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Receive Soft Antenna Selection for Noise-Limited/Interference MIMO Channels
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-07)Although the Multi-Input and Multi-Output (MIMO) communication systems provide very high data rates with low error probabilities, these advantages are obtained at the expense of having high signal processing tasks and ... -
Receiver Channel Recovery in High-Frame-Rate Ultrasound Imaging using Branched Convolutional Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-22)High frame rate ultrasound (HiFRUS) is an imaging paradigm that utilizes unfocused transmissions to perform acquisitions at kilohertz frame rates, and its high temporal resolution enables its use in tracking dynamic ... -
Recent changes in patterns of western Canadian river flow and association with climatic drivers: A CROCWR component
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-10)Climatic variability and change can have profound impacts on the hydrologic regime of a watershed, especially in regions that are particularly sensitive to changes in climate, such as the northern latitudes and alpine-fed ... -
Recent German Memorials to Jewish Victims of World War II
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-15)The following thesis examines four 21st-century German memorials that commemorate the deported and murdered Jewish people of Europe during World War II: Jochen Kitzbihler’s Glaskubus (2003) at Paradeplatz in Mannheim, Janet ... -
RecHap: An Interactive Recommender System For Navigating Large Dataset of Mid-Air Haptic Designs
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-13)Designing haptics is a difficult task especially when the user attempts to design a sensation from scratch for a novel experience. In the fields of visual and audio design, designers often use large example libraries for ... -
A Recipe for Food Literacy: Designing and Evaluating Technologies for Informed Food Choices
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-19)Technology increasingly mediates our everyday interactions with food, ranging from purchasing and handling to preparation and eating. And now — more than ever — technology influences the food we buy and ultimately consume. ... -
Recipes for Resistance: A Censorship Circumvention Cookbook
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-16)The increasing centralization of Internet infrastructure and web services, along with advancements in the application of machine learning techniques to analyze and classify network traffic, have enabled the growth and ... -
Reclaiming Construction Waste: An interface for robotic stacking of irregular components in compression-only structures
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-22)Construction and demolition activities generate approximately one billion tons of waste every year in the world. While the majority of these materials can be either reused or recycled, they are often disposed of in landfills ... -
Reclaiming Water and the Right to the City in Los Angeles: Compton Commons
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-18)The greater Los Angeles urban area is home to nearly 19 million people, but has local water resources that can only support a population of approximately one million. Los Angeles has always depended upon a large proportion ... -
The Reclamation and Reoccupation of the Burloak Employment Lands: Towards a Sustainable Community
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-21)By examining the interconnected relationship between humanity and the environment we live in, this thesis aims to bring new sustainable design approaches to a toxic industrial area known as the Burloak Employment Lands in ... -
Recognizing discrimination explicitly while denying it implicitly: Implicit social identity protection
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-19)Past research suggests that members of devalued groups recognize their group is discriminated against. Do the implicit responses of members of these groups demonstrate the same pattern? I argue that they do not and that ... -
Recognizing Even-Cycle and Even-Cut Matroids
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-27)Even-cycle and even-cut matroids are classes of binary matroids that generalize respectively graphic and cographic matroids. We give algorithms to check membership for these classes of matroids. We assume that the matroids ... -
Recognizing Features in Mobile Laser Scanning Point Clouds Towards 3D High-definition Road Maps for Autonomous Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-29)The sensors mounted on a driverless vehicle are not always reliable for precise localization and navigation. By comparing the real-time sensory data with a priori map, the autonomous navigation system can transform the ... -
Recognizing Magnification Levels in Microscopic Snapshots using Machine Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-25)State-of-of-the-art computer vision research has facilitated technology evolution in the field of medical imaging. The primary achievement of the imaging algorithms developed is the extraction of expressive features from ... -
Recognizing the role of gender and food security in type 2 diabetes nutrition education in rural southwestern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-24)Food systems and health systems are interdependent. Historically, however, strategies that focused on the development of these systems evolved in isolation from one another. Non-communicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes ... -
Recollecting Identity: Food, Culture, Space and Place in the Street Markets of Hong Kong
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-04)The research investigates the importance of culture and placemaking in defining food urbanism in Hong Kong with a culture at risk of disappearing. Considering current revitalization projects and the removal of local street ... -
Recommending messages to users in participatory media environments: a Bayesian credibility approach
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-09)In this thesis, we address the challenge of information overload in online participatory messaging environments using an artificial intelligence approach drawn from research in multiagent systems trust modeling. In particular, ... -
Reconceptualising relationships in the dementia context: Imagining the caring process as fertile ground for friendship between persons living with dementia and paid care partners
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-02)Increasing concerns about the task-oriented, disease focused, and impersonal culture of Long Term Care (LTC) have led to calls for the adoption of relational caring, advocating for relationships to be at the centre of all ... -
Reconciling the Car and the City: A Vision of Productive Urban Mobility
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-26)The relationship between cars and cities is changing. The auto-centric development predominant in America in the 20th century is beginning to subside and disappear. It is being replaced by efforts to make cities more ... -
Reconfigurable Cryogenic Microwave Devices Using Low Temperature Superconducting rf-SQUIDs
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-21)In the physical implementation of modern superconducting quantum computing systems, microwaves play a significant role in the control and measurement of qubits. The advances towards the use of microwaves in the quantum ...