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Cognitive Constellations: Neurodivergent Aesthetics in 20th Century Experimental Poetries
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-19)“Inaccessible” is a term shared by both Critical Disability Studies (CDS) and literary criticism, although this term means different things to each discipline. For CDS, an inaccessible space is one that prevents physically ... -
Cognitive control, conflict monitoring, and aerobic exercise.
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-01)Cognitive control includes a subset of top-down cognitive functions that allow flexible goal-directed behaviour that are often impaired in people with mental illness and in older adults. Even in healthy individuals, cognitive ... -
Cognitive Evaluation of Potential Approaches to Increase the Efficiency of Air Traffic Controller Training and Staffing
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-15)Generic airspace, or air traffic control sectors with similar operational characteristics, is an operational concept being proposed as a means of increasing staffing flexibility and reducing training times as part of the ... -
Cognitive homeostasis: Boredom as a drive for optimal engagement
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-02)Boredom is the feeling of wanting but failing to engage the mind. The first part of this thesis proposes a theory that casts boredom as a signal of suboptimal utilization of cognitive resources. Homeostasis is used as an ... -
Cognitive repairs in decision-making by venture capitalists
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-23)This paper examines cognitive repairs as they apply to the decision-making process used by venture capitalists, asking the question of “how could, or how do, cognitive repairs play a role in the decision-making process ... -
Cognitive Spectrum Management in TV White Space: Libya as a Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-12)The traditional spectrum allocation scheme is based on static allotment of frequency bands to applications and entities in specific geographical areas for extended periods of time. Telecommunications regulations, on the ... -
Cognitive Testing of a Brief Dietary Screener: A Comparison of Analysis Methods
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-21)Background: Dietary assessment is crucial to understanding the dietary risk factors that contribute to noncommunicable disease outcomes. It is therefore essential to ensure that instruments to measure dietary intake are ... -
A Cognitive Work Analysis Approach to Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Non-Expert Financial Decision-Making
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-07)Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being increasingly used to assist complex decision-making such as financial investing. As most AI systems rely on black-box machine learning models, understanding how to support human ... -
Cognitive Work Analysis to Support Collaboration in Teamwork Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-24)Cognitive Work analysis (CWA) as an analytical approach for examining complex socio-technical systems has shown success in modeling the work of single operators. The CWA approach allows room for social and team interactions, ... -
Cognitive-Empowered Femtocells: An Intelligent Paradigm of a Robust and Efficient Media Access
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-22)Driven by both the need for ubiquitous wireless services and the stringent strain on radio spectrum faced in today's wireless communications, cognitive radio (CR) have been investigated as a promising solution to deploy ... -
Coherent Beta Risk Measures for Capital Requirements
(University of Waterloo, 1999)This thesis compares insurance premium principles with current financial risk paradigms and uses distorted probabilities, a recent development in premium principle literature, to synthesize the current models for financial ... -
Coherent control of nuclear and electron spins for quantum information processing
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-10)The ability to perform quantum error correction (QEC) arbitrarily many cycles is a significant challenge for scalable quantum information processing (QIP). Key requirements for multiple-round QEC are a high degree of quantum ... -
Coherent delocalization in the light-matter interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-08)In this thesis, we study coherent delocalization in the light-matter interaction: we investigate how the coherent center of mass delocalization of a first quantized system affects its interaction with a second quantized ... -
Coherent Distortion Risk Measures in Portfolio Selection
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)The theme of this thesis relates to solving the optimal portfolio selection problems using linear programming. There are two key contributions in this thesis. The first contribution is to generalize the well-known linear ... -
Coherent interactions and thermometry in a trapped ion quantum simulator
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-27)Quantum simulators are useful tools to study exotic systems which may be otherwise intractable for a traditional computer. In particular, the trapped-ion platform has been a leading candidate for use in quantum simulation ... -
The Cohomology Ring of a Finite Abelian Group
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)The cohomology ring of a finite cyclic group was explicitly computed by Cartan and Eilenberg in their 1956 book on Homological Algebra. It is surprising that the cohomology ring for the next simplest example, that of a ... -
COI: A First Step towards TrueType Bytecode Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-21)TrueType fonts are ubiquitous in today’s computing environment. While TrueType is a scalable vector-based font format, optimal scaling requires font hinting for excellent font rendering at typical screen resolutions. ... -
Cold Fiber Solid Phase Microextraction
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-29)A cold fiber solid phase microextraction device was designed and constructed based on the use of a thermoelectric cooler (TEC). A three-stage thermoelectric cooler was used for cooling a copper rod coated with a ... -
Cold fiber solid phase microextraction in solid sample analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-03)The cold fiber solid phase microextraction (SPME) system was improved by minimizing the coating temperature fluctuation range, and the performance of the system was evaluated by investigating the extraction of PAHs from ... -
The Cold War and Indigenous People
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-18)The second half of the twentieth century saw dramatic state movements and expansions around the world into Indigenous people’s territories. These state expansions incorporated more of the earth than any time in the past ...