Browsing Theses by Title
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City Core Neighbourhoods Designed for Sustainability
(University of Waterloo, 1993)Humankind's ability to ensure sustainability of the biosphere depends upon the integrated and concerted efforts of all peoples in all places. This study examines the critical need to focus on the achievement of sustainability ... -
The City Delimited
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-13)Positioning itself as an investigation into the affective capacity of transport, this thesis argues that the potential of a city is both composed and revealed through its systems of movement, contending that the sensorial ... -
City Familiaris: A Study in Domesticating Infrastructures
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)Hyper dense communities are becoming a norm in Canadian metropolitan areas. CityPlace within Toronto is considered by many the result of a good intentioned, but poorly planned version of this community. The model for its ... -
City Life, Anxiety and the Problem of the Neighbour: A Theoretical Exploration of the Grey Zone
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-24)This thesis is a theoretical exploration of the problem of the neighbour as an encounter with the Grey Zone. I look at various materials that can be formulated as expressions of the anxiety over the unknown that can come ... -
City of Rebirth: Revisiting the Place and Memory of Tainan's Multi-generational Homes
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-19)This thesis is an interdisciplinary exploration of how the multi-generational homes in Tainan, Taiwan, along with the objects and people found within them, play a fundamental role in shaping the city's individual and ... -
City of Wind: Exposing the Invisible
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-02)Strong winds have breached the city walls. A set of iron chairs launch toward a couple passing an outdoor patio. Bags of groceries fling from unsuspecting hands and scatter across the sidewalk. A group of cyclists swerve ... -
The City Under the City: in/to the PATH
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-20)Beneath the congested sidewalks of downtown Toronto is an expanding underground pedestrian network spanning thirty kilometres, the largest urban infrastructure of its kind. Branded as the PATH, it does not provide a clear ... -
A City with Two Faces
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-11)The identity of the Caribbean as a territory is a veritable bricolage of cultural forms. Since Columbus’ mistaken arrival in the West Indies, these islands have become home to Spanish, French, Dutch, British, African, ... -
Civil Society, Good Governance and the News Media: A case study of civil society inclusion in Winnipeg Free Press coverage of Lake Winnipeg nutrient loading
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-18)Governance and participatory democracy theory suggest that strong policy can stem from the inclusion of all societal voices in discussion of options, and that the public must have a strong base of information in order to ... -
Cladophora growth in littoral environments of large lakes: Spatial complexity and ecological interpretations
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-19)This thesis brings together a variety of new and evolving technologies in an attempt to characterize spatial variability in highly complex near shore areas of the Laurentian Great Lakes in order to provide methods and ... -
ClaferMPS: Modeling and Optimizing Automotive Electric/Electronic Architectures Using Domain-Specific Languages
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)Modern automotive electric/electronic (E/E) architectures are growing to the point where architects can no longer manually predict the effects of their design decisions. Thus, in addition to applying an architecture reference ... -
Claiming a Piece of Sky
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-11)When you wander into a workers’ village on the outskirts of Shanghai, China, you would see a very unique type of urban vernacular: suspended additions hanging on the façade. They are the inhabitants’ attempt to transform ... -
Claiming the Sky; Rethinking High-Rise Development in the City of Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-04)Toronto is following the footsteps of populated urban cities like New York through the extrusion of skyscrapers, transforming Toronto into one of the densest cities in North America. Rapid development of residential density ... -
Clarifying Multi-Component Polymerization Kinetics for Tailoring Properties of Acrylamide/Acrylic Acid Copolymers for Enhanced Oil Recovery
(University of Waterloo, 2015-11-30)Among water-soluble polymers, copolymers of acrylamide (AAm) and acrylic acid (AAc) are probably the most common and widely used in practical applications. However, information on the kinetics of the AAm/AAc radical ... -
The Clark-Ocone formula and optimal portfolios
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)In this thesis we propose a new approach to solve single-agent investment problems with deterministic coefficients. We consider the classical Merton’s portfolio problem framework, which is well-known in the modern theory ... -
Class Based Strategies for Understanding Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-07)One of the main challenges for broad adoption of deep learning based models such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), is the lack of understanding of their decisions. In many applications, a simpler, less capable model ... -
Class Divides: An Ethnographic Study of Social Service Workers in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-06)Drawing upon narratives collected from those working in the fields of social work and child and youth work, this thesis examines the relationships forged between middle-class social service workers and low-income youth and ... -
Class Incremental Learning in Deep Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-28)With the advancement of computation capability, in particular the use of graphical processing units, deep learning systems have shown tremendous potential in achieving super-human performance in many computer vision tasks. ... -
A Class of Augmented Convolutional Networks Architectures for Efficient Visual Anomaly Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-23)Visual anomaly detection, the task of isolating visual data that do not conform to the defined notion of normality, is very crucial for the autonomous functioning of entities with exceptional potential in a spectrum of ... -
Classical and Quantum Algorithms for Isogeny-based Cryptography
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-30)Isogeny-based cryptography using supersingular elliptic curves --- most prominently, the constructions of De Feo-Jao-Plut --- is one of the few practical candidates for post-quantum public key cryptography. Its formidable ...