University of Waterloo: Recent submissions
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In Search of Wholeness
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-29)In Search of Wholeness is an exhibition of sculpture, alternative photography, and video. The work examines connections to healing and being. “The English ‘health’ derives from Old English ‘hælth’, which is related to ... -
Breaking Down Barriers: Examining the Accessibility of Global Water Futures Research
(University of Waterloo, 2023)The Global Water Futures program (GWF) was granted $77.8 million by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund to conduct research on the forecasting and management of water futures in Canada as part of an effort to combat ... -
Self, Materiality, and National Identity: The Dilemma of Authenticity Among Millennial Industrial Designers in China
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-29)By analyzing the discourse relating to the dilemma of authenticity among millennial industrial designers in China, the major objective of this thesis is to gain insights into the values, beliefs, practices, and ethics of ... -
The Roles of Causal Propagator in Relativistic Quantum Information
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-29)This thesis focuses on the roles of causal propagator — the expectation value of the field commutator — in relativistic quantum information. Consider two observers Alice and Bob, each carrying a two-level quantum system ... -
The financialization of Transit Oriented Development in York South Weston, Toronto, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-29)Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is a form of planning that has dominated the discourse around sustainable development in cities. Where transit investment is met with higher density housing and commercial land uses, there ... -
Student Success in Co-operative Education: An Analysis of Job Postings and Performance Evaluations
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-26)Co-operative education (co-op) programs combine coursework and work internships and have become popular worldwide. In this analysis, we use two separate co-op datasets to understand employer expectations and factors that ... -
Polynomial bounds for chromatic number VII. Disjoint holes.
(Wiley, 2023-05-14)A hole in a graph G is an induced cycle of length at least four, and a k-multihole in G is the union of k pairwise disjoint and nonneighbouring holes. It is well known that if G does not contain any holes then its chromatic ... -
Construction of a Shielded Thermal Hall Measurement Device
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-26)A shielded thermal Hall experimental setup is being constructed and is nearing completion. An existing conventional thermal conductivity experiment was retrofit to perform thermal Hall measurements, which included the ... -
rinse and repeat
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-26)rinse and repeat is a collaborative thesis exhibition of art created by my plant collaborators and I that uses the visual language of sculpture, photography, performance, audio narratives, and collaboration to question the ... -
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Human Mobility based on Land Use Types in the Greater Toronto Area during COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-26)The 2019 Coronavirus disease COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It undoubtedly poses a huge challenge in terms of public health and social ... -
Locality and Exceptional Points in Pseudo-Hermitian Physics
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-26)Pseudo-Hermitian operators generalize the concept of Hermiticity. Included in this class of operators are the quasi-Hermitian operators, which define a generalization of quantum theory with real-valued measurement outcomes ... -
Representation, Characterization, and Mitigation of Noise in Quantum Processors
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-26)Quantum computers have the potential to outperform classical computers on several families of important problems, and have a great potential to revolutionize our understanding of computational models. However, the presence ... -
Silver Nanowire Networks in Electrochromic Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-25)Transparent electrodes are a necessary component of electrochromic devices. These electrodes are most commonly made from indium tin oxide (ITO), but this material is far from ideal. ITO is expensive, brittle and thus ... -
Multiple jeopardies: COVID-19 related health and wellbeing among older adults in Uganda
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-25)ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the disparities in access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) resources and health among various populations and regions, with sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) being affected ... -
Sparse2SOAP: Domain Adaptation for LiDAR-Based 3D Object Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-25)In this work, we propose Sparse2SOAP, an extension of the previous work in Sparse2Dense that uses knowledge distillation in a teacher-student framework to densify 3D features, to enable its uses for cross-domain LiDAR-based ... -
Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition of Alumina-based Thin Film Encapsulation for High Performance Perovskite Solar Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-25)In this thesis, various alumina-based thin-film encapsulation layers including nitrogen-doped alumina, zinc-doped alumina and ZnO/Al2O3 nanolaminate structures are deposited by atmospheric-pressure spatial atomic layer ... -
Tickle Trunk: a Toolkit for Communication and Brainstorming Between Hapticians and Non-Hapticians
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-25)This thesis introduces the Tickle Trunk, a haptic communication toolkit designed to support communication and brainstorming for haptic and tangible interaction design. Haptic technology is becoming increasingly popular in ... -
Peer Language Use and Criminal Decision-Making: An Experimental Study Testing Framing Effects of Peer Messages
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-25)Criminal decision-making tends to occur in social contexts. There is evidence that the decision to commit a crime is often preceded by verbal communication, however, relatively little is known about the mechanisms through ... -
Towards Domain Invariant Real-time Point Cloud Perception
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-25)In recent years, autonomous driving has witnessed substantial advancements, owing in part to the rapid advancement of 3D sensor technologies, particularly Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors.Despite these advancements, ... -
Algorithmic and Linear Programming-Based Techniques for the Maximum Utility Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-25)A common topic of study in the subfield of Operations Research known as Revenue Management is finding optimal prices for a line of products given customer preferences. While there exists a large number of ways to model ...