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The Walk Home: Re-imagining the Ontario Greenbelt’s Commuter Rail Communities
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)Dominated by a low-density urban sprawl growth model post-World War II, the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) has expanded rapidly without limitation resulting in extensive exhaustion of its open space, greenfield lands, and ... -
A Walk in the Park: Exploring the Impact of Parks and Recreation Amenities as Activity-Promoting Features of the Built Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-16)Social ecological models of physical activity (PA) promotion embrace a wide range of factors and disciplines that may contribute to active living. Parks, trails, and recreation facilities have been acknowledged as important ... -
Walk the line: Balancing conflicting goals through tension systems
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-20)Although our society esteems individuals who achieve it all, the 24-hour day and our limited resources means that attaining multiple goals is a difficult undertaking. This research draws upon Lewin’s theorizing on goal ... -
A walk through quantum noise: a study of error signatures and characterization methods
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-17)The construction of large scale quantum computing devices might be one of the most exciting and promising endeavors of the 21st century, but it also comes with many challenges. As quantum computers are supplemented with ... -
Walking City: The transformative role of pedestrians in public space
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-21)Vancouver’s downtown peninsula symbolically describes the sense of place unique to the city as a whole. It is a livable city with a strong connection to its natural surroundings, witnessed in its very active population. ... -
Walking Onions: Scaling Distribution of Information Safely in Anonymity Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-07)Scaling anonymity networks offers unique security challenges, as attackers can exploit differing views of the network’s topology to perform epistemic and route capture attacks. Anonymity networks in practice, such as ... -
Walking the Red Road: Aboriginal Federally Sentenced Women’s Experiences in Healing, Empowerment, and Re-creation
(University of Waterloo, 2008-02-21)In 2001, when Aboriginal women comprised only 3.5% of Canadian women, 23% of Federally Sentenced Women (FSW) were Aboriginal. In the intervening six year period, the presence of Aboriginal women in Canada’s federal ... -
Walls of Air: A Retrofit for Equitable Indoor Air Quality
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-04)Poor indoor air quality and lack of space for adequate isolation within postwar towers increase the risk of negative effects on resident health leaving them more vulnerable to infectious diseases. The unequal ability to ... -
Walmart 2.0
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)Processes of industry and economic exchange have significantly and continually defined the underlying structure and formal characteristics of the American city. Contemporary ‘distributed’ systems of economy and industry ... -
A war between stories: Leisure, colonialism and my struggles to reconcile my Indigeneity
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-15)This dissertation is concerned with oppression and “the reach of imperialism into our heads” (Smith, 2012, p. 63). It is concerned with the “war between stories” (Delgado, 2012, p.2419) between Indigenous and non-Indigenous ... -
War, Factionalism, and Civil-Military Tension: The Madras Army and the Company State in the Carnatic, 1767-1777
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-23)This study explores how the Madras Army and its officers helped to shape the East India Company’s developing state in the Carnatic during the late 1760s and 1770s, and in particular it draws attention to their critical ... -
Warm Forming Behaviour of ZEK100 and AZ31B Magnesium Alloy Sheet
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)The current research addresses the formability of two magnesium sheet alloys, a conventional AZ31B and a rare earth alloyed ZEK100. Both alloys had a nominal thickness of 1.6 mm. Both Limiting Dome Height (LDH) and Cylindrical ... -
Warm Forming of Aluminum Brazing Sheet. Experiments and Numerical Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-25)Warm forming of aluminum alloys of has shown promising results for increasing the formability of aluminum alloy sheet. Warm forming is a term that is generally used to describe a sheet metal forming process, where part or ... -
Warriors and Prophets: The Role of Charismatic Authority in the Radicalization Towards Violence and Strategic Operation of Terrorist Groups
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-08)In the past four decades, there has been increased multi-disciplinary scholarly interest in the study of charismatic authority and charismatic leadership. However, there is little systematic theoretical and empirical ... -
Was Bretton Woods Working for the Common Good? Mexico's Advocacy to Consider the Human Implications of the International Monetary and Financial Systems at the Bretton Woods Conference
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-01)This research develops a critical reframing that locates Mexico’s articulation for a fairer, more inclusive, and more sustainable approach to the international economic system at the Bretton Woods Conference. This summit ... -
Was ist link(s) und recht(s)? Eine Untersuchung der moralischen Gesetzmäßigkeiten in Goethes Die Wahlverwandtschaften
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-24)Abstract This thesis asks the question "Does the use of the words 'left' and 'right' (links / rechts), and their various lexical forms in Goethe‘s Wahlverwandtschaften constitute a systematic pattern which can be applied ... -
Wasserstein Adversarial Robustness
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-21)Deep models, while being extremely flexible and accurate, are surprisingly vulnerable to ``small, imperceptible'' perturbations known as adversarial attacks. While the majority of existing attacks focus on measuring ... -
Wasserstein Autoencoders with Mixture of Gaussian Priors for Stylized Text Generation
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-28)Probabilistic text generation is an important application of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Variational autoencoders and Wasserstein autoencoders are two widely used methods for text generation. New research efforts ... -
Waste to Energy (WTE): Conventional and Plasma-assisted Gasification - Experimental and Modeling Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-26)Ever-increasing amounts of industrial and residential wastes and their environmental footprint dictates the need for effective Waste Management practices. Thermal waste processing technologies play an important role in ... -
Wasted Water: Returning to the Fishpond Latrine Amidst Modernity, Pollution, and Stigma
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)Since 1990, Vietnam has made significant efforts to eradicate open defecation in rural areas. With modernized systems and increasing severity of pollution within its rural provinces, local practices for managing human waste ...