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Portfolio Selection Under Nonsmooth Convex Transaction Costs
(University of Waterloo, 2006)We consider a portfolio selection problem in the presence of transaction costs. Transaction costs on each asset are assumed to be a convex function of the amount sold or bought. This function can be nondifferentiable ... -
A Portrait of Porta Portese
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)This thesis investigates an informally self-organized street market, Porta Portese, in Rome, Italy. As a response to the contemporary phenomenon of migration, of people and goods, Porta Portese reflects the city’s evolving ... -
Portraits from the State Mental Hospitals
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-12)The thesis is a short book of fifty sketches. I felt I threw out a significant amount of other material – plans, sketchup models, physical models, and photographs. Many people I had shown my work to were uninterested in ... -
Portraits of a Landscape & The Trouble With Eden
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-29)If there was ever a question about the subject of this work, I had only to return to the landscape. There was a strangness, a newness, an inevitability to those urban spaces around the city that insisted on my attention. ... -
Pose Estimation and Segmentation for Rehabilitation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-01)The global population is getting older and the aging demographic is increasing demands on health-care industry. This will drive the demand for post stroke, joint replacement, and chronic disease management rehabilitation. ... -
Posets of Non-Crossing Partitions of Type B and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-19)The thesis is devoted to the study of certain combinatorial objects called \emph{non-crossing partitions}. The enumeration properties of the lattice ${\textsf{NC$^{\textsf{\,A}}$(n)}}\,$ of \emph{non-crossing partitions} ... -
Poshlost’ in Nabokov’s Dar through the Prism of Lotman’s Literary Semiotics
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-01)The word poshlost’ denotes the concepts of banality, vulgarity or phlistinism, and has been an intellectual and cultural obsession since the second half of the nineteenth century, lasting well into the twentieth century. ... -
Positive Affect, Mood Salience, and Intertemporal Decisions
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-12)The focus of this thesis is to explore the impact of positive affective state and mood salience on intertemporal decision making. We found that positive affect significantly influence intertemporal preference. We also ... -
Positive and Negative Analogical Transfer in Problem Solving
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)This thesis has investigated the positive and negative analogical transfer in which we proposed three hypotheses that shed more light on the process of human behaviour in problem solving. We have found that people exhibited ... -
Possibly, Maybe
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-22)Possibly, Maybe is an exhibition of polychromatic, process-based objects made out of acrylic paint. Working with and against the limits of the material, the paint is systematically cast, peeled, and stretched colour by ... -
Post Stroke Visual Midline Shift Syndrome
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-01)Abstract Introduction The definition of an individual’s visual midline is the point which the individual perceives as being straight-ahead or “in front of their nose”. One of the perceptual consequences of a stroke for ... -
(Post)Colonial Tectonics: reflections on relations in Indigenous spatial practice between the Beautiful Waters and Willow River
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)I find myself studying architecture in Cambridge, Ontario, a settler on lands stewarded by the Neutral, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples for countless generations, on a tract following the Grand River (or Willow ... -
(Post-)Neoliberal Planning, Excessively Optimistic Developers and Overbuilding in Post-reform China: A Case Study of Ordos City
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-18)Overbuilding has been a nationwide and detrimental phenomenon in 21st century China, which calls for investigations of its causes and solutions. Using a case study research strategy, and employing semi-structured interviews ... -
Post-disaster Opportunities: An Assessment of Reconstruction Activities following the 1999 Debris Flows in Vargas State, Venezuela
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)Disaster impacts have grown significantly in the last half century. Additionally, in 2007 the number of urban residents surpassed that of rural populations generating a struggle for resources, inevitably leading to increased ... -
Post-mapping Topology Rewriting for FPGA Area Minimization
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-26)Circuit designers require Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools when compiling designs into Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in order to achieve high quality results due to the complexity of the compilation tasks involved. ... -
Post-Oil +15: Designing an "Urban Campus" in Downtown Calgary
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-20)Calgary, Alberta is a city that is economically dependent on the petroleum industry. The inevitable boom and bust cycle surrounding the petroleum industry frequently disrupts Calgary’s socioeconomic health. Since the ... -
Post-Quantum Account Recovery for Passwordless Authentication
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-24)WebAuthn is a passwordless authentication protocol which allows users to authenticate to online services using public-key cryptography. Users prove their identity based on possession of a private key, which is stored on a ... -
A post-quantum digital signature scheme based on supersingular isogenies
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-20)We present the first general-purpose digital signature scheme based on supersingular elliptic curve isogenies secure against quantum adversaries in the quantum random oracle model with small key sizes. This scheme is ... -
Post-Quantum Elliptic Curve Cryptography
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-16)We propose and develop new schemes for post-quantum cryptography based on isogenies over elliptic curves. First we show that ordinary elliptic curves are have less than exponential security against quantum computers. These ... -
Post-Quantum Security of Authenticated Key Establishment Protocols
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-20)We present a security model for authenticated key establishment that allows for quantum interactions between the adversary and quantum oracles that emulate classical parties, resulting in a truly post-quantum security ...