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Renunciation and the Householder/Renouncer Relation in the New Kadampa Tradition
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)Founded by the Tibetan-British monk Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in 1991, the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU) is a fast-growing and controversial transnational Buddhist network that has ... -
Reoccupying Ruins in the Azores: Shifting Spaces, Materials, and Culture on the Island of Terceira and Graciosa
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-18)Half a century of emigration from the Azores to North America has seen the abandonment and decay of many traditional houses throughout this Portuguese archipelago. Today, as members of the Azorean diaspora seek to return ... -
Repairs and Reappropriations: Examining Cultures of Care, Production, Agency in Bombay/Mumbai Chawls
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-23)This thesis is driven by unravelling the intricate dynamics of ‘marramat’/repair. As the focus broadened, the work began to consider reappropriation and reuse as spatial tactics of agency. The research is anchored within ... -
Repairs of Time References in Psychodiagnostic Talks
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-30)This paper explores interaction in psychotherapy. The main object of research are the situa-tions in which patients show difficulties in formulating time frames or temporally organiz-ing life events. The data was collected ... -
Reparatursequenzen in L2-Prüfungen: Positionierung und Fokus auf Form
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-26)In this thesis, repair and positioning are examined with respect to second language learners. The data employed in this analysis consists of oral examinations taken by students of German. These data comprise 22 tape ... -
Repeatability and Diurnal Variation of Tear Ferning Test
(Wolters Kluwer, 2015-09-01)Objectives: To investigate tear ferning (TF) test repeatability between sessions by observing changes in the tear fern pattern during the day. Methods: Twenty-three healthy young adults (15 men and 8 women), ranging in age ... -
Repetition in Words
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-23)The main topic of this thesis is combinatorics on words. The field of combinatorics on words dates back at least to the beginning of the 20th century when Axel Thue constructed an infinite squarefree sequence over a ternary ... -
Replacing Sound Assumptions: Rediscovered Narratives of Post War Northern British Columbia
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-23)Through a close analysis of a regional public radio archive, this dissertation reveals how residents of northern British Columbia defined their identities, expressed discontent, and revealed their aspirations and expectations ... -
Replication, Security, and Integrity of Outsourced Data in Cloud Computing Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-21)In the current era of digital world, the amount of sensitive data produced by many organizations is outpacing their storage ability. The management of such huge amount of data is quite expensive due to the requirements of ... -
Report on Transformative Agreements
(Waterloo Library Collection Strategy Committee's Transformative Agreements Working Group, 2022)This report was prepared for the University of Waterloo Library's Collection Strategy Committee to describe the current landscape of non-traditional publishing agreements between academic libraries and publishers. In ... -
Representation Learning for Image Search in Histopathology
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-26)Advancements in the field of Machine Learning (ML) have shown significant promise in complementing the endeavors of healthcare professionals. However, the widespread acceptance and trust in clinical applications necessitate ... -
Representation, Characterization, and Mitigation of Noise in Quantum Processors
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-26)Quantum computers have the potential to outperform classical computers on several families of important problems, and have a great potential to revolutionize our understanding of computational models. However, the presence ... -
Representational Queerness Within Marvel’s Loki: Liminality through Identity, Genre, and Medium
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-02)Loki, a prominent Norse god and more recently prominent Marvel character, is entwined with an understanding of liminal queerness. Part of the broader notion of liminal queerness is its relationship to questions of identity ... -
Representational Redundancy Reduction Strategies for Efficient Neural Network Architectures for Visual and Language Tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-14)Deep neural networks have transformed a wide variety of domains including natural language processing, image and video processing, and robotics. However, the computational cost of training and inference with these models ... -
Representations and Parameterizations of Combinatorial Auctions
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-20)Combinatorial auctions (CAs) are an important mechanism for allocating multiple items while allowing agents to specify preferences over bundles of items. In order to communicate these preferences, agents submit bids, which ... -
Representations of even-cycle and even-cut matroids
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)In this thesis, two classes of binary matroids will be discussed: even-cycle and even-cut matroids, together with problems which are related to their graphical representations. Even-cycle and even-cut matroids can be ... -
Representations of Operator Algebras
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-11)The following thesis is divided into two main chapters. In Chapter 2 we study isometric representations of product systems of correspondences over the semigroup 𝐍ᵏ which are minimal dilations of finite dimensional, fully ... -
Representations of polar bears in tourism: Exploring power relations through discourse analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-02)Historical and contemporary relationships between human beings and polar bears are dynamic and complex, and the lives of these two animal species continue to be intimately intertwined in the tourism context. The polar bear ... -
Representations of Violent Women in Popular Culture and World Politics: The Mothers, Monsters, Whores, and Penitents of Young Adult Fantasy
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-21)As young adult fiction has surged in popularity over the past decade, a popular new sub-genre has emerged. These novels feature high-fantasy stories with young female heroines who are fighters, assassins, spies, and rebel ... -
Representing and Probing Errors in Quantum Information Processing Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-24)The quality of quantum information processing devices has been improving at an unprecedented speed. How to faithfully represent the quality of these devices has become an increasingly imminent problem. In this thesis we ...