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Food insecurity in a tobacco growing region in Zambia
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-29)Given increasing pressure from transnational corporations to increase tobacco production in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in contexts where food insecurity is prevalent, this study contributes to our understanding of how ... -
Trifecta: Faster High-throughput Three-party Computation over WAN using Multi-fan-in Logic Gates
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-29)Multi-party computation (MPC) has been a very active area of research and recent industrial deployments exist. Practical MPC is currently limited to low-latency, high- throughput network setups, i.e., local-area networks ... -
The Idea of a Follower: An Investigation of Implicit Followership Theories and Their Correlates
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-28)Implicit followership theories (IFTs) are our subjective assumptions, or lay beliefs, about characteristics of followers. These beliefs can exert a powerful influence on workplace relationships between leaders and followers. ... -
Quantitative Optical Gas Imaging using Broadband Mid-wavelength Infrared Single-Channel and Multispectral Cameras
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-25)Quantifying and limiting methane emissions from upstream oil and gas is an efficient strategy to reduce anthropogenic climate change and has received considerable attention from regulators in recent years. Quantification ... -
Effects of Acute Aerobic Exercise on Motor Cortex Plasticity in Individuals With a Concussion History
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-25)The impact of concussions was previously believed to be transient, however neurophysiological tools have revealed that long-term cognitive and motor declines persist past the acute phase of injury. Through a non-invasive ... -
On Legible and Predictable Robot Navigation in Multi-Agent Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-24)Legibility has recently become an important property to consider in the design of social navigation planners. Legible motion is intent-expressive, which when employed during social robot navigation, allows others to quickly ... -
Specializing Scala with Truffle
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-24)Scala is a generic object-oriented programming language with higher-order abstractions. Programming abstractions in Scala exemplify reusability and extensibility in the context of type safety. In particular, generic ... -
Towards a Cyber Jus ad Bellum: Bridging Legal Gaps within Cyberwar Governance
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-24)While the capabilities of cyberweapons surge forward, our ability to effectively evaluate and govern their deployment has lagged behind. There are presently no internationally binding laws of cyberwar. In their absence, ... -
Under the Skin: Assessing the Ideological Underpinnings and Material Reality of Cultured Meat
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-24)The relationship between industrial animal agriculture, resource depletion, and environmental instability has become increasingly clear in recent years. In keeping with the longstanding focus on consumers, and consumption’s ... -
Early Paleozoic Ocean Redox Dynamics: Perspectives from Uranium Isotopes of Sedimentary Rocks
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-23)The trajectory of global ocean oxygenation could have greatly influenced the metazoan evolutions because O2 could provide valuable energy to support biological activities. Remarkable metazoan diversifications occurred ... -
Queen of the Academy: Academic Drag as Pedagogy and Praxis
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-22)Direct stories from and pedagogical representations of equity-denied and oppressed bodies remain largely missing from and kept out of the academy. And scholarship and scholarly gate-keepers across the academy – and especially ... -
Offline Evaluation via Human Preference Judgments: A Dueling Bandits Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-22)The dramatic improvements in core information retrieval tasks engendered by neural rankers create a need for novel evaluation methods. If every ranker returns highly relevant items in the top ranks, it becomes difficult ... -
Mortality Prediction using Statistical Learning Approaches
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-21)Longevity risk, as one of the major risks faced by insurers, has triggered a heated stream of research in mortality modeling among actuaries for effective design/pricing/risk management of insurance products. The idea of ... -
Stand Fast for Peace & Freedom: A Study of Foreign Policy of the British Labour Party in Opposition 1931 to 1940
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-21)This thesis examines the evolution of foreign policy within the British Labour Party during its years in opposition from 1931 to 1940. It argues that Labour policy was locked in a bitter divide between idealist and pragmatic ... -
Our Grand Domestic Revolution: (Re-)making home from Jaffna, Sri Lanka to the Greater Toronto Area
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-21)Displacement is seemingly irreconcilable with the grounding quality of domestic space; however, the practice of housework and homemaking allows forcibly displaced people to reconstruct home elsewhere. Centring the context ... -
Reconfigurable Cryogenic Microwave Devices Using Low Temperature Superconducting rf-SQUIDs
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-21)In the physical implementation of modern superconducting quantum computing systems, microwaves play a significant role in the control and measurement of qubits. The advances towards the use of microwaves in the quantum ... -
Evaluation of a Novel β-cyclodextrin Functionalized Nano Adsorbent for Removal of Pharmaceuticals
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-21)β-CD functionalized adsorbents have increasingly been reported for the removal of organic micropollutants. They have been considered attractive due to the hydrophobic cavity of β-CD which provides non-covalent interactions ... -
Modeling and Operation of Ground Source Heat Pumps in Electricity Markets Considering Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-17)Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP) systems have grown in popularity and acceptance worldwide as an attractive option to replace conventional Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) technologies due to their capacity ... -
Predictors of Loneliness and Transitions in Loneliness in Ontario Home Care Clients: Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-11)Background Older adults over the age of 65 receiving home care services are particularly vulnerable to experiencing loneliness and social isolation. Loneliness and social isolation have been associated with adverse health ... -
Context matters: criticism and accommodation by close others associated with treatment attitudes in those with anxiety
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-08-26)Background: Many people with anxiety do not seek therapy due to negative views of treatment. Although close others (e.g. romantic partners, family members, close friends) are highly involved in treatment decisions, the ...