Browsing Theses by Title
Now showing items 8325-8344 of 15549
-
Le Maintien de la Vie dans la Ville: Maintaining Life in the City
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-24)Paris’ population, throughout its modern history has sculpted a unique urban culture for itself. An ambiguous realm between the intimate and the public has evolved as a result of the political and economic influences ... -
Le métamodernisme : théorie et mises en applications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-14)Ce projet de recherche vise tout d’abord à offrir un premier aperçu en français de la théorie de la sensibilité contemporaine dite « dominante » par ses théoriciens, le métamodernisme. En second lieu, ce travail sert à ... -
Le monde comme représentation romanesque Une analyse de trois romans houellebecquiens par le prisme de la philosophie schopenhauerienne
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-27)Cette thèse a comme objet l’analyse des romans La Carte et le territoire (2010), Soumission (2015) et Sérotonine (2019) de Michel Houellebecq par le prisme des concepts philosophiques schopenhaueriens et comtiens. Dans ... -
Le passage du Canada français à la Francophonie mondiale : mutations nationales, démocratisation et altruisme au mouvement Richelieu, 1944 – 1995
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)This thesis argues that French Canada did not simply fragment into regional and provincial identities during the 1960s and 1970s, but was also kept afloat by the simultaneous emergence of a francophone supranational ... -
Le roman québécois contemporain et sa double structure temporelle
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-27)L’étude ici proposée repose sur un corpus extrêmement récent, c'est-à-dire exclusivement composé d’œuvres du XXIème siècle, allant de 2009 à 2011 pour la plus récente. Ces quatre œuvres font intégralement partie du corpus ... -
Le VOT dans une situation de contact des langues : Étude comparative de la production orale des locuteurs natifs et des apprenants du français
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-29)La présente étude préliminaire explore la prononciation des consonnes occlusives par des locuteurs bilingues vivant en situation de contact des langues au sud-ouest de l’Ontario. L’analyse se base sur deux sous-corpus ... -
Leadership Competencies for Managing and Implementing Sustainability Plans in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-29)To achieve sustainable initiatives, local authorities are implementing sustainability plans by two different approaches, implementing community-wide sustainability plans with multi-stakeholder partnerships and implementing ... -
Leakage Power Modeling and Reduction Techniques for Field Programmable Gate Arrays
(University of Waterloo, 2006)FPGAs have become quite popular for implementing digital circuits and systems because of reduced costs and fast design cycles. This has led to increased complexity of FPGAs, and with technology scaling, many new ... -
Learn Privacy-friendly Global Gaussian Processes in Federated Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-17)In the era of big data, Federated Learning (FL) has drawn great attention as it naturally operates on distributed computational resources without the need of data warehousing. Similar to Distributed Learning (DL), FL ... -
Learn2Perturb: an End-to-end Feature Perturbation Learning to Improve Adversarial Robustness
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-19)Deep neural networks have been achieving state-of-the-art performance across a wide variety of applications, and due to their outstanding performance, they are being deployed in safety and security critical systems. However, ... -
Learned Legendre Predictive State Estimator for Control
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)This thesis introduces a novel method for system model identification, specifically for state estimation. The method uses a 2 or 3 layer neural network developed and trained with the methods of the Neural Engineering ... -
Learner Beliefs and their Implications for Language Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2006)In this thesis, learner beliefs and their implications for second language learning were examined. Individual learner differences have traditionally been measured statistically by using age, motivation and other variables ... -
Learners' Identity Negotiations and Beliefs about Pronunciation in Study Abroad Contexts
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-10)This dissertation explores learner beliefs about pronunciation and their interaction with identity negotiations in a study-abroad context. Current research on studying abroad has experienced a wave of interest in ... -
Learning a Motion Policy to Navigate Environments with Structured Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)Navigating in uncertain environments is a fundamental ability that robots must have in many applications such as moving goods in a warehouse or transporting materials in a hospital. While much work has been done on navigation ... -
Learning and Decision Making in Social Contexts: Neural and Computational Models
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-19)Social interaction is one of humanity's defining features. Through it, we develop ideas, express emotions, and form relationships. In this thesis, we explore the topic of social cognition by building biologically-plausible ... -
Learning and Leveraging Neural Memories
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-26)Learning in the Neural Engineering Framework (NEF) and the Semantic Pointer Architecture (SPA) has been recently extended beyond the supervised Prescribed Error Sensitivity (PES) to include the unsupervised Vector Oja ... -
Learning Automatic Question Answering from Community Data
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-19)Although traditional search engines can retrieval thousands or millions of web links related to input keywords, users still need to manually locate answers to their information needs from multiple returned documents or ... -
Learning by Teaching: Key Challenges and Design Implications
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-17)Benefits of learning by teaching (LbT) have been highlighted by previous studies from a pedagogical lens, as well as through computer-supported systems. However, the challenges that university students face in technology-mediated ... -
Learning Compact Representations for Efficient Whole Slide Image Search in Computational Pathology
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-24)Digital pathology has enabled us to capture, store, query and analyze scanned biopsy samples as digital images. The widespread adoption of digital pathology has spurred the digitization of tissue biopsy samples, known as ... -
Learning Discriminative Representations for Gigapixel Images
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-11)Digital images of tumor tissue are important diagnostic and prognostic tools for pathologists. Recent advancement in digital pathology has led to an abundance of digitized histopathology slides, called whole-slide images. ...