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    • Contesting Identity, Space and Sacred Site Management at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah 

      Olsen, Daniel (University of Waterloo, 2008-08-01)
      The purpose of my dissertation is to bring cultural geographic theory, including the ideas of representation, power, cultural and religious identity, and the contested and negotiated nature of places and identities, into ...
    • Contesting Limits 

      Harris-Brandts, Suzanne (University of Waterloo, 2012-05-23)
      After Israel’s triumphant victory over its Arab neighbors in the 1967 Six-Day War, the State immediately began a policy of territorial seizure in the newly occupied areas. Tracing these seizure practices, their supporting ...
    • Contesting the centre: Low German-speaking Mennonite identity, language, and literacy constructions 

      Kampen Robinson, Christine Julia (University of Waterloo, 2017-05-01)
      We make sense of who we are by talking about ourselves with others, telling stories about ourselves, our experiences, and our feelings. When we do this, we construct sociolinguistic spaces in which we speak, live, work, ...
    • Context Adaptive Space Quantization for Image Coding 

      Erbrecht, Jeffrey Brian (University of Waterloo, 2016-01-18)
      One of the most widely used lossy image compression formats in the world is JPEG. It operates by splitting an image into blocks, applying a frequency transform to each block, quantizing each transformed block, and entropy ...
    • Context Augmented Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks 

      Gohider, Nada (University of Waterloo, 2016-01-14)
      Spectrum management has become a crucial issue in wireless networks. However, optimal utilization of the spectrum among the different users is not a trivial task. Over the last two decades, wireless communication has ...
    • Context reinstatement reconsidered: Investigating boundary conditions of the effect 

      Lee, Christopher Michael (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-23)
      The context reinstatement (CR) effect suggests that target items are easier to recognize when encoding and retrieval contexts are matched. In this PhD thesis, I manipulated features of the target and the context, in ...
    • Context Sensitive Typechecking And Inference: Ownership And Immutability 

      Ta, Mier (University of Waterloo, 2018-04-26)
      Context sensitivity is one important feature of type systems that helps creating concise type rules and getting accurate types without being too conservative. In a context-sensitive type system, declared types can be ...
    • Context-Sensitive Optional Type Systems Meet Generics: A Uniform Treatment and Formalization 

      Shi, Haifeng (University of Waterloo, 2023-12-14)
      This thesis explores a novel design of context-sensitive optional type systems which supports generics. Optional type systems, as the name suggests, optionally enforce type rules in typechecking and can be switched on ...
    • Contextual Complexities and Nelson Mandela's Braided Rhetoric 

      Ofili, Patricia (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-21)
      This dissertation revolves around the complex political circumstances in apartheid South Africa that produced Nelson Mandela the rhetorician, human rights activist, and the longest political prisoner in human history. The ...
    • Contextual cues as modifiers of cTBS effects on indulgent eating 

      Safati, Adrian (University of Waterloo, 2019-08-07)
      Background: Prior studies have found that continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) targeting the left dlPFC results in reliable increases in consumption of calorie-dense food items. However, it is not known to what extent ...
    • Contextual Effects of Goals, Stimuli, Performance, and Complexity on Cognitive Decision Biases 

      Aycan, Jonathan (University of Waterloo, 2010-04-29)
      Existing research investigating human judgment and decision making describes patterns of systematic biases in the way people process information and make decisions. Framing effects, for example, demonstrate that logically ...
    • Contextual Factors Affecting Information Sharing Patterns in Technology Mediated Communication 

      Kuzminykh, Anastasia (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-19)
      In this thesis, we investigate how and what contextual factors affect user’s information sharing. We build our work on six individual research projects which cover a variety of systems (search engines, social network sites, ...
    • Contextuality and Ontological Models: A Tale of Desire and Disappointment 

      Lillystone, Piers (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)
      Since being defined by Kochen and Specker, and separately by Bell, contextuality has been proposed as one of the key phenomena that distinguishing quantum theory from classical theories. However, with the rise of quantum ...
    • Contextualizing Alternative Models of Secret Sharing 

      Veitch, Shannon (University of Waterloo, 2022-08-17)
      A secret sharing scheme is a means of distributing information to a set of players such that any authorized subset of players can recover a secret and any unauthorized subset does not learn any information about the secret. ...
    • Contextualizing Science for Value-Conscious Communication 

      Branch-Smith, Teresa Yolande (University of Waterloo, 2019-07-15)
      Democracy hinges on the personal and civic decision-making capabilities of publics. In our increasingly technoscientific world, being well-informed requires an understanding of science. Despite acknowledging public ...
    • Contingency Learning and Unlearning in the Blink of an Eye: A Resource Dependent Process 

      Schmidt, James R. (University of Waterloo, 2009-08-26)
      Recent studies show that when words are correlated with the colours they are printed in (e.g., MOVE is presented 75% of the time in blue), colour identification is faster when the word is presented in its expected colour ...
    • Continual Learning and Forgetting in Deep Learning Models 

      El Khatib, Alaa (University of Waterloo, 2020-12-14)
      Continual learning is a framework of learning in which we aim to move beyond the limitations of standard isolated optimization of deep learning models toward a more intelligent setting, where models or agents are able to ...
    • Continual learning-based Video Object Segmentation 

      Nazemi, Amir (University of Waterloo, 2023-06-23)
      Machine learning models, specifically deep convolutional neural networks, have exceeded human-level performance in many research areas, such as object classification and voice recognition. However, they are not comparable ...
    • Continuing the Narrative of Silo No. 5 

      Voda, Carmen (University of Waterloo, 2016-09-19)
      Every modern city faces the challenge of how to engage the remains of its industrial past. Consciously or unconsciously, post-industrial cities have experienced a type of identity crisis after the decline of industries. ...
    • The Continuity of Explanation: Peircean Pragmatism, Reason, and Developing Reasonable Behavior 

      Haydon, Nathan (University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)
      Charles Peirce, the founder of Pragmatism, is not known for having developed a normative and ethical theory. His remarks on ethics and normativity are scattered and sparse. There is nonetheless increasing interest in ...

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