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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 ... -
Towards Automatic Initial Buffer Configuration
(University of Waterloo, 2003)Buffer pools are blocks of memory used in database systems to retain frequently referenced pages. Configuring the buffer pools is a difficult and manual task that involves determining the amount of memory to devote to ... -
Towards Automating Protein Structure Determination from NMR Data
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-29)Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy technique is becoming exceedingly significant due to its capability of studying protein structures in solution. However, NMR protein structure determination has remained a ... -
Towards Autonomous Driving at the Limit of Friction
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-14)Autonomous vehicles have become a reality, many vehicles have implemented some features to allow partial or full autonomy; however, full autonomous driving near the limit of friction still presents many obstacles, especially ... -
Towards Better Methods of Stereoscopic 3D Media Adjustment and Stylization
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-30)Stereoscopic 3D (S3D) media is pervasive in film, photography and art. However, working with S3D media poses a number of interesting challenges arising from capture and editing. In this thesis we address several of these ... -
Towards Better Static Analysis Security Testing Methodologies
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-24)Software vulnerabilities have been a significant attack surface used in cyberattacks, which have been escalating recently. Software vulnerabilities have caused substantial damage, and thus there are many techniques to ... -
Towards Climate Change Adaptation in Canada's Protected Natural Areas: an Ontario Parks Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-12)Climate is a major catalyst of change in the composition, structure and function of the Ecosphere. Empirical studies of species response to climate consistently reveal that the anomalous warming occurring over roughly the ... -
Towards Data-Leveraged Behavioral Policy Design for Alleviating Peak Electricity Demand
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-20)The problem of managing peak electricity demand is of significant importance to utility providers. In Ontario, electricity consumption achieves its peak during the afternoon hours in summer. Electricity generation units ... -
Towards democratizing water quality monitoring processes for the lower Grand River and nearshore Lake Erie
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-01)Freshwater quality issues are among the most pressing challenges of our time. Such issues are increasingly complex and tend to recur when we fail to acknowledge the interacting stressors that influence them. One example ... -
Towards Designing Composite membranes for CO2 Separation: The Inclusion of Hybrid TiO2-PEG Structures and the Study of their Interfaces
(University of Waterloo, 2015-11-26)This thesis work aims towards designing hybrid membranes for CO2 separation in the post-combustion process. The different methods of existing technologies are compared and assessed for their merit, and the decision of using ... -
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, ... -
Towards Dual-Isotope Entangling Gates for Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-14)Entangling gates are essential to the development in the capabilities of any trapped-ion quantum computer. High-fidelity entangling gates have previously been demonstrated on trapped-ion quantum hardware with single species ... -
Towards Effective Measurement of Membership Privacy Risk for Machine Learning Models
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-18)Machine learning (ML) models are trained on data which can be sensitive. Membership inference attacks (MIAs) infer whether a particular data record was used to train an ML model. This violates the membership privacy of an ... -
Towards Effective Utilization of Pretrained Language Models — Knowledge Distillation from BERT
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-02)In the natural language processing (NLP) literature, neural networks are becoming increasingly deeper and more complex. Recent advancements in neural NLP are large pretrained language models (e.g. BERT), which lead to ... -
Towards Effective Watershed Governance: A Case Study of the Grand River Basin
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-26)Watersheds across the country and around the world are governed by many different forms of watershed governance, all of which have their own challenges and benefits. None of them have so far been the perfect solution for ... -
Towards Efficient Hardware Implementation of Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-31)Implementation of elliptic and hyperelliptic curve cryptographic algorithms has been the focus of a great deal of recent research directed at increasing efficiency. Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) was introduced ... -
Towards Efficient Ice Surface Localization From Hockey Broadcast Video
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-23)Using computer vision-based technology in ice hockey has recently been embraced as it allows for the automatic collection of analytics. This data would be too expensive and time-consuming to otherwise collect manually. The ...