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Promoting Flood Risk Mitigation Among Canadians Through Effective Risk Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-04)Amid reports of low levels of flood risk awareness and preparedness among Canadians, risk communication emerges as an important tool for encouraging public participation in flood risk management (FRM) and increasing ... -
Promoting Honesty in Electronic Marketplaces: Combining Trust Modeling and Incentive Mechanism Design
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-14)This thesis work is in the area of modeling trust in multi-agent systems, systems of software agents designed to act on behalf of users (buyers and sellers), in applications such as e-commerce. The focus is on developing ... -
Promoting Positive Mental Health in the Canadian Working Population: A Qualitative Review of Not Myself Today
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-01)As concerns about mental health (MH) escalate worldwide, large-scale efforts to decrease the known risks negatively impacting MH are becoming more common. Likewise, the workplace environment is becoming an important setting ... -
Promoting Resiliency in Emergency Communication Networks: A Network Interdiction Stylized Initial Case Study Model of a Miami-Dade County Network
(IGI Global, 2017)Police, fire, and emergency personnel rely on wireless networks to serve the public. Whether it is during a natural disaster, or just an ordinary calendar day, wireless nodes of varying types form the infrastructure that ... -
Promotional (Meta)discourse in Research Articles in Language and Literary Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-21)Abstract It is now widely recognized that promotionalism permeates scholarly discourse. Yet a systematic account of rhetorical and linguistic means, which researchers across disciplines deploy to achieve this effect, is ... -
Prompt-tuning in Controlled Dialogue Generation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-22)Recent years have witnessed a prosperous development of dialogue response generation since the advent of Transformer. Fine-tuning pretrained language models for different downstream tasks has become the dominant paradigm ... -
The Proof is in the Pudding: Building a Local Repository for Online Learning Objects
(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2021)Libraries are increasingly building collections of learning materials in electronic formats. As the availability grows, it becomes necessary to consider the long-term discovery, access, management, and local ownership ... -
Proof of Concept: A Relocatable Panelized Mass Timber Modular Building System Designed for Disassembly and Reassembly
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-28)Canada has been experiencing a housing crisis for several years now with specifically Ontario having the lowest housing supply in the country. To combat this crisis, several rapid housing initiatives and projects have been ... -
Proof of the Kalai-Meshulam conjecture
(Springer Nature, 2020-07-01)Let G be a graph, and let fG be the sum of (−1)∣A∣, over all stable sets A. If G is a cycle with length divisible by three, then fG = ±2. Motivated by topological considerations, G. Kalai and R. Meshulam [8] made the ... -
ProofFrog: A Tool For Verifying Game-Hopping Proofs
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-15)Cryptographic proofs allow researchers to provide theoretical guarantees on the security that their constructions provide. A proof of security can completely eliminate a class of attacks by potential adversaries. Human ... -
Properties of Carbon Nanomaterials Produced by Ultrashort Pulsed Laser Irradiation
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-29)Two synthesis pathways were employed throughout this work to create a variety of unique carbon materials. The first of these routes involves the photo-dissociation of liquids by direct irradiation with ultrashort laser ... -
Properties of difference inclusions with computable reachable set
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-13)Dynamical systems have important applications in science and engineering. For example, if a dynamical system describes the motion of a drone, it is important to know if the drone can reach a desired location; the dual ... -
Properties of graphs with large girth
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-24)This thesis is devoted to the analysis of a class of iterative probabilistic algorithms in regular graphs, called locally greedy algorithms, which will provide bounds for graph functions in regular graphs with ... -
Properties of Hydrogels Incorporating Graphene Oxide-based Nanoparticles for Tissue Engineering Purposes
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-21)Tissue engineering involves designing and fabricating scaffolds for tissue regeneration and replacement. Much research has focused on identifying the key factors that affect scaffold performance and the necessary material ... -
Properties of random graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-23)The thesis describes new results for several problems in random graph theory. The first problem relates to the uniform random graph model in the supercritical phase; i.e. a graph, uniformly distributed, on $n$ vertices and ... -
Properties of Stable Matchings
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-17)Stable matchings were introduced in 1962 by David Gale and Lloyd Shapley to study the college admissions problem. The seminal work of Gale and Shapley has motivated hundreds of research papers and found applications in ... -
Properties of Two-Dimensional Words
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-21)Combinatorics on words in one dimension is a well-studied subfield of theoretical computer science with its origins in the early 20th century. However, the closely-related study of two-dimensional words is not as popular, ... -
Property Law in Roman Egypt in the Light of the Papyri: Safeguarding Women's Economic Interests
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)This study looks at the role of women in the economic environment of Roman Egypt in the light of the papyri. By examining marriage and inheritance documents from the first three centuries, the study shows that marital and ... -
Property size preferences and the value of private and public outdoor spaces amid a shift to high-density residential development: A case study of Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)Planning policies in Ontario, such as the Provincial Policy Statement and the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, enforce urban growth boundaries to preserve natural and agricultural lands while improving ... -
Proportionality and Fairness in Voting and Ranking Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-18)Fairness through proportionality has received significant attention in recent social choice research, leading to the development of advanced tools, methods, and algorithms aimed at ensuring fairness in democratic institutions. ...