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    • Home Reconfigured: Adaptability as a solution in Mumbai to help people stay in place 

      Garg, Nupur (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-15)
      With the continuously rising employment, businesses, investments, and consequently migration, the housing prices of Mumbai have skyrocketed over the past few decades. The house bought on a mortgage, or rented at cheap rates ...
    • A Home Then, A Home Now 

      Kopp, Natalie Jianyi (University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)
      This thesis explores how Hong Kong Canadians remember, inhabit, and imagine their homes to develop a process for positioning transnational belonging within the built environment. In response to discriminatory migration and ...
    • Home, work and health in the Airbnb system 

      Goyal, Julia (University of Waterloo, 2018-10-30)
      Background and Objectives: With Airbnb accommodation-sharing, a new form of entrepreneurial work is emerging and is disrupting traditional business practices. As a self-employed worker, the host lacks the protections under ...
    • The homing of the home: Exploring gendered work, leisure, social construction, and loss through women’s family memory keeping 

      Mulcahy, Caitlin Maureen (University of Waterloo, 2012-10-18)
      Using a feminist, autoethnographic methodology and in depth interviews with twenty-three participants, I sought to better understand the meaning of family memory keeping for women and their families through this research, ...
    • A Homogeneity-based Zone Delineation Model for Land Use and Transportation Interaction Analysis: Investigating the Case of Light Rail Transit (LRT) Development in Kitchener – Waterloo 

      Fard, Pedram (University of Waterloo, 2022-01-31)
      In an ever-increasingly urbanized world, planning policies bring direct and indirect societal and environmental impacts affecting quality of life for millions of people. Policy decisions are often complex, involving ...
    • Homologous Gene Finding with a Hidden Markov Model 

      Xuefeng, Cui (University of Waterloo, 2007-01-12)
      The homology search problem and the gene finding problem are two fundamental problems in bioinformatics. The homology search problem is to find the homologous regions of two biological sequences; the gene finding problem ...
    • Homologous Gene Finding with a Hidden Markov Model 

      Cui, Xuefeng (University of Waterloo, 2007-01-18)
      The homology search problem and the gene finding problem are two fundamental problems in bioinformatics. The homology search problem is to find the homologous regions of two biological sequences; the gene finding problem ...
    • Homomorphic Encryption 

      Weir, Brandon (University of Waterloo, 2013-01-24)
      In this thesis, we provide a summary of fully homomorphic encryption, and in particular, look at the BGV encryption scheme by Brakerski, Gentry, and Vaikuntanathan; as well the DGHV encryption scheme by van Dijk, Gentry, ...
    • Homotopy algorithms for solving structured determinantal systems 

      Vu, Thi Xuan (University of Waterloo, 2020-12-17)
      Multivariate polynomial systems arising in numerous applications have special structures. In particular, determinantal structures and invariant systems appear in a wide range of applications such as in polynomial optimization ...
    • Honest Approximations to Realistic Fault Models and Their Applications to Efficient Simulation of Quantum Error Correction 

      Daniel, Puzzuoli (University of Waterloo, 2014-04-25)
      Understanding the performance of realistic noisy encoded circuits is an important task for the development of large-scale practical quantum computers. Specifically, the development of proposals for quantum computation must ...
    • Honkling: In-Browser Personalization for Ubiquitous Keyword Spotting 

      Lee, Jaejun (University of Waterloo, 2019-12-19)
      Used for simple voice commands and wake-word detection, keyword spotting (KWS) is the task of detecting pre-determined keywords in a stream of utterances. A common implementation of KWS involves transmitting audio samples ...
    • Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: Employee Reactions to Automation at Work 

      Godollei, Anna (University of Waterloo, 2022-07-08)
      Automation is increasingly becoming a disruptive force in modern workplaces. For individual workers, the consequences of automation are varied; In some cases, employees may be harmed by automation (e.g., job loss), whereas ...
    • HopliteBuf FPGA Network-on-Chip: Architecture and Analysis 

      Garg, Tushar (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-22)
      We can prove occupancy bounds of stall-free FIFOs used in deflection-free, low-cost, and high-speed FPGA overlay Network-on-chips (NoCs). In our work, we build on top of the HopliteRT livelock-free overlay NoC with an ...
    • HORIZON 

      MacIntosh, Reggie Wade (University of Waterloo, 2010-10-22)
      This thesis proposes the design of a space exploration vessel capable of sustaining a community of 2000 inhabitants that will leave Earth and never return. The unique mission criteria will allow for the in depth study of ...
    • Horizon Thermodynamics from Einstein's Equation of State 

      Hansen, Devin (University of Waterloo, 2017-04-28)
      The striking resemblance between geometric theories of gravity and thermodynamics suggests a more fundamental relationship between the two seemingly distinct theories. It has been postulated that the radial Einstein ...
    • Horticultural Landscapes in Middle English Romance 

      DeRushie, Nicole (University of Waterloo, 2008-09-23)
      Gardens played a significant role in the lives of European peoples living in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. By producing texts in which gardens and other cultivated landscapes are used as symbol and setting, ...
    • Hospital 

      Popa, Paula (University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)
      The former Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto was a sight in need of little description: beyond the fenced property, the building, recognizably a postwar hospital, uncaringly dismantled its red brick and regularly spaced ...
    • Hospital Air Emission Capture and Recovery 

      Mehrata, Mina (University of Waterloo, 2014-09-12)
      Inhaled anesthetics used in hospital surgeries are typically volatile halogenated hydrocarbons. Very few of them are absorbed or metabolized by the patient during use, and, therefore, most of the exhaled gases are collected ...
    • Hostility in the context of depression: Testing the relevance of perceived social ranking 

      Law, Ada Kwan-Wing (University of Waterloo, 2007-01-29)
      Theoretical positions (Sloman & Gilbert, 2000), current research (Robbins & Tanck, 1997) and clinical observations (APA, 1994) have generally concluded that depressed populations tend to demonstrate an elevated level of ...
    • Hosting Regional Sport Events: Insights from Emerging Sport Tourism Destinations 

      McComie, Kenwyn Peter (University of Waterloo, 2015-10-07)
      The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate and gain stakeholder insights into the nature of hosting sport tourism events and using them as a regional development strategy in two emerging sport tourism markets ...

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