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Our Last Home: Designing for Care at the End of Life
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-15)In the last fifty years, hospice palliative care has changed the modern understanding of dying. Rather than focusing on death, it promotes the facilitation of optimizing life for patients whose conditions have worsened ... -
Out of the 'Broom Closet' and Into the Academy: The Development of Contemporary Pagan Studies and the Role of Scholarship in Shaping Legitimacy
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-30)Contemporary Pagan studies is an academic field that explores the beliefs, behaviours, practices, and identities of contemporary Pagans, borrowing lenses from such fields as religious studies, anthropology, sociology, ... -
Out-of-Distribution Detection for LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-18)3D object detection is an essential part of automated driving, and deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for this task. However, deep models are notorious for assigning high confidence ... -
Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Gigapixel Image Representation
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-18)This thesis addresses the significant challenge of improving the generalization capabilities of artificial deep neural networks in the classification of whole slide images (WSIs) in histopathology across different and ... -
Outcomes of Natural Play and Learning Spaces: A Collaborative Case Study with KidActive
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-22)It has been argued that contemporary environmental issues may be in part attributable to a growing disconnect with the natural world (Liefländer, Fröhlich, Bogner, & Schultz, 2012; Louv, 2005; E. K. Nisbet, Zelenski, & ... -
Output Feedback Bilateral Teleoperation with Force Estimation in the Presence of Time Delays
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-28)This thesis presents a novel bilateral teleoperation algorithm for n degree of freedom nonlinear manipulators connected through time delays. Teleoperation has many practical uses, as there are many benefits that come from ... -
Outre Aesthetics
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-20)Since the revolutionary period in America, aesthetics has played a crucial role in political formation, social improvisation, and cultural imagination. Aesthetic contemplation offered a rich and evocative language for ... -
Outsourced Private Information Retrieval with Pricing and Access Control
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-24)We propose a scheme for outsourcing Private Information Retrieval (PIR) to untrusted servers while protecting the privacy of the database owner as well as that of the database clients. We observe that by layering PIR on ... -
Outta This World
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-21)Outta This World is a multidisciplinary show comprised of drawing, video, music, performance and installation. It was initiated by my interest in the concept of the nation-state, more particularly Canada, and the way it ... -
Overcoming acceptance insensitivity: Increasing low self-esteem individuals' perceptions of value to their partners
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-09)People with low self-esteem (LSEs) often have doubts about how much their romantic partners love and value them. These doubts, which undermine their relationships, are difficult to overcome because LSEs tend to downplay ... -
Overcoming Inequality: How Schools Compensate for Socioeconomic Gaps in Children’s Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-18)This dissertation views schools’ compensatory mechanisms from a mixed methods approach, consisting of both quantitative and qualitative data that were collected from a larger study on summer learning in Canada (see Davies ... -
Overcoming synthesizer phase noise in quantum sensing
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-23)Synthesizers are widely used in various quantum information platforms as microwave or radio frequency signal sources. The synthesizer phase noise plays a sensitive role in detecting spin dynamics which is similar to the ... -
Overlap-Free Words and Generalizations
(University of Waterloo, 2007-11-15)The study of combinatorics on words dates back at least to the beginning of the 20th century and the work of Axel Thue. Thue was the first to give an example of an infinite word over a three letter alphabet that contains ... -
Overlay Token Ring Protocol for Vehicular Communication Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-20)Vehicular communication has been an emerging topic among current wireless research. The vehicular communication can be classified to Inter-Vehicle Communication (IVC) and Road-to-Vehicle Communication (RVC). IVC and RVC ... -
The Overnight City. Future Explorations of Density and Population Growth in a Diminishing World
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-25)Land is our planet’s scarcest resource. With all the combined advances in our civilizations and their respective technologies, we have yet as a society to fully understand our precarious situation ... -
Overnight Corneal Swelling and Deswelling with Silicone Hydrogel Lenses
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-13)Purpose: To compare central corneal swelling (CS) after eight hours of sleep in eyes wearing 12 different silicone hydrogel (SiHy) contact lenses (CLs) and to model between-subject variability in CS and deswelling. Methods: ... -
Ownership Masks, Evolving Views and Cooperative Templates in Template Tracking
(University of Waterloo, 2003)A template tracker is a tracker based on matching a pre-initialised view of an object with the object's view in an image sequence. Using an error function, the intensity difference between the template view and the ... -
Oxidation characteristics, acid neutralization, secondary minerals, and trace elements associated with pyrrhotite oxidation in historical waste rock
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-27)The Detour Lake Mine is an open pit, greenstone-hosted gold mine in Ontario, Canada. Mining produced waste-rock piles that were constructed from 1983 – 1999. Redevelopment and expansion of the open pit required the excavation ... -
Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Doped Lanthanum Chromate Perovskites
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-19)The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) plays a pivotal role in fuel cell technology and the generation of clean oxidizing agents. This reaction can proceed via two distinct pathways. The complete ORR pathway involves reducing ... -
Oxygen uptake and blood flow kinetics following the onset of exercise in trained humans
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)The main hypothesis of this thesis was that the regulation of oxygen uptake (VO2) kinetics at the onset of exercise in trained young men is linked to cardiovascular adaptations. Two studies were conducted to investigate ...