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Improving Tor using a TCP-over-DTLS Tunnel
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-24)The Tor network gives anonymity to Internet users by relaying their traffic through the world over a variety of routers. This incurs latency, and this thesis first explores where this latency occurs. Experiments discount ... -
Impulse Control in Finance: Numerical Methods and Viscosity Solutions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-05)The goal of this thesis is to provide efficient and provably convergent numerical methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) coming from impulse control problems motivated by finance. Impulses, which are ... -
Impulsive Control and Synchronization of Chaos-Generating-Systems with Applications to Secure Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2004)When two or more chaotic systems are coupled, they may exhibit synchronized chaotic oscillations. The synchronization of chaos is usually understood as the regime of chaotic oscillations in which the corresponding ... -
Impulsive Control of Dynamical Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-25)Dynamical networks (DNs) consist of a large set of interconnected nodes with each node being a fundamental unit with detailed contents. A great number of natural and man-made networks such as social networks, food networks, ... -
Imputation, Estimation and Missing Data in Finance
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Suppose <em>X</em> is a diffusion process, possibly multivariate, and suppose that there are various segments of the components of <em>X</em> that are missing. This happens, for example, if <em>X</em> is the price of ... -
in a good way: (Re)grounding Contextual Narratives on Turtle Island
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-21)Canada is a settler-colonial nation built on Indigenous lands. Architecture in this context is not a neutral practice. Together with urban planning, it has played a key role in the genocidal dispossession, displacement, ... -
In Danger? An Exploration of Canadian Truck Drivers’ Health through the Canadian Community Health Survey
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-04)Background: There exists substantive evidence showing that the health status of truck drivers from the United States (US) is much poorer than the general US population. Comparatively there is much less research on Canadian ... -
In Debt to the State: Lived Experiences of Indebtedness in State-led Housing Projects in Istanbul
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-17)Over the last couple of decades, global debt has soared. Withdrawal of state welfare provision, expansion of financial markets, and dependency of people on credit for basic needs have led to increased indebtedness. Household ... -
In Defense of Moral Responsibility Skepticism
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-02)Moral responsibility skeptics have often focused on problems involving determinism in order to defend their position. I argue that this defense of moral responsibility skepticism is misplaced given that what really matters ... -
In Defense of Soil: an Ontario Greenbelt Regeneration Strategy
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-10)Ontario’s prime agricultural soils are in distress. Degraded by decades of intense conventional agricultural practices and threatened by the advancing footprint of suburban development, the once abundant layer of topsoil ... -
In Defense of the Systems Reply
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-29)In John Searle’s Minds, Brains, and Programs, he argues against the possibility of a digital computer capable of understanding. In particular, Searle puts forward the Chinese room thought experiment, which appears to ... -
In Perpetuity: Governance and Capacity Building of Local Land Trusts in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-15)This study examines the extent to which volunteer-run local land trusts in Ontario are governed in a manner that will allow them to protect valued ecosystems effectively in perpetuity. It also identifies needs and opportunities ... -
In Places Rarely Seen
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-25)In Places Rarely Seen is an interdisciplinary exhibition bringing together print installation, video, photography, sound and text. This thesis exhibition considers my own shifting perception of what Nature is and how I ... -
In Protection of No Woman: Consent, Illegitimacy, and Gender-Based Violence in Early Modern Somerset, 1600-1699
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-29)Over the course of the seventeenth century, 1298 women came before the Quarter Sessions to secure financial resources for the upkeep of their unborn children. These interactions with the legal system highlight the ways in ... -
In Search of a Scalable Geo-Distributed Consensus Protocol
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-20)Byzantine fault tolerant consensus protocols are a crucial component in blockchain systems. Traditional BFT consensus protocols have poor scalability, and their performance is sensitive to the latency between their ... -
In Search of an Ideal Modulator for Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-24)Gas chromatography has been a prevailing technique to separate different mixtures of volatile and semi-volatile compounds in order to qualitatively and quantitatively identify each individual component. With more complex ... -
In Search of Lost Time
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-16)In Marcel Proust's most famous novel, In Search of Lost Time, a Madeleine cake elicited in him a nostalgic memory of Combray. Here we present a computational hypothesis of how such an episodic memory is represented in a ... -
In Search of Manual Asymmetries in Aging during Performance of Activities of Daily Living: Does Upper Limb Performance Become More Symmetric with Age?
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)Introduction: A common disorder arising most frequently after a left hemisphere stroke is limb apraxia. Limb apraxia is a deficit of skilled movement, such as performance of activities of daily living (ADLs), that is not ... -
In Search of the Childhood : Re-imagining Street Children Care Centers in Tehran
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-20)The phenomenon of street children is a serious social issue in developing countries such as Iran. Despite the unavailability of official statistics, unofficial data determines that over 200,000 street children currently ... -
In Search of Wholeness
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-29)In Search of Wholeness is an exhibition of sculpture, alternative photography, and video. The work examines connections to healing and being. “The English ‘health’ derives from Old English ‘hælth’, which is related to ...