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Towards a new implementation of ‘MREOM-CC’, with application to MO+ dimers (M = V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni)
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-24)Multi Reference Equation of Motion Coupled Cluster (MREOM-CC) is an electronic structure method that allows the calculation of many electronic states simultaneously. A sequence of transformations are ... -
Towards a Plural History of 'Impact Investing'
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-02)Conceived in 2007, ‘impact investing’ is an activity whereby investors intentionally pursue social and/or environmental return alongside financial return. It has attracted increasing interest, including from transnational ... -
Towards a Posthumanist Eco-Zoopoetics: Kafkas‘ Tiergeschichten and Yoko Tawadas Etüden im Schnee
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-09)The burgeoning trans-disciplinary field of (post-humanist) eco-zoopoetics is concerned with the question of how the human can represent animals and nature without ignoring their otherness. My thesis argues that literature ... -
Towards A Reparations Ecology: Ecosystem design narratives for rewilding and regenerating desecrated lacustrine landscapes in Tláhuac-Xico, Mexico City
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-22)For centuries, built environments have been instrumental in imposing an anthropocentric system that has separated nature from human civilization. In retrospect, this dualist structuring of man and nature stems from land ... -
Towards a Soft Architecture: Approachable Kit-of-Parts for Soft Interactive Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-24)This thesis looks at an approachable kit-of-parts that allows for the rapid prototyping and creation of a new interactive architectural tectonic that is decentralized and compliant by using distributed microcontrollers and ... -
Towards a Strategic Communications Plan: Providing Community-Informed Insight into the Role of the Biosphere Reserve on the Oak Ridges Moraine
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-27)The implementation of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BR) in Canada is strongly dependent on grassroots community-based support and understanding. The recent calls for the Oak Ridges Moraine and adjacent Greenbelt lands (ORMGB) ... -
Towards a Suburban Agora: Expanding an intermodal node into a community marketplace
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)This thesis investigates the condition of the contemporary suburban landscape and the potential of transit infrastructure in re-establishing the continuity of the fragmented social fabric. It follows the emerging discourse ... -
Towards a Sustainable Future: Courtyard in Contemporary Beijing
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-15)China has become one of the world’s economic engines. One major driving force is the rapid urbanization. Such fast development results in resource and energy depletion, pollution and environmental deterioration. The ... -
Towards a Theoretical Understanding of the Power of Restart in SAT solvers
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-09)Restart policy is a widely used class of techniques integral to the efficiency of conflict-driven clause-learning (CDCL) SAT solvers. While the utility of such policies has been well-established, to-date we still lack a ... -
Towards a Theory of Visual Concealment
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-26)The goal of this dissertation is to take initial steps towards understanding concealment behaviour and ultimately developing a theory of visual concealment. Since there are relatively few studies of concealment in the ... -
Towards a Versatile System for the Visual Recognition of Surface Defects
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Automated visual inspection is an emerging multi-disciplinary field with many challenges; it combines different aspects of computer vision, pattern recognition, automation, and control systems. There does not exist a ... -
Towards A Workload-Driven Flow Scheduler For Modern Datacenters
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-05)Modern datacenters run different applications with various communication requirements in terms of bandwidth and deadlines. Of particular interest are deadlines that are driving web-search workloads e.g. when submitting ... -
Towards an Active Living Environment: Evaluating the Impact of Stream Daylighting on Pedestrian Networks in Zurich
(University of Waterloo, 2024-06-13)The burial and culverting of urban streams to make way for twentieth-century urbanization has disconnected nature from the built environment and led to the loss of ecosystem services. As waterways are inherently lateral ... -
Towards an Enhanced Dependency Graph
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-22)Dependency graphs are at the heart of software analytics tasks like change impact analysis, test selection, and maintenance analysis. Despite their importance, current approaches to extract and analyze dependency graphs ... -
Towards an Optimized Laboratory Procedure for Accelerated Long-Term Oxidative Aging of Asphalt Mix Specimens
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-14)Pavement infrastructure forms one of the most important mode of passenger and freight transportation and trade between Canada and the United States, and plays an important role in national economy as a measure of Canada’s ... -
Towards an Understanding of Board IT Governance: Antecedents and Consequences
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-09)Board involvement in Information Technology (IT) governance and the antecedents and consequences of such involvement are examined from both a theoretical and practical perspective. Practitioner and academic IT governance ... -
Towards an Understanding of How People Build Mental Representations
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-13)Navigating the environment and making everyday decisions is a process plagued by noise, uncertainty, and non-stationary contingencies. Efficient and effective action is predicated upon a stable internal representation of ... -
Towards an Understanding of Sexual Desire Discrepancy in Couples
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-19)Sexual desire is deeply embedded in interpersonal relationships and cannot be fully understood outside of this context. As such, research that focuses on sexual desire problems at the level of the couple is critical for ... -
Towards Analog Quantum Simulations of Dynamical Gauge Theories
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-20)A system which can implement an analog quantum simulation of lattice gauge theories has been proposed. In particular, the Schwinger model is formulated in terms of a lattice and superconducting qubit implementation is ... -
Towards automated lake ice classification using dual polarization RADARSAT SAR imagery
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-18)Lake ice, as one of the most important component of the cryosphere, is a valuable indicator of climate change and variability. The Laurentian Great Lakes are the world’s largest supply of freshwater and their ice cover has ...