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A Feature-Oriented Modelling Language and a Feature-Interaction Taxonomy for Product-Line Requirements
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-18)Many organizations specialize in the development of families of software systems, called software product lines (SPLs), for one or more domains (e.g., automotive, telephony, health care). SPLs are commonly developed as a ... -
Features of a Multi-Threaded Memory Allocator
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-21)Multi-processor computers are becoming increasingly popular and are important for improving application performance. Providing high-performance memory-management is important for multi-threaded programs. This thesis looks ... -
Features of Conflict Situations That Inform Culturally Appropriate Apology
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-18)Commerce occurs globally, to remain competitive businesses need to effectively manage their international relationships which can be threatened by cultural differences (Bercovich & Elgstrom, 2001). The following research ... -
Federal Road Management for Sub-Saharan African Nations: A Nigerian Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-24)The World Bank specifically indicates that poor transport infrastructure and services in sub-Saharan Africa are serious obstacles to poverty reduction (Plessis-Fraissard, 2007). Two thirds of Africa's rural population, who ... -
Fee Structure and Surrender Incentives in Variable Annuities
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-05)Variable annuities (VAs) are investment products similar to mutual funds, but they also protect policyholders against poor market performance and other risks. They have become very popular in the past twenty years, and the ... -
Feedback and Cooperation in Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-18)The demand for wireless data services has been dramatically growing over the last decade. This growth has been accompanied by a significant increase in the number of users sharing the same wireless medium, and as a result, ... -
Feedback Controls in Droplet Microfluidics
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-21)The ability to stabilize and move individual droplets would allow scientists to perform micro-scale manipulation, and unlock the advantages of microfluidics. The challenge lies in the fact that droplet displacements are ... -
Feederism: an exploratory study into the stigma of erotic weight gain
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-15)This thesis presents qualitative exploratory research findings on the phenomenon of feederism. Feederism, also referred to as "erotic weight gain," involves people who are sexually aroused by gaining weight (called "feedees" ... -
"Feeling out of place suddenly, and you haven't even moved": Food gentrification, alternative foods, and sociospatial justice in Downtown Kitchener, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)In recent years, alternative food practices have gained popularity among urban sustainability planners as a way to promote environmentalism and attract affluent residents to the city core. As Slocum (2006) describes, ... -
Feeling Queer Together: Identity, Community, and the Work of Affect in the Pre-Stonewall Lesbian Magazine, The Ladder
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-07)This project examines the emergence of lesbian identity and community through the work of queer feeling, specifically as it was produced in the American magazine, the Ladder (1956-1972). The Ladder was published by the ... -
Feelings of Obligation Related to Volunteering as Serious Leisure Within a Communitarian Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-04)This research explores feelings of obligation to volunteer, which lie at the interface of volunteering as simultaneously individual and collective and challenge traditional understandings of volunteering as leisure. The ... -
Female Labour Supply with Time Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-29)The Italian labour market seems unable to allocate a significant fraction of the working age population efficiently. The gap between the employment rate in Italy and in the other developed economies is foremost attributable ... -
Female Masochism in Michael Haneke’s La Pianiste and Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)The figure of the female masochist, along with her desires and experiences, has been largely ignored within theories of masochism and examinations of masochistic aesthetics. With the rise of more graphic and challenging ... -
Female Sex-Workers in Rome: Agency and Self-Representation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-31)This project addresses the notion that female sex-workers at Rome wore the toga. The toga was a symbol of masculine responsibility, authority, political involvement, and citizenship. Focusing on legal, literary, and material ... -
Female Tourists, Magazine Advertisements and Travel Preferences
(University of Waterloo, 2006)I set out to determine how the contemporary Western female traveler is constructed in popular travel media, and how resonant such images were with female travel consumers themselves. Two periods of ads were compared - ... -
A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of the Experiences of Community Reintegration for Women Leaving Prison
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-12)Women are a small, yet growing, increasingly diverse and complex group out of the overall Canadian prison population. From 2005 to 2015, the population of people in Canadian prisons rose by approximately 10% and most of ... -
Femtosecond Laser Induced Polyyne Formation
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)Polyyne molecules were produced as a result of the femtosecond laser irradiation of liquid acetone (CH3)2CO and alkane molecules hexane C6H14 and octane C8H18 using 800 nm, 100 fs duration pulses. These polyynes have ... -
Femtosecond Laser Interaction with Graphene Oxide Aqueous Solution
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-23)In this study fs pulsed laser of wavelength 800 nm was used to reduce two sets of aqueous graphene oxide solution namely low (0.5 mg/mL) and high concentration (6.2 mg/mL). It was found that after fs laser treatment the ... -
Femtosecond Laser Joining of Silver Submicron/Nanoparticles
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-06)The development of future devices is towards to the miniaturization and performance improvement. This requires the large scale integration of nanodevices. Nanojoining is an essential step for the industrial scale production ... -
Femtosecond Time-Resolved Studies on the Reaction Pathways for the Generation of Reactive Oxygen Species in Photodynamic Therapy by Indocyanine Green
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-12)Photodynamic therapy (PDT), which utilizes the combination of light and a photosensitizing drug to cause tissue damages, has emerged as a novel clinical approach for the treatment of numerous cancers, as well as some other ...