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La represéntation des femmes espagnoles dans la Relation du voyage d'Espagne (1691) de Madame d'Aulnoy
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-01)Cette analyse a pour objet d'étude la Relation du voyage d'Espagne (1691) de Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Bameville, comtesse d'Aulnoy. L'objectif de ce travail consiste à définir la represéntation faite par Madame d'Aulnoy ... -
Représentation du sujet féminin dans les romans francophones de l’Île Maurice et l’archipel des Comores de 1990 à 2020 : entre soumission et désir d’agentivité
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-29)La présente étude a pour objectif de faire connaître les auteurs moins connus de la région indianocéanique. De plus, il s’agit de démontrer que les écrivains contemporains de la région insulaire indianocéanique ont recours ... -
Reproducing youthified landscape character: An evaluation of diversity of built-forms in young adult neighbourhoods
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-28)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the built-form of young adult neighbourhoods across North America to assess the similarities and differences that exist across these landscapes. The thesis seeks to answer the ... -
The Reproductive Effects of Municipal Wastewater Effluents
(University of Guelph, 2017-03-01)There is a growing concern that pharmaceuticals and other chemicals present in the effluents (sewage discharged into a river) from municipal wastewater treatment plants enter the aquatic environment, where they may affect ... -
rePublic: Examining & reestablishing the public role of the city hall
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-29)City halls have long been regarded as the social, organizational, perceptual and physical centers of cities. A successful city can be recognized by the success of its city hall. As a city develops, so must its city hall. Over ... -
Reputation-based Trust Management in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-12)Trust is required in file sharing peer-to-peer (P2P) systems to achieve better cooperation among peers and reduce malicious uploads. In reputation-based P2P systems, reputation is used to build trust among peers based on ... -
Requirement-based Root Cause Analysis Using Log Data
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-14)Root Cause Analysis for software systems is a challenging diagnostic task due to complexity emanating from the interactions between system components. Furthermore, the sheer size of the logged data makes it often difficult ... -
Requirements and Barriers to Strengthening Sustainability Reporting Among Mining Corporations
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-28)Mining depletes, processes, and relocates mineral resources while profoundly changing landscapes and socio-economic patterns of affected regions and communities. For millennia these impacts have been “accepted” by society ... -
Requirements Engineering and Management Effects on Downstream Developer Performance in a Small Business Findings from a Case Study in a CMMI/CMM Context
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-17)Abstract— This thesis is a case study explaining how I tried to improve the requirements engineering process at company X (not its real name), a small software development company in Waterloo, ON, Canada. I assessed X’s ... -
A Requirements-Based Partition Testing Framework Using Particle Swarm Optimization Technique
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-23)Modern society is increasingly dependent on the quality of software systems. Software failure can cause severe consequences, including loss of human life. There are various ways of fault prevention and detection that can ... -
Rescuing Historical Climate Observations to Support Hydrological Research: A Case Study of Solar Radiation Data
(ACM, 2021-08-16)The acceleration of climate change and its impact highlight the need for long-term reliable climate data at high spatiotemporal resolution to answer key science questions in cold regions hydrology. Prior to the digital ... -
Research and Development of Long Life Lead Carbon Battery for Energy Storage
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-19)This thesis is a summarization of a lead acid battery research and development work. The first four sections present briefly the lead acid battery (LAB) history, battery structure, fundamental theory, application in ... -
Research Data Management (RDM) Needs of Science and Engineering Researchers: A View from Canada
(2016-06-02)Understanding researcher behaviour and workflow is instrumental to developing reflective service. With changes in funding requirements around sharing, preservation and the submission of a data management plan potentially ... -
Research on the energy control of a dual-motor hybrid vehicle during engine start-stop process
(Elsevier, 2019-01-01)In this paper, motor torque control methods are proposed to suppress the vibration of a dual-motor hybrid powertrain during start-stop operation. Firstly, a co-simulation ADAMS and MATLAB/SIMULINK model is built to study ... -
Research Practices of Civil and Environmental Engineering Scholars at the University of Waterloo
(Ithaka S+R, 2018-09-13)This report is an investigation of research practices of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) scholars at the University of Waterloo. The study was conducted by the Library, and was part of a larger suite of parallel ... -
Research Update: Doping ZnO and TiO2 for solar cells
(AIP Publishing, 2013-12-01)ZnO and TiO2 are two of the most commonly used n-type metal oxide semiconductors in new generation solar cells due to their abundance, low-cost, and stability. ZnO and TiO2 can be used as active layers, photoanodes, buffer ... -
Researching Global Environmental Politics in the 21st Century
(MIT Press, 2016-02-01)This forum article highlights three major research trends we have observed in the journal Global Environmental Politics since 2000. First, research has increasingly focused on specific and formal mechanisms of global ... -
Researching Human-AI Collaboration through the Design of Language-Based Query Assistance
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-03)Interactions with artificial intelligence (AI) are uniquely difficult to design because of the complexity of its output and the uncertainty of its capabilities for designers. Additionally, AI can be error-prone and needs ... -
Researching the Researcher: A Social Network Analysis of the Multidisciplinary Knowledge Creation Process
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This research describes the relationship between several social network characteristics and knowledge creation outputs in the form of patented intellectual property of researchers by investigating the case of the University ... -
ReserveTM: Optimizing for Eager Software Transactional Memory
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-26)Software Transactional Memory (STM) helps programmers write correct concurrent code by allowing them to identify atomic sections rather than focusing on the mechanics of concurrency control. Given code with atomic sections, ...