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Martingale Property and Pricing for Time-homogeneous Diffusion Models in Finance
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-09)
The thesis studies the martingale properties, probabilistic methods and efficient unbiased Monte Carlo simulation methods for various time-homogeneous diffusion models commonly used in mathematical finance. Some of the ...
Female Labour Supply with Time Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-29)
The Italian labour market seems unable to allocate a significant fraction of the working age population efficiently. The gap between the employment rate in Italy and in the other developed economies is foremost attributable ...
How We Became Legion: Burke's Identification and Anonymous
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-19)
This thesis presents a study of how identification, according to Kenneth Burke's theory, can be observed in the media-related practices promoted by the cyber-activist collective Anonymous. Identification is the capacity ...
Simple, economical methods for electrical access to nanostructures used for characterizing and welding individual silver nanowires
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)
Elongated nanostructures have attracted a great deal of interest due to unique optical, electrical and physical properties. In particular, silver nanowires and nanobeams have proven to be top contenders for a variety of ...
Paleoglaciological dynamics in northern Manitoba and the subglacial bed mosaic
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-24)
During the last glacial maximum (LGM), some 20 ka ago, northern Manitoba was situated beneath 3 to 4.5 km of ice, on the outer fringe of a major ice spreading center of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. The region has also been ...
Critical Intersections of Gender, Race and Ethnicity: Leisure Constraints, Negotiations and Resistances of Immigrant Adolescent Girls
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-16)
Leisure can provide a central context for the core adolescent issue of identity development. Given the importance of leisure in adolescents’ lives, it is imperative to understand the constraints to leisure and possible ...
Thriving on the New Décarie Expressway: Reconciling Trenched Urban Expressways with the City
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-21)
During the 1960s large trenched expressways were introduced into our urban centres to accommodate the booming vehicular traffic.
These expressways were built on an enormous scale, often traversing entire cities. Unfortunately, ...
Characterization of counterion effects of gemini surfactants and in vitro studies of transfection efficiency for gene therapy in epithelial ovarian cancer.
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-23)
Gene therapy has emerged as a promising strategy for the treatment or prevention of many acquired or genetic diseases that are considered incurable at the present time. Although viral and non-viral vector approaches are ...
The Effect of Acute Docosahexaenoic Acid Intake on Left Ventricular Function and Susceptibility to Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in the Isolated Rat Heart
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-01)
The chronic intake and myocardial incorporation of n-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFA), particularly docosahexaenoic acid (22:6n-3, DHA), is believed to protect against ischemia-reperfusion injury, possibly through ...
RitHM: A Modular Software Framework for Runtime Monitoring Supporting Complete and Lossy Traces
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-01)
Runtime verification (RV) is an effective and automated method for specification based offline testing as well as online monitoring of complex real-world systems. Firstly, a software framework for RV needs to exhibit certain ...