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Play
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)Adults in North American society lack the natural ability of children to play and explore their environments in a non-judgemental, non-programmed manner. The underlying theories of James Carse and Johan Huizinga examine ... -
Player Agency, Decision-Making, and Morality in Cinematic Choice-Based Adventure Games
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)Cinematic choice-based adventure games (CCAGs) offer examples of complex decision-making and player agency through plot construction and player choices. These games are a perfect example and opportunity to explore players’ ... -
The Player and The Machine
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-24)Modern multiline video slots are popular games with high fidelity sounds and salient graphics, which allow players to wager on multiple lines at once. Interestingly, on multiline slots, many small wins actually amount to ... -
Player tracking and identification in broadcast ice hockey video
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-19)Tracking and identifying players is a fundamental step in computer vision-based ice hockey analytics. The data generated by tracking is used in many other downstream tasks, such as game event detection and game strategy ... -
Playing for keeps: The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada in the public sphere, 1983-2006
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-14)This thesis is an intellectual history of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) and its public policy activity from 1983 to 2006. The EFC represents many of the major evangelical Protestant denominations and organizations ... -
Playing the Story: The Emergence of Narrative through the Interaction between Players, Game Mechanics, and Participatory Fan Communities.
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-07)If all games are understood as ultimately driven by the operation of their mechanics, then that operation cannot fully exist without the interaction of a player, and by extension the participatory fan community in which ... -
PLOX: A Secure Serverless Framework for the Smart Home
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-17)Smart hubs play a key role in the modern smart home in executing code on behalf of devices locally or on the cloud. Unfortunately, smart hubs are prone to security problems due to misconfigurations, device over permissioning ... -
Plug-In City Outlets: Revisioning the Form of Urban Logistics
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-06)In support of a modal shift towards rail for goods movement, a reconceptualization of urban and interurban mobility frameworks leads to the proposed infrastructural fitting for the urban periphery. Keller Easterling’s ... -
The Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-24)There is an increasing interest in sustainability and a growing debate about environmental policy measures aiming at the reduction of green house gas emissions across di erent economic sectors worldwide. The transportation ... -
Pluggable Properties for Program Understanding: Ontic Type Checking and Inference
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-26)Pluggable type systems is a powerful approach to add additional information on types, which can facilitate the understanding of programs. This thesis presents our work on three pluggable type systems for helping both ... -
Plurality, promises and practice: A case of Nepali immigrants’ transliterating and translanguaging in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Plurality, promises and practice: A case of Nepali immigrants’ transliterating and translanguaging in Canada is a community-based study among sixteen Nepali immigrant students in graduate and undergraduate programs that ... -
Pluronic-Based Nanoparticles for Gene Therapy Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-24)Non-viral delivery vectors have potential advantages over the viral systems that currently are used extensively for delivering therapeutic genes of interest. However, non-viral gene therapy has low efficiencies in vivo, ... -
POEM: Pattern-Oriented Explanations of CNN Models
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-16)While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) achieve state-of-the-art predictive performance in applications such as computer vision, their predictions are difficult to explain, similar to other types of deep learning models. ... -
The Poetics of Dwelling: China’s Courtyard Homes
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-28)Dwelling is a notion that describes the feeling of returning home to utter belonging and calmness at the end of an endeavour. It is a notion that differentiates a mere shelter versus a home because we develop intimate ... -
Poetics of Water
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-27)Dhaka was built on the banks of the river Buriganga around 700 AD. Over the last 400 years, it has grown into one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Every year, Dhaka sees an influx of migrants, who move ... -
Poincare Waves and Kelvin Waves in a Circular Lake
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-28)When wind blows over a stratified lake an interface tilt is often generated, and internal waves usually appear after the wind stops. Internal waves in lakes are studied in many literatures, but most assume a hydrostatic ... -
Point-to-Point Traffic in Wireless Mesh Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-29)Although most work on Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) has focused on traffic flowing in and out of the network via gateways, traffic within the WMN may also be significant in many environments. This point-to-point (P2P) ... -
A Polar Decomposition for Quantum Channels: Theory and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-23)Every potential benefit of quantum computers would be lost without methods to protect the computations from error. Quantum channels provide a framework for understanding error in quantum systems. In general, for a system ... -
Polarimetric and birefringence analysis of presumed amyloid-beta deposits in the retina in association with Alzheimer's disease
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-26)Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease which leads to symptoms such as loss of memory and other neurological dysfunctions, ultimately leading to death. Two key hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease are abnormally ... -
Polarizability-Dependent Induced-Charge Electroosmotic Flow of Dielectric Particles and Its Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-06)To break the limit of the knowledge of the induced-charge electroosmotic flow, this thesis provides a new theoretical and numerical study of the polarizability-dependent induced-charge electroosmotic flow (ICEOF) of ...