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Perceptions and Practicalities for Private Machine Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-01)data they and their partners hold while maintaining data subjects' privacy. In this thesis I show that private computation, such as private machine learning, can increase end-users' acceptance of data sharing practices, ... -
Perceptions of Community-Dwelling Patients on the Impact of the Discontinuation of OxyContin® on their Pain Management: A Mixed Methods Study
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-02)Chronic pain is considered a major health problem in older adults. OxyContin®, one of the most commonly used medications for treating pain in Canada, was recently discontinued, and delisted from the Ontario Drug Formulary ... -
Perceptions of Inevitability and the Motivated Rationalization of Social Inequality
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-11)It is suggested that people’s perceptions that they are inevitably tied to the social systems within which they operate motivate them to justify these systems. Evidence is obtained across four experimental studies using a ... -
Perceptions of Repatriation: An anthropological examination of the meaning behind repatriating human remains in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-24)The repatriation of Aboriginal human remains is still a debated issue in some forums. However, among many Canadian museums and other institutions, repatriation of ancestral remains is no longer a debate. It has become part ... -
Perceptions of Risk at Meetings and Conferences: An Event Planner's Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2009-07-15)Events are a part of every culture and community (Allen, et al., 2002; Getz, 1997; Getz, 2007; Rogers, 2003). They may differ in their purpose (celebration, education, marketing), but at the core they are a gathering ... -
Perceptions of Social Support in Response to Racism: Consequences of White People Validating Versus Reframing Racial Discrimination
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-19)People of color (POC) commonly experience racism, yet little research examines how POC wish to be supported after instances of discrimination. This research draws on close relationship and intergroup relations literature ... -
Perceptions of text and pictorial health warning labels for smokeless tobacco packages in Navi Mumbai, India, and Dhaka, Bangladesh: Findings from an experimental study
(University of Waterloo, 2016-03-10)Background: Globally, smokeless tobacco use is disproportionately concentrated in low-and-middle income countries like India and Bangladesh. Despite the growing evidence base linking smokeless tobacco use with adverse ... -
Perceptions of the Caregiving Role Among Young-Onset Dementia Adult Child Caregivers
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-03)Background: Persons who receive a dementia diagnosis before the age of 65, are considered to have young-onset dementia. For many persons living with young-onset dementia, adult children take on caregiving roles. Evidence ... -
Perceptions of the Relationships between Parks and Adjacent Communities: The Case of Bon Echo Provincial Park and Cloyne, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-13)This study examines the relationship between parks and adjacent communities, through a case study of Bon Echo Provincial Park and the village of Cloyne. Two objectives are identified. First is to assess the nature of the ... -
Perceptual Allowances of Anamorphic Interaction Cues in Spatial Augmented Reality
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-17)Spatial Augmented Reality (SAR) enables the projection of digital content directly on the physical environment without the use of wearable displays. In spaces where viewers are encouraged to explore different locations, ... -
Perceptual and Memory Deficits in Unilateral Neglect
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-26)Unilateral neglect is a disorder in which patients behave as if the left half of space has ceased to exist. The disorder typically arises from right hemisphere brain damage involving the inferior parietal and superior ... -
Perceptual Geographies of Crime: Exploring university students’ spatial responses towards the threat of crime in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-11)The Waterloo Regional Police Service has identified the post-secondary students in their jurisdiction to be at greater risk to certain crimes than other residents. This study describes how students perceive crime in the ... -
The Perceptual Mechanisms of Probability Effects
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-13)Environmental statistics impact human behaviour. The more likely something is to occur, the faster and more accurate we are at detecting it. This probability effect has been studied in numerous forms. However, there is no ... -
Perceptual Quality Assessment of High Dynamic Range & Wide Colour Gamut Images and Video
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-15)While many successful algorithms have been proposed in the field of Image Quality Assessment (IQA) and Video Quality Assessment (VQA) through the years, High Dynamic Range (HDR) Wide Colour Gamut (WCG) technology and content ... -
Perceptual Quality-of-Experience of Stereoscopic 3D Images and Videos
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-11)With the fast development of 3D acquisition, communication, processing and display technologies, automatic quality assessment of 3D images and videos has become ever important. Nevertheless, recent progress on 3D image ... -
Perceptual Video Quality Assessment and Enhancement
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-21)With the rapid development of network visual communication technologies, digital video has become ubiquitous and indispensable in our everyday lives. Video acquisition, communication, and processing systems introduce various ... -
Perceptuomotor incoordination during manually-assisted search
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-03)The thesis introduces a novel search paradigm, and explores a previously unreported behavioural error detectable in this paradigm. In particular, the ‘Unpacking Task’ is introduced – a search task in which participants use ... -
Perfect Hash Families: Constructions and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2003)Let <b>A</b> and <b>B</b> be finite sets with |<b>A</b>|=<i>n</i> and |<b>B</b>|=<i>m</i>. An (<i>n</i>,<i>m</i>,<i>w</i>)-<i>perfect hash</i> family</i> is a collection <i>F</i> of functions from <b>A</b> to <b>B</b> ... -
THE PERFECT STORM: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY OF IN-PATIENT MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY (TRAUMA AND SUBSTANCE-USE): A NARRATIVE EXPLORATION
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)Given the marginalizing effects of a mental health diagnosis, individuals with a mental health diagnosis, more specifically those in early recovery of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance-use disorders (SUDs), ... -
Performance Analysis of Distributed MAC Protocols for Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-10)How to improve the radio resource utilization and provide better quality-of-service (QoS) is an everlasting challenge to the designers of wireless networks. As an indispensable element of the solution to the above task, ...