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Minimum Crossing Problems on Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-19)This thesis will address several problems in discrete optimization. These problems are considered hard to solve. However, good approximation algorithms for these problems may be helpful in approximating problems in ... -
Minimum Number of Triangles of K5 Descendants
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-26)In the study of Quantum Field Theory and Feynman Periods, the operation of double triangle expansion plays an important role. This is largely due to double triangle expansions not affecting the maximum weight of the ... -
Minimum Shared-Power Edge Cut
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-24)We introduce a problem called the Minimum Shared-Power Edge Cut (MSPEC). The input to the problem is an undirected edge-weighted graph with distinguished vertices s and t, and the goal is to find an s-t cut by assigning ... -
Mining Butterflies in Streaming Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-12)This thesis introduces two main-memory systems sGrapp and sGradd for performing the fundamental analytic tasks of biclique counting and concept drift detection over a streaming graph. A data-driven heuristic is used to ... -
Mining Event Traces from Real-time Systems for Anomaly Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-19)Real-time systems are a significant class of applications, poised to grow even further as autonomous vehicles and the Internet of Things (IoT) become a reality. The computation and communication tasks of the underlying ... -
Mining Geotagged Tweets: Tracking Spatiotemporal Variation of Mental Health in Canada during COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-29)This thesis explores and analyzes the evolution of the pandemic as a stressor on mental health in Canada through monitoring the sentiment polarity dynamics, emotion trends, and changes in keywords being discussed on Twitter, ... -
Mining Question and Answer Sites for Automatic Comment Generation
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-29)Code comments improve software maintainability, programming productivity, and software reliability. To address the comment scarcity issue in many projects and save developers’ time in writing comments, we propose a new, ... -
Mining Software Repositories to Assist Developers and Support Managers
(University of Waterloo, 2004)This thesis explores mining the evolutionary history of a software system to support software developers and managers in their endeavors to build and maintain complex software systems. We introduce the idea of ... -
Mining Time-Changing Data Streams
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-28)Streaming data have gained considerable attention in database and data mining communities because of the emergence of a class of applications, such as financial marketing, sensor networks, internet IP monitoring, and ... -
Mining Topic Signals from Text
(University of Waterloo, 2003)This work aims at studying the effect of word position in text on understanding and tracking the content of written text. In this thesis we present two uses of word position in text: topic word selectors and topic flow ... -
Miracle Reports, Moral Philosophy, and Contemporary Science
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-22)In the case of miracle reports, David Hume famously argued that there is something about "the very nature of the fact" to which the testimony testifies which contains the seeds of the testimony's destruction as credible ... -
Misconfiguration Analysis of Network Access Control Policies
(University of Waterloo, 2009-02-20)Network access control (NAC) systems have a very important role in network security. However, NAC policy configuration is an extremely complicated and error-prone task due to the semantic complexity of NAC policies and ... -
Mise en écriture des facteurs de risque liés au geste suicidaire : étude de trois romans de la littérature française du XXI ͤ siècle
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)La mort volontaire n’est plus associée uniquement à des facteurs psychologiques ou sociaux. En effet, les dernières recherches montrent que de multiples facteurs de risque sont capables d’influencer le développement d’un ... -
Misinformation Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-01)This work introduces the task of misinformation retrieval, identifying all documents containing misinformation for a given topic, and proposes a pipeline for misinformation retrieval on tweets. As part of the work, I curated ... -
Misjudging How to Help: Barriers to Effective Social Support Provision
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)Relying on others for support is a common coping strategy. However, support providers often fail to provide effective support. Past work suggests that support providers may prioritize help aimed at alleviating others’ ... -
A Misleading Tendency
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)Communication is a powerful tool. We use it to share information, express how we feel, coordinate in cooperative endeavors, and so much more. However, we regularly use standard communicative devices like speech and gesture ... -
The Missing Link: Explorations of Wellness when a Family Member Resides in Long-Term Care
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)With the aging of our population and the higher risk of chronic illness and disability with age, more and more family members may be faced with the experience of having a relative transition into a long-term care (LTC) ... -
Missing Persons and Social Exclusion
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-02)People who go missing are often perceived to have done so voluntarily, and yet, many missing persons in Canada are Aboriginal, visible minorities, homeless, and are fleeing from violence, abuse, and neglect. Integrating ... -
A missing piece of the puzzle: Health care providers’ experiences supporting older homeless adults in outreach settings
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-18)BACKGROUND: The older homeless population in Canada is on the rise. Older homeless adults often face multiple health and social challenges, as well as have distinct service needs. While more research is emerging on the ... -
Mit Texttieren jenseits der Grenze des Schweigens sprechen. Sprachkrise, Machtdiskurse und eine Poetologie des Offenen in der deutschsprachigen Nachkriegsliteratur am Beispiel Wolfdietrich Schnurres, Guenter Eichs und Ilse Aichingers
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-21)In this dissertation I analyze how the postwar German writers Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Günter Eich, and Ilse Aichinger negotiate anthropocentric and speciesist discourses via animal figures by drawing on such posthumanist ...