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The Overnight City. Future Explorations of Density and Population Growth in a Diminishing World
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-25)Land is our planet’s scarcest resource. With all the combined advances in our civilizations and their respective technologies, we have yet as a society to fully understand our precarious situation ... -
Overnight Corneal Swelling and Deswelling with Silicone Hydrogel Lenses
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-13)Purpose: To compare central corneal swelling (CS) after eight hours of sleep in eyes wearing 12 different silicone hydrogel (SiHy) contact lenses (CLs) and to model between-subject variability in CS and deswelling. Methods: ... -
Ownership Masks, Evolving Views and Cooperative Templates in Template Tracking
(University of Waterloo, 2003)A template tracker is a tracker based on matching a pre-initialised view of an object with the object's view in an image sequence. Using an error function, the intensity difference between the template view and the ... -
Oxidation characteristics, acid neutralization, secondary minerals, and trace elements associated with pyrrhotite oxidation in historical waste rock
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-27)The Detour Lake Mine is an open pit, greenstone-hosted gold mine in Ontario, Canada. Mining produced waste-rock piles that were constructed from 1983 – 1999. Redevelopment and expansion of the open pit required the excavation ... -
Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Doped Lanthanum Chromate Perovskites
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-19)The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) plays a pivotal role in fuel cell technology and the generation of clean oxidizing agents. This reaction can proceed via two distinct pathways. The complete ORR pathway involves reducing ... -
Oxygen uptake and blood flow kinetics following the onset of exercise in trained humans
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)The main hypothesis of this thesis was that the regulation of oxygen uptake (VO2) kinetics at the onset of exercise in trained young men is linked to cardiovascular adaptations. Two studies were conducted to investigate ... -
A PAC-Theory of Clustering with Advice
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-17)In the absence of domain knowledge, clustering is usually an under-specified task. For any clustering application, one can choose among a variety of different clustering algorithms, along with different preprocessing ... -
PACAP Analogues with Potential Applications in Finfish Aquaculture
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-25)Global aquaculture industry has significant losses each year due to disease outbreaks, parasitic, viral, and bacterial infections. Common methods to treat fish infections include antibiotics, but prolonged use can lead to ... -
Pacing the House
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-04)Surveying my through a feminist approach to autotheory, Pacing the House is an exhibition that uses material inquiry to reframe personal trauma into a site of investigation. By creating systems of organization—categorizing, ... -
Packaging and Characterization of a NbTiN Superconducting Nanowire for the Design of an Optimal Nanowire Meander Structure
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-23)The Superconducting Nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) made with niobium-titanium nitride (NbTiN) thin films fabricated on oxidized silicon substrates are highly promising nanodevices. The SNSPD is an immensely capable ... -
Packaging and Characterization of NbN Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-22)Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are nanodevices usually made from thin niobium nitride (NbN) films. Operated at liquid helium temperature, they can exhibit high detection efficiency with low ... -
Packing and Covering Odd (u,v)-trails in a Graph
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-27)In this thesis, we investigate the problem of packing and covering odd $(u,v)$-trails in a graph. A $(u,v)$-trail is a $(u,v)$-walk that is allowed to have repeated vertices but no repeated edges. We call a trail \emph{odd} ... -
Packing Directed Joins
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Edmonds and Giles conjectured that the maximum number of directed joins in a packing is equal to the minimum weight of a directed cut, for any weighted directed graph. This is a generalization of Woodall's Conjecture ... -
Packing Unit Disks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-27)Given a set of unit disks in the plane with union area A, what fraction of A can be covered by selecting a pairwise disjoint subset of the disks? Richard Rado conjectured 1/4 and proved 1/4.41. In this thesis, we consider ... -
Packing: An Architect's Guide
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-19)A study of packing constructs a critique of the everyday: a dialogue between chaos and order, surface and area, interior and exterior, gravity and lightness. In search of tangible expression of the spatial processes I ... -
Pagan Community Online: Social Media Affordances and Limitations in Religio-Political Sociality
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-18)Ultra-conservative and social justice politics in North America have imbued political meaning into ideas of race and religion. Norse Pagans (i.e., Heathens) are factionalizing and contesting the significances of race and ... -
Pain Management within the Long-term Care Setting: An Inquiry into Staff-perceived Contemporary Pain Management Practices
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-06)Background: Chronic pain is a frequent and undertreated ailment within the long-term care community (Herman et al, 2009). The likelihood of experiencing pain increases with age and failure to treat this condition may ... -
The Pair Cache Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-25)This thesis investigates the pair cache problem, a unique variation of the classic cache replacement problem where each element is stored in two pages, and the cache only needs one of these pages to respond to a query. The ... -
Pairing Generation for Airline Crew Scheduling
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)Airline planning is a complex and difficult process. The biggest airlines in the world plan for and operate fleets of over 700 aircraft using tens of thousands of crew members. As such, small percentages in savings translate ... -
Pairs Trading Based on Costationarity
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-25)Arbitrage is a widely sought after phenomenon in financial markets: profit without any risk is very desirable. Statistical arbitrage is a related concept: the idea is to take advantage of market inefficiencies using ...