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Deep SELECTOR-JPEG: ADAPTIVE JPEG IMAGE COMPRESSION FOR COMPUTER VISION IN IMAGE CLASSIFICATION AND HUMAN VISION
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) demonstrate excellent performance in many Computer Vision (CV) applications such as image classification. To meet storage/bandwidth requirements, the input images to these CV applications are ... -
Deep Supply-Chain Engagement in Conflict Minerals
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-18)Tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold, known as the 3TG, are commonly used in electronics, and other high tech and manufactured products. Their extraction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where human rights and civil ... -
Deep Weakly Supervised Learning for Whole Slide Image Representation: A Multimodal Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-15)Pathologists examine stained specimens under a microscope to diagnose a multitude of diseases. With the advancement of scanner technology in recent years, the entire tissue glass slide can now be scanned and saved as a ... -
A Deep-Learning Framework for Detecting and Predicting Clinical Events Using Continuous, Multimodal Physiological Signals
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-20)There are an estimated 313 million surgeries performed worldwide each year. Even with significant clinical and technical advances in perioperative research, many patients experience a major complication during the first ... -
Deep-Learning Framework for Estimating Behind the Meter Solar Generation and Electric Vehicle Penetration Level and Time-of-Use
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-20)The continual increase in the adoption of rooftop solar/photovoltaic (PV) generation and electric vehicles (EVs) presents challenges, as well as opportunities, in distribution power systems. Without monitoring or control, ... -
Deeper Burning Increases Available Phosphorus, Promotes Moss Growth, and Carbon Dioxide Uptake in a Fen Peatland One-Year Post-Wildfire in Fort McMurray, AB
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-25)Carbon storage in northern peatlands is estimated to be ~795 Tg, equivalent to ~40% of atmospheric CO2. Peatlands are dominant features of the Western Boreal Plains (WBP), which are experiencing a regime shift to a ... -
Deeper insights into the construct of sexual communication: Understanding of the role of individual and relationship factors and the development of a process model
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-23)Successful and fulfilling intimate relationships are an integral part of overall wellbeing, and their success and meaning are determined by many factors, including sexual communication within the relationship (Byers & ... -
DeepThInk: Designing and Probing Human-AI Co-creation in Digital Art Therapy
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-27)Art therapy has been an essential form of psychotherapy to facilitate psychological well-being, which has been promoted and transformed by recent technological advances into digital art therapy. However, the potential of ... -
Defect Detection Via THz Imaging: Potentials & Limitations
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-28)Until recent years, terahertz (THz) waves were an undiscovered, or most importantly, an unexploited area of electromagnetic spectrum. This was due to difficulties in generation and detection of THz waves. Recent advances ... -
Defect Investigation on Hematite Photoanodes
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-17)Efforts to improve the efficiency of photoelectrocatalytic reactions on hematite photoanodes routinely focus on the analysis of photophysics, or on the fabrication of complex material architectures. The discontinuity of ... -
Defect-Rich Size-Selected Nanoclusters and Nanocrystalline Films of Titanium (IV) Oxide and Tantalum (IV) Oxide for Efficient Photocatalyst and Electroforming-Free Memristor Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-16)Transition metal oxides, TiO2 and Ta2O5, are two of the most extensively studied wide bandgap semiconductor materials (with high work functions). Due to their suitable band edge positions for hydrogen evolution and exceptional ... -
Defect-rich Titanium (IV) Oxide and Zirconium (IV) Oxide Nanostructures for Ultra-efficient Photocatalyst and High-Tc Dilute Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-16)In transparent conductive oxide nanostructures, oxygen vacancy defects (neutral, singly charged, and doubly charged defects) are found to be one of the most important and prevalent defects due to the enhancement of light ... -
Defects and Boundaries in Quantum Field Theories
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-29)We discuss some aspects of defects and boundaries in quantum field theories (QFTs) and their applications in revealing non-perturbative aspects of QFTs in combination with other techniques, including integrability. ... -
Defense and Civilian Energy Systems: Security, Sustainability and Survivability Considerations for the 21st Century
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-13)The United States and NATO Allies have a national security problem that is the product of America being the home of inexpensive and plentiful modern energy. A century of cheap and plentiful domestic supplies of oil has ... -
A Defense of Semantic Conventionalism
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-26)The purpose of this dissertation is to argue that semantic conventionalism of a, more or less, Dummettian variety is unjustly neglected in contemporary philosophy. The strategy for arguing this is to make a conjecture ... -
A Defense of the Public Health-Quarantine Model of Punishment in Light of Obligations of the State to the Wrongdoer
(University of Waterloo, 2017-02-22)Punishment is traditionally justified retributively or consequentially; that is, with respect to the desert of the wrongdoer or the positive consequences of the punishment. State-sanctioned punishment (the kind of punishment ... -
Defined Benefit Pension Plans: Cost of Living Adjustments and Membership Heterogeneity
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-06)In this paper we explore different structures for cost of living adjustments (COLA), based on Hardy et al. (2020)’s five significant criteria: affordability, sustainability, efficiency, adequacy, and fairness. Full COLA ... -
Defining and Exploring Public Space: Young People's Perspectives from Regent Park, Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)Young people have not traditionally had a voice in urban planning. More often than not, they are incorporated into planning by either considering them as an implicit population or as part and parcel of planning for families ... -
Defining Normative Upper Limb Kinematics during Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) Task Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-24)The Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) is an evaluation tool used in the return to work process to guide treatment and decision making. An FCE involves testing the functional abilities of an individual to determine their ... -
Defining the Ideal Applicant: Examining patrol officer perspectives on police organizational recruitment standards
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-16)Previous research has examined the psychological, psychophysical, and physical traits of police officers and police recruits, however little is known about individuals who aspire or intend to become a police officer. By ...