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Reanimation: Redefining the Urban Network in St James Town, Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-22)Urban intensification in the city of Toronto during the 1960s draws from the essential idea – “Tower in the Park”, a concept that we now recognize as pervasively problematic. These neighbourhoods are flooded with criticism ... -
Reasonable Assertions: On Norms of Assertion and Why You Don't Need to Know What You're Talking About
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-17)There’s a widespread conviction in the norms of assertion literature that an agent’s asserting something false merits criticism. As Williamson puts it, asserting something false is likened to cheating at the game of ... -
Reasoned connections: Complex creativity and dual-process theories of cognition
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-28)Creativity is one of the most imperative of all psychological constructs to study, for the implications of understanding creativity have immense bearing upon our future as a species. Understanding creativity can reveal not ... -
Reasoning about Benefits and Costs of Interaction with Users in Real-time Decision Making Environments with Application to Healthcare Scenarios
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-11)This thesis examines the problem of having an intelligent agent reasoning about interaction with users in real-time decision making environments. Our work is motivated by the models of Fleming and Cheng, which reason about ... -
Reasoning About Foreign Function Interfaces: Blame and Nondeterministic Formal Semantics
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-31)Foreign function interfaces (FFIs) are commonly used as a way to mix programming languages. In such systems, a program written in a host language calls functions written in a guest language from within the same program. ... -
Reasoning by multiple analogies
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Reassessing foreign language classroom anxiety: Employing poststructuralist theories in a qualitative meta-analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)This thesis will generate new insight into the study of classroom language anxiety and its method of analysis in current SLA discourse. Drawing heavily from Horcoff, Horcoff and Cope’s seminal paper “Foreign Language ... -
The Rebirth of Rape: Tracing Ovidian Rape Motifs with Respect to Bernini's Pluto and Persephone as a Piece of Classical Reception
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-08)Rape, as it is understood in a modern context, is approached with a completely different perspective than that of an ancient, and even a post-Renaissance, audience. With the contributing factors of cultural, historical, ... -
REBUILDING OUR WATERS: An alternative view of Ontario cottage country through models of community engagement and shared environmental stewardship.
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-10)Cottaging is a ‘summer-home’ tradition for many Canadian families and plays an important role in Ontario’s cultural and provincial identity. The North-Hastings – East Haliburton area is a popular cottage destination; however ... -
Recalibrating Detroit: A Plan for Incremental Neighbourhood Densification
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)This thesis analyses factors responsible for Detroit’s past growth and delves into its current transient culture. The phenomena of its urban shrinkage is more than just a demographic shift. It is a harbinger of qualitative ... -
The Receipt of Task-Related Help: Developing and Validating a Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-23)Helping behaviors have been subjected to a substantial amount of research attention. However, organizational researchers have disproportionately focused on the help giver, neglecting the recipient of help. To stimulate ... -
Receive Soft Antenna Selection for Noise-Limited/Interference MIMO Channels
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-07)Although the Multi-Input and Multi-Output (MIMO) communication systems provide very high data rates with low error probabilities, these advantages are obtained at the expense of having high signal processing tasks and ... -
Receiver Channel Recovery in High-Frame-Rate Ultrasound Imaging using Branched Convolutional Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-22)High frame rate ultrasound (HiFRUS) is an imaging paradigm that utilizes unfocused transmissions to perform acquisitions at kilohertz frame rates, and its high temporal resolution enables its use in tracking dynamic ... -
Recent advances in location analysis
(Elsevier, 2015-10-01)Introduction to a special issue of Computers & Operations Research dedicated to recent advances in location analysis. -
Recent advances on first-principles modeling for the design of materials in CO2 capture technologies
(Elsevier, 2018-11-10)Novel technologies in consideration of industrial sustainability (IS) are in urgent need to satisfy the increasing demands from the society. IS realizes the production of materials and while maintaining environmental and ... -
Recent changes in patterns of western Canadian river flow and association with climatic drivers: A CROCWR component
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-10)Climatic variability and change can have profound impacts on the hydrologic regime of a watershed, especially in regions that are particularly sensitive to changes in climate, such as the northern latitudes and alpine-fed ... -
Recent German Memorials to Jewish Victims of World War II
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-15)The following thesis examines four 21st-century German memorials that commemorate the deported and murdered Jewish people of Europe during World War II: Jochen Kitzbihler’s Glaskubus (2003) at Paradeplatz in Mannheim, Janet ... -
Recent progress in carbon dioxide (CO2) as feedstock for sustainable materials development: Co-polymers and polymer blends
(Elsevier, 2018-06-06)Combustion of fossil fuels and many other industrial activities inevitably produces carbon dioxide (CO2) that is released into the atmosphere and is currently deemed to be among the major contributors to global warming. ... -
Recent progress in nanomaterial-enhanced fluorescence polarization/anisotropy sensors
(Elsevier, 2019-09)As a promising signaling transduction approach, fluorescence polarization (FP)/fluorescence anisotropy (FA), provides a powerful quantitative tool for the rotational motion of fluorescently labeled molecules in chemical ... -
Recessed deposition of TiN into N-doped carbon as a cathode host for superior Li-S batteries performance
(Elsevier, 2018-12-01)In this work, we put forward a novel cathode host for Li-S batteries by loading titanium nitride (TiN) nanoparticles into the pores of N-doped carbon as a proof-of-concept. The selection of TiN arises from its strong binding ...