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Quaternary Geomorphology of the Quebec North Shore, Godbout to Sept-Iles
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-27)This report presents a summary of the physical properties of surficial deposits, evolution of the landscape and economic aspects of the materials. Surficial geology maps of the Sept-Iles and Cap Chat map sheets, at a scale ... -
Quaternary Stratigraphy and Glacial Dynamics from a Core Region of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, Aberdeen Lake, Kivalliq, Nunavut
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-16)Central Kivalliq, mainland Nunavut west of Hudson Bay and north of Manitoba, was a long-standing core region of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS). The location of the Keewatin Ice Divide (KID), a major ice spreading region ... -
Quaternion Algebras and Quadratic Forms
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-12)The main goal of this Masters' thesis is to explore isomorphism types of quaternion algebras using the theory of quadratic forms, number theory and algebra. I would also present ways to characterize quaternion algebras, ... -
Quaternions and Quantum Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)The orthodox formulation of quantum theory invokes the mathematical apparatus of complex Hilbert space. In this thesis, we consider a quaternionic quantum formalism for the description of quantum states, quantum channels, ... -
Queen of the Academy: Academic Drag as Pedagogy and Praxis
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-22)Direct stories from and pedagogical representations of equity-denied and oppressed bodies remain largely missing from and kept out of the academy. And scholarship and scholarly gate-keepers across the academy – and especially ... -
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 ...