Browsing Theses by Title
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Journey into Caldera
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-14)There is a dormant volcano in the northern province of Jilin, China, called the Baekdu/Chang Bai Mountain. At the top of this 2,744 m mountain is a large caldera filled with water, named “Heaven Lake”. Geologically, this ... -
A Journey into Jamming: Phase Transitions and Edge-to-Edge Heterostructures in Langmuir Blodgett Films of Exfoliated Two-Dimensional Materials
(University of Waterloo, 2024-03-21)Two-dimensional (2D) materials hold significant promise as new electronic materials, and could enable high mobility devices, and flexible electronics. In particular, graphene and few-layer molybdenum disulfide have been ... -
A Journey to Shora: Expressing the Architectural Environment Behind A Door into Ocean
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)This thesis seeks to express the architectural environment behind Joan Slonczewski’s 1986 science-fiction novel, A Door into Ocean. The novel describes a water-covered planet called Shora; its inhabitants, Sharers; and ... -
Journey to the Centre of the Shield
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-29)The land of deep water lies in Ontario’s north, atop the boundless rock of the Shield. It holds the secret of an island once blossoming with copper ore. Here primordial elements dance in the ancient landscape and invite ... -
The Journey to the Inner Peace of Your Heart-Modernization of traditional Chinese Buddhist temples
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)This thesis aims to explore the method of designing contemporary Chinese Buddhist temples in terms of investigating how Buddhist temples should develop without repeating traditional forms nor losing the sacred sensation. While ... -
The Journey to the Other Side: Investigation into the Myth of Persephone
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-09)This thesis is an exploration of chthonian architecture, which offers qualities that guide its visitor to the gate of the unconscious mind, which has always been the starting point of the holy trip of self-discovery. This ... -
Judgment and Forgiveness: Restorative Justice Practice and the Recovery of Theological Memory
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-16)This study explores the connections between justice understood biblically, and restorative justice. Restorative justice theory has argued that its foundational principles and its forms of practice draw directly from the ... -
Judgment and the Order of Passivity: An Investigation of the Banality of Evil in the Cases of the Rwandan and Cambodian Genocides, and Modern Bureaucracy
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-02)In the controversy surrounding Hannah Arendt’s coverage of the Eichmann trial in Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil the discussion of her work has come to recognize that Arendt’s account of the banality ... -
Judgments of effort depend on the temporal proximity to the task
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-26)Cognitive effort is a central construct in our lives, yet our understanding of the processes underlying our perception of effort are limited. Performance is typically used as one way to assess effort in cognitive tasks ... -
June Must be Right and 9 is on Top: An Investigation of Time-space and Number-form Synaesthesia
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-04)Synaesthesia is a fascinating condition whereby individuals report extraordinary experiences when presented with ordinary stimuli. In this thesis, we examine an individual (L) who experiences time units (i.e., months and ... -
JunkDrawerPhantomDressUpSoirée
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)This exhibition analyzes the archive as a malleable tool for art making through the creation of a personal archive comprised of concepts for images that were then used to construct various projects over a two-year period. ... -
Jury Decision-Making Study
(University of Waterloo, 2006)In this thesis I combine the social network analysis approach with the traditional experimental approach to study the phenomena of jury decision-making. I examine whether with each trial a social network is formed. The ... -
Just and Unjust Sanctions: The Case Study of Iran
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-28)This dissertation aims to accomplish two major goals: 1. To provide a theoretical framework for studying and evaluating justice in sanctions by modifying and expanding the Just War Tradition (JWT); 2. To apply this ... -
Just Build It: Design guidelines for a tiny home community in the Region of Waterloo based on conversations with residents who have experienced homelessness
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-23)As governments in the Region of Waterloo consider implementing tiny home communities (THCs) for people experiencing homelessness, the Tiny Homes Research Project (THRP) has partnered with the City of Cambridge to design a ... -
Just Resilience? Evaluating Equity and Justice in a Sample of 100 Resilient Cities Plans
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-22)Resilience has become an increasingly prominent discourse within urban planning to address the sustainability challenges faced by many urban areas. Resilience offers a framework to holistically approach environmental, ... -
Just-In-Time Push Prefetching: Accelerating the Mobile Web
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-19)Web pages take noticeably longer to load when accessing the Internet using high-latency wide-area wireless networks like 3G. This delay can result in lower user satisfaction and lost revenue for web site operators. By ... -
The k-best paths in Hidden Markov Models. Algorithms and Applications to Transmembrane Protein Topology Recognition.
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-26)Traditional algorithms for hidden Markov model decoding seek to maximize either the probability of a state path or the number of positions of a sequence assigned to the correct state. These algorithms provide only a ... -
A k-Conjugacy Class Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-07)In any group G, we may extend the definition of the conjugacy class of an element to the conjugacy class of a k-tuple, for a positive integer k. When k = 2, we are forming the conjugacy classes of ordered pairs, when k ... -
k-Connectedness and k-Factors in the Semi-Random Graph Process
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-20)The semi-random graph process is a single-player graph game where the player is initially presented an edgeless graph with n vertices. In each round, the player is offered a vertex u uniformly at random and subsequently ... -
K-theory for C*-Algebras and for Topological Spaces
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-27)K-theory is the study of a collection of abelian groups that are invariant to C*-algebras or to locally compact Hausdorff spaces. These groups are useful for distinguishing C*-algebras and topological spaces, and they are ...