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Coding Strip: A Tool for Supporting Interplay within Abstraction Ladder for Computational Thinking
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)As technologies advance and play an increasingly larger role in our lives, computational thinking---the ability to understand computing concepts and procedures and their role in the tools we use---has become an important ... -
A Generalized Adversary Method for Quantum Query Complexity
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)Quantum query complexity measures the minimum number of queries a quantum algorithm needs to make to some input string to compute a function of that input. Query complexity models are widely used throughout quantum computing, ... -
Ice Flow Shift, Drumlin, and Bedrock Topography Effects on Glacial Dispersal from Kimberlites in the Lac de Gras Region, Northwest Territories, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)Glaciations of the Quaternary Period have had a profound impact on the Canadian landscape and surficial sediments. Understanding glacial landforms and sediments has thus helped develop fundamental knowledge of past glaciations ... -
Source and Fate of Contaminants in a Pit Lake and Water Treatment at the Faro Mine Complex
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)The Faro Mine Complex (FMC) is an abandoned zinc-lead mine in Yukon, Canada that requires extensive remediation efforts to manage the environmental liabilities associated with mine wastes stockpiled at the site. Active ... -
Feasibility of Testing the Event Formalism with Refractive Materials
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)In this thesis, we evaluate the feasibility of verifying the effect of gravity on the quantum entanglement by simulating gravity’s effects with other physical systems. Specifically, we work in the framework of the Event ... -
Advancing Techniques for Detecting Dwarf Satellite Populations Beyond the Local Group
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)This thesis includes material from three papers that develop techniques for quantifying faint dwarf satellite populations outside the Local Group. Dwarf satellites are important for our understanding of small-scale structure ... -
Incidence, Distribution, and Risk Factors of Five Major Enteric Diseases Commonly Transmitted by Food in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)Enteric diseases are a major public health concern in both developing and developed countries, including Canada. Studies examining enteric disease distributions in different parts of Canada show temporal, regional, and ... -
Tuktu Past, Present, and Future: State of Torngat Mountains Caribou and their Forage in a Changing Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) populations are in decline across Canada, making this charismatic species a major conservation concern. For Inuit of Northern Labrador and Quebec, caribou are a cultural keystone species with ... -
Native Wetland Plant Recovery Following Phragmites australis Invasion
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)Invasive common reed (Phragmites australis ssp. australis) has negatively affected 25% of all Species at Risk in Ontario since its arrival in the twentieth century. This is of particular concern at Long Point and Rondeau, ... -
Local and landscape drivers of aquatic biodiversity in urban stormwater management facilities
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)Stormwater management facilities (SWMFs) are often constructed in urban areas to provide flood mitigation and runoff control, and thus replace some wetland functions. Yet, their suitability as habitat for wetland biota is ... -
Abstraction and Refinement Techniques for Ternary Symbolic Simulation with Guard-value Encoding
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)We propose a novel encoding called guard-value encoding for the ternary domain {0, 1, X}. Among the advantages it has over the more conventional dual-rail encoding, the flexibility of representing X with either of <0, 0> ... -
On Specht's Theorem in UHF C⁎-algebras
(Elsevier, 2021-01-01)Specht's Theorem states that two matrices A and B in Mn(C) are unitarily equivalent if and only if tr(w(A;A )) = tr(w(B;B )) for all words w(x; y) in two non-commuting variables x and y. In this article we examine to what ... -
Counting Carbon: Evaluating the Quality and Environmental Impacts of Design Through Product Prototyping
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)Industrialisation has brought numerous advancements to the architecture and design fields, many of which have allowed humanity to produce more efficiently, using less energy and human labour. Simultaneously, mass production ... -
Diabetic retinopathy grading with respect to the segmented lesions
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)One of the leading causes of irreversible vision loss is Diabetic Retinopathy (DR). The International Clinical Diabetic Retinopathy scale (ICDRS) provides grading criteria for DR. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) ... -
Design of an OTN-based Failure/Alarm Propagation Simulator
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)This thesis presents OTN failure/alarm propagation behavior analysis and an OTN simulator based on failure/alarm propagation behavior on the optical layer of optical transport network (OTN) architecture. The simulator code ... -
Tunable Reflectarrays and Metasurfaces
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)Fifth-generation (5G) wireless communication networks have been rapidly expanding in recent years. However, due to the higher frequency bands used in 5G applications compared with previous generations, it is more difficult ... -
Security of Software-defined Wireless Sensor Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) using Software Defined Networking (SDN) can achieve several advantages such as flexible and centralized network management and efficient routing. This is because SDN is a logically centralized ... -
Hardware-Aware Precoding and Digital Predistortion for Massive MIMO Transmitters
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)To cope with the ever-increasing demand for higher data rates, reduced latency, and improved coverage, new technologies are needed to advance the current state of wireless communication systems. One of the promising new ... -
Plastic Instability and Failure of Sheet Metals Subjected to Complex Stress States
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)The rapid development of new emerging classes of steels has outpaced the methodologies and modelling strategies to exploit the superior mechanical properties in the design stage of structural automotive lightweight components. ... -
Investigating the effects of synthetic peptides on aquatic pathogens and rainbow trout immunity
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)The demand for fish and seafood has increased exponentially over the past decade and continues to increase. Feeding fish has also become problematic as currently, the industry is dependent on fish meal which is not ...