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Cyberheroes: An Interactive Ebook for Improving Children’s Online Privacy
(Scienceopen, 2017-07)We designed, illustrated, and developed Cyberheroes, an educational interactive ebook that teaches children about online privacy. The ebook was evaluated with children and parents, and had positive effects on children’s ... -
Secure Comics: An Interactive Comic Series for Improving Cyber Security and Privacy
(Scienceopen, 2017-07)We designed, illustrated, and developed Secure Comics, an online educational interactive comic series about cyber security and privacy. The three-part comic was evaluated with adults and children, and had positive effects ... -
Engaging Children About Online Privacy Through Storytelling in an Interactive Comic
(Scienceopen, 2017-07)Children’s privacy is put at risk through online sharing of location-based information. We study the effectiveness of an educational interactive comic on improving 11- to 13-year-old children’s privacy knowledge and behaviour ... -
A Quantitative and Qualitative Empirical Evaluation of a Test Refactoring Tool
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-18)Reducing the gap between what practitioners want vs. what researchers assume they want is one of the vital challenges in software projects. When it comes to software tools, many people develop tools, but only some tools ... -
Reducing the Latency of Dependent Operations in Large-Scale Geo-Distributed Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-14)Many applications rely on large-scale distributed systems for data management and computation. These distributed systems are complex and built from different networked services. Dependencies between these services can ... -
Identifying Prioritized Areas for Grassed Waterways Implementation
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-14)Soil erosion remains a primary challenge in the 21st century threatening fresh water and cropland that supports more than 95% of global food production. It is of significance to plan for and prevent soil erosion in its ... -
Separation of Phenols and Aniline from Water Streams using Poly(ether-block-amide) Membranes
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-14)Phenols and aniline are aromatic compounds in which a hydroxyl group and amine group are attached to the benzene ring, respectively. Both are common organic pollutants in a wide range of effluents from such industries as ... -
Flags and Error Weight Parities: A Development of Fault-tolerant Quantum Computation with Few Ancillas
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-13)In quantum computation, errors in a quantum circuit arising from its interaction with the environment is one of the biggest obstacles to building large-scale quantum computers. One way to deal with such errors is using ... -
Powder-fed Laser Directed Energy Deposition of Near-β Titanium Alloy: A Comprehensive Analytical and Experimental Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-12)Laser directed energy deposition through powder feeding (LDED-PF), a class of metal additive manufacturing (AM), is a promising technique that enables the repair and refurbishment of metallic components with a variety of ... -
Detection and Prediction of Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease using Wearable Sensors and Machine Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-12)Freezing of gait (FOG), is a brief episodic absence of forward body progression despite the intention to walk. Appearing mostly in mid-late stage Parkinson’s disease (PD), freezing manifests as a sudden loss of lower-limb ... -
Local Structure for Vertex-Minors
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-12)This thesis is about a conjecture of Geelen on the structure of graphs with a forbidden vertex-minor; the conjecture is like the Graph Minors Structure Theorem of Robertson and Seymour but for vertex-minors instead of ... -
Silver Nanowire-enhanced Microflake Electrically Conductive Adhesives for Flexible Hybrid Electronics
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-08)Flexible hybrid electronics combine the power and performance of conventional integrated circuits with the large area, lower cost, and mechanical flexibility of printed, flexible electronics. To mount rigid, discrete ... -
The Rebirth of Rape: Tracing Ovidian Rape Motifs with Respect to Bernini's Pluto and Persephone as a Piece of Classical Reception
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-08)Rape, as it is understood in a modern context, is approached with a completely different perspective than that of an ancient, and even a post-Renaissance, audience. With the contributing factors of cultural, historical, ... -
Spillover gentrification? Mid-sized cities within commuter sheds of global cities
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-06)Commuter sheds have long comprised several mid-sized cities surrounding a large metropolis. The smaller cities typically feed into the economic and commuter orbit of the larger city. These ‘bedroom communities’ of the ... -
Simple Drawings of Kn from Rotation Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-06)A complete rotation system on n vertices is a collection of n cyclic permutations of the elements [n]\{i}, for i∈[n]. If D is a drawing of a labelled graph, then a rotation at vertex v is the cyclic ordering of the edges ... -
Hedging in a Financial Market with Regime-Switching
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-06)It is well-known that in the complete standard financial market model driven solely by Brownian motion, one can always hedge a given contingent claim starting from an appropriate initial wealth. In other words, there always ... -
Multivariate Time Series Data Causal Discovery
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-05)One of the goals for Artificial Intelligence is to achieve human-like intelligence. To that end, several solutions were proposed over the decades, where causal structure discovery was proposed as a viable tool for enabling ... -
Constructing an External Cavity Diode Laser for the Probing of Rydberg Excitons in Cu2O
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-05)Cuprous oxide (Cu2O) is a direct bandgap semiconductor that presents a promising platform for the implementation of a solid state quantum simulator. This promise is in part due to the presence of excitons in the material ... -
Black Frontiers: Race, Region, and Myth in African American Westerns, 1854-1954
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-04)Up until the 1960s the African American West remained largely unexamined in scholarship and, when examined, was marked for its historical absence or, as Eric Gardner notes, “limited to brief biographical asides focusing ... -
Managing Retreat in Canada: Framework for the Evaluation of Property Buyout Programs
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-04)With the incidence of severe flooding on the rise, Canada’s traditional approach of defending against and rebuilding after floods has become unsustainable. Managed retreat presents a practical policy option to reduce ...