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Participatory Budgeting in the City of Kitchener: Influencing Perceptions of Park Access, Park Use and Citizen Engagement
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-04)There is consensus among urban researchers that access to public parks and participation in the planning process are important aspects of urban life. Public parks provide mental and physical health benefits to individuals, ... -
Participatory Democracy in Brazil: Foundations, Developments, and Limits
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-15)A lack of historical perspective sustained the widespread view that participatory initiatives in Brazil represented a marked rupture from traditional forms of political engagement to radically new democratic practices. ... -
The participatory design of an ecosystem approach to monitoring in support of sense-making: What's the Point?
(University of Waterloo, 1999)Environmental monitoring initiatives are typically conceived as strictly scientific affairs designed to provide support for managerial decision-making; as a consequence most initiatives are centered on a formal mandate or ... -
Particle Clustering and Sub-clustering as a Proxy for Mixing in Geophysical Flows
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-16)The Eulerian point of view is the traditional theoretical and numerical tool to describe fluid mechanics. Some modern computational fluid dynamics codes allow for the efficient simulation of particles, in turn facilitating ... -
A Particle Filter Method of Inference for Stochastic Differential Equations
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-31)Stochastic Differential Equations (SDE) serve as an extremely useful modelling tool in areas including ecology, finance, population dynamics, and physics. Yet, parameter inference for SDEs is notoriously difficult due ... -
Partition Algebras and Kronecker Coefficients
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-28)Classical Schur-Weyl duality relates the representation theory of the general linear group to the representation theory of the symmetric group via their commuting actions on tensor space. With the goal of studying Kronecker ... -
Partitioning Pauli Operators: in Theory and in Practice
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-04)Measuring the expectation value of Pauli operators on prepared quantum states is a fundamental task in the variational quantum eigensolver. Simultaneously measuring sets of operators allows for fewer measurements and an ... -
Partnership Evaluation Practices in Public-Nonprofit Community Sport Relationships: Understanding Resource Dependency
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)Interorganizational relationships (IORs) can offer community sport organizations (CSOs) a comprehensive and coordinated approach to address the complex issues in their environment (Misener & Doherty, 2014). IORs offer each ... -
Partnership principles and the stewardship potential of employer supported volunteer programs
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-26)An emphasis on citizen engagement, which has direct bearing on conservation and community organizations, is emerging within the corporate realm. Businesses are beginning to view local involvement as a strategic component ... -
PASoC: A Predictable Accelerator Rich SoC for Safety-Critical Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-21)This thesis presents a model of a Predictable Accelerator-rich System-on-Chip (PASoC) for safety-critical systems, which guarantees timing predictability of a memory access in the system. Earlier adoption of accelerator-rich ... -
Passenger Response to Driving Style in an Autonomous Vehicle
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Despite rapid advancements in automated driving systems (ADS), current human-computer interaction research tends to focus more on the safety driver in lower level vehicles. The future of automated driving lies in higher ... -
Passing Peak Millennial: Planning for Demographic Change in Mid-sized and Large Metropolitan Areas in Canada and the United States
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-12)The Millennial generation has been reshaping cities in the United States and Canada as their Boomer parents did before them. Prior research explored the relationship among the changing size of the young adult cohort, ... -
Passing Through: An Installation of Photography
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-30)Passing Through, an installation of photography, encourages the nature of memory through an engagement with the materiality of photographic images. Considering memory as an ephemeral phenomenon, I am interested in exploring ... -
Passive Frontal Plane Knee Joint Laxity Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Within 6 Months to 5 Years
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-28)Following an anterior cruciate ligament rupture, surgical reconstructions aim to restore the joint stability. Increased frontal plane laxity has been observed in the anterior cruciate ligament deficient knee, intra-operatively ... -
Passive Full-Wave MOSFET Rectifiers for Electromagnetic Harvesting
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-21)A new generation of electronic devices has emerged requiring micro-watt-level power supply to operate. Thanks to micro-power processors and sensors, micro-power sources have become an attractive option for industry and ... -
Passive In Situ Treatment of Acidic and Neutral Mine Drainage: Field and Laboratory Investigations
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-16)Water quality degradation is the foremost environmental issue faced by the mining industry. Negative impacts on water quality are commonly associated with unmitigated drainage emanating from sulfide-bearing mine waste ... -
Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Ice Cover on Large Northern Lakes: Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-11)Time series of brightness temperature (TB) measurement obtained at various frequencies by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer–Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) are investigated to determine ice phenology parameters ... -
Passive sampling to understand and predict sources of wastewater and agricultural contamination in rural watersheds
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-12)Passive sampling techniques have emerged as valuable tools in environmental monitoring, offering distinct advantages over traditional discrete sampling methods. Discrete sampling techniques are only representative of the ... -
Patent Technological Diversity and Examination Outcomes in China
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-07)This study examines how the duration of patent examination is affected by technological diversity of patent applications, using a sample of all pharmaceutical patent applications filed between 1985 and 2017 at State ... -
Path Following and Output Synchronization of Homogeneous Linear Time-Invariant Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-20)This thesis examines two aspects of the path following control design problem for Linear Time-Invariant (L.T.I.) systems assigned closed curves in their output space. In the first part of the thesis we define a path ...