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History of failure
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-16)The ability to project a virtual vision on the world and give it physical form sets the human apart. By shaping his surroundings at will, the human holds considerable power not only on the environment, but -on fellow humans ... -
History-Dependent Changes to the Structure, Properties, and Function of the Cartilaginous Endplate
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-12)The performance of manual lifting is associated with 33-51% of incidental low back injuries in work, leisure, and sport/exercise contexts. To effectively prevent low back injuries and evaluate the risk of occurrence, ... -
Hit and Bandwidth Optimal Caching for Wireless Data Access Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-10)For many data access applications, the availability of the most updated information is a fundamental and rigid requirement. In spite of many technological improvements, in wireless networks, wireless channels (or bandwidth) ... -
Hoax, Parody, and Conservatism in Harry Potter
(University of Waterloo, 2002)This essay examines the ideology or value system implicit in Joanne Rowling's Harry Potter series. Many of the images in the series, despite being fantastic or empirically unprecedented, are minor transformations of ... -
Hobbes' foundation for peace and property
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)I defend Hobbes’ foundation for peace and property. His foundation for peace and property is his major argument for why society’s moral order (i.e. collection of rules of interaction) should be based on the principles of ... -
Hockey Pose Estimation and Action Recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks to Ice Hockey
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-19)Human pose estimation and action recognition in ice hockey are one of the biggest challenges in computer vision-driven sports analytics, with a variety of difficulties such as bulky hockey wear, color similarity between ... -
Hodge Theory for Geometrically Frustrated Magnetism
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-29)We present an analytical formalism based on the concept of discrete differential forms and Hodge theory as a framework for understanding geometrically frustrated magnetism. The primary insight is to treat spins as a 1-form ... -
"Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour": William Blake's Visions of Time and Space in the Light of Eastern Traditions
(University of Waterloo, 2013-07-23)This thesis examines William Blake’s conceptions of time and space in the light of the philosophies of Hinduism and Islam. In order to perform this analysis, source material, often from rare and neglected texts, is utilized ... -
Holes & Notches: Creating a Framework to Promote Agency for the Elderly in Baeksa Village
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-03)The demographic landscape of developed countries around the world is rapidly shifting. Populations are increasingly aging yet birthrates are declining. These changes are particularly pronounced in South Korea, where by ... -
Holistic Vehicle Control Using Learning MPC
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-26)In recent years, learning MPC schemes have been introduced to address these challenges of traditional MPC. They typically leverage different machine learning techniques to learn the system dynamics directly from data, ... -
Hollow Ground
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-23)Friedrich Nietzsche classified all precepts which were imposed upon us by human intervention as idols; his aim was to instigate “a revaluation of all values”, through the irrefutable sounding out of these idols. Armed ... -
Holographic Correspondence and Exploring New Regimes of AdS/CFT Duality
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-21)We aim to have a comprehensive understanding of holographic correspondence and to demonstrate how the holographic correspondence (or renormalization) can be applied. Thus this thesis is divided into two parts. The first ... -
Holographic Entanglement Entropy: RG Flows and Singular Surfaces
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-23)Over the past decade, the AdS/CFT correspondence has proven to be a remarkable tool to study various properties of strongly coupled field theories. In the context of the holography, Ryu and Takayanagi have proposed an ... -
Holographic Experiments on Defects
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-03)Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we study the anisotropic transport properties of both supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric matter fields on (2+1)-dimensional defects coupled to a (3+1)-dimensional N=4 SYM "heat bath". ... -
Holographic Optical Manipulation of Trapped Ions for Quantum Simulation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-26)Trapped ion is one of the leading platforms for quantum simulation experiment due to its long coherence time and high fidelity state initialization, detection, and manipulation. To individually address ions at a single-ion ... -
Holographic studies of thermal gauge theories with flavour
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-12)The AdS/CFT correspondence and its extensions to more general gauge/gravity dualities have provided a powerful framework for the study of strongly coupled gauge theories. This thesis explores properties of a large class ... -
A HoloLens Framework for Augmented Reality Applications in Breast Cancer Surgery
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-01)This project aims to support oncologic breast-conserving surgery by creating a platform for better surgical planning through the development of a framework that is capable of displaying a virtual model of the tumour(s) ... -
Home Away Home: Student housing as a catalyst for student and community well-being in Cambridge
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)In 2004, the University of Waterloo School of Architecture (UWSA) was relocated to Cambridge, Ontario, establishing a new satellite campus 31 km away from the main campus in Waterloo, Ontario. This move aimed to invigorate ... -
Home care in Ontario: Allocation of limited resources and the needs of light-care clients
(University of Waterloo, 2006)There is the desire amongst elderly Canadians to remain living at home, maintaining their independence. As the population ages, the health care system is faced with the challenge of allocating limited resources. Home ... -
Home Energy Coach Program: lessons learned from a pilot study in Waterloo Region, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-27)The uptake of energy-efficiency investments in the residential sector is relatively low, despite evidence of short payback periods and numerous co-benefits, including increased home comfort and reduced negative environmental ...