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Aural, Ocular, and Sequential Rhetoric in Two Contemporary American Stories, in Prose and Film: Patterns of Anxiety in Fight Club and The Road
(University of Waterloo, 2017-02-21)The dissertation rhetorically examines anxiety and fear in Fight Club and The Road, in their both cinematic and prose versions, texts that reflect a mood of contemporary American society that has been characterized by ... -
Austenitization of Ultra High Strength Steel by Direct Contact Heating for Hot Forming Die Quenching
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-25)Hot forming die quenching (HFDQ) is a heat treatment process used in automotive manufacturing to produce ultra-high strength steels. It involves heating steel sheets to a temperature above 1153 K and holding them for a ... -
Authenticating Cultural Tourism: Folk Villages in Hainan, China
(University of Waterloo, 2001)Cultural tourism provides opportunities for ethnic minorities to showcase their cultures, customs and heritage. At the same time, it causes a series of tensions and issues of authenticity and commodification have been ... -
Authentication and Key Exchange in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-12)Over the past decade or so, there has been rapid growth in wireless and mobile applications technologies. More recently, an increasing emphasis has been on the potential of infrastructureless wireless mobile networks that ... -
Authenticity and Enhancement
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-31)Wanting to change ourselves is nothing new; the means with which we are able to do so are. With our ever-advancing technology, the physical and mental aspects of ourselves that we can target and change are continually ... -
Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Case Study in Causation and Explanation in Psychiatric Conditions
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-28)This thesis discusses epistemological and ethical issues in classifi cation and diagnosisof psychiatric conditions, and briefly discusses realism about psychiatric conditions. I use autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as a case ... -
Auto-Encoder based Deep Representation Model for Image Anomaly Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-31)Image anomaly detection is to distinguish a small portion of images that are different from the user-defined normal ones. In this work, we focus on auto-encoders based anomaly detection models, which assess the probability ... -
AutoCPA: Automatic Continuous Profiling and Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-03)Poor data locality is a performance bottleneck in modern applications. The hierarchy of caches exiting in computer processors reduces data access latency from the main memory. However, inefficient cache utilization results ... -
Automata and Ratio Sets
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-13)This thesis explores the composition of ratio sets, the subsets of the rationals derived from the quotients of two sets of natural numbers, and examines a variety of specific examples where the comprising sets of natural ... -
Automated Analysis and Optimization of Distributed Self-Stabilizing Algorithms
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-26)Self-stabilization [2] is a versatile technique for recovery from erroneous behavior due to transient faults or wrong initialization. A system is self-stabilizing if (1) starting from an arbitrary initial state it can ... -
Automated Analysis of Unified Modeling Language (UML) Specifications
(University of Waterloo, 2001)The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a standard language adopted by the Object Management Group (OMG) for writing object-oriented (OO) descriptions of software systems. UML allows the analyst to add class-level and ... -
Automated Annotation and Visualization of Rhetorical Figures
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-20)Linguistic annotation provides additional information asserted with a particular purpose in a document or other piece of information. It is widely used in various fields, from computing and bioinformatics, through imaging, ... -
Automated Calibration of Real Water Distribution Networks: City X Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-22)The calibration of water distribution systems networks (WDN) is a complex non-linear problem that has traditionally been solved using manual trial-and-error methods. Over the past few decades, automated calibration ... -
Automated Cataract Grading using Smartphone Images
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-02)A cataract is an age-related eye disease and is one of the leading ophthalmological public health problems in developed and developing countries. Early detection of cataracts is necessary to preserve sight and prevent the ... -
Automated Compilation Framework for Scratchpad-based Real-Time Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-31)ScratchPad Memory (SPM) is highly adopted in real-time systems as it exhibits a predictable behaviour. SPM is software-managed by explicitly inserting instructions to move code and data transfers between the SPM and the ... -
Automated Construction Progress Tracking using 3D Sensing Technologies
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-23)Accurate and frequent construction progress tracking provides critical input data for project systems such as cost and schedule control as well as billing. Unfortunately, conventional progress tracking is labor intensive, ... -
Automated Design Space Exploration and Datapath Synthesis for Finite Field Arithmetic with Applications to Lightweight Cryptography
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-27)Today, emerging technologies are reaching astronomical proportions. For example, the Internet of Things has numerous applications and consists of countless different devices using different technologies with different ... -
Automated Epileptic Seizure Onset Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-27)Epilepsy is a serious neurological disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures due to abnormal or excessive neuronal activity in the brain. An estimated 50 million people around the world suffer from this ... -
Automated Extraction of 3D Building Windows from Mobile LiDAR Data
(University of Waterloo, 2016-03-28)The three-dimensional (3D) city models have gained more and more attentions because of their considerable potential applications at present. In particular, the demands for Level of Detail (LoD) building models become urgent. ... -
Automated Extraction of Behaviour Model of Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-09)Highly replicated cloud applications are deployed only when they are deemed to be func- tional. That is, they generally perform their task and their failure rate is relatively low. However, even though failure is rare, ...