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Reasoning About Foreign Function Interfaces: Blame and Nondeterministic Formal Semantics
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-31)Foreign function interfaces (FFIs) are commonly used as a way to mix programming languages. In such systems, a program written in a host language calls functions written in a guest language from within the same program. ... -
Reassessing foreign language classroom anxiety: Employing poststructuralist theories in a qualitative meta-analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)This thesis will generate new insight into the study of classroom language anxiety and its method of analysis in current SLA discourse. Drawing heavily from Horcoff, Horcoff and Cope’s seminal paper “Foreign Language ... -
The Rebirth of Rape: Tracing Ovidian Rape Motifs with Respect to Bernini's Pluto and Persephone as a Piece of Classical Reception
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-08)Rape, as it is understood in a modern context, is approached with a completely different perspective than that of an ancient, and even a post-Renaissance, audience. With the contributing factors of cultural, historical, ... -
REBUILDING OUR WATERS: An alternative view of Ontario cottage country through models of community engagement and shared environmental stewardship.
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-10)Cottaging is a ‘summer-home’ tradition for many Canadian families and plays an important role in Ontario’s cultural and provincial identity. The North-Hastings – East Haliburton area is a popular cottage destination; however ... -
Recalibrating Detroit: A Plan for Incremental Neighbourhood Densification
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)This thesis analyses factors responsible for Detroit’s past growth and delves into its current transient culture. The phenomena of its urban shrinkage is more than just a demographic shift. It is a harbinger of qualitative ... -
The Receipt of Task-Related Help: Developing and Validating a Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-23)Helping behaviors have been subjected to a substantial amount of research attention. However, organizational researchers have disproportionately focused on the help giver, neglecting the recipient of help. To stimulate ... -
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 ...