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Bounds on Aggregate Assets
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)Aggregating financial assets together to form a portfolio, commonly referred to as "asset pooling", is a standard practice in the banking and insurance industries. Determining a suitable probability distribution for this ... -
Bounds on Maximum Matchings in 1-Planar Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-29)In this thesis, we study lower bounds on maximum matchings in 1-planar graphs. We expand upon the tools used for proofs of matching bounds in other classes of graphs as well as some original ideas in order to find these ... -
Bourassa’s War: Henri Bourassa and the First World War
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-26)This dissertation examines the perspective of French Canadian nationalist Henri Bourassa during the First World War from 1914-1918. Bourassa was one of the best-known voices rejecting the war’s purpose and value in Canada. ... -
Bracing Requirements for Multi-column Systems with Nonuniform Stiffness and Semi-rigid Connections
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-12)For a structural system consisting of multiple columns, horizontal discrete braces are often used to increase the system's load-carrying capacity by reducing the columns' effective length. Over the past several decades, ... -
The bracketing breakdown: An exploration of risk tolerance in broad and narrow choice frames
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-01)The field of decision making has largely focused on the influence of contextual factors on risk tolerance. Much work has focused on how the problem itself is presented, in hopes of understanding the circumstances under ... -
Brain Response to Overpressure and Recoil Loads from Discharge of Long-Range Precision Rifle
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-02)The presence of concussion-like symptoms related to overpressure exposure and recoil forces from long-range precision rifle (LPR) training has been reported in the literature. However, the recoil head kinematics, overpressure ... -
Brain Tumor Diagnosis Support System: A decision Fusion Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-21)An important factor in providing effective and efficient therapy for brain tumors is early and accurate detection, which can increase survival rates. Current image-based tumor detection and diagnosis techniques are heavily ... -
Braking Availability Tester (BAT) for Winter Runway
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-29)This thesis is concerned with the development of a new measurement device for the realistic assessment of braking capability of landing airplanes for winter runways. Landing represents one of the most safety-critical ... -
A Branch-and-Cut Algorithm based on Semidefinite Programming for the Minimum k-Partition Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-20)The minimum k-partition (MkP) problem is a well-known optimization problem encountered in various applications most notably in telecommunication and physics. Formulated in the early 1990s by Chopra and Rao, the MkP ... -
Branched Covering Constructions and the Symplectic Geography Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-15)We apply branched covering techniques to construct minimal simply-connected symplectic 4-manifolds with small χ_h values. We also use these constructions to provide an alternate proof that for each s ≥ 0, there exists a ... -
Brands of cumulants in non-commutative probability, and relations between them
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-06)The study of non-commutative probability revolves around the different notions of independeces, such as free, Boolean and monotone. To each type of independence one can associate a notion of cumulants that linearize the ... -
Brave New World: The Correlation of Social Order and the Process of Literary Translation
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-16)This comparative analysis of four different German-language versions of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) shows the correlation between political and socio-cultural circumstances, as well as ideological differences, ... -
The Break
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-07)Through surfing man enters the domain of the wave, is contained by and participates in its broadcast, measures and is in turn measured, meets its rhythm and establishes his own, negotiates continuity and rupture. The ... -
Breaking Through the Monopoly City: A Game of Urban Agriculture Played Through Fissures in Industrial Urbanism
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-26)Games have been used throughout the world’s cultures to teach and influence ideas of urban space and planning while also arguing that in the future of sustainable cities architectural development of urban land should ... -
Breakup of a surface-mounted droplet by an impinging jet flow
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-18)Droplet removal under wind-forcing arises in many engineering applications, such as surface cleaning. In these applications, the efficiency of the system can be affected by droplet breakup, since smaller droplets are harder ... -
Breakup Process of Plane Liquid Sheets and Prediction of Initial Droplet Size and Velocity Distributions in Sprays
(University of Waterloo, 2001)Spray models are increasingly becoming the principal tools in the design and development of gas turbine combustors. Spray modeling requires a knowledge of the liquid atomization process, and the sizes and velocities of ... -
Breast Cancer Detection Using Microwaves and Microwave-Thermography Techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-16)The accelerated growth in Microwave Imaging (MWI) and Microwave Detection (MWD) is driven by microwave ability to penetrate materials that are considered opaque at a shorter wavelength. This elevates MWI potential to ... -
Breast cancer survivor functional changes immediately following treatment: quantifying mechanisms of strength deficits and compensatory kinematic and muscular strategy adaptations
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-04)Breast cancer is prevalent among Canadian women, but treatments may cause functional impairments among survivors. Over 22,000 Canadian women join the survivor population yearly (Brenner et al., 2020). Despite this substantial ... -
Brewing a New Community: Redefining local industrial manufacturing within a city
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-28)The effects of globalization echo in former factory cities, in their depleted industrial landscapes and their abandoned buildings, creating a disconnect between people, their identities, their communities, and their cities. ... -
Brick Generation and Conformal Subgraphs
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-15)A nontrivial connected graph is matching covered if each of its edges lies in a perfect matching. Two types of decompositions of matching covered graphs, namely ear decompositions and tight cut decompositions, have played ...