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Dissolved organic carbon production and transport in a constructed watershed in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)Within the Western Boreal Plains, a significant amount of surface cover has been removed through open-pit oil sands mining activities, which includes fen peatlands. Fen construction has been performed on the post-oil sands ... -
Dissolved Organic Matter in the Anthropogenically Impacted Grand River and Natural Burnt River Watersheds
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-03)Dissolved organic carbon (DOM) is one of the largest cycled organic carbon pools on Earth and an important biogeochemical factor in aquatic systems. DOM can act as an energy source for microorganisms, alter the depth of ... -
Dissolved Organic Matter in the Canadian Arctic & Sub-Arctic: Importance of DOM Quality & Quantity in a Warming Climate
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-28)Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a ubiquitous component of aquatic and terrestrial systems and an important constituent that can influence aquatic health and drinking water quality. For instance, DOM can act as an important ... -
Dissolved Oxygen Dynamics in the Dunnville Marsh on the Grand River, Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2009-02-19)Dissolved oxygen (DO) is one of the most important environmental factors necessary to sustain aquatic life. The Southern Grand River is characterized with extensive marshes. This study focuses on the Dunnville Marsh in ... -
Dissonant Child: Grassroots Interfaith in a Multicultural Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-19)While Canada's increasing ethnic and racial diversity have received a great deal of attention in recent years, the pluralization of its religious makeup has been largely ignored. As a result, political and societal responses ... -
Distance Measurement-Based Cooperative Source Localization: A Convex Range-Free Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-19)One of the most essential objectives in WSNs is to determine the spatial coordinates of a source or a sensor node having information. In this study, the problem of range measurement-based localization of a signal source ... -
Distance Measures for Probabilistic Patterns
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-07)Numerical measures of pattern dissimilarity are at the heart of pattern recognition and classification. Applications of pattern recognition grow more sophisticated every year, and consequently we require distance measures ... -
Distance-Biregular Graphs and Orthogonal Polynomials
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-15)This thesis is about distance-biregular graphs– when they exist, what algebraic and structural properties they have, and how they arise in extremal problems. We develop a set of necessary conditions for a distance-biregular ... -
Distinguishing Burials in Thebes, Greece: Using MNI and MLNI as a Differentiation Technique
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-22)The objective of this thesis was to determine an additional method to help distinguish between types of burials in Thebes, Greece and generally in archaeological remains. Using two quantification methods, MNI and MLNI, ... -
Distinguishing Low, Moderate, and High Test Anxiety
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-26)It is very common and understandable for post-secondary students to feel anxious leading up to a test. However, test anxiety can be a serious problem for some students. It is important to identify these individuals, given ... -
Distinguishing successful from unsuccessful venture capital investments in technology-based new ventures: How investment decision criteria relate to deal performance
(University of Waterloo, 2001)This study investigates variability in the importance of investment decision criteria used by venture capitalists in assessing new technology-based ventures and relates the criteria to the subsequent performance of the ... -
DistNeo4j: Scaling Graph Databases through Dynamic Distributed Partitioning
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-16)Social networks are large graphs which require multiple servers to store and manage them. Providing performant scalable systems that store these graphs through partitioning them into subgraphs is an important issue. In ... -
Distorted Wave Born Approximation For Inelastic Atomic Collision
(University of Waterloo, 2007-07-17)An investigation of the problem of inelastic scattering process under the Coulomb Born approximation is given. Different approaches to calculate Coulomb wavefunctions in the momentum space representation are analyzed and ... -
Distortions in the digital looking glass: Information and communication technologies and bodily self-conceptions in men seeking men
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-10)Internet-enabled information and communication technology (ICT) use has become so diffuse as to be considered a hallmark of modern life. Between 2000 and 2019, the proportion of US adults who reported using some kind of ... -
Distributed Approaches for Location Privacy
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-21)With the advance of location technologies, people can now determine their location in various ways, for instance, with GPS or based on nearby cellphone towers. These technologies have led to the introduction of ... -
Distributed Document Clustering and Cluster Summarization in Peer-to-Peer Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-14)This thesis addresses difficult challenges in distributed document clustering and cluster summarization. Mining large document collections poses many challenges, one of which is the extraction of topics or summaries from ... -
Distributed Key Generation and Its Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-30)Numerous cryptographic applications require a trusted authority to hold a secret. With a plethora of malicious attacks over the Internet, however, it is difficult to establish and maintain such an authority in online ... -
Distributed Medium Access Control for QoS Support in Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-01)With the rapid growth of multimedia applications and the advances of wireless communication technologies, quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning for multimedia services in heterogeneous wireless networks has been an important ... -
Distributed Multiagent Resource Allocation using Reservations to Improve Handling of Dynamic Task Arrivals
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-26)In the artificial intelligence subfield of multi-agent systems, there are many applications for algorithms which optimally allocate a set of resources among many available tasks which demand those resources. In this thesis ... -
Distributed Policing with Full Utilization and Rate Guarantees
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-27)A network service provider typically sells service at a fixed traffic rate to customers. This rate is enforced by allowing or dropping packets that pass through, in a process called policing. Distributed policing is a ...