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Financial Risk Management of Guaranteed Minimum Income Benefits Embedded in Variable Annuities
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-29)A guaranteed minimum income benefit (GMIB) is a long-dated option that can be embedded in a deferred variable annuity. The GMIB is attractive because, for policyholders who plan to annuitize, it offers protection against ... -
The Financialization of Environmental Risks through Catastrophe Bonds: A Spatial-Temporal Evaluation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-24)As natural disaster risks continue to increase as a result of climate change, insurance companies and other institutions struggle to find ways to deal with these risks. There is a propensity for these risks to be financialized ... -
The financialization of Transit Oriented Development in York South Weston, Toronto, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-29)Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is a form of planning that has dominated the discourse around sustainable development in cities. Where transit investment is met with higher density housing and commercial land uses, there ... -
Finding a New Commons: Re-Inhabiting the School in Post-Urban Japan
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-13)Japan’s megacities are often captured as dense, dynamic and ever-expanding. These images, disseminated in popular media, belie a growing national phenomenon; urban migration, a declining birthrate and an aging population ... -
Finding a Second Hamiltonian cycle in Barnette Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-31)We study the following two problems: (1) finding a second room-partitioning of an oik, and (2) finding a second Hamiltonian cycle in cubic graphs. The existence of solution for both problems is guaranteed by a parity ... -
Finding Communities in Typed Citation Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-25)As the Web has become more and more important to our daily lives, algorithms that can effectively utilize the link structure have become more and more important. One such task has been to find communities in social network ... -
Finding Cost-Efficient Decision Trees
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-06)Decision trees have been a popular machine learning technique for some time. Labelled data, examples each with a vector of values in a feature space, are used to create a structure that can assign a class to unseen examples ... -
Finding False Assurance in Formal Verification of Software Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-15)Formal verification plays a crucial role in enhancing the reliability of computing systems by mathematically checking the correctness of a program. Although recent years have witnessed lots of research and applications ... -
Finding Herself: Examining Identity Formation in Female Canadian Backpackers
(University of Waterloo, 2007-07-03)This study addresses the shortage of research on the meaning of travel experiences for tourists as well as research on female travelers. I examine the activities of Canadian women who backpacked in Europe and to what extent, ... -
Finding Independent Transversals Efficiently
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-23)Let G be a graph and (V_1,...,V_m) be a vertex partition of G. An independent transversal (IT) of G with respect to (V_1,...,V_m) is an independent set {v_1,...,v_m} in G such that v_i is in V_i for each i in {1,...,m}. There ... -
Finding Microblog Posts of User Interest
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-24)Microblogging is an increasingly popular form of social media. One of the most popular microblogging services is Twitter. The number of messages posted to Twitter on a daily basis is extremely large. Accordingly, it becomes ... -
Finding Patterns in Static Analysis Alerts: Improving Actionable Alert Ranking
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-02)Static analysis (SA) tools that find bugs by inferring programmer beliefs (e.g., FindBugs) are commonplace in today’s software industry. While they find a large number of actual defects, they are often plagued by high rates ... -
Finding Similar Protein Structures Efficiently and Effectively
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-24)To assess the similarities and the differences among protein structures, a variety of structure alignment algorithms and programs have been designed and implemented. We introduce a low-resolution approach and a ... -
Finding the Ideal Nesting Place: Chinese Encounters with Indigenous and Euro-Canadian Peoples in British Columbia, 1858-1947
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-31)Since the conclusion of the First Opium War (1842) when the ports of China were forced open by the British, adventurous Chinese emigrants traded their dismal prospects at home for British Columbia—a foreign land of ... -
Finding the “Generationed City”: The Form and Structure of Young Adult Settlement Patterns
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-27)This thesis examines the present patterns in the residential geographies of young adults in major cities in Canada and the United States. It explains how the differences and similarities in young adult residential patterns ... -
Fine Sediment Contributions to Cyanobacterial Growth: Potential Threats to Drinking Water Reservoirs
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-14)In the drinking water industry, the transport and release of nutrients such as phosphorus (P) to the water column is largely overlooked in reservoir management. Phosphorus is considered the key limiting nutrient for algal ... -
Fingerprint-based indoor positioning and intensity classification using an improved machine learning framework
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-21)Covid-19 has changed the world in terms of business, public, and many other fields. Millions of livelihoods have been affected by the pandemic. Amidst the upheaval, work from home and restrictions on indoor gatherings have ... -
Fingerprinting and tracing the signature of basement-hosted unconformity-type uranium alteration through thick Quaternary tills: an example from the Thelon Basin, Nunavut
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-17)The question of whether or not it is possible to trace the signature of alteration haloes surrounding deep-seated unconformity-type U mineralization through thick Quaternary tills is one of great importance for those ... -
Fingerprinting Codes and Related Combinatorial Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-22)Fingerprinting codes were introduced by Boneh and Shaw in 1998 as a method of copyright control. The desired properties of a good fingerprinting code has been found to have deep connections to combinatorial structures such ... -
Fingerprinting Quaternary Subglacial Processes on Hall Peninsula, Baffin Island, using Multiproxy Data
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)It is important to study subglacial environments in northern Canada for many reasons, such as to develop a more comprehensive understanding of glacial landscape development and to aid in mineral exploration. The purpose ...