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Policy Driven Software Monitoring
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-15)Software monitoring and logging is one of the most important tools a software engineer has when faced with the challenge of auditing or analysing a software system. However, the difficulty in effectively monitoring a ... -
Policy Explanation and Model Refinement in Decision-Theoretic Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)Decision-theoretic systems, such as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), are used for sequential decision-making under uncertainty. MDPs provide a generic framework that can be applied in various domains to compute optimal ... -
Policy Extraction via Online Q-Value Distillation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-27)Recently, deep neural networks have been capable of solving complex control tasks in certain challenging environments. However, these deep learning policies continue to be hard to interpret, explain and verify which limits ... -
Policy-Driven Framework for Static Identification and Verification of Component Dependencies
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-03)Software maintenance is considered to be among the most difficult, lengthy and costly parts of a software application's life-cycle. Regardless of the nature of the software application and the software engineering efforts ... -
Policy-Practice Mismatch? Sustainable Nature-Based Tourism in Trinidad and Tobago.
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-26)Trinidad and Tobago, a twin island Caribbean nation has always been heavily dependent on the oil and gas industry for its economic survival. Due to the volatility of the energy sector, government’s efforts are now geared ... -
Polis and Chora: Recalibrating Natural and Urban Harmony in Porto Rafti
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-13)The landscape of Attica in Greece suffers rapidly progressing urban sprawl in a culture of over privatization. In the absence of proper legislation, corruption and poor implementation of existing laws, the consequences ... -
The Political Discourse of Religious Pluralism: World Religions Textbooks, Liberalism, and Civic Identities
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-22)Religious pluralism is a meaningful framework for many scholars and students of religion as well as citizens working to make sense of a religiously and culturally diverse society. It purports noble aims: bringing people ... -
Political Economy of Tourism: Residents’ Power, Trust in Government, and Political Support for Development
(University of Waterloo, 2012-11-06)Citizens’ trust in government institutions and their political support for development are important preconditions for a democratic and sustainable form of development. In the context of tourism, it is important that ... -
Political movement: The role of grassroots activism on the development of wastewater treatment policy in Victoria, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-22)The City of Victoria has been discharging untreated sewage into the Pacific Ocean since 1894 (CRD 2017b; Kines 2020; Meissner 2021). On December 15th, 2020, this practice stopped after the opening of the $775 million ... -
Politicians’ Equity Holdings and Accounting Conservatism
(University of Waterloo, 2014-11-14)In this thesis, I examine the association between politician ownership and accounting conservatism for a sample of S&P 1500 firms between 2005 and 2011. The contracting explanation predicts that politician owned firms adopt ... -
THE POLITICS OF CANADIAN AID TO THE COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN
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Politics of Fear: Unitary Bias of a Federal Design in Nepal
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-16)This thesis explores the reasons that have led the framers of the constitution to centralize powers in the federal government of Nepal, despite claims for accommodation by its minority groups. It contends that the centralized ... -
Politics Through T-Shirts: A History of Protest, a Study of Digital Public History Methodologies and Open-Source Curating
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-26)The T-shirt, as it exists in the twenty-first century, is a staple in every wardrobe across the United States. Since it’s rise to popularity in the 1950s, it has been used a symbol of rebellion and dissent of the youth. ... -
Politics, Principles and Pluralism: On why liberalism must be inconsistent if correct
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-24)In this dissertation, the author argues that constructivist foundations of political liberalism require a rarely recognized sort of pluralism—not only the familiar pluralism between ideas about how we ought to live that ... -
Poly(ether block amide)-based Composite Membranes for Carbon Capture
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-17)A great amount of anthropogenic CO2 emissions has caused the greenhouse effect which impacts the living environment of creatures on the planet. Effective carbon capture technologies need to be developed to reduce CO2 emissions. ... -
Poly(vinylidene fluoride) membranes: Preparation, modification, characterization and applications
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-24)Hydrophobic microporous membranes have been widely used in water and wastewater treatment by microfiltration, ultrafiltration and membrane distillation. Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) materials are one of the most popular ... -
Polycrystalline Silicon Capacitive MEMS Strain Sensor for Structural Health Monitoring of Wind Turbines
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-21)Wind energy is a fast-growing sustainable energy technology and driven by the need for more efficient energy harvesting, size of the wind turbines has increased over the years for both off-shore and land-based installations. ... -
Polydopamine-Based Thin Film Composite Membranes for Pervaporative Concentration of Potassium Acetate Solution
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-19)Potassium acetate (KAc) is a valuable chemical product due to its widespread application in multiple fields. During the production of KAc, the concentration of dilute KAc solution is a vital pre-treatment procedure to ... -
Polyethylene Glycol as an Electrolyte Additive for Rechargeable Hybrid Aqueous Batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-05)Climatic and environmental challenges arising from excessive greenhouse gas production from human activities have necessitated a serious shift towards sustainable and renewable sources of power such as solar, wind and ... -
Polyhedral Diameters and Applications to Optimization
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-01)The Simplex method is the most popular algorithm for solving linear programs (LPs). Geometrically, it moves from an initial vertex solution to an improving neighboring one, selected according to a pivot rule. Despite decades ...