Browsing Theses by Title
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Monotone Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Systems and Second Order Partial Differential Equations
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-28)Multigrid methods are numerical solvers for partial differential equations (PDEs) that systematically exploit the relationship between approximate solutions on multiple grids to arrive at a solution whose accuracy is ... -
Monotonic and Fatigue Flexural Behaviour of RC Beams Strengthened with Prestressed NSM CFRP Rods
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-11)The use of near surface mounted (NSM) carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) reinforcement is a recent and a promising technique for increasing the flexural capacity and the fatigue life of reinforced concrete (RC) flexural ... -
Monotonic and Fatigue Performance of RC Beams Strengthened with Externally Post-Tensioned CFRP Tendons
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-04)External post-tensioning is an attractive technique for strengthening reinforced concrete structures because of its ability to actively control stresses and deflections, speed of installation, minimum interruption for the ... -
Monotonicity Testing for Boolean Functions over Graph Products
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-09)We establish a directed analogue of Chung and Tetali's isoperimetric inequality for graph products. We use this inequality to obtain new bounds on the query complexity for testing monotonicity of Boolean-valued functions ... -
Monsoon Notebook: Exploring Home
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-16)This thesis explores the meaning of home, and the role it plays in my relationship to architecture. It rests in the transitional space between my native Sri Lanka and Canada, where I have lived for the last eighteen years. ... -
Monster
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-09)451 Manning Avenue, home to an architect and an artist, has generated an adverse reaction within its community. The property is maintained as a testament to the Rao family history in Canada, but most visibly, Villa Rao ... -
Monte Carlo Framework for Prostate Cancer Correction and Reconstruction in Endorectal Multi-parametric MRI
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-31)Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death in the male population. The detection of prostate cancer using imaging has been challenging until recently. Multi-parametric MRI has been shown to allow accurate ... -
Monte Carlo Simulation of Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)The goal of this thesis is to describe, implement and analyse Monte Carlo (MC) algorithms for simulating the mechanism of diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI). As the inverse problem of mapping the sub-voxel ... -
Monte Carlo Study of the Magnetic Flux Lattice Fluctuations in High-<em>T<sub>c</sub></em> Superconductors
(University of Waterloo, 2005)By allowing to measure the magnetic field distribution inside a material, muon spin rotation experiments have the potential to provide valuable information about microscopic properties of high-temperature superconductors. ... -
Monte Carlo Transport Methods for Semiconductor X-ray Imaging Detectors
(University of Waterloo, 2013-07-17)This thesis describes the development of a novel comprehensive Monte Carlo simulation code, ARTEMIS, for the investigation of electron-hole pair transport mechanisms in a-Se x-ray imaging detectors. ARTEMIS allows for ... -
Moral Encroachment
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-28)Can practical factors influence a subject's position to know? Traditionally this question has been answered in the negative. A subject's position to know proposition p is not thought to improve merely because the subject ... -
Moral Fictionalism and Moral Reasons
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-28)One major problem with moral discourse is that we tend treat moral utterances as if they represent propositions. But complex metaphysical problems arise when we try to describe the nature of the moral facts that correspond ... -
Moral Panics and the Governance of South Asian Gang Involvement: The Construction of a Local ‘Cultural’ Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-17)In the last three decades, nearly two hundred South Asian men have died in gang violence in Lower Mainland British Columbia. These deaths, coupled with the fear that young men in the community are susceptible to joining ... -
Moral Responsibility and the Self
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)Moral responsibility is an issue at the heart of the free-will debate. The question of how we can have moral responsibility in a deterministic world is an interesting and puzzling one. Compatibilists arguments have left ... -
The Mordell-Lang Theorem from the Zilber Dichotomy
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)We present a largely self-contained exposition of Ehud Hrushovski's proof of the function field Mordell-Lang conjecture beginning from the Zilber Dichotomy for differentially closed fields and separably closed fields. Our ... -
A More Accurate Measurement Model for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-30)Aliferis, Gottesman and Preskill [1] reduce a non-Markovian noise model to a local noise model, under assumptions on the smallness of the norm of the system-bath interaction. They also prove constructively that given a ... -
More than a "Thing-in-Itself": An Inquiry into Work through the Interrelations of Making, Material, and Design
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-04)The thesis began with a desire to better understand the built environment and its relationship to value, temporality and material. The seat became the vehicle for this exploration. In its ubiquity the seat has found a ... -
More Than Atonement: Anabaptist-Mennonite Discipleship Ecclesiology and the Work of Christ
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-31)This thesis focuses on seven authors writing in the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition who have made the argument that traditional atonement theologies have not only failed to adequately integrate the church and the kingdom ... -
More Than Error Correction: Cryptography from Codes
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-26)The first code-based cryptosystem, McEliece, was invented in the very early development of public-key cryptography, yet code-based cryptosystems received little attention for decades due to their relatively large key-sizes. ... -
MORE THAN JUST SMOKE AND LIGHTS: THE ARCHITECTURE OF CONCERT STAGE DESIGN
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-25)Live music creates an environment that allows your mind to go silent, where all your senses are stimulated in perfect harmony. It’s a heightened sense of reality, a place to escape and be consumed in something that feels ...