• Small Holds Sway: How Small Businesses Mobilize Knowledge to Support Action in Learning Processes for Sustainability Transformations 

  Luederitz, Christopher (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-13)

  Transformations of the industrialized food sector toward more sustainable food production, manufacturing, and consumption take place through individual and collective learning processes. Achieving transformational change ...

• The Influence of Charge Transport Layer Interfaces on the Performance of Electroluminescent Colloidal Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Devices 

  Davidson-Hall, Tyler (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-13)

  Electroluminescent quantum dot light-emitting devices (QDLEDs) are a relatively new technology for displays that have all of the benefits of emissive displays commonly associated with organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) ...

• Rational Structure Design of Transition Metal Chalcogenide Multifunctional Sulfur Immobilizer for Fast and Durable Li-S Performance 

  Luo, Dan (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-12)

  Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries are one of the most promising candidates for next-generation energy storage owing to their high energy density, environmental benignity and cost effectiveness. However, the practical application ...

• The ignored consequences of obesity and nutrition policies: How a focus on weight influences psychosocial wellbeing 

  Raffoul, Amanda (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-12)

  Background: Eating- and weight-related disorders, including eating disorders, disordered eating, and overweight and obesity, share many risk factors across all levels of the socioecological model. However, public health ...

• Emotional Reactivity, Negative Affect, and Executive Functioning: Does Physiology Matter? 

  Abraham, Eleenor (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-12)

  Emotional reactivity reflects the activation, intensity, and duration of an emotional event. Although it is well-established that emotional reactivity has negative implications on psychological functioning, studies have ...

• The Roles of Daily and Trait Self-Compassion in Mitigating Symptoms of Bulimia Nervosa: Findings From a Two-Week Daily Diary Study 

  Katan, Aleece (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-12)

  Background: For individuals with bulimia nervosa (BN), eating pathology is largely affected by daily experiences (Crosby et al., 2009). Yet, little is known about protective factors that can mitigate bulimic symptoms ...

• Data Augmentation For Text Classification Tasks 

  Tamming, Daniel (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-12)

  Thanks to increases in computing power and the growing availability of large datasets, neural networks have achieved state of the art results in many natural language process- ing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) tasks. ...

• LightPlay: An Ambient Light System for Video Game Indicators and Notifications 

  Fung, Kin Pong (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-11)

  Video games often have indicators and notifications to convey in-game information. However, displaying these visuals on-screen come with trade-offs, such as consuming screen real estate and an inability for them to be ...

• Topics in early and late Universe cosmology 

  Sarma Boruah, Supranta (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-11)

  In this thesis, we explore different problems in various areas of cosmology. The inflationary paradigm has been very successful in explaining cosmological observations. However, some problems still linger on. In the ...

• Refining Flow: The Re-conceptualization And Measurement Of Flow As Deep Effortless Concentration 

  Marty-Dugas, Jeremy (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-11)

  The work reported in this dissertation includes a series of studies that have the broad goal of understanding and encapsulating the experience of flow. In this chapter (Chapter 1), I have laid out the theoretical and ...

• If All Else Fails ... Survival: Protect and Survive and the End of the World in Thatcherite Britain 

  Buscemi, Joseph (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-10)

  If All Else Fails… Survival, is a thorough examination of the creation of Britain’s 1980s nuclear civil defence program, Protect and Survive. The programme’s role as a significant political and cultural influence in Britain ...

• Weaving a Faster Tor: A Multi-Threaded Relay Architecture for Improved Throughput 

  Engler, Steven (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-10)

  The Tor anonymity network has millions of daily users and thousands of volunteer-run relays, but growing it further has several research and deployment challenges. One such challenge is supporting the increase in bandwidth ...

• Variational Inference for Text Generation: Improving the Posterior 

  Balasubramanian, Vikash (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-10)

  Learning useful representations of data is a crucial task in machine learning with wide ranging applications. In this thesis we explore improving representations of models based on variational inference by improving the ...

• The Fox Building the Henhouse: Corporate influence on global health governance and the risks to the World Health Organization 

  Wagner-Rizvi, Tracey (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-10)

  Like global governance more generally, global health governance and the global health architecture are changing and, in the process, creating new kinds of openings for non-state actors (NSAs) such as non-governmental ...

• "Ill Schooled in Bolted Language": Shakespeare's Tragic Flaw 

  Mehrabian, Houman (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-10)

  Textbooks of rhetoric emphasize the significance of taking into account the values and interests of the particular audience when designing and delivering a speech. And the breach of this requirement is grouped among the ...

• PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF CONSUMER GRADE WEARABLE DEVICES IN HEALTH CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS 

  Kim, Ben (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-07)

  Background: The proliferation of wearable and mobile devices in recent years has led to the generation of unprecedented amounts of health-related data. Together with the growing population of older adults in Canada, the ...

• Walking Onions: Scaling Distribution of Information Safely in Anonymity Networks 

  Komlo, Chelsea (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-07)

  Scaling anonymity networks offers unique security challenges, as attackers can exploit differing views of the network’s topology to perform epistemic and route capture attacks. Anonymity networks in practice, such as ...

• Join Cardinality Estimation Graphs: Analyzing Pessimistic and Optimistic Estimators Through a Common Lens 

  Chen, Jeremy Yujui (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-07)

  Join cardinality estimation is a fundamental problem that is solved in the query optimizers of database management systems when generating efficient query plans. This problem arises both in systems that manage relational ...

• Methane Dynamics in a Southern Ontario Calcareous Fen 

  Kangro, Ryan James (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-07)

  Peatlands are important ecosystems that are pivotal for the global carbon budget. They have the ability to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it within peat, which has very slow decomposition rates. Peatlands ...

• Semi-Automated Methods for Measuring Practice Conformance for Capital Projects 

  Kang, Seokyoung (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-06)

  The goal of this thesis is to explore semi-automated methods for measuring practice conformance for capital projects. Thorough measurement of practice conformance for capital projects typically requires manual audits. ...

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