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The Jewish Mother of the Gentiles: Paul and Maternal Imagery in Galatians 4
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-25)In Gal 4:19, Paul likens himself to a mother who is “again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed” within the Galatian congregation. Paul then follows this maternal self-declaration with an extended allegory ... -
A Jewish Repair For A Free Church Vision: Repairing Restitutionist Hermeneutics With Peter Ochs
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-13)Over the course of his research on the New Testament and early Christianity, the late Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder developed a provocative thesis that the historic Jewish-Christian schism was not historically ... -
Jiazhai: In Search of My Mother's Childhood House
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-15)The concept of home has become increasingly complex and challenging to defi ne in modern times, as traditional notions of home are being challenged by diverse family structures, globalization and mobility, economic instability, ... -
JITGNN: A Deep Graph Neural Network for Just-In-Time Bug Prediction
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-10)Just-In-Time (JIT) bug prediction is the problem of predicting software failure immediately after a change is submitted to the code base. JIT bug prediction is often preferred to other types of bug prediction (subsystem, ... -
Job description mining to understand undergraduate co-operative placements
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-05)Co-operative education has become popular worldwide. In this thesis, we use a text mining methodology to analyze over 17,000 co-op job postings in order to understand the co-op market in a large post-secondary institution. ... -
Johannesburg: the urban mediate
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-18)Object _ This thesis draws from the specific universality of Johannesburg to develop a theoretical framework that critically examines the opposing forces of its urbanization. In just 130 years the city of Johannesburg has ... -
John F. Kennedy & the Ascendancy of U.S. Counterinsurgency Doctrine
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-01)The formation of a coherent counterinsurgency policy in the United States is often attributed to the administration of President John F. Kennedy. Indeed, through his own personal fascination and promotion of the subject, ... -
Join Cardinality Estimation Graphs: Analyzing Pessimistic and Optimistic Estimators Through a Common Lens
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-07)Join cardinality estimation is a fundamental problem that is solved in the query optimizers of database management systems when generating efficient query plans. This problem arises both in systems that manage relational ... -
Joining of Silver Nanoparticles: Computer Simulations and Experimental Observations
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-18)Abstract This dissertation introduced a new type of high aspect ratio silver nanoparticle, synthesized by assembly and joining of hexagonal and triangular nanoplates. The synthesis procedure is a simple mixing at room ... -
Joint Action Storyboards: A Framework for Visualizing Communication Grounding Costs
(ACM, 2021)Building and maintaining common ground is vital for effective collaboration in CSCW. Moreover, subtle changes in a CSCW user interface can significantly impact grounding and collaborative processes. Yet, researchers and ... -
Joint Compression and Digital Watermarking: Information-Theoretic Study and Algorithms Development
(University of Waterloo, 2006)In digital watermarking, a watermark is embedded into a covertext in such a way that the resulting watermarked signal is robust to certain distortion caused by either standard data processing in a friendly environment or ... -
Joint Compression and Watermarking Using Variable-Rate Quantization and its Applications to JPEG
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-27)In digital watermarking, one embeds a watermark into a covertext, in such a way that the resulting watermarked signal is robust to a certain distortion caused by either standard data processing in a friendly environment ... -
Joint modeling, variable selection and multiply robust estimation in mediation analysis with multiple mediators
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-10)This thesis explores topics in causal mediation analysis with multiple possibly related mediators. The goal of this thesis is to propose innovative methodologies for joint modeling of multiple uncausally related mediators, ... -
Joint Modulation of Facial Expression Processing by Contextual Congruency and Task Demands
(MDPI, 2019-05-17)Faces showing expressions of happiness or anger were presented together with sentences that described happiness-inducing or anger-inducing situations. Two main variables were manipulated: (i) congruency between contexts ... -
Joint Source Channel Coding in Broadcast and Relay Channels: A Non-Asymptotic End-to-End Distortion Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-25)The paradigm of separate source-channel coding is inspired by Shannon's separation result, which implies the asymptotic optimality of designing source and channel coding independently from each other. The result exploits ... -
The Joint Strike Fighter / F-35 Program: A Canadian Technology Policy Perspective
(Air University Press, 2014-03)The Canadian F-35 procurement represents the largest peacetime acquisition of new aircraft for Canadian forces since the Korean War. Securing industrial benefits from military procurement is essential for advanced ... -
Jones pairs
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Joseph v. Hammer Purgstall's German Translation of Hafez's Divan and Goethe's West-östlicher Divan
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-04)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan [West-Eastern Divan], which emerged from the author’s interest in love poems of the fourteenth-century classical Persian poet Hafez, was the inspiration for this thesis. ... -
Journey into Caldera
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-14)There is a dormant volcano in the northern province of Jilin, China, called the Baekdu/Chang Bai Mountain. At the top of this 2,744 m mountain is a large caldera filled with water, named “Heaven Lake”. Geologically, this ... -
A Journey into Jamming: Phase Transitions and Edge-to-Edge Heterostructures in Langmuir Blodgett Films of Exfoliated Two-Dimensional Materials
(University of Waterloo, 2024-03-21)Two-dimensional (2D) materials hold significant promise as new electronic materials, and could enable high mobility devices, and flexible electronics. In particular, graphene and few-layer molybdenum disulfide have been ...