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Web Tasking: An Investigation of End User Interaction for the Ideal Control Metaphor
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-02)Users are finding multiple ways to utilize web applications (apps) outside of their typical self-contained purposes, resulting in an increasing need to connect apps together. This connectivity can be achieved through web ... -
A Web-based Statistical Analysis Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-26)Statistical software packages have been used for decades to perform statistical analyses. Recently, the emergence of the Internet has expanded the potential for these packages. However, none of the existing packages have ... -
A Web-based Transit Technology Selection Model
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-22)There are many cities in North America planning to upgrade or implement public transportation infrastructure with the goals of increasing transit ridership and promoting transit-oriented development. The most commonly ... -
Website Fingerprinting: Attacks and Defenses
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-13)Website fingerprinting attacks allow a local, passive eavesdropper to determine a client's web activity by leveraging features from her packet sequence. These attacks break the privacy expected by users of privacy technologies, ... -
The Weight of Cities: A Case Study of the Region of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-28)The global population is growing at a fast rate, which is resulting in the growth of urban areas worldwide. With the additional 2.1 billion people living in cities by 2050, the urban population will reach 6.5 billion by ... -
The Weight of Fitting the Description: Using Critical Race Theory to Explore Black and Indigenous Youth Perceptions of the Police
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-26)Effective law enforcement is contingent on public support. A growing volume of research examining public perceptions of the police suggest that trust and confidence in the police is very low among youth and specific ... -
The Weight of Islands: A GIS-based material stock analysis of Grenada in the context of extreme weather and climate change
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)The building stock consumes large amounts of resources for maintenance and expansion, which is only exacerbated by disaster events where large-scale reconstruction must occur quickly. Recent research has shown the potential ... -
Weighted Opposition-Based Fuzzy Thresholding
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-18)With the rapid growth of the digital imaging, image processing techniques are widely involved in many industrial and medical applications. Image thresholding plays an essential role in image processing and computer vision ... -
Weighting Document Genre in Enterprise Search
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-14)The creation of an Enterprise Search system involves many challenges that are not present in Web search. Searching a corporate collection is influenced both by the structure of the data present in the collection and by ... -
The Weil conjectures
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-24)In discussing the question of rational points on algebraic curves, we are usually concerned with ℚ. André Weil looked instead at curves over finite fields; assembling the counts into a function, he discovered that it ... -
Weird Fiction: An Exhibition of Paintings
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-19)Each painting in this exhibition is a transformed documentation of a specific experience culled from my daily, ordinary life. These encounters are not monumental; however their impact is significant because of their ... -
Welch Bounds and Quantum State Tomography
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-22)In this thesis we investigate complete systems of MUBs and SIC-POVMs. These are highly symmetric sets of vectors in Hilbert space, interesting because of their applications in quantum tomography, quantum cryptography and ... -
Weldability of a Dual-Phase Sheet Steel by the Gas Metal Arc Welding Process
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-18)Dual-phase (DP) sheet steels have recently been used for automotive manufacturing to reduce vehicle weight and improve fuel economy. Dual-phase steels offer higher strength without reduced formability when compared to ... -
Weldability of AZ31B Magnesium Sheet by Laser Welding Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)Due to finite fossil fuel resources and the impact on our environment of burning fossil fuels, the automotive industry has been investigating ways to reduce the overall weight of automotive vehicles. This has led to ... -
"Wer nicht handelt, der stirbt”. Sex Work, Migration and Agency in Julya Rabinowich’s "Die Erdfresserin"
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-30)This thesis examines the depiction of migration and sex work through the lens of agency in Julya Rabinowich's Die Erdfresserin (2012). Most research present the novel's character – a Russian sex worker who migrates to ... -
Western European Arms Export and Asylum Immigration: A Connection? On the Determinants of Asylum Immigration to Western Europe
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-25)My contribution is focused to a modest framework creation for asylum-immigration theory. By means of arms-export data from 17 Western European countries, tested against inflow of asylum seekers to these countries, covering ... -
Wet Snow Mapping in Southern Ontario with Sentinel-1A Observations
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-30)Wet snow is defined as snow with liquid water present in an ice-water mix. It can be an indicator for the onset of the snowmelt period. Knowledge about the extent of wet snow area can be of great importance for the monitoring ... -
Wet Weather Performance of an Extensive Vegetated Roof in Waterloo, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-10)Vegetated roof technologies are increasingly being adopted as treatment measures to mitigate the effects of urban stormwater. A mass balance approach was used to assess the wet weather performance of a vegetated roof on ... -
Wetland Management in Ontario: A Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Niagara Falls’ Slough Forests
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-18)Wetlands are unique ecosystems that provide a multitude of direct and indirect services to the human population. Yet, these ecosystems continue to be one of the most threatened biomes in the world with unsustainable rates ... -
Wetland Reclamation in England: Medieval Risk Culture and the 1396 Commission of Sewers for Pevensey Levels
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-24)This paper examines wetland reclamation in England between the eighth and sixteenth centuries, with a special focus on the Pevensey Levels during the fourteenth century. Coastal marsh communities had access to significant ...