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Systematic Conservation Prioritization Centered on Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), in a Region of Competing Land Uses
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-27)The once expansive sagebrush habitat in the western United States has suffered substantial losses largely due to the encroachment of development for extractive and renewable resource-based industries. Sage-grouse (Centrocercus ... -
Systematic Design of Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems for Modeling and Control with Applications to Modular and Reconfigurable Robots
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-20)Fuzzy logic systems (FLSs) are well known in the literature for their ability to model linguistics and system uncertainties. Due to this ability, FLSs have been successfully used in modeling and control applications such ... -
Systematic Review of Practice Facilitation and Evaluation of a Chronic Illness Care Management Tailored Outreach Facilitation Intervention for Rural Primary Care Physicians
(University of Waterloo, 2009-03-25)Nearly two decades of research on translating evidence-based care guidelines into practice has resulted in a considerable body of primary and secondary evidence about guideline implementation strategies and the individual, ... -
Systematically Detecting Access Control Flaws in the Android Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-25)Android's permission model is used to regulate access to the Application Program Interfaces (APIs) within the Android system services, which provide access to sensitive system resources, such as the camera and microphone. ... -
Systems and Algorithms for Dynamic Graph Processing
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-10)Data generated from human and systems interactions could be naturally represented as graph data. Several emerging applications rely on graph data, such as the semantic web, social networks, bioinformatics, finance, and ... -
A Systems Approach for Rural Energy Intervention Design in India: Integrating Women, Resources, Technologies, and Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-16)One of the greatest challenges facing a developing country such as India is how to meet the domestic energy needs of a substantial and growing rural population in an ecologically sustainable manner. Over the past three ... -
A Systems Approach to Examining Co-operative Education: A Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-28)Co-operative education (co-op) is a model of learning where students alternate between academic and work terms. Co-op offers potential benefits for three key stakeholder groups: students, employers and academic institutions. ... -
Systems for Graph Extraction from Tabular Data
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-28)Connections amongst real-world entities provide significant insights for numerous real-life applications in social networks, semantic web, road maps, finance, among others. Graphs are perhaps the most natural way to model ... -
Systems for Managing Work-Related Transitions
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-17)Peoples' work lives have become ever-populated with transitions across tasks, devices, and environments. Despite their ubiquitous nature, managing transitions across these three domains has remained a significant challenge. ... -
Systems, materials, and methodologies for multi-material hybrid additive manufacturing functionally graded structures
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-18)Over the last three decades, additive manufacturing (AM), which is based on fashioning 3D objects through a layer-by-layer construction, has greatly expanded. The progress in this field is due to the capability of fabricating ... -
T-SIMn: Towards a Framework for the Trace-Based Simulation of 802.11n Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-17)With billions of WiFi devices now in use, and growing, combined with the rising popularity of high-bandwidth applications, such as streaming video, demands on WiFi networks continue to rise. To increase performance for ... -
T.U.R.F. (Transformative Urban Rooftop Farming): Alleviating Food Insecurity in Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-30)One in every eight Canadian households is food insecure. This accounts for 12.7% of the total population of Canada. Food insecurity, which refers to inadequate and insecure access to food due to social, physical, and ... -
Table-Top Views
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-20)High resolution aerial photography has become widely available in the twenty-first century. Already accustomed to consuming data-rich bird’s-eye views, we have eagerly adapted this scale of digital imagery for pleasure ... -
Tabular Abstraction, Editing, and Formatting
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-29)This dissertation investigates the composition of high-quality tables with the use of electronic tools. A generic model is designed to support the different stages of tabular composition, including the editing of logical ... -
Tactics to Tiny: Finding Your Way Home
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-31)This is a study of tiny homes and how they fit within the practical and theoretical framework of our regulatory housing system. It starts with a (much) smaller home but has social, political, financial and legal implications ... -
Tactile Haptics: A Study of Roughness Perception in Virtual Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-01)This thesis presents the design of a tactile device that can be used to display varying magnitudes of roughness. The device is designed to be attached to an existing force feedback device in order to create a package that ... -
Tagger: Enhance Database Search Tools with De Novo Sequencing Tags
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-06)Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is widely used in proteomics nowadays to identify peptides and proteins from a sequence database. In a classic procedure of MS/MS protein identification, proteins are digested into short ... -
Tags: Augmenting Microkernel Messages with Lightweight Metadata
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-15)In this work, we propose Tags, an e cient mechanism that augments microkernel interprocess messages with lightweight metadata to enable the development of new, systemwide functionality without requiring the modi cation ... -
Tail Dependence and Heavy Tailedness in Extreme Risks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-18)Much empirical work has shown that asset returns, exchange rates, operational risks, large insurance claims exhibit heavy tailedness. Dependence also widely exists among these risks. An example of the impact of dependence ... -
Tailored Exercise For Fall And Fracture Prevention In Older Adults: A Family Health Team Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)Background: Exercise interventions reduce falls in older adults. Methods for enhancing uptake and adherence to exercise programs in at-risk individuals are needed. Objectives: This pilot study evaluated feasibility of ...