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Learning Factors and Determining Document-level Satisfaction In Search-as-Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-26)An important use of search engines is as a tool for learning. Search engines help users find learning material and increases their knowledge in various topics. The underlying process of learning while web searching and ... -
Learning From Almost No Data
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-15)The tremendous recent growth in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning has largely been tied to the availability of big data and massive amounts of compute. The increasingly popular approach of training ... -
Learning from Chinatown
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-22)In Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour approach the city without preconceived opinions because they believe there is something to be learned from every aspect of the built ... -
Learning from Experience to Operationalize Integrated Coastal and Marine Management
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-16)Integrated coastal and marine management (ICM) is a system of governance that moves beyond traditional sector-based management. ICM is compatible with the holistic vision of a social-ecological systems (SES) approach. ... -
Learning from Green Technology Designers
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-13)This thesis presents results from a qualitative case study on environmentally minded technology designers, and provides an account of how these designers think, differ and behave. Through semi-structured interviews, we ... -
Learning from Manoomin: Restor(y)ing relationships between Anishinaabeg, settlers, and more-than-human beings in the Great Lakes Basin
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-20)Positioned between multiple worlds, Manoomin - wild rice is described within the Mishomis Book by the leader and activist Edward Benton Benai, as one of the sacred gifts from the Earth to the Anishinaabeg of the Great Lakes ... -
Learning from Partially Labeled Data: Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Learning on Graphs and Learning with Distribution Shifting
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-20)This thesis focuses on two fundamental machine learning problems:unsupervised learning, where no label information is available, and semi-supervised learning, where a small amount of labels are given in addition to unlabeled ... -
Learning from the Commonplace: Designing Diversity
(University of Waterloo, 2016-03-03)The commonplace is the realm that directly exists within the ordinary user’s reach and is the everyday lived in experience of the city. Margaret Crawford, the author of Everyday Urbanism, expresses that “an amazing number ... -
Learning From the Past: Recreating Historic Persian Gardens in Downtown Tehran
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-22)Persian Garden is a cultural, historical and physical phenomenon in the land of Iran. One of the main purposes of creating these gardens was to provide space for leisure and meditation. “Pairi Daeza” from which we have ... -
Learning German Vocabulary: An Investigation into Learners' Use of Vocabulary Learning Strategies
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-19)This research is an empirical multiple-case study that is designed to explore adult individual learners’ vocabulary learning processes, and to examine their use of vocabulary learning strategies. It investigates the following ... -
Learning in large-scale spiking neural networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)Learning is central to the exploration of intelligence. Psychology and machine learning provide high-level explanations of how rational agents learn. Neuroscience provides low-level descriptions of how the brain changes ... -
Learning Instruction Scheduling Heuristics from Optimal Data
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The development of modern pipelined and multiple functional unit processors has increased the available instruction level parallelism. In order to fully utilize these resources, compiler writers spend large amounts of ... -
Learning Inverse Dynamics for Robot Manipulator Control
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)Model-based control strategies for robot manipulators can present numerous performance advantages when an accurate model of the system dynamics is available. In practice, obtaining such a model is a challenging task which ... -
Learning More and Knowing Less: Big Data, Spurious Correlations, and the Problem of Ignorance
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-28)There are few things we can name that surpass big data’s boon for our empirical endeavours. Big data promises an ever-growing source of data that could be readily accessed by researchers in virtually any field of study. ... -
Learning Quantum States Without Entangled Measurements
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-22)How many samples of a quantum state are required to learn a complete description of it? As we will see in this thesis, the fine-grained answer depends on the measurements available to the learner, but in general it is at ... -
Learning Sample-Based Monte Carlo Denoising from Noisy Training Data
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-15)Monte Carlo rendering allows for the production of high-quality photorealistic images of 3D scenes. However, producing noise-free images can take a considerable amount of compute resources. To lessen this burden and speed ... -
A Learning Social Referencing Disambiguation Framework for Domestic Service Robots
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-24)The successful integration of domestic service robots into home environments can bring significant services and convenience to the general population and possibly mitigate important societal issues, such as care provision ... -
Learning Sparse Orthogonal Wavelet Filters
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-12)The wavelet transform is a well studied and understood analysis technique used in signal processing. In wavelet analysis, signals are represented by a sum of self-similar wavelet and scaling functions. Typically, the wavelet ... -
Learning to cooperate: The impact of executive functioning, theory of mind and externalizing behaviours on children’s social functioning
(University of Waterloo, 2014-11-21)Developing the ability to interact in a socially competent manner (i.e., in which one’s own needs and goals are met and the needs and goals of others are considered) is a complex process that is likely influenced by one’s ... -
Learning to Engage: An Application of Deep Reinforcement Learning in Living Architecture Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-30)Physical agents that can autonomously generate engaging, life-like behavior will lead to more responsive and interesting robots and other autonomous systems. Although many advances have been made for one-to-one interactions ...