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Direct User Calls from the Kernel: Design and Implementation
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-25)Traditional, general-purpose operating systems strictly separate user processes from the kernel. Processes can only communicate with the kernel through system calls. As a means to ensure system security, system calls ... -
Direct Visual Servoing for Grasping Using Depth Maps
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-21)Visual servoing is extremely helpful for many applications such as tracking objects, controlling the position of end-effectors, grasping and many others. It has been helpful in industrial sites, academic projects and ... -
Direct Visual-Inertial Odometry using Epipolar Constraints for Land Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Autonomously operating vehicles are being developed to take over human supervision in applications such as search and rescue, surveillance, exploration and scientific data collection. For a vehicle to operate autonomously, ... -
DIRECTION SPECIFIC COSTS TO SPATIAL WORKING MEMORY FROM SACCADIC AND SPATIAL REMAPPING
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-24)Right parietal lesions often lead to neglect, in which patients fail to attend to leftward stimuli. Recent models of neglect suggest that, in addition to attentional impairments, patients demonstrate impairments of spatial ... -
Directional Control of Generating Brownian Path under Quasi Monte Carlo
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-10)Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are playing an increasingly important role in computational finance. This is attributed to the increased complexity of the derivative securities and the sophistication of the financial models. ... -
Directly Learning Tractable Models for Sequential Inference and DecisionMaking
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-21)Probabilistic graphical models such as Bayesian networks and Markov networks provide a general framework to represent multivariate distributions while exploiting conditional independence. Over the years, many approaches ... -
Disability Drama: Semiotic Bodies and Diegetic Subjectivities in post-WWI German Expressionist Drama
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-05)In this dissertation, I examine discourses on disability and the body in three German Expressionist dramas written directly after WWI both for the discursive work they do in this context and for their relevance today: Ernst ... -
Disablement, Diversity, Deviation: Disability in an Age of Environmental Risk
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-21)This dissertation brings disability studies and postcolonial studies into dialogue with discourse surrounding risk in the environmental humanities. The central question that it investigates is how critics can reframe and ... -
Disappearing Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-25)Disappearing Architecture Media facades dominate the skylines of many of our cities. A quick stroll through today’s urban areas involves a one-sided conversation directed at pedestrians. Advertisements aggressively ... -
Disaster Risk Reduction and Local Knowledge in Flood-Prone Communities: A Nigerian Case Study.
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-27)There has been a long debate regarding the value of traditional/indigenous/local knowledge in disaster risk reduction. Often viewed as ‘backwards’, governments instead have emphasised ‘advanced’ technologically sophisticated ... -
Disasters in Abstracting Combinatorial Properties of Linear Dependence
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-15)A notion of geometric structure can be given to a set of points without using a coordinate system by instead describing geometric relations between finite combinations of elements. The fundamental problem is to then ... -
Disciplinary Inequality, Collective Agency, and Interprofessional Collaboration in Health Care
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-05)In this thesis, I apply collective responsibility theory to the problem of health care inequality between physicians and nurses. This analysis is conducted in the context of physician-nurse interprofessional collaboration ... -
DISCONNECT: Assessing and Managing the Social Effects of Development in the Athabasca Oil Sands
(University of Waterloo, 2003)This research investigated the system by which the social effects of oil sands development on Fort McMurray, a city in northeastern Alberta, are assessed and managed. The research focused on Social Impact Assessment ... -
Disconnected Connections: Extending Peripersonal Space with a Virtual Hand
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-28)Peripersonal (reachable) and extrapersonal (beyond reach) space is linked to hand perception. Using a tool to reach farther than normal recalibrates previously unreachable space as peripersonal, evidenced by Intraparietal ... -
The Discontinuous Galerkin Method Applied to Problems in Electromagnetism
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-23)The discontinuous Galerkin method (DGM) is applied to a number of problems in computational electromagnetics. This is achieved by obtaining numerical solutions to Maxwell's equations using the DGM. The aim of these ... -
The discontinuous Galerkin method on Cartesian grids with embedded geometries: spectrum analysis and implementation for Euler equations
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-21)In this thesis, we analyze theoretical properties of the discontinuous Galerkin method (DGM) and propose novel approaches to implementation with the aim to increase its efficiency. First, we derive explicit expressions ... -
Discours protestant et parcours féminin dans Delphine (1802) de Madame de Staël
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-29)Notre travail se consacre à une analyse sociohistorique de la représentation du protestantisme dans le roman épistolaire Delphine (1802). Dans ce premier roman, Madame de Staël dépeint une héroïne dont le parcours offre ... -
Discovering Domain Orders through Order Dependencies
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-28)Most real-world data come with explicitly defined domain orders; e.g., lexicographic order for strings, numeric for integers, and chronological for time. Our goal is to discover implicit domain orders that we do not already ... -
Discovering new viral lineages and estimating their abundance in wastewater
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-27)Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 has emerged as a critical tool for tracking the spread of COVID-19. In addition to estimating the relative case numbers using qPCR, SARS-CoV-2 genomic RNA can be extracted from wastewater ... -
Discovering Patterns from Sequences with Applications to Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-30)Understanding Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA interaction is of fundamental importance in deciphering gene regulation and other biological processes in living cells. Traditionally, new interaction knowledge is discovered ...