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Persona-based target-guided dialogue systems: A use case in dementia care
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-19)In recent years, conversational agents have shown potential in various applications. However, the development of conversational agents tailored for older adults, particularly those with age-related cognitive limitations, ... -
Personal Characteristics and Risk Factors Associated with Economic Trade-offs and Financial Management Difficulties in Older Adult Home Care Populations
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-29)People are living longer and this increases the risk of encountering financial difficulties when trying to make fixed retirement incomes stretch over additional years. Increased life expectancies also increase the likelihood ... -
Personal Competance and Environmental Press Characteristics Related to Adaptive Functional Ability Among Older Men and Women
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-15)Independence is highly valued in society at any age. Maintaining that independence remains a goal that is carried into old age. Among the community elderly, independence is often measured by the ability to satisfactorily ... -
Personal Data Management in the Internet of Things
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-08)Due to a sharp decrease in hardware costs and shrinking form factors, networked sensors have become ubiquitous. Today, a variety of sensors are embedded into smartphones, tablets, and personal wearable devices, and are ... -
Personal Email Spam Filtering with Minimal User Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-30)This thesis investigates ways to reduce or eliminate the necessity of user input to learning-based personal email spam filters. Personal spam filters have been shown in previous studies to yield superior effectiveness, ... -
Personal Endorsement of Ambivalent Sexism and its Impact on Objective and Subjective Career Success
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-04)The gender wage gap is a persistent problem that has remained stubbornly stagnant over recent decades. Although significant efforts have been expended to understand why it exists and persists, we argue that an important ... -
Personality Traits of GitHub Maintainers and Their Effects on Project Success
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)Online collaborative environments have become important virtual workplaces for developers to work on a common problem. GitHub is an example of such environment that hosts a wealth of open source software projects. Questions ... -
Personality Type and Language Learning Strategy use by University Students: Where the MBTI and SILL Intersect
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-24)This thesis explores the relationship between personality type, as defined by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (“MBTI®”), and the learning strategies employed by learners enrolled in undergraduate foreign language courses ... -
Personalized Defect Prediction
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)Academia and industry expend much effort to predict software defects. Researchers proposed many defect prediction algorithms and metrics. While previous defect prediction techniques often take the author of the code into ... -
Perspective in Two Dimensions for Computer Graphics
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-28)Computer graphics perspective is based on photography, the pin-hole camera model. This thesis examines the perspective as practiced by artists, who develop the picture geometry within the planar surface of the canvas. Their ... -
The Perspectives and Roles of Multinational Enterprises in Local Sustainable Development
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-27)As the rate of urbanization increases, cities face mounting socio-ecological challenges. At the local level, businesses are essential for developing cities and livelihoods and providing services to local communities. Local ... -
Perspectives écopoétiques dans le récit québécois contemporain
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)La présente étude a pour objectif de mettre en évidence les multiples perspectives que la littérature contemporaine québécoise offre sur la nature et les problématiques environnementales. Si le Québec fait figure de proue ... -
Perspectives from Pharmacists, Prescribers and Patients on Sharing Medication Reason for Use
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-05)Pharmacists rarely receive the reason a medication was prescribed, often referred to as reason for use (RFU). Pharmacists can use this information to better counsel patients, support patients in taking medications safely, ... -
Perspectives of Older Adult Cyclists on E-bikes As a Way to Prolong Mobility
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-13)In Canada, population aging will become an increasingly challenging issue as the proportion of the senior population is rapidly growing where it is expected to increase from 15.6% to 23% of Country’s total population by ... -
Perspectives on the Formalism of Quantum Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-26)Quantum theory has the distinction among physical theories of currently underpinning most of modern physics, while remaining essentially mysterious, with no general agreement about the nature of its principles or the ... -
Perspectives on the Municipal Role in Effectuating Sustainable Industrial Park Development and Operations: The Hamilton, Ontario Case
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-28)Within the greater movement of sustainable development, industrial practices have been identified as a key area in which much improvement is both necessary and possible. The development and operation of industrial parks ... -
Persulfate Oxidation Coupled With Microbial Sulfate Reduction as a Combined Remedy
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-20)Groundwater contamination by petroleum hydrocarbon (PHC) compounds including the high impact and persistent aromatic compounds such as benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene and xylene (BTEX) poses serious risk to human health ... -
Persulfate Persistence and Treatability of Gasoline Compounds
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-06)Petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) such as gasoline are ubiquitous organic compounds present at contaminated sites throughout the world. Accidental spills and leakage from underground storage tanks results in the formation of ... -
Perturbations to nutrient and carbon cycles by river damming
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-30)The damming of rivers represents one of the most far-reaching human modifications to the flows of water and associated matter from land to sea. Globally there are over 70 000 large dams whose reservoirs store more than ... -
Pessimistic Hazmat Network Design Problem with Emergency Team Location Considering Uncertain Response Time
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-24)Focusing on a road network where hazmat shipments need to be transported from the origins to destinations, this thesis proposes a pessimistic approach to mitigate the risk associated with the transportation of hazardous ...