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Field-Orientation Coupling Effects in Nematic Liquid Crystal Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-23)Using the continuum Landau-de Gennes model for the nematic liquid crystal (NLC) phase, we study the equilibrium behaviour of nematic cells, accounting for the coupling between external fields and nematic order. This is ... -
Field-Scale Evaluation of Enhanced Agricultural Management Practices Using a Novel Unsaturated Zone Nitrate Mass Load Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-23)The monitoring of nitrate mass load through the unsaturated zone below agricultural land was proposed as a novel technique to assess the effect of agricultural best management practices (BMPs). The objectives of the study ... -
Field-Sweep Control in Magnetic Resonance and k-space Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-30)In a general magnetic resonance experiment, resonant radiofrequency or microwave fields are applied to an ensemble of electron or nuclear spins to determine their magnetic interactions with their local environment. These ... -
The Fifteenth-Century Middle High German Tale The Queen of France: Diplomatic Edition and Annotated Translation of Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Heid. Hs. 1012, fol. 249r-254v
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-05)This thesis treats one version of the anonymous, Middle High German, rhymed couplet text known as The Queen of France, as extant in the manuscript Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Heid. Hs. 1012, fol. 249r-254v. It ... -
Fighting Fire with Fire: Investigating Prescribed Burns for Fuel and Fire Management in Northeast Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-14)Uncontrolled wildfires occur in Ontario and across Canada each year, typically during the fire season from April 1 to September 30. Fire suppression in protected areas and property (private, Crown land) coupled with warmer ... -
Filtering News from Document Streams: Evaluation Aspects and Modeled Stream Utility
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-04)Events like hurricanes, earthquakes, or accidents can impact a large number of people. Not only are people in the immediate vicinity of the event affected, but concerns about their well-being are shared by the local ... -
Filtering overfitted automatically-generated patches by using automated test generation
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-17)"Generate-and-Validate'' (G&V) approaches to automatic program repair first generate candidate patches and then validate the patches against a test suite. Current G&V tools accept the first patch that passes all the test ... -
Filtration of NaCl and WOx Nanoparticles using Wire Screens and Nanofibrous Filters
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-29)Airborne nanoparticle filtration is essential for the protection of public health and the environment. The principles and fundamentals of air filtration have been validated with respect to micron particles; however, the ... -
Financial Fraud Detection and Data Mining of Imbalanced Databases using State Space Machine Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-04)Risky decisions made by humans exhibit characteristics common to each decision. The related systems experience repeated abuse by risky humans and their actions collude to form a systemic behavioural set. Financial fraud ... -
Financial Fraud: A Game of Cat and Mouse
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-11)This thesis models rational criminals and regulators with flawed incentives. In it we develop a rational model of crime and regulation that we use to show the SEC's current incentive structure is ineffective at preventing ... -
Financial Literacy through Gameful Design
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-29)Canadians have been found to have little to no expendable income and find debt management difficult. Alongside the growing push towards digital service platforms replacing traditional brick and mortar solutions within the ... -
Financial Risk Management of Guaranteed Minimum Income Benefits Embedded in Variable Annuities
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-29)A guaranteed minimum income benefit (GMIB) is a long-dated option that can be embedded in a deferred variable annuity. The GMIB is attractive because, for policyholders who plan to annuitize, it offers protection against ... -
The Financialization of Environmental Risks through Catastrophe Bonds: A Spatial-Temporal Evaluation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-24)As natural disaster risks continue to increase as a result of climate change, insurance companies and other institutions struggle to find ways to deal with these risks. There is a propensity for these risks to be financialized ... -
The financialization of Transit Oriented Development in York South Weston, Toronto, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-29)Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is a form of planning that has dominated the discourse around sustainable development in cities. Where transit investment is met with higher density housing and commercial land uses, there ... -
Finding a New Commons: Re-Inhabiting the School in Post-Urban Japan
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-13)Japan’s megacities are often captured as dense, dynamic and ever-expanding. These images, disseminated in popular media, belie a growing national phenomenon; urban migration, a declining birthrate and an aging population ... -
Finding a Second Hamiltonian cycle in Barnette Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-31)We study the following two problems: (1) finding a second room-partitioning of an oik, and (2) finding a second Hamiltonian cycle in cubic graphs. The existence of solution for both problems is guaranteed by a parity ... -
Finding Communities in Typed Citation Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-25)As the Web has become more and more important to our daily lives, algorithms that can effectively utilize the link structure have become more and more important. One such task has been to find communities in social network ... -
Finding Cost-Efficient Decision Trees
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-06)Decision trees have been a popular machine learning technique for some time. Labelled data, examples each with a vector of values in a feature space, are used to create a structure that can assign a class to unseen examples ... -
Finding False Assurance in Formal Verification of Software Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-15)Formal verification plays a crucial role in enhancing the reliability of computing systems by mathematically checking the correctness of a program. Although recent years have witnessed lots of research and applications ... -
Finding Herself: Examining Identity Formation in Female Canadian Backpackers
(University of Waterloo, 2007-07-03)This study addresses the shortage of research on the meaning of travel experiences for tourists as well as research on female travelers. I examine the activities of Canadian women who backpacked in Europe and to what extent, ...