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Dairy Goat Research Facility: Revealing Process & Provoking Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-22)The dairy goat industry in Ontario is in need of benchmarking data on the raising and caring for goats resulting in better welfare and production. The power of collective data cannot be overstated to benefit and advance ... -
'Damned If They Do And Damned If They Don't': The Inferiority Complex, Nationalism, and Maclean's Music Coverage, 1967-1995
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-19)This thesis critically analyses music coverage in Maclean’s between 1967-1995, and reveals that the magazine continually stressed Canadian music as inferior to that produced by foreign artists. Only during times of intense ... -
Dance Competitions and Recitals as Collectively Accomplished Events: An Ethnographic Study of Amateur Dance
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)This thesis presents a qualitative analysis of organized amateur dance participation as an example of human group life. Organized amateur dance typically occurs within a studio or school setting and is differentiated from ... -
Dancing Architecture: The parallel evolution of Bharatanatyam and South Indian Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-05)In her book, "Indian Classical dance", Kapila Vatsyayan describes dance as the highest order of spiritual discipline, the enactment of which is symbolic of a ritual sacrifice of one's being to a transcendental order. The ... -
Dancing to the Desert: A Proposal for Self-Help Reconstruction of Post-Earthquake Cities in Hot-Arid Climates
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-23)Natural hazards kill 82,500 people globally in a typical year, with earthquakes as the largest cause of death amongst all natural hazards in Central and Southern America, East Asia, Europe, and the Near East. Damages are ... -
Daptomycin: Mechanism of Action and Bacterial Resistance
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-25)Daptomycin is an important lipopeptide antibiotic used for treating severe infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus ... -
Daptomycin: studies on its action mode and on bacterial resistance with model membranes
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-16)Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of the most serious problems facing medicine today. Recently, reports have appeared describing bacteria that are resistant to daptomycin (dap), an important antibiotic used against ... -
Dark Matter and Neutrinos in the Foggy Universe
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-07)Dark matter is predicted to be the main contribution to the matter content in the universe, in addition to ordinary baryonic matter such as protons and neutrons. However, we are limited in our knowledge of the nature of ... -
Dark Spot Detection from SAR Intensity Imagery with Spatial Density Thresholding for Oil Spill Monitoring
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-28)Since the 1980s, satellite-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has been investigated for early warning and monitoring of marine oil spills to permit effective satellite surveillance in the marine environment. Automated ... -
Darkness Encountered in Light
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)The old axiom that history is doomed to repeat itself seems to be true in the contemporary world. Ideologies of hate and division are having something of a resurgence, despite our common cries of ‘never again.’ We can trace ... -
Darkness with Shards of Light
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-23)Realities of the world are often difficult to face. We dream of a world devoid of social ills. In the notion of 'utopia', we imagine such an environment - sparkling and full of light, but this perfect world is a delusion. ... -
Das Motiv der Werbung in deutscher und russischer Gegenwartsliteratur - dargestellt anhand Raumers Viktor Vogel und Pelevins Generation P.
(University of Waterloo, 2005)This thesis is a the comparative analysis of the motifs of advertising concepts as found in the German novel <em>Viktor Vogel</em>, by Alexandra Raumer, and the Russian novel <em>Generation P. </em>, by Viktor Pelevin. ... -
Das Verhältnis von Mutter und Tochter in Theodor Fontanes Schach von Wuthenow und Effi Briest
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-22)Theodor Fontane’s famous novel Effi Briest (1895) has been widely discussed in secondary literature, and every single aspect of the novel’s complex content and style seems to have been analysed; however, the similarities ... -
Das Wissenschaftskollektiv in den Romanen "Respektloser Umgang" und "Im Schatten des Regenbogens" von Helga Königsdorf
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-27)The author Helga Königsdorf, a scientist herself, deals in several of her literary works with the situation of the scientist in the GDR. The aim of this thesis is to explore the image of the scientist within the two novels ... -
DASE: Document-Assisted Symbolic Execution for Improving Automated Test Generation
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-17)Software testing is crucial for uncovering software defects and ensuring software reliability. Symbolic execution has been utilized for automatic test generation to improve testing effectiveness. However, existing test ... -
Dash+: Extending Alloy with Replicated Processes for Modelling Transition Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-27)Modelling systems abstractly shows great promise to uncover bugs early in system development. The formal language Alloy provides the means of writing constraints abstractly but lacks explicit constructs for describing ... -
Dash: Declarative Behavioural Modelling in Alloy
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-25)An abstract model is a representation of the fundamental characteristics and properties of a system, and its purpose is to provide feedback to stakeholders about the correctness of the system during the early stages of ... -
Data Augmentation For Text Classification Tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-12)Thanks to increases in computing power and the growing availability of large datasets, neural networks have achieved state of the art results in many natural language process- ing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) tasks. ... -
Data Balancing and Hyper-parameter Optimization for Machine Learning Algorithms for Secure IoT Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-19)Nowadays, many industries rely on Machine Learning (ML) algorithms and their ability to learn from existing data to make inferences about new unlabeled data. Applying ML algorithms to the network security domain is not ... -
Data Depth Inference for Difficult Data
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-18)We explore various ways in which a robust, nonparametric statistical tool, the data depth function can be used to conduct inference on data which could be described as difficult. This can include data which are difficult ...