Browsing Theses by Title
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Simultaneously Embedding Planar Graphs at Fixed Vertex Locations
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-18)We discuss the problem of embedding planar graphs onto the plane with pre-specified vertex locations. In particular, we introduce a method for constructing such an embedding for both the case where the mapping from the ... -
Sind wir nicht alle ein bisschen Dora? Eine Untersuchung der Funktion psychischer Krankheit anhand der Raumkonstruktion in Irena Vrkljans Buch über Dora
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)We often encounter mental illness in our daily lives. People who are diagnosed with a mental disorder are marked as different and thereby stigmatized and confined to spacial isolation. This thesis analyzes the function of ... -
Singing and Making the Inflection
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-17)In my left hand I hold a thin piece of scrap wood about the length of my forearm. In my right hand, a chisel-ground knife called a kiridashi. I push the knife into the wood, and I observe the shaving extend out and curl ... -
Singing with Moses and the Lamb: Social Memory and Radical Discipleship in John’s Apocalypse
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-23)The Apocalypse reads as a kind of “discipleship manual” for the ekklesiai living in Asia Minor under Roman administration. It calls for followers of the Lamb to reject easy compliance with the world of empire, and to embrace ... -
Single and Dual-Parameter Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors Embedded in Metallic Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-04)Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) are optical fiber sensors that can be used to measure both strain and temperature. Due to their robustness, FBG sensors can be more easily embedded into materials than traditional electronic ... -
Single and ready to mingle? A feminist exploration of singlehood, dating, and leisure
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-24)Stemming from my own experiences (and tensions and paradoxes) negotiating the complexity involved in dating as a single, adult woman, this study explores the gendered complexity of singlehood for adult women. To unpack ... -
Single Commodity Flow Algorithms for Lifts of Graphic and Cographic Matroids
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-23)Consider a binary matroid M given by its matrix representation. We show that if M is a lift of a graphic or a cographic matroid, then in polynomial time we can either solve the single commodity flow problem for M or find ... -
Single Input Multiple Output Media Based Modulation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-01)Modulation is traditionally based on the idea that signal constellations should be deterministically constructed and known by the transmitter and receiver. Communication involves the transmitter randomly selecting from ... -
Single Input Single Output Digital Pre-Distortion at Millimeter Wave Frequencies for Phased Arrays
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-30)The limiting fact that is impeding the increase in data rate in the current generation of wireless communication is the limited available spectrum in the sub-6 GHz bands. This has motivated the shift to higher frequencies ... -
Single Killing Vector Gauss-Bonnet Boson Stars and Single Killing Vector Hairy Black Holes in D>5 Odd Dimensions
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)I construct anti-de Sitter boson stars in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity coupled to a (D-1)/(2)-tuplet of complex massless scalar field both perturbativelyand numerically in D=5,7,9,11 dimensions. Due to the choice of ... -
Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy Investigations of Amyloid-β Aggregation
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-29)Alzheimer’s Disease is a neurodegenerative disease affecting over five million people in the United States alone, with almost half a million new cases every year. As the population ages, these figures will only increase ... -
Single Phase Pump: Non-Mechanical Valvular Conduit
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)This thesis evaluates performance of a non-mechanical conduit valve that was designed for the purpose of this research. The motivation came from the need for a cooling system of portable computers (e.g. laptops and netbooks). ... -
Single photon measurements: from spin-orbit lattices to ultrafast pulses
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-13)Single photons are naturally suited to quantum information processes as they can carry entanglement in multiple degrees of freedom and maintain coherence easily. In order to fully harness single photons for this use, it ... -
Single View Human Pose Tracking
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-22)Recovery of human pose from videos has become a highly active research area in the last decade because of many attractive potential applications, such as surveillance, non-intrusive motion analysis and natural human machine ... -
Single White-Light-Emitting Nanostructures Based on Förster Resonance Energy Transfer: Development, Characterization and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-19)Electric energy use associated with lighting reaches up to 3400 Terawatts hours and constitutes approximately 20 % of the world total electricity output per year. That in turn contributes to the release of at least 1900 ... -
Single-Chip Scanning Probe Microscopes
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-02)Scanning probe microscopes (SPMs) are the highest resolution imaging instruments available today and are among the most important tools in nanoscience. Conventional SPMs suffer from several drawbacks owing to their large ... -
Single-Entity-Single-Relation Question Answering with Minimal Annotation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-24)We present a novel bag-of-words based approach that automatically constructs a semantic parsing based question answering (QA) system tailored to single-entity-single-relation questions. Given a large community QA pair ... -
The Single-Member Plurality and Mixed-Member Proportional Electoral Systems: Different Concepts of an Election
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The thesis is an analysis of the different concepts of an election reflected in the single-member plurality (SMP) electoral system and the mixed-member proportional (MMP) electoral system. These different concepts reflect ... -
Single-Particle Dynamics in Nanoscopic Systems: Statistical Modeling and Inference
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-24)Our work aims to solve some of the most significant and fundamental theoretical problems involved in the current statistical modeling of stochastic processes in single-molecule experiments, for which a well recognized yet ... -
Single-pass stratified importance resampling
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-08)Simulating the behavior of light to produce realistic images involves evaluation of difficult integrals. Monte Carlo integration is a general method to estimate such integrals and is therefore widely used in physically ...