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Wavelet-automated recognition system for power quality monitoring
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Waves: A Collaborative Navigation Technique for Large Interactive Surfaces
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)Digital tables offer the possibility of performing collaborative tasks where two or more people can share artifacts in the same virtual space. However, most interactive methods of navigating through virtual space most ... -
We Are All Digital Now: Digital Photography and the Reshaping of Historical Practice
(Canadian Historical Review, 2020-12)Visiting a reading room in the last five years is a very different experience than what it looked like even fifteen years ago: while a few researchers carefully read archival documents in situ, most are crouched over their ... -
“We are doing it all wrong”: A Narrative Inquiry Journey Co-Directed by Persons Living with Young Onset Dementia to Illuminate Inequities and Advocate for Change
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-27)In recent years more attention and concerns are being drawn to the noticeable increase in diagnoses of young onset dementia (YOD), that is individuals who are diagnosed with dementia and are under the age of 65 years. This ... -
We Are Having All Kinds of Fun: Fluidity in Shoebox Project
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-15)Made public on LiveJournal between 2004 and 2008, Shoebox Project (SBP) is a multimedia fanfic written by ladyjaida and dorkorific. The plot takes place before that of the Harry Potter novels, detailing the last two years ... -
"We are not a machine": Personal support workers' (ante)narratives of labour, leisure, and hope amidst politics of genderacialised care in long-term care homes
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-12)Systemic processes rooted in and reinforcing neoliberalism and capitalist production work to racialise, gender, and class bodies engaged in caring. Engaging in caring through labouring bodies, racialised women working in ... -
“We are wards of the Crown and cannot be regarded as full citizens of Canada”: Native Peoples, the Indian Act and Canada’s War Effort
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)The First World War left few untouched on Canada’s Native reserves: many councils donated money to war funds, thousands of men enlisted and their families sought support from the Military and war-specific charities, and ... -
We Belong With the Water: Mobility, temporal habitation, rituals, and other 'incidental' elements surrounding fish harvesting traditions of Indigenous communities in Southern Georgian Bay - A Graphic Novel
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-24)For over 200 years, the delineation of the land and subsequent colonial settlement throughout Canada has subjugated and removed Indigenous presence from the land. This includes their constructions, tools, and laws connected ... -
“We call them Tracht”: Transcultural Positioning through Code-Switching and Repair
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)This thesis examines instances of language alternation and code-switching in the context of recorded face-to-face interviews. The participants in this study include two groups: German speaking immigrants who left Europe ... -
"We can compete and we can be equals": Female experiences of co-gendered soccer
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-21)Despite many sports leagues for participants over the age of 18 being co-gendered, little research has explored how women experience co-gendered sport. Women are typically underrepresented in these leagues so it is important ... -
We Have Never Been Secular: The Concept of the Secular and the Dutch Collegiants in the Radical Enlightenment
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-27)The following study examines the history of the seventeenth century Collegiant group in the Dutch Republic, focusing on their blending of Spiritualist and Rationalist influences. By reading Collegiant Rational Religion ... -
"We have the best life there ever was": Linking sense of place and adaptive capacity in Nova Scotia's coastal communities
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-26)As humans we have an innate connection to the geographic places and social communities we inhabit. How then do these connections, which form our sense of place, influence our ability as individuals and communities to adapt ... -
“We need very fluid leadership - people who can share power”: Climate change adaptation leadership lessons from the Atlantic Region of Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2017-11-24)Evidence-based insights on leadership practice are needed to support climate change adaptation. Climate change adaptation leadership is systematically investigated in Canada using a regional case study approach involving ... -
"We of the New Left": A Gender History of the Student Union for Peace Action from the Anti-Nuclear Movement to Women's Liberation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-20)The Student Union for Peace Action (SUPA), was a Canadian group of New Leftists that formed a multi-issue movement for radical social change in the 1960s. SUPA emerged out of the Combined Universities Campaign for Nuclear ... -
“We're not just about building subdivisions. We can also do good things for the world”: Private Developers and Active Transportation Implementation in the Region of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-07)Since the mid-19th century, Canada’s population has become more urbanized as Canadians choose to live in one of its major urban centres, such as the Region of Waterloo. As this trend continues into the 21st century, increased ... -
Weak Coherent Pulse Source and Polarization Control for Quantum Key Distribution
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-30)The Quantum EncrYption and Science Satellite will demonstrate quantum communication from space. One demonstration will be a satellite uplink using a weak coherent pulse source. This thesis will discuss work in minimizing ... -
Weak invariant simulation and analysis of parameterized networks
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-11)Multi-process networks figure in many engineering applications such as communication networks, transportation networks, manufacturing and logistic systems, and computer hardware and software. Parameterized discrete event ... -
Weak Moment Maps in Multisymplectic Geometry
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-04)We introduce the notion of a weak (homotopy) moment map associated to a Lie group action on a multisymplectic manifold. We show that the existence/uniqueness theory governing these maps is a direct generalization from ... -
Weakly Supervised Learning Algorithms and an Application to Electromyography
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-23)In the standard machine learning framework, training data is assumed to be fully supervised. However, collecting fully labelled data is not always easy. Due to cost, time, effort or other types of constraints, requiring ... -
Weakly-supervised Semantic Segmentation with Regularized Loss Hyperparameter Search
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-20)Weakly supervised segmentation signi cantly reduces user annotation e ort. Recently, regularized loss was proposed for single object class segmentation under image-level weak supervision. Regularized loss consists of ...