or overhead-aware techniques being available, these ... -
Non-Intrusive system behavior tracing using power consumption
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-13)This thesis presents a novel non-intrusive method of creating a map of black-box systems’ behavior to commands by observing the power consumption of the system. We expand our method in the form of a flexible framework which ... -
Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring Using Electromagnetic Sensors
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-16)Monitoring glycemia levels in people with diabetes has developed rapidly over the last decade. A broad range of easy-to-use systems of reliable accuracies are now deployed in the market following the introduction of the ... -
Non-invasive brain stimulation interventions for management of chronic central neuropathic pain: a scoping review protocol
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2017-10-16)Introduction Pain can affect people regardless of age, gender or ethnicity. Chronic central neuropathic pain (CCNP) is a debilitating condition that affects populations such as stroke survivors, amputees, spinal cord injury ... -
Non-invasive brain stimulation of the primary visual cortex of healthy adults and individuals with amblyopia
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-03)Introduction: Amblyopia is a neurological condition that affects the visual cortex and causes visual deficits, typically in one eye. Recovery from amblyopia requires significant visual cortex neuroplasticity to allow for ... -
Non-invasive Glucose Monitoring using Microwave Sensor with Machine Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-14)Diabetes is a chronic condition that occurs when the levels of glucose are high in the blood because the body cannot produce any or enough insulin or use insulin effectively. According to the International Diabetes Federation ...