Browsing Theses by Title
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On the Application of Photoacoustic Absorption Spectral Data to the Modeling of Leaf Optical Properties
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-27)Due to the importance of plants in the Earth's ecosystem, their photobiological responses have become the subject of extensive research in life sciences. Leaf optical models have been developed to assist in the analysis ... -
On the Asymptotic Number of Active Links in a Random Network
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-01)A network of n transmitters and n receivers is considered. We assume that transmitter i aims to send data to its designated destination, receiver i. Communications occur in a single-hop fashion and destination nodes are ... -
On the Automatic Coding of Text Answers to Open-ended Questions in Surveys
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-13)Open-ended questions allow participants to answer survey questions without any constraint. Responses to open-ended questions, however, are more difficult to analyze quantitatively than close-ended questions. In this thesis, ... -
On the Bluish Appearance of Veins
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-18)The bluish appearance of veins located immediately beneath the skin has long been a topic of interest for biomedical optics researchers. Despite this interest, a thorough identification of the specific optical processes ... -
On the Border: an architectural inquiry into the sacred and quotidian
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-19)Even in our secular age, the sacred continues to be a powerful cognitive space in the landscape of the imagination. I am a Roman Catholic and amongst those who struggle to exist both in the structured universe of the sacred, ... -
On the Border: Antagonistic Architectures | Evanescent Territories
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-04)The Northern Pass | El Paso del Norte spills through the narrow Rio Grande Valley that separates the southern most extent of the Rocky Mountains from the Sierra Madres, dividing the bi-national metropolis of El Paso, Texas ... -
On the Caching Schemes to Speed Up Program Reduction
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-05)Program reduction is a highly practical, widely demanded technique to help debug language tools, such as compilers, interpreters and debuggers. Given a program P which exhibits a property ψ, conceptually, program reduction ... -
On the Causes and Consequences of Abusive Supervision
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-22)Abusive supervision is a growing problem confronting organizations. In this dissertation, across two essays, I examine both the causes and the consequences of abusive supervision. In Essay 1, I answer the question when and ... -
On The Circuit Diameters of Some Combinatorial Polytopes
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-20)The combinatorial diameter of a polytope P is the maximum value of a shortest path between two vertices of P, where the path uses the edges of P only. In contrast to the combinatorial diameter, the circuit diameter of P ... -
On the Classification of the R-separable webs for the Laplace equation in E^3
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-29)In the first two Chapters I outline the theory and background of separation of variables as an ansatz for solving fundamental partial differential equations (pdes) in Mathematical Physics. Two fundamental approaches will ... -
On the Complexity of Reconfiguration of Clique, Cluster Vertex Deletion, and Dominating Set
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-15)A graph problem P is a vertex-subset problem if feasible solutions for P consist of subsets of the vertices of a graph G. The st-connectivity problem for a vertex-subset problem P takes as input two feasible solutions ... -
On the Complexity of the Circuit Obfuscation Problem for Split Manufacturing
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-22)Recent work in the area of computer hardware security introduced a number of interesting computational problems in the context of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). In this thesis, we pick one of these problems, circuit ... -
On the Computation of Multi-Scalar Multiplication for Pairing-Based zkSNARKs
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-21)Multi-scalar multiplication refers to the operation of computing multiple scalar multiplications in an elliptic curve group and then adding them together. It is an essential operation for proof generation and verification ... -
On the Control of Active End-nodes in the Smart Grid
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-11)The electrical grid has substantially changed in recent years due to the integration of several disruptive load and generation technologies into low-voltage distribution networks, which are meant to smarten it and improve ... -
On the Crossing Numbers of Complete Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2006)In this thesis we prove two main results. The Triangle Conjecture asserts that the convex hull of any optimal rectilinear drawing of <em>K<sub>n</sub></em> must be a triangle (for <em>n</em> ≥ 3). We prove that, ... -
On the Cultural Inaccessibility of Gaming: Invading, Creating, and Reclaiming the Cultural Clubhouse
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-23)This dissertation uses intersectional feminist theory and Autoethnography to develop the concept of “cultural inaccessibility”. Cultural inaccessibility is a concept I’ve created to describe the ways that women are made ... -
On the Data Quality of Remotely Sensed Forest Maps
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-10)Accurate forest monitoring data are essential for understanding and conserving forest ecosystems. However, the remoteness of forests and the scarcity of ground truth make it hard to identify data quality issues. We present ... -
On the Deformation Mechanics of Hyperelastic Porous Materials
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-25)The understanding of the deformation mechanics within porous structures is an important field of study as these materials exist in nature as well as can be manufactured industrially influencing our lives daily. The motivation ... -
On The Density of Binary Matroids Without a Given Minor
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-21)This thesis is motivated by the following question: how many elements can a simple binary matroid with no $\PG(t,2)$-minor have? This is a natural analogue of questions asked about the density of graphs in minor-closed ... -
On the Design and Testing of Authorization Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-02)Authorization deals with the specification and management of accesses principals have to resources. In the design of an authorization system, sometimes we just implement the accessenforcement without having a precise semantics ...