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Primary care providers' observations on diabetes management for young adults in Ontario: Barriers and enablers to care and patient-provider communication
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-18)Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a global epidemic that is only projected to impact more people in the coming years. In Canada, there has been a steady increase of people living with T2DM, including an increase ... -
Primary Frequency Control with Flywheel Energy Storage Technologies
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-25)Over the last decade, concerns about greenhouse gas emissions have increased. Different strategies have been developed to minimize those effects, leading to the development of renewable energy sources worldwide. In recent ... -
Primary Production by Phytoplankton in Lake Simcoe 2010-2011
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-07)Degradation of water quality, introduction of dreissenid mussels (notably <i>Dreissena polymorpha</i>) and depletion of oxygen concentrations in the hypolimnion in Lake Simcoe, Ontario prompted a study of phytoplankton ... -
A Primer on Cryptographic Multilinear Maps and Code Obfuscation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-23)The construction of cryptographic multilinear maps and a general-purpose code obfuscator were two long-standing open problems in cryptography. It has been clear for a number of years that constructions of these two ... -
Prince Edward County in the 21st Century
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)In recent years, Prince Edward County has gained wide-spread attention for the unique experience it offers. Articles published by media outlets in Toronto, Ottawa and Montréal have directed a large urban population to the ... -
Principal Component and Independent Component Regression for Predicting the Responses of Nonlinear Base Isolated Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-23)Peak base displacement is one of the most important quantities in the design of base-isolated buildings. During the preliminary stages of design, a nonlinear time-history analysis is often not possible or too expensive, ... -
Printing the Past: 3D Printing and Archaeology
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-15)3D Printing and 3D imaging technologies are frequent topics of global discussion. We see countless news media posts and academic articles devoted to what the technology is capable of and how it is currently being used. ... -
Prioritized Obstacle Avoidance in Motion Planning of Autonomous Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-21)Driver errors are a critical factor of the majority of car crashes. Autonomous vehicles take drivers and driver errors out of the equation, so they are being developed to reduce car crashes. However, in some situations, a ... -
Prioritized Unit Propagation and Extended Resolution Techniques for SAT Solvers
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-29)NP-complete problems like the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) Problem are ubiquitous in computer science, mathematics, and engineering. Consequently, researchers have developed algorithms such as Conflict-Driven Clause-Learning ... -
Prioritizing Features Through Categorization: An Approach to Resolving Feature Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)Feature interactions occur when one feature interferes with the intended operation of another feature. To detect such interactions, each new feature must be tested against existing features. The detected interactions must ... -
Privacy and Security Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviours: Informing Future Tool Design
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-26)Usable privacy and security has become a significant area of interest for many people in both industry and academia. A better understanding of the knowledge and motivation is an important factor in the design of privacy ... -
Privacy and Trust in Healthcare IoT Data Sharing: A Snapshot of the Users’ Perspectives
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-17)Background: Healthcare services in Canada are slowly shifting from in-hospital care to more patient-centred, home-care services. Collecting and sharing personal data from individuals via Internet of Things (IoT) devices ... -
A Privacy-Friendly Architecture for Mobile Social Networking Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-23)The resources and localization abilities available in modern smartphones have provided a huge boost to the popularity of location-based applications. In these applications, users send their current locations to a central ... -
Privacy-Preserving and Regulation-Enabled Mechanisms for Blockchain-based Financial Services
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)With the success of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, blockchain technology has attracted extensive attention from both academia and industry. As a distributed ledger technology, blockchain provides decentralization and ... -
Privacy-Preserving Interest Matching for Mobile Social Networking
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-28)The success of online social networking has resulted in increased attention to mobile social networking research and applications. In mobile social networking, instead of looking for friends over the Internet, people ... -
Privacy-Preserving Multi-Quality Charging in V2G network
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-08)Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) network, which provides electricity charging service to the electric vehicles (EVs), is an essential part of the smart grid (SG). It can not only effectively reduce the greenhouse gas emission but ... -
PrivacyGuard: A VPN-Based Approach to Detect Privacy Leakages on Android Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-06)The Internet is now the most important and efficient way to gain information, and mobile devices are the easiest way to access the Internet. Furthermore, wearable devices, which can be considered to be the next generation ... -
Private Allocation of Public Goods
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-13)We study the problem of designing a truthful mechanism for fair allocation of divisible public goods. We consider a setting with n agents and m items. Each item is associated with a size, and the total size of the allocated ... -
Private Carbon Credit Initiatives in the Agricultural Sector: Investigating Motivations and Understanding Their Effects
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-15)This thesis project examines the emergence of privately led soil carbon sequestration (SCS) credit programs, specifically for traditional cropping systems, in the agriculture sector in North America. Carbon credits have ... -
Private Data Exploring, Sampling, and Profiling
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-27)Data analytics is being widely used not only as a business tool, which empowers organizations to drive efficiencies, glean deeper operational insights and identify new opportunities, but also for the greater good of society, ...