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“The world has always been like a comic book world to me”: Examining representations of queer stories in comics and other media
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-13)Engagement with media has become the most popular form of leisure in our lives with approximately 40% of leisure time being dedicated to television viewing alone (Mullen, 2020). The consumption of books, graphic novels/comics, ... -
World hunger and the global economy: strong linkages, weak action
(School of International and Public Affairs: Columbia University, 2014-03)This paper probes some of the global economic forces that have contributed to the ongoing precarious global food security situation, especially in the years since the 2007 to 2008 food crisis. Since the crisis hit at a ... -
The World of My Childhood Home
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-19)My childhood home ceased to exist and remained in the past. This thesis is a return to my childhood home through my memories. I return to it in remembering my child-self, who sought the heights from the roof and high ... -
WorldCat Local in a Health Sciences Environment: One Library's Experience
(2010-06-07)In 2009, Memorial University Libraries embarked on a pilot project with WorldCat Local (WCL), an available discovery layer. As of May 2010, WCL remains in internal testing and will likely be released it in beta form in ... -
Worldwide retention of nutrient silicon by river damming: From sparse data set to global estimate
(American Geophysical Union, 2014-08-13)Damming of rivers represents a major anthropogenic perturbation of the hydrological cycle, with the potential to profoundly modify the availability of nutrient silicon (Si) in streams, lakes, and coastal areas. A global ... -
Worldwide Venture Capital and Patent Creation
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-26)Companies need to be more innovative to exist and sustain profitability in today’s competitive business environment. They try to increase innovation by increasing their internal knowledge through internal and external ... -
Wormlike Chain Polymers Under External Fields with Applications to Nanotechnology
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-12)Polymers are long molecular chains formed from smaller molecular units called monomers. Polymers display interesting macroscopic properties, are ubiquitous in everyday materials, and are also important biomolecules among ... -
Worse than a physician, Shakespeare and early modern medical practice
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Worship in the suburbs: the development experience of recent immigrant religious communities
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Immigration is transforming large Canadian urban regions. Rapidly increasing religious diversity is one dimension of the dramatic, multicultural shift accompanying this sea-change. Over the past decade, many important ... -
Worst Case Analysis of DRAM Latency in Hard Real Time Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-17)As multi-core systems are becoming more popular in real time embedded systems, strict timing requirements for accessing shared resources must be met. In particular, a detailed latency analysis for Double Data Rate Dynamic ... -
Worst Case Latency Analysis for Hoplite FPGA-based NoC
(2017-10-30)Overlay NoCs, such as Hoplite, are cheap to implement on an FPGA but provide no bounds on worst-case routing latency of packets traversing the NoC due to deflection routing. In this paper, we show how to adapt Hoplite to ... -
Worst-Case Latency Analysis for the Versal Network-on-Chip
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-18)The recent line of Versal FPGA devices from Xilinx Inc. includes a hard Network-On-Chip (NoC) embedded in the programmable logic, designed to be a high-performance system-level interconnect. While the target markets for ... -
Worst-Case to Average-Case Reductions for the SIS Problem: Tightness and Security
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-30)We present a framework for evaluating the concrete security assurances of cryptographic constructions given by the worst-case SIVP_γ to average-case SIS_{n,m,q,β} reductions. As part of this analysis, we present the tightness ... -
Worth the Effort? The Effects of Task-Centrality, Annoyance, and Arrogance on Manager Effort Allocation During Feedback-Seeking Episodes
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-12)Employees seek feedback from managers to reduce work-related ambiguity. However, managers typically have other competing demands on their time, and as such, may not allocate sufficient effort to providing feedback. To this ... -
Wrist and Finger Gesture Recognition with Single-element A-mode Ultrasound signal: A Comparison with Single-channel Surface Electromyogram
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018-10-01)With the ability to detect volumetric changes of contracting muscles, ultrasound (US) was a potential technique in the field of human-machine interface (HMI). Compared to the US imaging (B-mode US), the signal from a static ... -
The Write Choice
(University of Waterloo, 2009)This paper compares and contrasts movies, television, and video games from the perspective of the writer. This is done in order to determine which is the superior story telling medium. It is accomplished by examining how ... -
"The Writer Within Did it!" Metafiction and Ulf Miehe's Ich hab noch einen Toten in Berlin
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-05)As one of the first scholarly studies of Ulf Miehe’s Ich hab noch einen Toten in Berlin, this thesis undertakes a close reading of the novel, thereby providing a basis for further research. According to Linda Hutcheon's ... -
Writing identity - Negotiating Gender in Leopold von Sacher Masoch's "Venus im Pelz" and Robert Musil's "Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß"
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-29)The age of the Industrial Revolution has led to a variety of changes in human society. One of these changes was a shift in gender-roles for men and women. The social role and the behavior of people became a consequence of ... -
Writing the Historian's Macroscope in Public
(American Historical Association, 2014-10)Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope - A short book summary by the authors exploring their own rationale, and the historical context for the book's themes, including descriptions of the collaborative ... -
Writing the Self: An Examination of Self-narration and Identity Construction in Alina Bronsky’s Scherbenpark and Julya Rabinowich’s Spaltkopf
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-19)Through a close reading of Alina Bronsky’s Scherbenpark (2008) and Julya Rabinowich’s Spaltkopf (2008), this thesis examines the process of identity building as it is articulated and produced in self-narration. The goal ...