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Radiometric Compensation of Nonlinear Projector Camera Systems by Modeling Human Visual Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-21)Radiometric compensation is the process of adjusting the luminance and colour output of images on a display to compensate for non-uniformity of the display. In the case of projector-camera systems, this non-uniformity can ... -
Radiotherapy Cancer Treatment: Investigating Real-Time Position and Dose Control, the Sensor-Delayed Plant Output Estimation Problem, and the Nonovershooting Step Response Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2006-12-18)For over a century, physicians have prescribed x-ray radiation to destroy or impede the growth of cancerous tumours. Modern radiation therapy machines shape the radiation beam to balance the competing goals of maximizing ... -
Radiotherapy Patient Scheduling During Pandemics
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)With the Covid-19 outbreak happening worldwide, clinically vulnerable people should be of concern, as they are more likely to be exposed to the virus. Cancer patients with weak immune systems are a group of aforementioned ... -
Radon Projections as Image Descriptors for Content-Based Retrieval of Medical Images
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-23)Clinical analysis and medical diagnosis of diverse diseases adopt medical imaging techniques to empower specialists to perform their tasks by visualizing internal body organs and tissues for classifying and treating diseases ... -
The Raging Grannies: Understanding the Role of Activism in the Lives of Older Women
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Guided by feminist gerontology, this qualitative study explored the role of activism in the lives of older women. More specifically, it examined the involvement of older women in one particular group of activists, the ... -
Rain on My Parade: Perceiving Low Self-Esteem in Close Others Hinders Positive Self-Disclosure
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-20)Ample evidence suggests that the behaviour of people with low self-esteem (LSEs) can lead to problems in close relationships (Wood, Hogle, & McClellan, 2009). To my knowledge, however, no research has investigated the role ... -
Raising Healthy Females: Parental perceptions of roles and responsibilities
(University of Waterloo, 2007-11-22)Within North America, more children are being classified as overweight and obese than ever before. Despite this alarming finding, limited research has been conducted on parents’ views of their children’s health in addition ... -
Raising Islands
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)In an era of dawning anthropogenic climate change, people of atoll nations face grievous threats to their future. Rising sea levels, warming oceans, and changing weather patterns conspire with economic isolation, rapidly ... -
Ralph Barnes Grindrod's <em>Slaves of the Needle</em>: An Electronic Scholarly Edition
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis involves both editorial practice and literary analysis. In order to establish an editorial framework for the electronic scholarly edition of Dr. Ralph Barnes Grindrod's pamphlet <em>Slaves of the Needle</em>, ... -
Raman Characterization and Applications of Vertical Semiconductor Nanowires
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-17)Vertically oriented nanowires are gaining a considerable amount of attention for a wide variety of applications ranging from lasers to solar cells. Raman spectroscopy has also been developed into a powerful tool which has ... -
Rammed Earth: Adaptations to Urban Toronto.
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-12)Rammed earth is an ancient and imperishable material-process. Traditionally associated with rural construction and underdeveloped settings, the material has begun to enter the modern vernacular. While its use is not yet ... -
RAMP: RDMA Migration Platform
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-16)Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) can be used to implement a shared storage abstraction or a shared-nothing abstraction for distributed applications. We argue that the shared storage abstraction is overkill for loosely ... -
A Random Forest Based Method for Urban Land Cover Classification using LiDAR Data and Aerial Imagery
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-23)Urban land cover classification has always been crucial due to its ability to link many elements of human and physical environments. Timely, accurate, and detailed knowledge of the urban land cover information derived from ... -
A Random Forest in the Great Lakes: Exploring Nutrient Water Quality in the Laurentian Great Lakes Watersheds
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-22)A data driven approach was used in this study to investigate the drivers of nutrient water quality across the Laurentian Great Lakes drainage basin. Monitored time series of nutrient water quality and discharge were modelled ... -
Random State Production for Quantum Key Distribution using Weak Coherent Pulse Source
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-27)This thesis addresses two challenges involved in the culmination of the Quantum En- crYption and Science Satellite mission. This mission aims to demonstrate quantum key distribution (QKD) in space. The first part of the ... -
Randomization and Restart Strategies
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The runtime for solving constraint satisfaction problems (CSP) and propositional satisfiability problems (SAT) using systematic backtracking search has been shown to exhibit great variability. Randomization and restarts ... -
Randomized Lempel-Ziv Compression for Anti-Compression Side-Channel Attacks
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-31)Security experts confront new attacks on TLS/SSL every year. Ever since the compression side-channel attacks CRIME and BREACH were presented during security conferences in 2012 and 2013, online users connecting to HTTP ... -
Randomized quasi-Monte Carlo methods with applications to quantitative risk management
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-03)We use randomized quasi-Monte Carlo (RQMC) techniques to construct computational tools for working with normal mixture models, which include automatic integration routines for density and distribution function evaluation, ... -
Randomized Resource Allocaion in Decentralized Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-24)Ad hoc networks and bluetooth systems operating over the unlicensed ISM band are in-stances of decentralized wireless networks. By definition, a decentralized network is com-posed of separate transmitter-receiver pairs ... -
Randomly-connected Non-Local Conditional Random Fields
(University of Waterloo, 2017-02-21)Structural data modeling is an important field of research. Structural data are the combination of latent variables being related to each other. The incorporation of these relations in modeling and taking advantage of those ...