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Towards the Efficient Generation of Gray Codes in the Bitprobe Model
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-13)We examine the problem of representing integers modulo L so that both increment and decrement operations can be performed efficiently. This problem is studied in the bitprobe model, where the complexity of the underlying ... -
Towards the establishment of a worker-centered framework to physically prepare firefighters: The evaluation of movement and the transfer of training
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-23)Firefighter injuries are a billion dollar problem every year with an even larger human impact. Substantial efforts have been made to reduce the associated costs, yet many of the injuries sustained are the director result ... -
Towards the Learning, Perception, and Effectiveness of Teachable Conversational Agents
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-20)The traditional process of building interactive machine learning systems can be viewed as a teacher-learner interaction scenario where the machine-learners are trained by one or more human-teachers. In this work, we explore ... -
Towards the Production of the Haemophilus influenzae IgA1 protease in Escherichia coli
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-12)H. influenzae is a gram-negative bacterium colonizing the human respiratory tract and is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. To aid in persistence and infection in its human host H. influenzae produces ... -
Towards the use of 2-dimensional video-based markerless motion capture to objectively evaluate kinematics during functional capacity evaluation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-26)Backgrounds Workability, the capacity to perform work, is a concept highly regarded in a return-to-work context and typically measured using functional capacity evaluation (FCE). The aim of FCE is to determine the capacity ... -
Towards Theoretical Foundations of Clustering
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-20)Clustering is a central unsupervised learning task with a wide variety of applications. Unlike in supervised learning, different clustering algorithms may yield dramatically different outputs for the same input sets. As ... -
Towards Understanding and Improving Code Review Quality
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-12)Code review is an essential element of any mature software development project, it is key to ensuring the long-term quality of the code base. Code review aims at evaluating code contributions submitted by developers before ... -
Towards Understanding Differential Ion Mobility and its Applications for Analytical and Medicinal Chemistry
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-30)This PhD thesis, titled “Towards Understanding Differential Ion Mobility Spectrometry and its Applications in Analytical and Medicinal Chemistry,” encompasses a broad effort to understand the principles that underpin ... -
Towards Understanding the Development of Connectedness-to-Nature, and its Role in Land Conservation Behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-19)Exploitation of natural resources for human consumption and development has led to widespread loss of habitat and biodiversity. To address this issue, policy has largely focused on protecting large parcels of public land. ... -
Towards using BPM Patterns in Requirements Elicitation
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-02)In an increasingly changing environment, different organizations are trying to improve their agility and efficiency by improving their business processes; thus, business process management has been gaining momentum for the ... -
Towards vertex renormalization in 4d Spin Foams
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-24)A long-standing open problem in 4-dimensional Spin Foam models of Quantum Gravity has been the behavior of the amplitudes under coarse graining. In this thesis, we attempt to study this question by using the recent ... -
Town, Gown and Capital: The Student Housing Submarket and the Production of Urban Space
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-05)Student housing has emerged as a mainstream global asset class, while the concentration of students in particular neighbourhoods through a process of “studentification” has increasingly been recognized as an important ... -
Toxicity and bioaccumulation kinetics of cadmium and potassium permanganate in two clades within the 𝘏𝘺𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘢𝘻𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘢 species complex
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-12)The freshwater amphipod 𝘏𝘺𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘢𝘻𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘢 has been frequently used in toxicology since the 1980s due to its general sensitivity, ease of culture, and North America-wide geographic range. Over the past 20 years, ... -
Toxicity and bioaccumulation of sediment-associated metals and elements from wildfire impacted streams of southern Alberta on Hyalella azteca
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-02)There is increasing global recognition of the effects of large scale land disturbance by wildfire on a wide range of water and ecosystem services. In 2003, the Lost Creek wildfire burned a contiguous area of 21,000 ha on ... -
Toxicity Assessment of Oil Sands Process-Affected Water Using Fish Cell Lines
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-28)Toxicity assessment of large numbers of oil sands process-affected waters (OSPW) are needed in order to reclaim mined oil sands aquatic reclamation scenarios, such as End Pit Lakes (EPLs). Conventional toxicity testing ... -
Toxicity Assessment of PAHs and Metals to Bacteria and the Roles of Soil Bacteria in Phytoremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)Petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) are a class of ubiquitous contaminants in the environment. PHCs impact to soil and water occur at well sites, refineries, service stations, and other facilities. Petroleum processing and ... -
Toxicity of Ophthalmic Solutions, Benzalkonium Chloride and UV Radiation on Human Corneal Epithelial Cells in vitro
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-12)The purpose of this work was to develop a sensitive in vitro method for ocular toxicity testing; and to use this method to assess the individual and combined effects of ophthalmic solutions, benzalkonium chloride (BAK), ... -
A Trace Element Analysis of Lead in Human Tooth Enamel from Wadi Faynan 100, Jordan
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-17)The environmental pollution that persists in the Wadi Faynan region of Jordan can be attributed to copper mining and smelting activities that flourished during the Early Bronze Age I (EBAI) (ca. 3600-3000 BCE). Previous ... -
Tracerory - Dynamic Tracematches and Unread Memory Detection for C/C++
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)Dynamic binary translation allows us to analyze a program during execution without the need for a compiler or the program's source code. In this work, we present two applications of dynamic binary translation: tracematches ... -
Tracial and ideal structure of crossed products and related constructions
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-17)In this thesis, we concern ourselves with asking questions about the basic structure of group C*-algebras, crossed products, and groupoid C*-algebras. Specifically, we are concerned with two main topics. One is the simplicity ...