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Studying Black Holes in Superposition Using Unruh-DeWitt Particle Detectors
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-27)In quantum gravity, we expect black holes to exist in quantum superposition. However, the measurable effects of black hole superpositions have not been studied widely. In this thesis, we study superpositions of different ... -
Studying CNN representations through activation dimensionality reduction and visualization
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-01)The field of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) aims to explain the decisions of DNNs. Complete DNN explanations accurately reflect the inner workings of the DNN while interpretable explanations are easy for humans ... -
Studying Economic Sanctions Using The Graph Model for Conflict Resolution
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-28)The methodology of the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR) is improved to show how a Graph Model can account for strength of sanctions, to introduce a trigger option to simplify a model, and to connect a Graph Model ... -
Studying Journal Articles under Time Pressure
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-26)The purpose of this dissertation is to understand how students distribute their attention while reading academic journal articles under time pressure. Given that most of the reading done in university is commonly ... -
Studying polymer physics by machine learning.
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-16)Recently, machine learning becomes a computational method that burst in popularity. Many disciplines, such as condensed matter physics, quantum chemistry, chemical engineering as well as polymer physics have incorporate ... -
Studying Relevance Judging Behavior of Secondary Assessors
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-03)Secondary assessors, individuals who do not originate search topics and are employed solely to judge the relevancy of documents, have been found to differ in their relevance judgments. Their relevance judgments are used ... -
Studying the Impact of Risk Assessment Analytics on Risk Awareness and Code Review Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-18)While code review is a critical component of modern software quality assurance, defects can still slip through the review process undetected. Previous research suggests that the main reason for this is a lack of reviewer ... -
Studying the largest scales in the Universe with the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-19)As we progress further into the era of precision cosmology, new avenues to test our fundamental models of the Universe are opening up. This Ph.D. thesis is concerned with the development and understanding of a technique ... -
Studying the Properties of Cellular Materials with GPU Acceleration
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-08)There has always been a great interest in cellular behaviour. From the molecular level, studying the chemistry of the reactions that occur in cell, and the physical interactions between those molecules, to the scale of ... -
Studying the Structure and Kinetics of Functional Nucleic Acids
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-30)Aptamers are valuable tools in a variety of biotechnological applications, ranging from biosensing to in vivo cell imaging. Studying these molecules can further our understanding of the structure and kinetics of nucleic ... -
Style Recognition in Music with Context Free Grammars and Kolmogorov Complexity
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-11)The Kolmogorov Complexity of an object is incomputable. But built in its structure is a way to specify description methods of an object that is computable in some sense. Such a description method then can be exploited ... -
StyleCounsel: Seeing the (Random) Forest for the Trees in Adversarial Code Stylometry
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-12)Authorship attribution has piqued the interest of scholars for centuries, but had historically remained a matter of subjective opinion, based upon examination of handwriting and the physical document. Midway through the ... -
Sub-Micron Indium Pillar Fabrications
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-13)The laws of classical mechanics show that mechanical properties are independent of sample sizes. However, based on extensive theoretical work and experimentation, it is believed that reducing the size of materials to the ... -
Subcellular localization and protein-protein interactions of two methyl recycling enzymes from Arabidopsis thaliana
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-21)This thesis documents the subcellular localization and protein-protein interactions of two methyl recycling enzymes. These two enzymes, adenosine kinase (ADK) and S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase (SAHH), are essential ... -
A Subclass of Exceptional Parallel Self-similar G2 Cosmologies
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-13)We perform a qualitative and asymptotic analysis of a particular class of cosmological models, namely the exceptional G2 perfect fluid and vacuum models that are additionally self-similar with the fluid flow lying tangential ... -
Subdividing the cd-index
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-28)This thesis aims to give the reader an introduction and overview of the cd-index of a poset, as well as establish some new results. We give a combinatorial proof of Ehrenborg and Karu's cd-index subdivision decomposition ... -
Subject-Specific Assistive Control of a Stroke Rehabilitation Robot
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-23)The branch of medicine known as rehabilitation involves an injured patient employing repetitive practices under the supervision of a physiotherapist in an effort to help the patient recover motor control. But during stroke ... -
Subjective and Objective Quality-of-Experience of Adaptive Video Streaming
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-27)With the rapid growth of streaming media applications, there has been a strong demand of Quality-of-Experience (QoE) measurement and QoE-driven video delivery technologies. While the new worldwide standard dynamic adaptive ... -
Subjective Health as a Predictor of Physical Function in Older Women
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-20)Introduction: Globally, populations are ageing, which has increased the urgency of supporting health in older adults. Two key measures used to examine health in older populations are subjective health, a measure of global ... -
Subjective Mapping
(University of Waterloo, 2007-11-20)There are a variety of domains where it is desirable to learn a representation of an environment defined by a stream of sensori-motor experience. This dissertation introduces and formalizes subjective mapping, a novel ...