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A Home for Urban Families: An Alternative Approach to Housing in Downtown Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)As prices of single family homes rapidly increase in Toronto, many families are faced with a challenging dilemma: move beyond the city’s peripheries to where house prices are lower, or remain within the city and attempt ... -
The Home is a Place for Living: Fifteen Conversations About Inhabitation, Adaptation, and the Rehabilitation of Toronto’s Post-War Apartment Buildings
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)Toronto is home to one of North America’s largest stock of postwar residential towers, which house nearly a million people in over a thousand towers across the GTHA. Built throughout the postwar population and economic ... -
Home Reconfigured: Adaptability as a solution in Mumbai to help people stay in place
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-15)With the continuously rising employment, businesses, investments, and consequently migration, the housing prices of Mumbai have skyrocketed over the past few decades. The house bought on a mortgage, or rented at cheap rates ... -
A Home Then, A Home Now
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)This thesis explores how Hong Kong Canadians remember, inhabit, and imagine their homes to develop a process for positioning transnational belonging within the built environment. In response to discriminatory migration and ... -
Home, work and health in the Airbnb system
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-30)Background and Objectives: With Airbnb accommodation-sharing, a new form of entrepreneurial work is emerging and is disrupting traditional business practices. As a self-employed worker, the host lacks the protections under ... -
The homing of the home: Exploring gendered work, leisure, social construction, and loss through women’s family memory keeping
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-18)Using a feminist, autoethnographic methodology and in depth interviews with twenty-three participants, I sought to better understand the meaning of family memory keeping for women and their families through this research, ... -
A Homogeneity-based Zone Delineation Model for Land Use and Transportation Interaction Analysis: Investigating the Case of Light Rail Transit (LRT) Development in Kitchener – Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-31)In an ever-increasingly urbanized world, planning policies bring direct and indirect societal and environmental impacts affecting quality of life for millions of people. Policy decisions are often complex, involving ... -
Homologous Gene Finding with a Hidden Markov Model
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-12)The homology search problem and the gene finding problem are two fundamental problems in bioinformatics. The homology search problem is to find the homologous regions of two biological sequences; the gene finding problem ... -
Homologous Gene Finding with a Hidden Markov Model
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-18)The homology search problem and the gene finding problem are two fundamental problems in bioinformatics. The homology search problem is to find the homologous regions of two biological sequences; the gene finding problem ... -
Homomorphic Encryption
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-24)In this thesis, we provide a summary of fully homomorphic encryption, and in particular, look at the BGV encryption scheme by Brakerski, Gentry, and Vaikuntanathan; as well the DGHV encryption scheme by van Dijk, Gentry, ... -
Homotopy algorithms for solving structured determinantal systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-17)Multivariate polynomial systems arising in numerous applications have special structures. In particular, determinantal structures and invariant systems appear in a wide range of applications such as in polynomial optimization ... -
Honest Approximations to Realistic Fault Models and Their Applications to Efficient Simulation of Quantum Error Correction
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-25)Understanding the performance of realistic noisy encoded circuits is an important task for the development of large-scale practical quantum computers. Specifically, the development of proposals for quantum computation must ... -
Honkling: In-Browser Personalization for Ubiquitous Keyword Spotting
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-19)Used for simple voice commands and wake-word detection, keyword spotting (KWS) is the task of detecting pre-determined keywords in a stream of utterances. A common implementation of KWS involves transmitting audio samples ... -
Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: Employee Reactions to Automation at Work
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-08)Automation is increasingly becoming a disruptive force in modern workplaces. For individual workers, the consequences of automation are varied; In some cases, employees may be harmed by automation (e.g., job loss), whereas ... -
HopliteBuf FPGA Network-on-Chip: Architecture and Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-22)We can prove occupancy bounds of stall-free FIFOs used in deflection-free, low-cost, and high-speed FPGA overlay Network-on-chips (NoCs). In our work, we build on top of the HopliteRT livelock-free overlay NoC with an ... -
HORIZON
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-22)This thesis proposes the design of a space exploration vessel capable of sustaining a community of 2000 inhabitants that will leave Earth and never return. The unique mission criteria will allow for the in depth study of ... -
Horizon Thermodynamics from Einstein's Equation of State
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-28)The striking resemblance between geometric theories of gravity and thermodynamics suggests a more fundamental relationship between the two seemingly distinct theories. It has been postulated that the radial Einstein ... -
Horticultural Landscapes in Middle English Romance
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-23)Gardens played a significant role in the lives of European peoples living in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. By producing texts in which gardens and other cultivated landscapes are used as symbol and setting, ... -
Hospital
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)The former Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto was a sight in need of little description: beyond the fenced property, the building, recognizably a postwar hospital, uncaringly dismantled its red brick and regularly spaced ... -
Hospital Air Emission Capture and Recovery
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-12)Inhaled anesthetics used in hospital surgeries are typically volatile halogenated hydrocarbons. Very few of them are absorbed or metabolized by the patient during use, and, therefore, most of the exhaled gases are collected ...