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Coupling of two natural complex systems: earthquake-triggered landslides
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-30)This thesis contains two main parts. The first part presents a database compiling 137 landslide-triggering earthquakes (LTEs) worldwide, with magnitudes greater than the minimum observed threshold for causing landslides ... -
Coupling reactive transport and travel time modeling at the watershed scale
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)Nonpoint source pollution poses the greatest threat to water quality in developed countries. Modeling this type of pollution is a challenge for reactive transport models because of the change in scale: moving from a local ... -
Court convictions of a Canadian birth cohort
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-28)Although youth crime and young offenders have attracted a significant amount of ongoing research attention and have given rise to a voluminous amount of literature devoted to describing and explaining their existence and ... -
Courtyard Urbanism : A Model for North American Cities?
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-26)The courtyard has endured as one of the most widespread architectural forms, transcending regional, historical and cultural boundaries to mediate open and closed, inside and outside, social constraints and environmental ... -
A Covariant Natural Ultraviolet Cutoff in Inflationary Cosmology
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-28)In the field of quantum gravity, it is widely expected that some form of a minimum length scale, or ultraviolet cutoff, exists in nature. Recently, a new natural ultraviolet cutoff that is fully covariant was proposed. In ... -
Coverage Path Planning and Room Segmentation in Indoor Environments using the Constriction Decomposition Method
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-28)The task of complete coverage path planning in complex 2D environments is a classic NP- Hard problem that has been an active research topic for well over 30 years. A common approach to solving coverage problem in such ... -
Coverage Path Planning for a Moving Vehicle
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-21)A simple coverage plan called a Conformal Lawn Mower plan is demonstrated. This plan enables a UAV to fully cover the route ahead of a moving ground vehicle. The plan requires only limited knowledge of the ground vehicle's ... -
Covering Graphs and Equiangular Tight Frames
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-02)Recently, there has been huge attention paid to equiangular tight frames and their constructions, due to the fact that the relationship between these frames and quantum information theory was established. One of the problems ... -
Covering Problems via Structural Approaches
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)The minimum set cover problem is, without question, among the most ubiquitous and well-studied problems in computer science. Its theoretical hardness has been fully characterized--logarithmic approximability has been ... -
"Covetous to parley with so sweet a frontis-peece": Illustration in Early Modern English Play-Texts
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-28)This dissertation studies visual artifacts associated with early modern theatre and book culture, and through them examines acts of communication in the marketplace. These artifacts, illustrated play-text title pages from ... -
COVID-19 FOOTPRINTS AND POST PANDEMIC VISUALIZATION OF SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES: CASE STUDY OF CHILIKA LAGOON IN INDIA
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)Small-scale fisheries and local communities reflect a way of life, and provide critical contributions to nutrition and food security, poverty alleviation and livelihoods, and local and national economies. Fisherfolk suffer ... -
COVID-19 Risk Perception in Urban and Architectural Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-20)The COVID-19 pandemic presented a profound challenge for cities. Cities are designed to maximize the benefits of density, yet this same density becomes a liability during an outbreak of a socially communicable infection. ... -
COVID-19, Mental Health, and Chronic Illnesses: A Syndemic Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-12)Introduction: The term "syndemic" refers to the interaction between two or more coexisting epidemics, where the interactions amplify the negative health outcomes. The COVID-19 pandemic can be considered a syndemic because ... -
Coworking through the Pandemic: Flexibly Yours
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-17)Coworking can be defined as a paid for service (usually) providing shared workspace and amenities to users. When the pandemic hit, owing to the business model’s in-person foundations of physical proximity and shared ... -
Crack in Corrosion Flaw Assessment in Thin-Walled Pipe
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-28)Pipelines are a safe and efficient method for transporting high volumes of oil and gas. However, aging pipelines may experience flaws, such as cracks or corrosion. Present approaches include detection, assessment and repair ... -
Cracking Behaviour of Glass Fibre-Reinforced Polymers under Combined Compression-Shear Cyclic Loading
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-28)A ply-level investigation into the cracking behaviour of E-glass/epoxy laminates under cyclic multiaxial loading was performed. Two laminate types were subjected to combined transverse compression-shear loading: multidirectional ... -
Cracking the Code: Unraveling Gender Disparities in Open-Source Contributions
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-28)Within the world of open source software (OSS) development, previous research has shown that the success rate of pull requests (PRs) may exhibit gender-related imbalances. In this work, we seek to examine which factors ... -
Crafting the Modern Woman in Azerbaijan: Muslim Women, the State, and Modernity, 1900–1939
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-26)This study examines the little-known history of cultural transformation initiated by Azerbaijani reformers between the 1850s and 1930s. Relying on a unique body of sources, which include handwritten manuscripts, literary ... -
The CRANE Framework for Simulation Model Workflows
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-25)CRANE is presented as a flexible framework for linking simulation models and model support tools to form integrated modelling systems for engineering and scientific applications, evaluated using the scientific workflow ... -
Craniosynostosis Surgery: A Study of Rearrangement
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-22)Cranial vault remodeling, a form of skull surgery is currently performed according to intuition developed over years of experience. The problem of how to best perform this surgery has not yet thoroughly been studied by ...