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The Queer Eternal September: LGBTQ Identity on the Early Internet and Web
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-21)This dissertation examines the expression of queer identity and community on the early internet and web, and suggests a methodology for working with archived internet and web sources when exploring the history of marginalized ... -
Quench Sensitivity of 6xxx Aluminum Alloys
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-16)The use of AA6xxx series alloys continues to grow with the increasing demand for more fuel efficient vehicles. AA6xxx series alloys are commonly used in automotive applications because of their extrudability and good ... -
Quenching the Spirit: The Transformation of Religious Identity and Experience in Three Canadian Pentecostal Churches
(University of Waterloo, 2012-03-09)According to Census Canada, after eight decades of consistent growth Canadian Pentecostal affiliation reached an all-time high of 436,435 individuals in 1991. A decade later, the results of the 2001 Canadian census revealed ... -
Query Answering over Functional Dependency Repairs
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-23)Inconsistency often arises in real-world databases and, as a result, critical queries over dirty data may lead users to make ill-informed decisions. Functional dependencies (FDs) can be used to specify intended semantics ... -
Query Evaluation in the Presence of Fine-grained Access Control
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-20)Access controls are mechanisms to enhance security by protecting data from unauthorized accesses. In contrast to traditional access controls that grant access rights at the granularity of the whole tables or views, ... -
Query Interactions in Database Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-08)The typical workload in a database system consists of a mix of multiple queries of different types, running concurrently and interacting with each other. The same query may have different performance in different mixes. ... -
Query Optimization for On-Demand Information Extraction Tasks over Text Databases
(University of Waterloo, 2012-03-27)Many modern applications involve analyzing large amounts of data that comes from unstructured text documents. In its original format, data contains information that, if extracted, can give more insight and help in the ... -
Query Optimization in Dynamic Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-08)Most modern applications deal with very large amounts of data. Having to deal with such huge amounts of data is in itself a challenge. This challenge is complicated even more by the fact that, in many cases, this data is ... -
Query Similarity for Community Question Answering System Based on Recurrent Encoder Decoder
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-18)The measurement of sentence similarity is a fundamental task in natural language processing. Traditionally, it is measured either from word-level or sentence-level (such as paraphrasing), which requires many lexical and ... -
A Query-Based Approach for the Analysis of Aspect-Oriented Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-29)In recent years, many aspect-oriented languages and methods have been proposed in the literature to support separation of concerns that can be spread throughout a software system and its components and to facilitate ... -
Querying Large Collections of Semistructured Data
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-01)An increasing amount of data is published as semistructured documents formatted with presentational markup. Examples include data objects such as mathematical expressions encoded with MathML or web pages encoded with XHTML. ... -
The quest for "diagnostically lossless" medical image compression using objective image quality measures
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-18)Given the explosive growth of digital image data being generated, medical communities worldwide have recognized the need for increasingly efficient methods of storage, display and transmission of medical images. For this ... -
Question Paraphrase Generation for Question Answering System
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-31)The queries to a practical Question Answering (QA) system range from keywords, phrases, badly written questions, and occasionally grammatically perfect questions. Among different kinds of question analysis approaches, the ... -
Questioning the Unquestioned: Scale Development to Assess Ecotourist Ethics
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)While most ecotourist definitions and typologies have relied on concepts ingrained in traveler behaviours or destinations, none has benefited from a consideration of personal ethics. The study of ecotourism has virtually ... -
Queueing Analysis of a Priority-based Claim Processing System
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)We propose a situation in which a single employee is responsible for processing incoming claims to an insurance company that can be classified as being one of two possible types. More specifically, we consider a priority-based ... -
A Queueing Model to Study Ambulance Offload Delays
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-24)The ambulance offload delay problem is a well-known result of overcrowding and congestion in emergency departments. Offload delay refers to the situation where area hospitals are unable to accept patients from regional ... -
Queueing Network Models of Ambulance Offload Delays
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)Although healthcare operations management has been an active and popular research direction over the past few years, there is a lack of formal quantitative models to analyze the ambulance o oad delay problem. O oad delays ... -
Quick and Automatic Selection of POMDP Implementations on Mobile Platform Based on Battery Consumption Estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-01)Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) is widely used to model sequential decision making process under uncertainty and incomplete knowledge of the environment. It requires strong computation capability and ... -
A Quick-and-Dirty Approach to Robustness in Linear Optimization
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-07)We introduce methods for dealing with linear programming (LP) problems with uncertain data, using the notion of weighted analytic centers. Our methods are based on high interaction with the decision maker (DM) and try ... -
QuickAssist Extensive Reading for Learners of German Using CALL Technologies
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-20)The focus of this dissertation is the development and testing of a CALL tool which assists learners of German with the extensive reading of German texts of their choice. The application provides functionality that enables ...