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Clay Shapes the Hand
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-16)Clay is a ubiquitous and malleable substance that records history at the scale of geologic time. Present in creation stories and found to be one of the first human tools, clay runs parallel to humanity. Clay acts as a ... -
CLBlood: A Cell-Based Light Interaction Model for Human Blood
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-19)The development of predictive appearance models for organic tissues is a challenging task due to the inherent complexity of these materials. In this thesis, we closely examine the biophysical processes responsible for the ... -
Cleanup Memory in Biologically Plausible Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2005)During the past decade, a new class of knowledge representation has emerged known as structured distributed representation (SDR). A number of schemes for encoding and manipulating such representations have been developed; ... -
A Client-Centric Data Streaming Technique for Smartphones: An Energy Evaluation
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-24)With advances in microelectronic and wireless communication technologies, smartphones have computer-like capabilities in terms of computing power and communication bandwidth. They allow users to use advanced applications ... -
Clifford Simulation: Techniques and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-28)Despite the widespread belief that quantum computers cannot be efficiently simulated classically, efficient simulation is known to be possible in certain restricted regimes. In particular, the Gottesman-Knill theorem states ... -
Climate Change Adaptation Capacity in Ontario Conservation Authorities: A Case Study Evaluation
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-12)In Canada, anticipated climate changes including an increased frequency of hot temperature extremes and intense precipitation events, are projected to affect surface water and groundwater resources with respect to water ... -
Climate change adaptation in Metro Vancouver: examining the role of managed retreat
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)Climate changes are intensifying and introducing new flood risks to coastal regions. As a result, past flood risk reduction measures may not be suitable for future sea level rise and climate extremes. Ensuring the resilience ... -
Climate change adaptation in Metro Vancouver: The role of boundary organizations and advocacy planning
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)City planners have an opportunity to act as agents of change to build resilience within their cities to respond to climate change. With climate change rapidly changing urban environments, it is critical that municipal ... -
Climate Change and Cultural Anxieties: An Exploration of Dystopian Novels from Before and After Global Warming
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-31)Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of the twenty-first century. However, despite the urgency of the problem, popular political narratives fail to address the issue, suggesting to constituents that climate ... -
Climate change and endangered species in Canada: A screening level impact assessment and analysis of species at risk management and policy
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-06)Climate is a long-term driver of ecological change, but the rapidity with which climate is projected to change over the next century may push the limitations of ecological adaptability, to the detriment of biodiversity. ... -
Climate Change and the Canadian Financial Services Sector
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-23)Canada is highly dependent on the emission intensive sectors and at the same time, sectors that are vulnerable to variations in weather and extreme events. This makes the Canadian economy especially vulnerable to the impacts ... -
Climate Change and the Expansion of Arctic Shipping
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-29)The potential economic benefits from increased Arctic shipping are enormous. As well as changing the logistics of global trade, Arctic shipping routes have the potential to generate inward investment flows benefiting the ... -
Climate Change and Winter Road Maintenance: Planning for Change in the City of Prince George, British Columbia
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-15)Throughout Canada, significant resources are dedicated to winter road maintenance (WRM) activities. While changes in technology and materials are affecting WRM decisions, climate variability and change will also be of ... -
Climate Change Impacts on Snowmelt-Driven Streamflow in the Grand River Watershed: Implications for Water Resource Management
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-25)Climate change is one of the most significant global environmental drivers threatening the quality and quantity of future water resources. Global temperature increases will have significant effects on the hydrologic regime ... -
Climate Change Impacts on Visitation in National Parks in the United States
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-19)Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world and it continues to grow at a rapid pace. Tourism is dependent upon weather and climate, particularly the length and quality of the outdoor recreation season for ... -
Climate Change Projection and Time-varying Multi-dimensional Risk Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-20)In recent decades, population growth and global warming consequent to greenhouse gas emissions because of human activities, has changed the atmospheric composition leading to intensifying extreme climate phenomena and ... -
Climate Change Risk in Stock Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-20)Climate change is becoming a common threat to the world and has been studied by scholars in various fields. In the field of finance, many papers have discussed financial market efficiency toward climate change in order to ... -
A Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment of a Tourism Destination Community (A Case-Study of Oistins, Barbados)
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-29)The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has documented substantial evidence for human influence as the dominant cause of global climate change. As some degree of further climate change ... -
Climate Change Vulnerability of St Lucia Tourism
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-24)The UN IPCC reports that global annual average temperature has increased by approximately 1°C since the pre-industrial era, and projects that it will rise up to 5.7°C by 2100, depending on the emissions scenario, leading ... -
Climate Change Vulnerability of the US Northeast Ski Sector: a multi-methods systems-based approach
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-14)In its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change estimated that global mean temperature will increase between 1.8 to 4.0°C by the end of the 21st century. An increase in global temperature ...