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A paleopathological analysis of juveniles from Thebes: Childhood health in Byzantine Greece
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-15)Limited publications address juvenile health in Byzantine Thebes, Greece. As vulnerable and abundant members of most populations, children are essential to understanding the health experiences of past populations. This ... -
Paleozoic transpressional tectonics in the Beishan orogenic collage, Northwest China: Evolution of the Hongliuhe suture zone
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-21)The Beishan orogenic collage is a southern, central subset of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, in Northwest China. It is an accretionary orogen that was active during the early Paleozoic, transitioning to convergent ... -
A palliative approach to care for people living with dementia: exploring perspectives from health and social care providers working in long-term care
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-06)Background: The number of Canadians living with dementia is rising as our population ages and is projected to reach 1.4 million people by 2031. Dementia is a terminal neurogenerative condition and is a major contributing ... -
Palmprint Identification Based on Generalization of IrisCode
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-24)The development of accurate and reliable security systems is a matter of wide interest, and in this context biometrics is seen as a highly effective automatic mechanism for personal identification. Among biometric technologies, ... -
Panic Detection in Human Crowds using Sparse Coding
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-29)Recently, the surveillance of human activities has drawn a lot of attention from the research community and the camera based surveillance is being tried with the aid of computers. Cameras are being used extensively for ... -
Para-Holomorphic Algebroids and Para-Complex Connections
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-17)The goal of this paper is to develop the theory of Courant algebroids with integrable para-Hermitian vector bundle structures by invoking the theory of Lie bialgebroids. We consider the case where the underlying manifold ... -
Paradigm Shift: Does River Metabolism Mask the Isotopic Signal of Nitrate Sources?
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)Nitrate (NO₃⁻) is the most ubiquitous contaminant in surface and groundwaters in Canada. Synthetic fertilizer application and manure production in intensive agricultural areas contribute large quantities of NO₃⁻ to the ... -
Paralinguistic and Nonverbal Behaviour in Social Interactions: A Lens Model Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-20)It is widely accepted in our society that people’s paralinguistic (i.e., non-semantic characteristics of the voice) and nonverbal (i.e., posture, gestures, and facial expressions) behaviours play an important role in ... -
Parallel Multiplier Designs for the Galois/Counter Mode of Operation
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-09)The Galois/Counter Mode of Operation (GCM), recently standardized by NIST, simultaneously authenticates and encrypts data at speeds not previously possible for both software and hardware implementations. In GCM, data ... -
Parallel Paths Analysis Using Function Call Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Call graphs have been used widely in different software engineering areas. Since call graphs provide us with detailed information about the structure of software elements and components and how they are connected with each ... -
Parallel Pattern Search in Large, Partial-Order Data Sets on Multi-core Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-20)Monitoring and debugging distributed systems is inherently a difficult problem. Events collected during the execution of distributed systems can enable developers to diagnose and fix faults. Process-time diagrams are ... -
Parallel Polyadenine Duplex Formation at Low pH Facilitates DNA Conjugation onto Gold Nanoparticles
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-20)DNA-functionalized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been extensively used in sensing, drug delivery, and materials science. A key step is to attach DNA onto AuNPs forming a stable and functional conjugate. While the traditional ... -
Parallel Repetition of Prover-Verifier Quantum Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-05)In this thesis, we answer several questions about the behaviour of prover-verifier interactions under parallel repetition when quantum information is allowed, and the verifier acts independently in them. We first ... -
Parallel Run-Time Verification
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-24)Run-time verification is a technique to reason about a program correctness. Given a set of desirable properties and a program trace from the inspected program as an input, the monitor module verifies that properties hold ... -
A Parallel Study of the Fock Space Approach to Classical and Free Brownian Motion
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-28)The purpose of this thesis is to elaborate the similarities between the classical and the free probability by means of developing the chaos decomposition of stochastic integrals driven by Brownian motion and its free ... -
A parallel, adaptive discontinuous Galerkin method for hyperbolic problems on unstructured meshes
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-04)This thesis is concerned with the parallel, adaptive solution of hyperbolic conservation laws on unstructured meshes. First, we present novel algorithms for cell-based adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) on unstructured ... -
Parallelizing Legendre Memory Unit Training
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-14)Recently, a new recurrent neural network (RNN) named the Legendre Memory Unit (LMU) was proposed and shown to achieve state-of-the-art performance on several benchmark datasets. Here we leverage the linear time-invariant ... -
Parallelizing quantum circuit synthesis
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-24)We present an algorithmic framework for parallel quantum circuit synthesis using meet-in-the-middle synthesis techniques. We also present two implementations thereof, using both threaded and hybrid parallelization ... -
Parameter and Structure Learning Techniques for Sum Product Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-25)Probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) provide a general and flexible framework for reasoning about complex dependencies in noisy domains with many variables. Among the various types of PGMs, sum-product networks (SPNs) ... -
Parameter Estimation and Uncertainty Analysis of Contaminant First Arrival Times at Household Drinking Water Wells
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-25)Exposure assessment, which is an investigation of the extent of human exposure to a specific contaminant, must include estimates of the duration and frequency of exposure. For a groundwater system, the duration of exposure ...