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Improving strategy for the Canadian Wildlife Service: A comparative study with the Parks Canada Agency and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-25)This research evaluates the development of strategy and planning undertaken by the three federal protected areas management organisations in Canada. These organisations and the protected areas they manage are: the Canadian ... -
Improving the Correctness of Automated Program Repair
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-02)Developers spend much of their time fixing bugs in software programs. Automated program repair (APR) techniques aim to alleviate the burden of bug fixing from developers by generating patches at the source-code level. ... -
Improving the delivery and immunogenicity of an inhalable CpG-ODN DNA vaccine by bio-adhesive gemini nanoparticles in neonatal chickens
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-05)Cytosine-phosphodiester-guanine oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG-ODN) are nucleotide sequence motifs found in the bacterial genome that activate the mammalian innate immune response and have been found to boost humoral immunity ... -
Improving the efficiency of Calibration in Earth System Modelling with Short-term Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-07)Calibration is an important process in developing Earth system models to reduce the deviations between model and observations and improve model performance. Current calibration process is quite resource demanding, requiring ... -
Improving the Fiscal Transparency and Sustainability of Public-Sector Transportation Infrastructure
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-25)Public-sector infrastructure funding is a complex and often unclear process. Cities operate most efficiently if there is an adequately-funded transportation network with which residents and visitors can easily travel from ... -
Improving the Management of Controllers’ Interruptions through the Working Awareness Interruption Tool: WAIT
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-24)Interruptions in time-critical, dynamic, and collaborative environments, such as air traffic control (ATC), can provide valuable, task-relevant information. However, they also negatively impact task performance by distracting ... -
Improving the multiscale morphological and mechanical properties of laser welded Al-Si coated 22MnB5 press-hardened steels
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-27)In the automotive industry, the demand for reduced vehicle weight, improved safety and enhanced crashworthiness qualities continues to rise which introduces the need for parts and components with tailored properties. This ... -
Improving the Performance of Nanoscale Field-Effect Transistors Through Electrostatic Engineering
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-30)The continued scaling of field-effect transistors (FETs) requires that nearly every aspect of these devices be optimized to ensure that they can continue to meet practical performance requirements. However, scaling the ... -
Improving the Performance of User-level Runtime Systems for Concurrent Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)Concurrency is an essential part of many modern large-scale software systems. Applications must handle millions of simultaneous requests from millions of connected devices. Handling such a large number of concurrent ... -
Improving the Reliability of Deep Learning Software Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-07)For the last decade, deep learning (DL) has emerged as a new effective machine learning approach that is capable of solving difficult challenges. Due to their increasing effectiveness, DL approaches have been applied widely ... -
Improving the School Health Action, Planning and Evaluation System (SHAPES) School Profile as a Knowledge Exchange Strategy: The Example of the Youth Smoking Survey (YSS) Profile
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-28)Objective: The objective of this study was to understand school administrators’ experience using the Youth Smoking Survey (YSS) school smoking profile to inform and improve future knowledge exchange strategies with schools. ... -
Improving the Understanding of Factors Influencing Cryptosporidium Removals Reported for Granular Media Filtration
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-13)Cryptosporidium is an important waterborne protozoan pathogen which has been implicated in several large gastrointestinal disease outbreaks attributable to inadequate treatment of drinking water. Unfortunately, Cryptosporidium ... -
Improving the VANET Vehicles' Localizatoin Accuracy using GPS Receiver in Multipath Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)The Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) has been studied in many fields since it has the ability to provide a variety of services, such as detecting oncoming collisions and providing warning signals to alert the driver. The ... -
Improving Tor using a TCP-over-DTLS Tunnel
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-24)The Tor network gives anonymity to Internet users by relaying their traffic through the world over a variety of routers. This incurs latency, and this thesis first explores where this latency occurs. Experiments discount ... -
Impulse Control in Finance: Numerical Methods and Viscosity Solutions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-05)The goal of this thesis is to provide efficient and provably convergent numerical methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) coming from impulse control problems motivated by finance. Impulses, which are ... -
Impulsive Control and Synchronization of Chaos-Generating-Systems with Applications to Secure Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2004)When two or more chaotic systems are coupled, they may exhibit synchronized chaotic oscillations. The synchronization of chaos is usually understood as the regime of chaotic oscillations in which the corresponding ... -
Impulsive Control of Dynamical Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-25)Dynamical networks (DNs) consist of a large set of interconnected nodes with each node being a fundamental unit with detailed contents. A great number of natural and man-made networks such as social networks, food networks, ... -
Imputation, Estimation and Missing Data in Finance
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Suppose <em>X</em> is a diffusion process, possibly multivariate, and suppose that there are various segments of the components of <em>X</em> that are missing. This happens, for example, if <em>X</em> is the price of ... -
in a good way: (Re)grounding Contextual Narratives on Turtle Island
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-21)Canada is a settler-colonial nation built on Indigenous lands. Architecture in this context is not a neutral practice. Together with urban planning, it has played a key role in the genocidal dispossession, displacement, ... -
In Danger? An Exploration of Canadian Truck Drivers’ Health through the Canadian Community Health Survey
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-04)Background: There exists substantive evidence showing that the health status of truck drivers from the United States (US) is much poorer than the general US population. Comparatively there is much less research on Canadian ...