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Not All Pull Request Rejections Are The Same
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-06)In the Open Source Software (OSS) development landscape, evaluating pull requests extends beyond code quality assessment. Recent research has revealed the significant influence of social dynamics and perceptions on pull ... -
Not all syllogisms are created equal: Varying premise believability reveals differences between conditional and categorical syllogisms
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-10)Deductive reasoning is a fundamental cognitive skill, and consequently has been the focus of much research over the past several decades. In the realm of syllogistic reasoning—judging the validity of a conclusion given two ... -
Not Just Along for the Ride: Work, Justice, and Municipal Regulation of Ridehailing Platforms
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-11)Digital platforms are a package of information and communications technologies that bring together buyers and sellers onto proprietary markets. These platforms have come to dominate services like for-hire vehicles that are ... -
Not so fast: Individual differences in impulsiveness are only a modest predictor of cognitive reflection
(Elsevier, 2020-02-01)The extent to which a person engages in reflective thinking while problem-solving is often measured using the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT; Frederick, 2005). Some past research has attributed poorer performance on the ... -
Notch tip stress strain analysis in bodies subjected to non-proportional cyclic loads
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A note on character sums in finite fields
(Elsevier, 2017-07)We prove a character sum estimate in Fq[t] and answer a question of Shparlinski. -
A note on intersecting hypergraphs with large cover number
(The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2017-08-11)We give a construction of r-partite r-uniform intersecting hypergraphs with cover number at least r−4 for all but finitely many r. This answers a question of Abu-Khazneh, Barát, Pokrovskiy and Szabó, and shows that a ... -
A note on simplicial cliques
(Elsevier, 2021-09)Motivated by an application in condensed matter physics and quantum information theory, we prove that every non-null even-hole-free claw-free graph has a simplicial clique, that is, a clique K such that for every vertex v ... -
A note on the structure of matrix *-subalgebras with scalar diagonals
(EleMath, 2021)We characterize those unital, self-adjoint algebras of complex n x n matrices that are simultaneously unitarily similar to algebras in which every member has a scalar diagonal. -
Notions of Complexity Within Computable Structure Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)This thesis covers multiple areas within computable structure theory, analyzing the complexities of certain aspects of computable structures with respect to different notions of definability. In chapter 2 we use a new ... -
Notions of Dependence with Applications in Insurance and Finance
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-02)Many insurance and finance activities involve multiple risks. Dependence structures between different risks play an important role in both theoretical models and practical applications. However, stochastic and actuarial ... -
A Novel 8x8 CMOS Sensor Array for Thermal Compression Bonding with in-situ XYZ Force and Temperature Measurement
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-09)Flip chip is an electronic packaging technology that is becoming more popular in first level electronic packaging as the need for high density electrical interconnects becomes more relevant. The parallel nature of flip ... -
A novel and practical approach to distribution system performance enhancement using a fuzzy capacitor allocation method
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Novel Applications of the Waterloo Membrane Sampler (WMS) in Volatile Organic Compound Sampling from Different Environmental Matrices
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-28)The Waterloo Membrane Sampler (WMS) is a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-based permeation passive sampler developed at the University of Waterloo. This sampler has found numerous applications in the sampling of volatile organic ... -
A Novel Approach for Performance Assessment of Human-Robotic Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2012-03-21)Robots have always been touted as powerful tools that could be used effectively in a number of applications ranging from automation to human-robot interaction. In order for such systems to operate adequately and safely in ... -
A novel approach to restoration of Poissonian images
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-18)The problem of reconstruction of digital images from their degraded measurements is regarded as a problem of central importance in various fields of engineering and imaging sciences. In such cases, the degradation is ... -
Novel Approaches and Architecture for Survivable Optical Internet
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-22)Any unexpected disruption to WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) based optical networks which carry data traffic at tera-bit per second may result in a huge loss to its end-users and the carrier itself. Thus survivability ... -
Novel Approaches to Gravity Scattering Amplitudes
(University of Waterloo, 2014-03-14)Quantum Field Theory (QFT) provides the essential background for formulating the standard model of elementary particles and, moreover, practically all other theories attempting to explore the physical laws of nature at the ... -
A novel Automatic Optic Disc and Cup Image Segmentation System for Diagnosing Glaucoma using RIGA dataset
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-07)The optic nerve head (ONH) of the retina is a very important landmark of the fundus and is altered in optic nerve pathology especially glaucoma. Numerous imaging systems are available to capture the retinal fundus and from ... -
A Novel Back-Off Algorithm for the Integration Between Dynamic Optimization and Scheduling of Batch Processes Under Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-04)This thesis presents a decomposition algorithm for obtaining robust scheduling and control decisions. It iteratively solves scheduling and dynamic optimization problems while approximating stochastic uncertainty through ...