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Developments in Informal Multi-Criteria Calibration and Uncertainty Estimation in Hydrological Modelling
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-22)Hydrologic modelling has benefited from significant developments over the past two decades, which has led to the development of distributed hydrologic models. Parameter adjustment, or model calibration, is extremely important ... -
Developments in the Centroid Phase Space Formulation of Quantum Statistical Mechanics
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-25)The centroid formalism provides a phase space representation of quantum statistical mechanics based on the Feynman path integral. Real time quantum correlation functions can be exactly calculated using the centroid formalism, ... -
Developments Towards Chromophore-Selectivity in Photoacoustic Remote Sensing Microscopy
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-28)Medical imaging serves to diagnose and monitor illnesses in clinical settings. Several modalities such as X-Ray and Ultrasound have become ubiquitous due to their high utility. Photoacoustic microscopy, based on the ... -
Deviant Society: The Self-Reliant "Other" in Transcendental America
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-23)This dissertation utilizes theories of deviance in conjunction with literary methods of reading and analyzing to study a range of deviant or transgressive characters in American literature of the 1840s and 50s. I justify ... -
Device Architectures for Improved Temporal Response with Amorphous Selenium Radiation Detectors
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-29)Amorphous selenium (a-Se) is a commercially mature direct conversion photoconductor capable of very high spatial resolution that enables the early detection of small and subtle lesions in breast cancer screening and ... -
A Device for Measuring Groundwater Velocity in the Capillary Fringe
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-22)Groundwater flow in the capillary fringe is rarely measured during hydrogeological studies because of the difficulties associated with investigating this region. Previous research using a point velocity probe (PVP) to ... -
Devices for satellite-assisted quantum networks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-24)Quantum networks, quantum nodes interconnected by quantum channels, offer powerful means of secure communications and quantum computations. They are crucial elements in a broad area of quantum technologies including quantum ... -
DE—FENCE: The Child and The City
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-15)Every year, after the first heavy snowfall, the city blends together under a soft, white blanket. Curbs, carefully edged garden beds, sidewalks, and sewer grates are obscured and it appears as though no one has ever taken ... -
DFIG Based Wind Turbine Contribution to System Frequency Control
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-19)Abstract Energy is one of the most important factors that continue to influence the shape of civilization in the 21st Century. The cost and availability of energy significantly impacts our quality of life, the health of ... -
DFM Techniques for the Detection and Mitigation of Hotspots in Nanometer Technology
(University of Waterloo, 2015-03-24)With the continuous scaling down of dimensions in advanced technology nodes, process variations are getting worse for each new node. Process variations have a large influence on the quality and yield of the designed and ... -
Dharavi: Merging Boundaries
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)In Mumbai, Dharavi, occupying over 525 acres, houses a million people, making it one of the world’s largest informal settlements. In ever-expanding Mumbai, Dharavi, once at the city’s edge, has become its heart. With ... -
Diabetes among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: Prevalence and Predictors, 1991-2011
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-17)Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is one of several prevalent chronic diseases that has severely impacted Aboriginal Canadians. In addition to high prevalence rates, the characteristics of diabetes among Aboriginal peoples ... -
Diabetic retinopathy grading with respect to the segmented lesions
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)One of the leading causes of irreversible vision loss is Diabetic Retinopathy (DR). The International Clinical Diabetic Retinopathy scale (ICDRS) provides grading criteria for DR. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) ... -
Diagenesis of middle Ordovician rocks from the Lake Simcoe area, south-central Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)Middle Ordovician carbonates in the Lake Simcoe area, south-central Ontario were examined to determine if: (1) The δ18O values of early-stage calcite cement in hardgrounds are useful proxies for Ordovician seawater δ18O ... -
Diagnosing the role of non-water factors in water governance situations: assessing the external governance of water
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-26)The issue of the scale at which water governance should be organized to best address water challenges is one of the main ongoing debates in the literature. Traditionally, governance of water problems has been approached ... -
Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure: An Investigation to Evaluate a Device to Measure Jugular Venous Pressure
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-14)Diagnosing and managing heart failure (HF) can be challenging as patients sometimes present atypically with non-specific signs and symptoms. Effective management hinges upon an accurate, timely diagnosis. An important ... -
Diagonal Approximations to the Observation Error Covariance Matrix in Sea Ice Thickness Data Assimilation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-03-09)Data assimilation is a statistical technique for combining observations of a physical system with the state of a numerical model of that system. The procedure yields a new and ideally improved state estimate called the ... -
Dialog Response Generation Using Adversarially Learned Latent Bag-of-Words
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)Dialog response generation is the task of generating response utterance given a query utterance. Apart from generating relevant and coherent responses, one would like the dialog generation model to generate diverse and ... -
Diameter and Rumour Spreading in Real-World Network Models
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-20)The so-called 'small-world phenomenon', observed in many real-world networks, is that there is a short path between any two nodes of a network, whose length is much smaller that the network's size, typically growing as a ... -
Diapers and Dissertations: An Exploration of Doctoral and Postdoctoral Trainee Decision-Making Surrounding First-Time Parenthood
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-06)While published literature over the past several decades has related the perspectives of established academic mothers, decidedly less attention has been devoted to the topic of parenthood among trainees at the doctoral and ...