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Self-regulatory Processes: Relationships between executive function, emotion regulation, the experience of emotions and psychological distress
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-22)Although executive function (EF) and emotion regulation (ER) are both self-regulatory abilities which share common neural substrates and have been linked to common mental health outcomes, few research studies have looked ... -
Self-Scheduling Operations of a Compressed Air Energy Storage Facility Under Uncertainties
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-25)High penetration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) such as solar and wind in power systems reduce carbon emissions and decentralize the energy generation. However, the intermittency of these sources introduces new challenges, ... -
Self-Similarity of Images and Non-local Image Processing
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-28)This thesis has two related goals: the first involves the concept of self-similarity of images. Image self-similarity is important because it forms the basis for many imaging techniques such as non-local means denoising ... -
A Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning Approach for Whole Slide Image Representation in Digital Pathology
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-16)Digital pathology has recently expanded the field of medical image processing for di- agnostic reasons. Whole slide images (WSIs) of histopathology are often accompanied by information on the location and type of diseases ... -
Self-supervised Video Representation Learning by Exploiting Video Speed Changes
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)In recent research, the self-supervised video representation learning methods have achieved improvement by exploring video’s temporal properties, such as playing speeds and temporal order. These works inspire us to exploit ... -
Self/Co-Assembling Peptide-based Nanocarriers for Anticancer Drug Delivery
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-24)Current diagnostic and therapeutic nanocarriers, including liposomes, micelles, and polymeric- and protein-based nanoparticles, are designed to have key functional properties such as: (i) longevity in the bloodstream, ... -
Semantic Analysis of Wikipedia's Linked Data Graph for Entity Detection and Topic Identification Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-17)Semantic Web and Linked Data community is now the reality of the future of the Web. The standards and technologies defined in this field have opened a strong pathway towards a new era of knowledge management and representation ... -
Semantic Assisted, Multiresolution Image Retrieval in 3D Brain MR Volumes
(University of Waterloo, 2010-11-03)Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is an important research area in the field of multimedia information retrieval. The application of CBIR in the medical domain has been attempted before, however the use of CBIR in medical ... -
Semantic code search using Code2Vec: A bag-of-paths model
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-14)The world is moving towards an age centered around digital artifacts created by individuals, not only are the digital artifacts being created at an alarming rate, also the software to manage such artifacts is increasing ... -
Semantic Distance in WordNet: A Simplified and Improved Measure of Semantic Relatedness
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Measures of semantic distance have received a great deal of attention recently in the field of computational lexical semantics. Although techniques for approximating the semantic distance of two concepts have existed ... -
A Semantic Distance of Natural Language Queries Based on Question-Answer Pairs
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)Many Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques have been applied in the field of Question Answering (QA) for understanding natural language queries. Practical QA systems classify a natural language query into vertical ... -
A Semantic Graph Model for Text Representation and Matching in Document Mining
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The explosive growth in the number of documents produced daily necessitates the development of effective alternatives to explore, analyze, and discover knowledge from documents. Document mining research work has emerged ... -
Semantic Modelling of an Indoor Parking Garage Using Hand-held GeoSLAM LiDAR Point Clouds
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-26)The development of high-definition (HD) digital twin models for underground parking lots presents significant challenges due to the absence of signals from satellite navigation systems, fluctuating lighting conditions, and ... -
Semantic Order Compatibilities and Their Discovery
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-20)Ordered domains such as numbers and dates are common in real-life datasets. The SQL standard includes an ORDER BY clause to sort the results, and there has been research work on formalizing, reasoning about, and automatically ... -
Semantic Search and Visual Exploration of Computational Notebooks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-12)Code search is an important and frequent activity for developers using computational notebooks (e.g., Jupyter). The flexibility of notebooks brings challenges for effective code search, where classic search interfaces for ... -
Semantic-Based Context-Aware Service Discovery in Pervasive-Computing Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-08)Recent technological advancements are enabling the vision of pervasive or ubiquitous computing to become a reality. Service discovery is vital in such a computing paradigm, where a great number of devices and software ... -
SemDQ: A Semantic Framework for Data Quality Assessment
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-02)Objective: Access to, and reliance upon, high quality data is an enabling cornerstone of modern health delivery systems. Sadly, health systems are often awash with poor quality data which contributes both to adverse ... -
Semi-Analytic Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flows in General Gravity
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-05)The Event Horizon Telescope is capable of observing black holes on event-horizon scales and we can use it to explore deviations from General Relativity. We replicate the results of a previous study using a Newtonian ... -
Semi-analytical methods for simulating the groundwater-surface water interface
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-26)Groundwater-surface water interaction is a key component of the hydrologic cycle. This interaction plays a key role in many environmental issues such as the impacts of land use and climate change on water availability and ... -
A Semi-Analytical Particle Tracking Algorithm for Arbitrary Unstructured Grids
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-30)Semi-analytical particle tracking methods are broadly used in determining advective transport within groundwater flow models. The Pollock method is currently implemented in the USGS model MODPATH as a semi-analytical ...