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The Human Dimensions of Climate Risk in Africa's Low and Lower-Middle Income Countries
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-30)Climate change impacts are a result of the intersection between the level of climate change, and the socioeconomic conditions that characterize the locale under question. For the low income countries in the world, they ... -
Human Factors in Esports: Investigating performance measures, coaching practices, and stress training in League of Legends
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-12)This thesis examined a constant problem in Esports in which players do not perform to their expected potential when under stress (also known as choking). The Esports scene is growing exponentially, with teams valued at ... -
The Human Immune System: A Challenging Control Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2004)This work deals with the control of the human immune system. A standard immune system model is modified by introducing control signals corresponding to drug cocktail and immune suppressor treatments. The ultimate ... -
Human Middle Ear: Material Characterization, Analysis of Effects of Uncertainties, and Investigation of Impacts of Medical-Device Attachment
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-19)The middle ear is a complex organ that plays a vital role in the hearing process. This thesis attempts to investigate different aspects of the biomechanics of the middle ear for diagnosis and treatment. This thesis can be ... -
Human motion estimation and controller learning
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-22)Humans are capable of complex manipulation and locomotion tasks. They are able to achieve energy-efficient gait, reject disturbances, handle changing loads, and adapt to environmental constraints. Using inspiration from ... -
A Human Motor Control Framework based on Muscle Synergies
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-23)In spite of the complexities of the human musculoskeletal system, the central nervous system has the ability to orchestrate difficult motor tasks. Many researchers have tried to understand how the human nervous system ... -
Human Nature and Morality: An invesitgation of the evidence for and implications of genetically-based moral traits
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-10)In his recent book, Moral Minds, Marc Hauser claims that humans are genetically endowed with a moral faculty operating in much the same way as our linguistic faculty, and that this faculty delimits normative moral systems. ... -
Human Performance and Cognitive Workload in Haptic, Audio and Visual Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-17)The ability to efficiently perform a task in a human-in-the-loop system and in multi-sensory virtual environments is highly dependent on the type of sensory feedback the operator is receiving and the amount of workload the ... -
Human Skin Modelling and Rendering
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Creating realistic-looking skin is one of the holy grails of computer graphics and is still an active area of research. The problem is challenging due to the inherent complexity of skin and its variations, not only across ... -
Human smoking behaviour, cigarette testing protocols, and constituent yields
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The issue of how to test and ultimately regulate tobacco products represents a critical challenge for the public health community. Although the current international testing regime for conventional cigarettes is widely ... -
Human Steroid Sulfatase: Inhibitor Studies and Photoaffinity Labeling
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-22)Steroid sulfatase (STS) is considered to be one of the key enzymes contributing to the development of breast cancer. It catalyzes the hydrolysis of inactive sulfated steroids such as estrone sulfate (ES) to inorganic ... -
Human-AI Interaction in the Presence of Ambiguity: From Deliberation-based Labeling to Ambiguity-aware AI
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-11)Ambiguity, the quality of being open to more than one interpretation, permeates our lives. It comes in different forms including linguistic and visual ambiguity, arises for various reasons and gives rise to disagreements ... -
Human-Aware Motion Planning for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-08)With the rapid adoption of robotic systems in our daily lives, robots must operate in the presence of humans in ways that improve safety and productivity. Currently, in industrial settings, human safety is ensured through ... -
Human-Inspired Robot Task Teaching and Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-28)Current methods of robot task teaching and learning have several limitations: highly-trained personnel are usually required to teach robots specific tasks; service-robot systems are limited in learning different types of ... -
A Human-Machine Framework for the Classification of Phonocardiograms
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-20)In this thesis, we present and evaluate a framework for combining machine learning algo- rithms, crowd workers, and experts in the classification of heart sound recordings. The development of a hybrid human-machine framework ... -
Humanoid Robotic Manipulation Benchmarking and Bimanual Manipulation Workspace Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-07)The growing adoption of robots for new applications has led to the use of robots in human environments for human-like tasks, applications well-suited to humanoid robots as they are designed to move like a human and operate ... -
Humour as a vehicle of cultural memory in Leander Haußmann`s Sonnenallee and Wolfang Becker's Good Bye Lenin!
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)The main interest of this thesis lies in the analysis of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), as it is represented in movies. The times before and after the Cold War period in Germany have often been discussed in both ... -
Hunting for the Primordial Quenched Population in 2 < z < 2.5 COSMOS Protoclusters
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-17)We present an analysis of the galaxy stellar mass function (SMF) of 14 known protoclusters between 2.0 < z < 2.5 in the COSMOS field, down to a mass limit of 10⁹ᐧ⁵ M⊙. We use existing photometric redshifts with a statistical ... -
Hunting For: Lessons on Architecture in Cree Territory
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-19)Canada’s subarctic region of James Bay, extending from the southeastern rim of the greater Hudson’s Bay, is seated at the interface of diametrically opposed climates, cultures, geologies, and ecologies. With the European ... -
Hurry Up and Wait: Spatial Strategies for Urban Stress Relief
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-21)In the midst of rising urban density and its projected impacts on infrastructures and city dwellers alike, the importance of understanding the effects of built space on our biology and mental well-being is becoming essential ...