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Collective Spin-Cavity Ensembles and the Protection of Higher-dimensional Quantum Information
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-28)The development of devices leveraging their quantum nature to outperform classical analogues has been an ongoing effort for many decades now. In this thesis we investigate two facets related to this effort, albeit at ... -
Collective Threat for STEM Women Predicts Friendship and Academic Integration
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-29)Members of stigmatized groups commonly confront collective threat: concerns that fellow group members' stereotypic behavior may reflect negatively on one's group and, by extension, oneself. If other ingroup members threaten ... -
Collectivizing the Platform: Re-Imagining Hotel Living as an Affordable Housing Strategy in San Francisco
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-01)This thesis proposes to re-evaluate the role of the Single Room Occupancy Hotel (SRO) typology to aid affordable housing production in San Francisco within the context of Californian techno-dominance. In our platform ... -
Collision Finding with Many Classical or Quantum Processors
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)In this thesis, we investigate the cost of finding collisions in a black-box function, a problem that is of fundamental importance in cryptanalysis. Inspired by the excellent performance of the heuristic rho method of ... -
Colloid transport through basic oxygen furnace slag as permeable treatment media for pathogen removal
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)Basic oxygen furnace (BOF) slag media were studied through a series of laboratory, modeling and field studies as a potential treatment material for use in on site wastewater disposal systems. Microsphere enumeration ... -
Color Image Edge Detection and Segmentation: A Comparison of the Vector Angle and the Euclidean Distance Color Similarity Measures
(University of Waterloo, 1999)This work is based on Shafer's Dichromatic Reflection Model as applied to color image formation. The color spaces RGB, XYZ, CIELAB, CIELUV, rgb, l1l2l3, and the new h1h2h3 color space are discussed from this perspective. ... -
Colorimetric Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria Using Morphology-Controlled Gold Nanoparticles
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-28)Simple and rapid detection of pathogens is crucial for preventing and treating infectious diseases. Conventional methods for pathogen detection are based on cell cultures and could require several days. The use of ... -
Colorimetric Identification of Proteins Using Gold Nanoparticles
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-31)Proteins are the principal executive biomolecules of life. Their existence is required to drive and regulate countless physiological and biochemical activities within the cell. The study of biochemistry and biology are ... -
Coloring Algorithms for Graphs and Hypergraphs with Forbidden Substructures
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-18)This thesis mainly focus on complexity results of the generalized version of the $r$-Coloring Problem, the $r$-Pre-Coloring Extension Problem and the List $r$-Coloring Problem restricted to hypergraphs and ordered graphs ... -
Colour discrimination thresholds and acceptability ratings using simulated Microtile displays.
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-03)Introduction Nearly all flat panel video display monitors have luminance and colour variations as the angle of view varies from the monitor’s perpendicular. The new MicrotileTM displays developed by Christie Digital are ... -
Colour Vision Test for Railway Dispatchers
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-29)Introduction Colour codes are used extensively in railways to convey specific information governing movement of trains and equipment on the track. One such task is the railway traffic control display that uses colour coded ... -
Colouring Cayley Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2005)We will discuss three ways to bound the chromatic number on a Cayley graph. 1. If the connection set contains information about a smaller graph, then these two graphs are related. Using this information, we will ... -
Colouring Subspaces
(University of Waterloo, 2005)This thesis was originally motivated by considering vector space analogues of problems in extremal set theory, but our main results concern colouring a graph that is intimately related to these vector space analogues. ... -
Combination of Chemotherapy and Antiangiogenic Therapies: A Mathematical Modelling Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-08)A brief introduction to cancer biology and treatment is presented with a focus on current clinical advances in the delivery of chemotherapy and antiangiogenic therapies. Mathematical oncology is then surveyed with summaries ... -
Combination of Levene-Type Tests and a Finite-Intersection Method for Testing Trends in Variances
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)The problem of detecting monotonic increasing/decreasing trends in variances from k samples is widely met in many applications, e.g. financial data analysis, medical and environmental studies. However, most of the tests ... -
Combinatorial Algorithms for Submodular Function Minimization and Related Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-19)Submodular functions are common in combinatorics; examples include the cut capacity function of a graph and the rank function of a matroid. The submodular function minimization problem generalizes the classical minimum cut ... -
Combinatorial and Probabilistic Approaches to Motif Recognition
(University of Waterloo, 2010-11-10)Short substrings of genomic data that are responsible for biological processes, such as gene expression, are referred to as motifs. Motifs with the same function may not entirely match, due to mutation events at a few of ... -
Combinatorial Approaches To The Jacobian Conjecture
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-24)The Jacobian Conjecture is a long-standing open problem in algebraic geometry. Though the problem is inherently algebraic, it crops up in fields throughout mathematics including perturbation theory, quantum field theory ... -
Combinatorial Arithmetic on Elliptic Curves
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)We propose a scalar multiplication technique on an elliptic curve, which operates on triples of collinear points. The computation of this operation requires a new approach to operation chains, with similarities to Montgomery ... -
Combinatorial aspects of braids with applications to cryptography
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-25)This thesis is a collection of different results on braids, and draws connections between them. We first introduce braids by showcasing a number of equivalent ways of describing what a braid is, and how those representations ...