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Cosmic Atoms: from Causal Sets to Clusters
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-19)This thesis is a collection of works which seek to address certain aspects of the following puzzles: quantum gravity, initial conditions of the universe, the cosmological constant problem, and baryonic processes in clusters ... -
Cosmographia Metallica
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-20)In his book The Living Rock, historian A.J. Wilson writes, “The history of metals is the history of civilization”. From its beginnings in simple toolmaking, to modern-day machinery and weapons, the development of metallurgy ... -
Cosmological beam plasma instabilities
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-24)Blazars are the main source of extragalactic very high energy gamma-rays. These gamma rays annihilate on the extragalactic background light, producing electron-positron pair beams with TeV energies. The pair beams are very ... -
Cosmological Results and Implications in Effective DGP
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-26)We study a simple extension of the decoupling limit of boundary effctive actions for the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati model, by covariantizing the π lagrangian and coupling to gravity in the usual way. This extension agrees ... -
Cosmological Tests of Causal Set Phenomenology
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-20)Causal Set Theory is an approach to Quantum Gravity that postulates that the fundamental structure of a spacetime manifold is a Lorentz Invariant discrete structure endowed with a causal order from which the geometry and ... -
Cosmology with Cluster Structural Properties
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-23)Galaxy clusters are massive objects composed of hundreds or thousands of galaxies, hot gas and an extended dark matter (DM) halo. They are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe. As such, they result ... -
Cost Analysis of Query-Anonymity on the Internet of Things
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-06)A necessary function of the Internet of Things (IoT) is to sense the real-world from the fabric of everyday environments. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are widely deployed as part of IoT for environmental sensing, ... -
Cost and Benefit of Embedded Feature Annotation: A Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-19)In software industry, organizations often need to develop a set of similar software-intensive systems in order to satisfy different requirements of customers. In the literature, it has been traditionally recommended that ... -
Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Riluzole for ALS in Ontario Home Care Setting
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-23)Objective: To identify the factors associated with the prescription of riluzole and assess its cost-effectiveness for patients diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in long stay home care in Ontario, Canada. ... -
A Cost Model for a Fingered Join Operator in Relational Query Plans
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-12)We introduce the finger aware cursor operator for relational join queries. It scans a list of tuples in a finger enabled manner when a nested loop join operation is performed. Using this scan operation, we improve the ... -
Cost-Based Automatic Recovery Policy in Data Centers
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-20)Today's data centers either provide critical applications to organizations or host computing clouds used by huge Internet populations. Their size and complex structure make management difficult, causing high operational ... -
Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Single Session Walk-In Counselling
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-25)Background: Increased costs and demand for accessibility to mental health services accompanied by a decline in resources has forced mental health service providers and government to innovate and develop a variety of new ... -
Cost-effectiveness of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell Therapy for Treating Large B-cell Lymphoma Patients in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-21)Background/Aim: Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is a novel cell therapy for treating hematological cancers including multiply relapsed large B-cell lymphoma in adults. Although for some patients it can ... -
Cost-Efficient Contingent Claims with Choquet Pricing
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-30)We examine a problem, in which an investor seeks the cheapest contingent claim that achieves a minimum performance subject to a maximum allowed risk exposure. Specifically, our problem minimizes a non-linear cost functional, ... -
Cost-Sensitive Boosting for Classification of Imbalanced Data
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-11)The classification of data with imbalanced class distributions has posed a significant drawback in the performance attainable by most well-developed classification systems, which assume relatively balanced class ... -
Costly Actions, External Incentives and Prediction Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-25)Consider a prediction market of multiple rounds with a security contingent on a certain event whose final outcome is decided by the agents who also trade in the market. One such prediction market is one in which two agents, ... -
The costs of bonding: negotiating personal information disclosure among Millennials and Boomers on Facebook
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Since early 2010, Facebook.com, the world’s most popular social network site (SNS), has come under a storm of media criticism over the commercial use of its users’ personal information. Yet even as more became known about ... -
Counterculture Plan for the Creative City: A Critique of Patterns of Flexibility and Fixity in Toronto's Cultural Renaissance
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-07)Between the years 2000 and 2010, the City of Toronto experienced an unprecedented spike in cultural construction. This building boom, ushered in by Toronto’s “Culture Plan for the Creative City” and dubbed “Toronto’s ... -
The Counterpublic of Union Station; An Alternative Future of Toronto's Transit Terminal
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)Though Toronto’s public spaces were conceived as spaces of discourse engendering democratic participation, today we witness their degradation into platforms of consumption. Contemporary Capitalist forces engulf the city’s ... -
Counting Bases
(University of Waterloo, 2004)A theorem of Edmonds characterizes when a pair of matroids has a common basis. Enumerating the common bases of a pair of matroid is a much harder problem, and includes the #P-complete problem of counting the number of ...