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Fostering a Sense of Belonging in Toronto – A Case Study of Dixon
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-16)Using the neighbourhood of Dixon as a case study, this project examines what factors influence Dixon residents’ sense of belonging to their neighbourhood. Interviews conducted with twelve residents outline how characteristics ... -
Fostering Adaptive Capacity and Resilience to Environmental Change in Sub-Arctic First Nations: The Use of Collaborative Geomatics, an Interactive, Web-based Informatics Tool
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-29)The Western James Bay region of northern Ontario (the Mushkegowuk Territory) is home to some of Canada’s largest wetlands and most pristine ecosystems. This region is also home to approximately 10,000 Omushekgo Cree who ... -
Fostering Change in Entrepreneurial Intention: Experimental evaluation of an intervention based on career choice factors
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-15)Entrepreneurship is of increasing importance in today’s economy and society. As a result, government and policy makers are making a call to encourage venture creation. One of the common ways in which entrepreneurship is ... -
Fostering Sustainable Business: CBSM as a Framework to Voluntarily Change Environmental Behaviours
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-27)This research investigates how governments can influence businesses to voluntarily change their environmental practices or “behaviours” by assessing two approaches: Voluntary Codes and Community-Based Social Marketing ... -
Fostering the Feral in Civilization: Reading Animal Characterization in Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)Representations of the animal, although prominent in literature, are often overlooked as sources for rigorous analysis. When acknowledged, their interpretation is restricted to the realm of archetypal significance and ... -
Foucault and Literature: Finitude, Feigning, Fabulation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-13)The dissertation is composed of two related parts, each applying aspects of Michel Foucault's thought to contemporary American avant-garde writing. Part One brings together Foucault's neglected early essays on ... -
A Foundation for Spatial Thinking: Towards a Threshold Concept Framework in GIScience and its Implications for STEM Education
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)Geographic Information Science (GIScience) is a fairly modern, rapidly emerging multidisciplinary field, addressing the theories and concepts behind the spatial technology called Geographic Information Systems (GIS). With ... -
Foundations of Deduction's Pedigree: A Non-Inferential Account
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-05)In this thesis I discuss the problems associated with the epistemological task of arriving at basic logical knowledge. This is knowledge that the primitive rules of inference we use in deductive reasoning are correct. ... -
Four Corners Gateway
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-09)Though an installation, the exhibition Four Corners Gateway, examines how history and memory construct us as individuals and construct our national and personal identities and worldviews. All such constructions are ultimately ... -
A Four Physics Approach to Modeling Moisture Diffusion, Structural Mechanics, and Heat Conduction Coupled with Physical Aging for a Glassy Thermoplastic
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-26)The performance of some polymeric materials is profoundly affected by long-term exposure to moisture during service. This poses problems for high precision and/or load bearing components in engineering applications where ... -
The Fourier algebra of a locally trivial groupoid
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-10)The goal of this thesis is to define and study the Fourier algebra A(G) of a locally compact groupoid G. If G is a locally compact group, its Fourier-Stieltjes algebra B(G) and its Fourier algebra A(G) were defined by ... -
Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of Selected Transient Species
(University of Waterloo, 2003)The procedures and results of experimental and/or theoretical studies of four transient molecules, GeO, WO, BeH, and MgH are reported in the thesis. Two of them, GeO and WO, are diatomic molecules composed of relatively ... -
Foveated Sampling Architectures for CMOS Image Sensors
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Electronic imaging technologies are faced with the challenge of power consumption when transmitting large amounts of image data from the acquisition imager to the display or processing devices. This is especially a concern ... -
Foveated Stereo Video Compression for Visual Telepresence
(University of Waterloo, 2002)This thesis focuses on the design of a foveated stereo video compression algorithm for visual telepresence applications. In a typical telepresence application, a user at the local site views real-time stereo video recorded ... -
The Fox Building the Henhouse: Corporate influence on global health governance and the risks to the World Health Organization
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-10)Like global governance more generally, global health governance and the global health architecture are changing and, in the process, creating new kinds of openings for non-state actors (NSAs) such as non-governmental ... -
Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Mediated White-Light-Emitting Rhodamine Fluorophore Derivatives-Gamma Phase Gallium Oxide Nanostructures
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-26)The global lighting source energy consumption accounts for about 22% of the total electricity generated. New high-efficiency solid-state light sources are needed to reduce the ever increasing demand for energy. Single-phased ... -
FPGA Based Ultrasonic Non-Destructive Testing
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-05)In this research, a prototype of an ultrasonic testing device was developed based on a field-programmable gate array for ultrasonic testing. Ultrasound is a mechanical wave that is generated by a vibrating object and ... -
FPGA Implementation of a Clockless Stochastic LDPC Decoder
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-16)This thesis presents a clockless stochastic low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoder implemented on a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Stochastic computing reduces the wiring complexity necessary for decoding by ... -
FPGA-Based Lossless Data Compression Using GNU Zip
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-23)Lossless data compression algorithms are widely used by data communication systems and data storage systems to reduce the amount of data transferred and stored. GNU Zip (GZIP) [1] is a popular compression utility that ... -
FPGA-Based Testbed for Fault Injection on SHA-256
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-21)In real world applications, cryptographic algorithms are implemented in hardware or software on specific devices. An active attacker may inject faults during the computation process and careful analysis of faulty results ...