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Settler Colonialism + Native Ghosts: An Autoethnographic Account of the Imaginarium of Late Capitalist/Colonialist Storytelling
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-13)This dissertation is an Indigenous, decolonial, and autoethnographic account of the genealogical formation and function of Nativeness within biopolitical formations and racializing assemblages, as well as the visual, ... -
Settling Time Reducibility Orderings
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-28)It is known that orderings can be formed with settling time domination and strong settling time domination as relations on c.e. sets. However, it has been shown that no such ordering can be formed when considering computation ... -
Setup and Design of a Cryogenic Testing Station with Focus on Characterization of Superconducting Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)The goal of my thesis was to construct a general purpose cryostat, capable of measuring multiple devices at 100mK. This included modifying an existing SHASTA model 106 Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator (ADR) by adding ... -
Setup of Dry Cryostat for Measurements on Superconducting Microwave Resonators
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-20)A cryogen-free cryostat was set up in order to perform measurements at ultra low temperatures. The setup involved the removal of an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR) and replacing it with a dilution refrigerator ... -
Several Mathematical Problems in Investment Management
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-21)This thesis studies four mathematical problems in investment management. All four problems arise from practical challenges and are data-driven. Chapter 2 investigates the Kelly portfolio strategy. The full Kelly strategy's ... -
Sex and Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)Background: Diabetes mellitus imposes challenges on health care systems, economies, and the individuals living with and at risk for this illness. Diabetes is a major chronic disease and affects more and more Canadians each ... -
Sex and Intimacy in the Postpartum Period: A Qualitative Reddit Analysis of Women’s and Men’s Experiences
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-22)Background: After a birth, physical, mental, social, and structural changes are common, and this may impact parents’ experiences of sex and intimacy. Women often report increased sexual morbidity and a decline in sexual ... -
Sex Without the Head or the Hips: The Inferences Made on Bone and the Use of the Lower Body to Estimate Sex
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-13)When it comes to the sex estimation of a skeleton, the main factors contributing to which methods are used depend on which skeletal elements are present. When a skeleton is uncovered that is essentially complete, with ... -
Sex, Dementia, and Consent
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-01)Sex and dementia is becoming an increasingly important topic in applied ethics. By the year 2030, more than 74.7 million people are expected to be diagnosed with dementia worldwide; many of these people may want to engage ... -
Sex-based differences in IMCL storage and utilization during an acute bout of high intensity interval exercise (HIIE)
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-21)INTRODUCTION: The contribution of lipids, particularly intramyocellular lipids (IMCL), to energy production during high intensity interval exercise (HIIE) is not well characterized. Sex influences lipid utilization during ... -
Sexual Minority-focused Sport Group Involvement in Reducing the Impact of Homophobic Stigmatization on Internalized Homophobia and Degree of Disclosure
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-24)The homophobic stigmatization that many gay and lesbian individuals are exposed to, can have negative implications for their well-being. Sexual minority-focused sport group involvement is one way to boost well-being in the ... -
Sexual Self-Schemas and Sexual Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-02)The aim of the present research was to investigate the association between how individuals in romantic relationships conceptualize themselves sexually, and levels of reported sexual satisfaction for both themselves and ... -
SFour: A Protocol for Cryptographically Secure Record Linkage at Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)The prevalence of various (and increasingly large) datasets presents the challenging problem of discovering common entities dispersed across disparate datasets. Solutions to the private record linkage problem (PRL) aim to ... -
Shades of Care: Understanding how BIPOC mothers and children experience paediatric care in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-09)BACKGROUND: Race and ethnicity are determinants of health which play significant roles in shaping the quality of care and health outcomes for a child. In Canada’s increasingly diversifying patient populations, it has been ... -
Shades of gray in vaccine decision making: Understanding, exploring, and addressing the challenges of influenza vaccine hesitancy in Ontario community pharmacies
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-19)Background: Two-thirds of Canadian adults currently do not receive the annual influenza vaccine. Vaccine hesitancy (VH), the voluntary delay or refusal of vaccination services despite availability is a significant contributor ... -
Shadow of the Wall
(University of Waterloo, 2008-02-07)A rapid economic boom in the past decade has completely transformed China’s urban landscape into a theme park of skyscrapers. Architecture has become a means to showcase ambition and desire. Architects are forced to fit ... -
Shakespeare Adaptations in a Canadian Context and the Question of Canadian Identity.
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-24)The doctoral thesis, Shakespeare Adaptations in a Canadian Context and the Question of Canadian Identity examines the representation, production and interpretation of Canadian identity through Shakespeare’s plays at two ... -
Shakespeare, Youth, and Comic Books
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-29)This thesis examines how Shakespearean play-texts are adapted into comic books in order to appeal to young readers. By analyzing four different adaptations including two comic book series and two manga series, it seeks to ... -
ShallowForest: Optimizing All-to-All Data Transmission in WANs
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)All-to-all data transmission is a typical data transmission pattern in both consensus protocols and blockchain systems. Developing an optimization scheme that provides high throughput and low latency data transmission can ... -
Shamanic Sequences: Gateways between the Corporeal, Virtual and Spiritual Realms
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-24)This thesis explores the multi-dimensional aspects of space by engaging three primary “modes of knowing”: the corporeal, the virtual and the spiritual. The crossings of these modes are investigated through the development ...