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“The world has always been like a comic book world to me”: Examining representations of queer stories in comics and other media
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-13)Engagement with media has become the most popular form of leisure in our lives with approximately 40% of leisure time being dedicated to television viewing alone (Mullen, 2020). The consumption of books, graphic novels/comics, ... -
The World of My Childhood Home
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-19)My childhood home ceased to exist and remained in the past. This thesis is a return to my childhood home through my memories. I return to it in remembering my child-self, who sought the heights from the roof and high ... -
Worldwide Venture Capital and Patent Creation
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-26)Companies need to be more innovative to exist and sustain profitability in today’s competitive business environment. They try to increase innovation by increasing their internal knowledge through internal and external ... -
Wormlike Chain Polymers Under External Fields with Applications to Nanotechnology
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-12)Polymers are long molecular chains formed from smaller molecular units called monomers. Polymers display interesting macroscopic properties, are ubiquitous in everyday materials, and are also important biomolecules among ... -
Worship in the suburbs: the development experience of recent immigrant religious communities
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Immigration is transforming large Canadian urban regions. Rapidly increasing religious diversity is one dimension of the dramatic, multicultural shift accompanying this sea-change. Over the past decade, many important ... -
Worst Case Analysis of DRAM Latency in Hard Real Time Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-17)As multi-core systems are becoming more popular in real time embedded systems, strict timing requirements for accessing shared resources must be met. In particular, a detailed latency analysis for Double Data Rate Dynamic ... -
Worst-Case Latency Analysis for the Versal Network-on-Chip
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-18)The recent line of Versal FPGA devices from Xilinx Inc. includes a hard Network-On-Chip (NoC) embedded in the programmable logic, designed to be a high-performance system-level interconnect. While the target markets for ... -
Worst-Case to Average-Case Reductions for the SIS Problem: Tightness and Security
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-30)We present a framework for evaluating the concrete security assurances of cryptographic constructions given by the worst-case SIVP_γ to average-case SIS_{n,m,q,β} reductions. As part of this analysis, we present the tightness ... -
Worth the Effort? The Effects of Task-Centrality, Annoyance, and Arrogance on Manager Effort Allocation During Feedback-Seeking Episodes
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-12)Employees seek feedback from managers to reduce work-related ambiguity. However, managers typically have other competing demands on their time, and as such, may not allocate sufficient effort to providing feedback. To this ... -
"The Writer Within Did it!" Metafiction and Ulf Miehe's Ich hab noch einen Toten in Berlin
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-05)As one of the first scholarly studies of Ulf Miehe’s Ich hab noch einen Toten in Berlin, this thesis undertakes a close reading of the novel, thereby providing a basis for further research. According to Linda Hutcheon's ... -
Writing identity - Negotiating Gender in Leopold von Sacher Masoch's "Venus im Pelz" and Robert Musil's "Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß"
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-29)The age of the Industrial Revolution has led to a variety of changes in human society. One of these changes was a shift in gender-roles for men and women. The social role and the behavior of people became a consequence of ... -
Writing the Self: An Examination of Self-narration and Identity Construction in Alina Bronsky’s Scherbenpark and Julya Rabinowich’s Spaltkopf
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-19)Through a close reading of Alina Bronsky’s Scherbenpark (2008) and Julya Rabinowich’s Spaltkopf (2008), this thesis examines the process of identity building as it is articulated and produced in self-narration. The goal ... -
Written Emotional Disclosure about Potential Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-28)According to leading psychosocial models of worry, the reduced imagery and concreteness of worries may prevent emotional processing and ultimately maintain fear. Given that Pennebaker’s written emotional disclosure paradigm ... -
WRR based Two-Level Slice Scheduler for 5G RAN Sharing in the context of Neutral Host
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-11)We investigate the sub-channel sharing problem in the context of Neutral Host Radio Access Network (RAN) slicing. We consider a single user Multiple Input Multiple Output system where each Virtual Network Operator (VNO) ... -
Wyrd Ecology
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)This work investigates what motivates environmental action through developing a case study on how ecological conscience forms in the ritual practices of a new religious movement. I conducted a two-year ethnographic study ... -
X-ray Astrophysics: The Spoiler Clusters and XRISM Synchrotron Calibrations
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-22)Cool core galaxy clusters hosting brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) in their centres radiate away their energy on timescales of less than 10^9 yr. If cooling wasn't offset by some form of heating, the hot atmosphere would ... -
XC: Exploring Quantitative Use Cases for Explanations in 3D Object Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-18)Explainable AI (XAI) methods are frequently applied to obtain qualitative insights about deep models' predictions. However, such insights need to be interpreted by a human observer to be useful. In this thesis, we aim to ... -
Xenophobic citizenship, unsettling space, and constraining borders: Assembling refugee exclusion in South Africa’s everyday
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-31)This dissertation investigates how myriad actors, including the state, citizens, civil society, refugees, and the media, intersect to shape refugee experiences in urban centers in South Africa. Building on six months of ... -
Xenophon's Hiero
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-29)This study will be a close textual analysis of Xenophon’s Hiero, contextualized and informed by the author’s other writings and the relevant secondary philological and historical scholarship. In addition to critiquing the ... -
Xinjiang's Vernacular Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-19)The Uyghur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang is home to numerous ethnic groups and their vernacular architecture that is uniquely representative of their geographical contexts, collective wisdoms, and cultural identities. In ...