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Towards a Healthy Architecture. Lustica Peninsula
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis attempts to create an architectural <em>vision</em> for the future <em>healthy evolution</em> of the Lu?tica peninsula, a very <em>potent</em> and <em>unique</em> site along the <em>Adriatic coast</em> in ... -
Towards a Management Plan for the Waterloo Moraine: A Comprehensive Assessment of its Current State within the Region of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2009-11-05)The Region of Waterloo (ROW) and Oxford County contain a significant landscape unit called the Waterloo Moraine that provides multiple ecological and water resource functions to surrounding communities. These functions ... -
Towards a more sustainable water future: water governance and Sustainable Development Goal 6 achievability in India
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-03)Humans and the environment in which we live are deeply connected to one another. These interconnections allow for many positive benefits and are foundational to our ability to live on Earth, but also pose many challenges. ... -
Towards a New Generation of Permissioned Blockchain Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-14)With the release of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin system in 2008 a new decentralized computation paradigm, known as blockchain, was born. Bitcoin promised a trading network for virtual coins, publicly available for anyone to ... -
Towards a new implementation of ‘MREOM-CC’, with application to MO+ dimers (M = V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni)
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-24)Multi Reference Equation of Motion Coupled Cluster (MREOM-CC) is an electronic structure method that allows the calculation of many electronic states simultaneously. A sequence of transformations are ... -
Towards a Plural History of 'Impact Investing'
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-02)Conceived in 2007, ‘impact investing’ is an activity whereby investors intentionally pursue social and/or environmental return alongside financial return. It has attracted increasing interest, including from transnational ... -
Towards a Posthumanist Eco-Zoopoetics: Kafkas‘ Tiergeschichten and Yoko Tawadas Etüden im Schnee
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-09)The burgeoning trans-disciplinary field of (post-humanist) eco-zoopoetics is concerned with the question of how the human can represent animals and nature without ignoring their otherness. My thesis argues that literature ... -
Towards A Reparations Ecology: Ecosystem design narratives for rewilding and regenerating desecrated lacustrine landscapes in Tláhuac-Xico, Mexico City
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-22)For centuries, built environments have been instrumental in imposing an anthropocentric system that has separated nature from human civilization. In retrospect, this dualist structuring of man and nature stems from land ... -
Towards a Strategic Communications Plan: Providing Community-Informed Insight into the Role of the Biosphere Reserve on the Oak Ridges Moraine
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-27)The implementation of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BR) in Canada is strongly dependent on grassroots community-based support and understanding. The recent calls for the Oak Ridges Moraine and adjacent Greenbelt lands (ORMGB) ... -
Towards a Suburban Agora: Expanding an intermodal node into a community marketplace
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)This thesis investigates the condition of the contemporary suburban landscape and the potential of transit infrastructure in re-establishing the continuity of the fragmented social fabric. It follows the emerging discourse ... -
Towards a Sustainable Future: Courtyard in Contemporary Beijing
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-15)China has become one of the world’s economic engines. One major driving force is the rapid urbanization. Such fast development results in resource and energy depletion, pollution and environmental deterioration. The ... -
Towards a Theoretical Understanding of the Power of Restart in SAT solvers
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-09)Restart policy is a widely used class of techniques integral to the efficiency of conflict-driven clause-learning (CDCL) SAT solvers. While the utility of such policies has been well-established, to-date we still lack a ... -
Towards a Theory of Visual Concealment
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-26)The goal of this dissertation is to take initial steps towards understanding concealment behaviour and ultimately developing a theory of visual concealment. Since there are relatively few studies of concealment in the ... -
Towards a Versatile System for the Visual Recognition of Surface Defects
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Automated visual inspection is an emerging multi-disciplinary field with many challenges; it combines different aspects of computer vision, pattern recognition, automation, and control systems. There does not exist a ... -
Towards A Workload-Driven Flow Scheduler For Modern Datacenters
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-05)Modern datacenters run different applications with various communication requirements in terms of bandwidth and deadlines. Of particular interest are deadlines that are driving web-search workloads e.g. when submitting ... -
Towards an Enhanced Dependency Graph
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-22)Dependency graphs are at the heart of software analytics tasks like change impact analysis, test selection, and maintenance analysis. Despite their importance, current approaches to extract and analyze dependency graphs ... -
Towards an Optimized Laboratory Procedure for Accelerated Long-Term Oxidative Aging of Asphalt Mix Specimens
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-14)Pavement infrastructure forms one of the most important mode of passenger and freight transportation and trade between Canada and the United States, and plays an important role in national economy as a measure of Canada’s ... -
Towards an Understanding of Board IT Governance: Antecedents and Consequences
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-09)Board involvement in Information Technology (IT) governance and the antecedents and consequences of such involvement are examined from both a theoretical and practical perspective. Practitioner and academic IT governance ... -
Towards an Understanding of How People Build Mental Representations
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-13)Navigating the environment and making everyday decisions is a process plagued by noise, uncertainty, and non-stationary contingencies. Efficient and effective action is predicated upon a stable internal representation of ... -
Towards an Understanding of Sexual Desire Discrepancy in Couples
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-19)Sexual desire is deeply embedded in interpersonal relationships and cannot be fully understood outside of this context. As such, research that focuses on sexual desire problems at the level of the couple is critical for ...