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Coded Wireless Video Broadcast/Multicast
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-26)Advancements in video coding, compact media display, and communication devices, particularly in emerging broadband wireless access networks, have created many foreseeable and exciting applications of video broadcast/multicast ... -
Coding a Biophilic Core: Digital Design Tools for Toronto’s Avian Habitat Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-17)This research develops a methodology for computationally sensing, illustrating, and utilizing avian-focused patch networks to locate and inform ecological interventions in dense urban settings. These interventions are ... -
Coding for Data Analytics: New Information Distances
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-03)Distance plays a vital role in many applications of data analytics. For instance, in image retrieval, organization, and management, one needs a proper similarity distance to measure the perceptual similarity between any ... -
Coding Schemes for Multiple-Relay Channels
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-10)In network information theory, the relay channel models a communication scenario where there is one or more relay nodes that can help the information transmission between the source and the destination. Although the capacity ... -
Coding Strip: A Tool for Supporting Interplay within Abstraction Ladder for Computational Thinking
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)As technologies advance and play an increasingly larger role in our lives, computational thinking---the ability to understand computing concepts and procedures and their role in the tools we use---has become an important ... -
Coding Theorems via Jar Decoding
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-22)In the development of digital communication and information theory, every channel decoding rule has resulted in a revolution at the time when it was invented. In the area of information theory, early channel coding theorems ... -
Coefficient spaces arising from locally compact groups
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-17)This thesis studies two disjoint topics involving coefficient spaces and algebras associated to locally compact groups. First, Chapter 3 investigates the connection between amenability and compactness conditions on locally ... -
Coercion, Authority, and Democracy
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-27)As a classical liberal, or libertarian, I am concerned to advance liberty and minimize coercion. Indeed on this view liberty just is the absence of coercion or costs imposed on others. In order to better understand the ... -
Coffee Houses and Arcades: A Forensic Inquiry into the Myths of Modernity
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-16)Two founding myths of modernity, British coffee houses and Parisian arcades, have both been described as stages for the public display of private persons. The former was a “micro-stage where visitors could enact their ... -
Cognitive Constellations: Neurodivergent Aesthetics in 20th Century Experimental Poetries
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-19)“Inaccessible” is a term shared by both Critical Disability Studies (CDS) and literary criticism, although this term means different things to each discipline. For CDS, an inaccessible space is one that prevents physically ... -
Cognitive control, conflict monitoring, and aerobic exercise.
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-01)Cognitive control includes a subset of top-down cognitive functions that allow flexible goal-directed behaviour that are often impaired in people with mental illness and in older adults. Even in healthy individuals, cognitive ... -
Cognitive Evaluation of Potential Approaches to Increase the Efficiency of Air Traffic Controller Training and Staffing
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-15)Generic airspace, or air traffic control sectors with similar operational characteristics, is an operational concept being proposed as a means of increasing staffing flexibility and reducing training times as part of the ... -
Cognitive homeostasis: Boredom as a drive for optimal engagement
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-02)Boredom is the feeling of wanting but failing to engage the mind. The first part of this thesis proposes a theory that casts boredom as a signal of suboptimal utilization of cognitive resources. Homeostasis is used as an ... -
Cognitive repairs in decision-making by venture capitalists
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-23)This paper examines cognitive repairs as they apply to the decision-making process used by venture capitalists, asking the question of “how could, or how do, cognitive repairs play a role in the decision-making process ... -
Cognitive Spectrum Management in TV White Space: Libya as a Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-12)The traditional spectrum allocation scheme is based on static allotment of frequency bands to applications and entities in specific geographical areas for extended periods of time. Telecommunications regulations, on the ... -
Cognitive Testing of a Brief Dietary Screener: A Comparison of Analysis Methods
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-21)Background: Dietary assessment is crucial to understanding the dietary risk factors that contribute to noncommunicable disease outcomes. It is therefore essential to ensure that instruments to measure dietary intake are ... -
A Cognitive Work Analysis Approach to Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Non-Expert Financial Decision-Making
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-07)Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being increasingly used to assist complex decision-making such as financial investing. As most AI systems rely on black-box machine learning models, understanding how to support human ... -
Cognitive Work Analysis to Support Collaboration in Teamwork Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-24)Cognitive Work analysis (CWA) as an analytical approach for examining complex socio-technical systems has shown success in modeling the work of single operators. The CWA approach allows room for social and team interactions, ... -
Cognitive-Empowered Femtocells: An Intelligent Paradigm of a Robust and Efficient Media Access
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-22)Driven by both the need for ubiquitous wireless services and the stringent strain on radio spectrum faced in today's wireless communications, cognitive radio (CR) have been investigated as a promising solution to deploy ... -
Coherent Beta Risk Measures for Capital Requirements
(University of Waterloo, 1999)This thesis compares insurance premium principles with current financial risk paradigms and uses distorted probabilities, a recent development in premium principle literature, to synthesize the current models for financial ...