University of Waterloo: Recent submissions
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Refusing to Smile for the Patriarchy
(International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, 2019)This article considers how season one of Netflix’s Jessica Jones functions as a feminist revenge narrative that situates the titular protagonist as a survivor of patriarchal abuses at the hands of her ex-boyfriend and ... -
Modes of Intersubjective Address in The Central Character (1977) and Our Marilyn (1987)
(University of Toronto Press, 2016-03)Le présent article examine l’emploi des formules de politesse intersubjectives dans le cinéma expérimental féministe canadien entre 1979 et 1987. Il compare The Central Character (1979) de Patricia Gruben et Our Marilyn ... -
"I'm not alone in that battle": Designing Mobile AR for Mental Health Communication and Community Connectedness
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2024-07-01)For researchers at the intersection of health and human computer interaction, mobile AR presents a compelling platform for public health communication: it is increasingly available, highly customizable, and can present ... -
Evaluation of Wind Flows and Turbulent Fluxes in Complex Terrain of Canadian Rockies
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-28)In mountains, the role of diurnal wind (i.e. valley, slope winds) due to differential heating, radiation and topography in controlling fluxes of heat and water vapour is not well understood. Since data in high mountain ... -
Implementing Fairness in Real-World Healthcare Machine Learning through Datasheet for Database
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-28)Healthcare Machine Learning (HML) models are revolutionizing the healthcare industry, promising improved patient outcomes and enhanced public health. However, it is essential to ensure fairness, i.e., models delivering ... -
A Differentiable Particle Filter for Jump-Diffusion Stochastic Volatility Models
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-28)Stochastic volatility with jumps has emerged as a crucial tool for understanding and modelling the stochastic and intermittently discontinuous nature of many processes in finance. Due to the highly nonlinear structure of ... -
PATHWAYS TO PRECARIOUSNESS: CANADA’S INTENTIONAL FAILURE OF MIGRANT AND UNDOCUMENTED CARE WORKERS
(University of Waterloo, 2024)In this report, we, the research team, are going to consider the policies that come together to create an exploitative and precarious labour conditions for migrant care workers, who are predominantly financially challenged ... -
Watershed Classification in the Great Lakes Basin: Implications for Water Quality and Agricultural Management Practices
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-28)In recent years, the Great Lakes have faced a resurgence of cyanobacterial harmful algae blooms (cHAB), primarily attributed to non-point sources, notably agricultural activities. While significant efforts have been directed ... -
Transient inhibition of the cerebellum impairs change-detection processes: Cerebellar contributions to sensorimotor integration.
(Elsevier, 2020-01)Patients with cerebellar lesions have shown altered responses to unpredictable stimuli. This finding has led to the belief that the cerebellum is involved in comparing incoming stimuli with previously experienced stimuli ... -
Development of a Semantic Model and Synthetic Dataset for Multi-Grasp Affordance Detection for Application to Vision-Based Upper-Limb Prosthetic Grasping
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-27)Current upper-limb prosthetic grasping methods are predominately myoelectric, where surface electromyogram (sEMG) pattern recognition is used to predict a grasp type for a prosthetic hand to grasp objects. The sEMG patterns ... -
The contribution of the prefrontal cortex to relevancy‑based gating of visual and tactile stimuli.
(Springer, 2019-10)Patients with lesions of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) show increased distractibility and impairments in inhibiting cortical responses to irrelevant stimuli. This study was designed to test the role of the PFC in the early ... -
The effect of acute aerobic exercise on the consolidation of motor memories.
(Springer, 2021-08)Acute aerobic exercise performed prior to training may assist with motor skill acquisition through enhancement of motor cortical plasticity. In addition, high intensity exercise performed after training improves retention, ... -
Long-term effects of concussion on relevancy-based modulation of somatosensory-evoked potentials.
(Elsevier, 2021-10)Objective: The purpose of this investigation was to better understand the effects of concussions on the ability to selectively up or down-regulate incoming somatosensory information based on relevance. Methods: Median ... -
Parallel Transaction Execution in Public Blockchain Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-27)Public blockchain systems like Ethereum and Bitcoin suffer from poor transaction throughput, leading to delayed transaction execution and high transaction fees. They execute transactions one by one, failing to extract ... -
Compensation of Impairments in Millimeter-Wave/Sub-THz Power Amplifier and Frequency Multiplier Based Transmitters
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-27)The ever-growing demand for increased network capacity and higher data rates has instigated, in recent years, a shift towards harnessing millimeter-wave (MMW) and sub-THz frequency bands, offering abundant and untapped ... -
USER EXPERIENCE WITH MEDICATION ADHERENCE TECHNOLOGY: DETERMINING USABILITY BY CAPABILITIES
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-27)Background: As populations worldwide grow older, the prevalence of chronic conditions and the complexity of managing multiple medications significantly increase. This challenge is further complicated by a range of barriers ... -
Developing a robust quantum simulator with trapped ions
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-27)Trapped ion systems have experienced significant growth in recent years as their potential for excelling as quantum simulators has become recognized. Ions make an excellent qubit due to their long coherence times with ... -
The Development and Evaluation of Next-Generation Metallic Nanomedicines for Oncology
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-27)Nanoparticles (NPs) are ultrasmall objects with profound applications in research, industry, and medicine. Next-generation nanomedicines, such as gold, hafnium, iron, and copper nanoparticles, are particularly interesting ... -
Deep Graph Neural Networks for Spatiotemporal Forecasting of Sub-Seasonal Sea Ice: A Case Study in Hudson Bay
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-27)This thesis introduces GraphSIFNet, a novel graph-based deep learning framework for spatiotemporal sea ice forecasting. GraphSIFNet employs a Graph Long-Short Term Memory (GCLSTM) module within a sequence-to-sequence ... -
Random State Production for Quantum Key Distribution using Weak Coherent Pulse Source
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-27)This thesis addresses two challenges involved in the culmination of the Quantum En- crYption and Science Satellite mission. This mission aims to demonstrate quantum key distribution (QKD) in space. The first part of the ...