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Counting points of bounded height on del Pezzo surfaces
(University of Waterloo, 2006)del Pezzo surfaces are isomorphic to either P<sup>1</sup> x P<sup>1</sup> or P<sup>2</sup> blown up <i>a</i> times, where <i>a</i> ranges from 0 to 8. We will look at lines on del Pezzo surfaces isomorphic to P<sup>2</sup> ... -
Counting, Adding, and Regular Languages
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-17)In this thesis we consider two mostly disjoint topics in formal language theory that both involve the study and use of regular languages. The first topic lies in the intersection of automata theory and additive number ... -
Coupled Human-Environment Dynamics Of Forest Pest Spread And Control In A Multi-Patch, Stochastic Setting
(Public Library of Science, 2015-10-02)Background The transportation of camp firewood infested by non-native forest pests such as Asian long-horned beetle (ALB) and emerald ash borer (EAB) has severe impacts on North American forests. Once invasive forest pests ... -
Coupled models of structured contagion processes in human-environment systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-15)Models of infectious processes are a common feature in the landscape of applied mathematics. It is rare that these processes are isolated from other significant dynamics in nature, and therefore we can incorporate some of ... -
Coupling Fishery Dynamics, Human Health And Social Learning In A Model Of Fish-Borne Pollution Exposure
(Springer, 2016-03-01)Pollution-induced illnesses are caused by toxicants that result from human activity and are often entirely preventable. However, where industrial priorities have undermined responsible governance, exposed populations must ... -
A Covariant Natural Ultraviolet Cutoff in Inflationary Cosmology
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-28)In the field of quantum gravity, it is widely expected that some form of a minimum length scale, or ultraviolet cutoff, exists in nature. Recently, a new natural ultraviolet cutoff that is fully covariant was proposed. In ... -
Covering Graphs and Equiangular Tight Frames
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-02)Recently, there has been huge attention paid to equiangular tight frames and their constructions, due to the fact that the relationship between these frames and quantum information theory was established. One of the problems ... -
Covering Problems via Structural Approaches
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)The minimum set cover problem is, without question, among the most ubiquitous and well-studied problems in computer science. Its theoretical hardness has been fully characterized--logarithmic approximability has been ... -
A Cox-Aalen model for interval-censored data
(Wiley, 2015-06)The Cox-Aalen model, obtained by replacing the baseline hazard function in the well-known Cox model with a covariate-dependent Aalen model, allows for both fixed and dynamic covariate effects. In this paper, we examine ... -
Cracking the Code: Unraveling Gender Disparities in Open-Source Contributions
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-28)Within the world of open source software (OSS) development, previous research has shown that the success rate of pull requests (PRs) may exhibit gender-related imbalances. In this work, we seek to examine which factors ... -
Craniosynostosis Surgery: A Study of Rearrangement
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-22)Cranial vault remodeling, a form of skull surgery is currently performed according to intuition developed over years of experience. The problem of how to best perform this surgery has not yet thoroughly been studied by ... -
Crawling, Collecting, and Condensing News Comments
(University of Waterloo, 2013-11-29)Traditionally, public opinion and policy is decided by issuing surveys and performing censuses designed to measure what the public thinks about a certain topic. Within the past five years social networks such as Facebook ... -
Creating an Emotion Responsive Dialogue System
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-19)The popularity of deep neural networks and vast amounts of readily available multi-domain textual data has seen the advent of various domain/task specific and domain agnostic dialogue systems. In our work, we present a ... -
Creating Your Bubble: Personal Space On and Around Large Public Displays
(ACM, 2016-05)We describe an empirical study that explores how users establish and use personal space around large public displays (LPDs). Our study complements field studies in this space by more fully characterizing interpersonal ... -
Critical Dynamics In Population Vaccinating Behavior
(National Academy of Sciences, 2017-12-26)Vaccine refusal can lead to renewed outbreaks of previously eliminated diseases and even delay global eradication. Vaccinating decisions exemplify a complex, coupled system where vaccinating behavior and disease dynamics ... -
A Critical Examination of Two Specific Approaches Used to Characterize Medical Images: i) Projection-based Descriptors for Image Retrieval and ii) Estimating Fractal Dimensions of Discrete Sets
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-31)In this thesis we provide a critical examination of two methods which are used to characterize medical images. Accordingly, this thesis is split into two main parts. First, we take a look at the problem of designing ... -
Critical Exponents and Stabilizers of Infinite Words
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-01)This thesis concerns infinite words over finite alphabets. It contributes to two topics in this area: critical exponents and stabilizers. Let w be a right-infinite word defined over a finite alphabet. The critical ... -
Critical exponents of infinite balanced words
(Elsevier, 2019-07-19)Over an alphabet of size 3 we construct an infinite balanced word with critical exponent 2 + root2/2. Over an alphabet of size 4 we construct an infinite balanced word with critical exponent (5 + root5)/4. Over larger ... -
A critical review of 'optimal' annuitization strategies
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-28)This paper is an analysis of different self-annuitization strategies advised to a retiree. At the time of retirement, an individual has the choice between annuitizing immediately with their wealth or delaying until a future ... -
Cross-Domain Sentence Modeling for Relevance Transfer with BERT
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-16)Standard bag-of-words term-matching techniques in document retrieval fail to exploit rich semantic information embedded in the document texts. One promising recent trend in facilitating context-aware semantic matching has ...