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Empirical Analysis of Algorithms for Block-Angular Linear Programs
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-29)This thesis aims to study the theoretical complexity and empirical performance of decomposition algorithms. We focus on linear programs with a block-angular structure. Decomposition algorithms used to be the only way to ... -
Empirical and Kinetic Models for the Determination of Pharmaceutical Product Stability
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-01)Drug stability is one of the vital subjects in the pharmaceutical industry. All drug products should be kept stable and protected against any chemical, physical, and microbiological degradation to ensure their efficacy and ... -
Empirical Design Rules for Binder Jetting Additive Manufacturing
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-23)Metal binder jetting additive manufacturing (BJAM) is an additive manufacturing (AM) process that builds parts from a feedstock metal powder material by spreading a layer of powder, then depositing liquid binder over the ... -
Empirical Essays in Water and Electricity Use
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-30)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays evaluating the impacts of educational attainment and average income at the community level on water consumption, the effects of different sources of energy on wholesale ... -
An Empirical Evaluation of the Viability of the Serverless Paradigm for Scientific Workflows
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-22)Scientific workflows are typically data-intensive. They consist of many stages, each of which may contain hundreds to even thousands of tasks. Traditionally, scientific workflows have been executed using the serverful ... -
Empirical Game Theoretic Models for Autonomous Driving: Methods and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-16)In recent years, there has been enormous public interest in autonomous vehicles (AV), with more than 80 billion dollars invested in self-driving car technology. However, for the foreseeable future, self-driving cars will ... -
An Empirical Investigation of Internet Privacy: Customer Behaviour, Companies’ Privacy Policy Disclosures, and a Gap
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)Privacy emerges as a critical issue in an e-commerce environment because of a fundamental tension among corporate, consumer, and government interests. By reviewing prior Internet-privacy research in the fields of information ... -
Empirical Likelihood and Bootstrap Inference with Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-18)Empirical likelihood and the bootstrap play influential roles in contemporary statistics. This thesis studies two distinct statistical inference problems, referred to as Part I and Part II, related to the empirical ... -
Empirical Likelihood Inference for Two-Sample Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)In this thesis, we are interested in empirical likelihood (EL) methods for two-sample problems, with focus on the difference of the two population means. A weighted empirical likelihood method (WEL) for two-sample problems ... -
Empirical Likelihood Method for Ratio Estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2011-03-17)Empirical likelihood, which was pioneered by Thomas and Grunkemeier (1975) and Owen (1988), is a powerful nonparametric method of statistical inference that has been widely used in the statistical literature. In this ... -
Empirical Likelihood Methods for Pretest-Posttest Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-21)Pretest-posttest trials are an important and popular method to assess treatment effects in many scientific fields. In a pretest-posttest study, subjects are randomized into two groups: treatment and control. Before the ... -
Empirical Likelihood Methods for Some Incomplete Data Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-18)Incomplete data often brings difficulty to estimations and inferences. A complete case (CC) analysis, in most cases, leads to biased estimates, or it may not have the desired estimation efficiency. In this thesis, we develop ... -
Empirical Likelihood Quantile Regression for Right-Censored Data
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-17)Quantile estimation of time-to-event data plays a key role in many medical applications, especially conditional on covariates of interest. In such settings, bias due to model misspecification is an important concern. As ... -
An Empirical Model of Area MT: Investigating the Link between Representation Properties and Function
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-16)The middle temporal area (MT) is one of the visual areas of the primate brain where neurons have highly specialized representations of motion and binocular disparity. Other stimulus features such as contrast, size, and ... -
An Empirical Study of Bicyclists' Turning Behaviour at Signalized Intersections
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-23)Efforts to increase cycling mode share have seen some success in North America, though challenges persist due to real and perceived safety issues. Of particular concern are left turns at signalized intersections. Left turns ... -
AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF DIFFERENT BRANCHING STRATEGIES FOR CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Many real life problems can be formulated as constraint satisfaction problems <i>(CSPs)</i>. Backtracking search algorithms are usually employed to solve <i>CSPs</i> and in backtracking search the choice of branching ... -
An Empirical Study on Bash Language Usage in Github
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-27)The Bourne-again shell (Bash) is a prevalent scripting language for orchestrating shell commands and managing resources in Unix-like environments. At the time of writing, it is one of the mainstream shell dialects that ... -
Empirical, Mechanistic and Hybrid Models for Mammalian Cell Cultures
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-27)To reach the increasing demand for monoclonal antibodies the pharmaceutical industry has been looking into ways to optimize productivity. Monoclonal antibodies (mAb) are commonly synthesized in mammalian cell cultures. ... -
Employee Gratitude: A New Direction for Understanding Organizational Citizenship Behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-08)Organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) is extra-role behaviour that is not formally required by organizations, but benefits the organization and its members (Organ, 1988). OCB is considered to be a core dimension of ... -
Employee's Perceptions of Work-Life Balance
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-25)There has been an increased focus on balancing multiple life roles and managing the boundary between work and family. To minimize employees’ work life balance issues, organizations have turned to policies such as flextime, ...