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Family Health Service Utilization Patterns: Analysis of Predictors, Economic Costs, and Preventative Factors
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)This study examined the family and individual-level predictors of caregiver/child health and social service utilization expenditures during the COVID-19 pandemic. A sample of UK caregivers (n = 418) provided reports on ... -
Family Matters: Gender and Family in Seneca's Phaedra
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)Seneca the Younger, writing in the early Roman Empire, is the only known Roman tragedian whose works survive. His Phaedra, considered to be one of his earlier tragedies, is centered on the royal family of Athens, consisting ... -
Family Meal Influence on Dietary Quality of Students in Grade Six, Seven, and Eight from Ontario and Nova Scotia
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-18)In 2004, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Report, Healthy Weights, Healthy Lives (Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, 2004) identified the family (as well as the government, food industry, workplaces, schools, ... -
The Fantastical World of Playboy
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-24)While Playboy was published in the early Fifties its success is arguably reflected through the longevity and survival of the name and logo; as the Playboy Bunny logo and the symbol of Hugh Hefner (specifically dressed in ... -
Far from Levelling the Playing Field: Understanding the Gender Differences in Venture Capital Financing in India
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-26)Despite all the government initiatives aimed at empowering women in India, women entrepreneurs continue to face significant financial challenges in the country. The women may gain access to debt capital, but they have ... -
Farmers making sense out of a cartographic landscape: Like a patchwork of clothes, rather than just chunks of... parcels
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-21)Planning maps are not only, as is often silently assumed by planners, neutral technical tools to assist them in their design and analytical tasks or to communicate their findings to others. In complex multi-stakeholder ... -
Farming the High Seas: An adaptive approach for the inhabitation of oceanic recirculation gyres
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)Ocean management authorities predict that global fish stocks will be severely depleted by mid-century unless commercial fishing practices are greatly modified. This thesis considers aquatic architecture in general, and ... -
The fascination of apocalypse: A cultural comparison of Canadian and Central European imaginations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-28)The modern time seems to be fascinated by the imagination of apocalyptic scenarios. This master thesis aims to analyse apocalyptic fiction from authors of Canada, Austria and Germany and draw a comparison between the ... -
fashioning the distillery district: an architecture of spectacle and performance
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-21)In the beginning there was cladding, first embraced by humans through the painting and tattooing of skin as a means of displaying one’s social position, tribal affiliation, or stage in life. Accompanied by the performance ... -
Fast algorithms for computing with integer matrices: normal forms and applications
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-24)The focus of this thesis is on fundamental computational problems in exact integer linear algebra. Specifically, for a nonsingular integer input matrix A of dimension n, we consider problems such as linear system solving ... -
Fast Algorithms for Finding the Characteristic Polynomial of a Rank-2 Drinfeld Module
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)This thesis introduces a new Monte Carlo randomized algorithm for computing the characteristic polynomial of a rank-2 Drinfeld module. We also introduce a deterministic algorithm that uses some ideas seen in Schoof's ... -
Fast Algorithms for Large-Scale Phylogenetic Reconstruction
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-24)One of the most fundamental computational problems in biology is that of inferring evolutionary histories of groups of species from sequence data. Such evolutionary histories, known as phylogenies are usually represented ... -
Fast and Robust Approach to Find the Gouge-free Tool Position of the Toroidal Cutter for the Bézier Surface in Five Axis Machining
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-15)One of the approach used for tool path generation for Bézier surfaces is the Multipoint machining (MPM) approach, in which the toroidal cutter touches the machined surface at two points of contact. Multipoint machining ... -
Fast and Robust Mathematical Modeling of NMR Assignment Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-26)NMR spectroscopy is not only for protein structure determination, but also for drug screening and studies of dynamics and interactions. In both cases, one of the main bottleneck steps is backbone assignment. When a homologous ... -
Fast and Scalable Solvers for the Fluid Pressure Equations with Separating Solid Boundary Conditions
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-01)We propose and evaluate fast, scalable approaches for solving the linear complementarity problems (LCP) arising from the fluid pressure equations with separating solid boundary conditions. Specifically, we present a policy ... -
Fast Bootstrapping in Z_q
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-28)In 2015, Ducas and Micciancio presented a novel technique to compute the NAND gate using the Learning With Errors cryptosystem (LWE), along with a novel bootstrapping technique that turns turns this cryptosystem into a ... -
Fast control and decoherence in superconducting quantum circuits
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-24)This thesis discusses a series of experimental and theoretical studies on fast control and decoherence in superconducting quantum circuits. These two subjects are complementary aspects of the problem of improving the gate ... -
Fast DC Fault Current Suppression and Fault Ride Through in Full-Bridge MMCs via Regulation of Submodule Capacitor Discharge
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-16)High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) is more cost-effective than High Voltage Alternating Current (HVAC) for transmitting power over long distances, and therefore is ideal for bulk power transfer from wind, solar, hydroelectric, ... -
Fast Extraction of BRDFs and Material Maps from Images
(University of Waterloo, 2003)The bidirectional reflectance distribution function has a four dimensional parameter space and such high dimensionality makes it impractical to use it directly in hardware rendering. When a BRDF has no analytical ... -
A Fast Hybrid Method for Analysis and Design of Photonic Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis presents a very efficient hybrid method for analysis and design of optical and passive photonic devices. The main focus is on unbounded wave structures. This class of photonic systems are in general very ...