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Measuring and Responding to Mental Health Needs of Emerging Adults Receiving Care in Canadian Psychiatric Settings: Evidence for the Importance of Assessing Anxiety Symptoms
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-05)Background: Emerging adulthood (EA) is a developmental period between the ages of 18-29 that is characterized by numerous life transitions, as well as high rates of psychological distress and onset of several psychological ... -
Measuring and Visualizing Integrated Project Interface Status
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-14)The overall goal of this thesis is to develop and validate ways to effectively measure and visualize integrated project interface status in terms of interface health, workload, and engineering progress. Collaboration, ... -
Measuring Entanglement Entropy in Valence Bond Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-08)In this thesis we examine methods for measuring entanglement entropy in spin-1/2 Heisenberg systems using quantum Monte Carlo in the valence bond basis. We begin by presenting the quantum Monte Carlo techniques used in ... -
Measuring Haptic Experience: Evidence for the HX model through scale development
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-18)Haptic technology allows one to receive tactile information through the sense of touch. Increasingly, designers and researchers are employing haptic feedback with the aim to improve user experience (UX). While they see the ... -
Measuring Heat Transfer during Twin Roll Casting of Metals
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-17)Accurate knowledge of the heat transfer coefficient during casting (between a molten and/or semi-solid material and the mold) is critical to be able to develop representative mathematical models for casting process such ... -
Measuring Intellectual Diversity in Groups, and Its Effects on Scientific Impact and Productivity
(University of Waterloo, 2017-11-09)I answer questions regarding the relationship between the intellectual diversity of an individual’s collaborations and their impact and productivity. I propose two new measures of intellectual diversity∶ coauthor diversity ... -
Measuring Non-Markovianity of Noise in the Cenrtal Spin System
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-24)In this thesis, we explore non-Markovian noise in the central spin system due to the coupling between the central spin and the environment. We use a solid state nuclear magnetic resonance system to do the experiment since ... -
Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing: Applications for Land Management
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-22)Poverty reduction and conservation can seem contradictory as integrated goals. Despite mixed results over the past several decades, both goals are increasingly being sought out together in practice. Using a case study of ... -
Measuring Quantum Correlations of Polarization, Spatial Mode, and Energy-Time Entangled Photon Pairs.
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-07)Optical quantum technologies have found applications in all facets of quantum information. Single photons are actively being researched for quantum computation, communication, and sensing, due to their robustness against ... -
Measuring Smoke Evolution at Full-Scale with Video Recordings
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-22)Many knowledge gaps exist in our current understanding of fire and smoke dynamics — caused in large part by a lack of data on smoke evolution in fires. Advances in computer technology, however, now make it possible for ... -
Measuring the Environmental Dependence of Galaxy Haloes with Weak Lensing
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-04)We investigate the uses of gravitational lensing for analysing the dark matter haloes around galaxies, comparing galaxies within groups and clusters to those in the field. We consider two cases: when only photometric ... -
Measuring the Impact of Code Dependencies on Software Architecture Recovery Techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-21)Many techniques have been proposed to automatically recover software architectures from software implementations. A thorough comparison among the recovery techniques is needed to understand their effectiveness and ... -
Measuring the Performance of Code Produced with GitHub Copilot
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-22)GitHub Copilot is an artificially intelligent programming assistant used by many developers. While a few studies have evaluated the security risks of using Copilot, there has not been any study to show if it aids developers ... -
Measuring the Stability of Query Term Collocations and Using it in Document Ranking
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-26)Delivering the right information to the user is fundamental in information retrieval system. Many traditional information retrieval models assume word independence and view a document as bag-of-words, however getting the ... -
Measuring Tool Embodiment in Ready-to-Hand and Unready-to-Hand Situations Using Virtual and Physical Tools
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-30)Virtual environments can provide access to a variety of information that can be designed to mimic physical attributes or afford physical-like actions. Virtual reality and other ways of interactions such as multi-touch, ... -
Measuring Trapped Ion Qudits
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-26)Quantum information has typically focused on using 2-level qubits to perform simulation and computation. We propose to expand the number of levels for computation using qudits, where \(d>2\). Doing so could be a viable ... -
Measuring urban edge effects and its impact on restoration potential in Rouge National Urban Park
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-21)Urban development is a driving force behind habitat fragmentation and biodiversity loss in major metropolitan areas. While greenspaces and naturalized areas can provide resources for wildlife, urban areas are organized in ... -
Measuring Work Zone Throughput and User Delays
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-18)A larger amount of funding and attention are going toward highway infrastructure of Ontario for rehabilitation, maintenance and construction projects. These rehabilitation and maintenance activities on highways involve ... -
Measuring, Understanding, and Evoking Fear of Positive Evaluation in Social Anxiety
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-26)We present a series of three studies designed to investigate fear of positive evaluation in social anxiety. In study 1, we developed the Positive Evaluation Beliefs Scale (PEBS) and administered it to a large undergraduate ... -
MECBench: A Framework for Benchmarking Multi-Edge Computing Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-27)I present MECBench, an extensible benchmarking framework for multi-access edge computing. MECBench is configurable and can emulate networks with different capabilities and conditions, can scale the generated workloads to ...