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Budget-constrained optimal insurance without the nonnegativity constraint on indemnities
(Elsevier, 2019-01)In a problem of Pareto-efficient insurance contracting (bilateral risk sharing) with expected-utility preferences, Gollier (1987) relaxes the nonnegativity constraint on indemnities and argues that the existence of a ... -
Build better bones with exercise (B3E pilot trial): results of a feasibility study of a multicenter randomized controlled trial of 12 months of home exercise in older women with vertebral fracture
(Springer, 2018-08-08)Summary We pilot-tested a trial of home exercise on individuals with osteoporosis and spine fracture. Our target enrollment was met, though it took longer than expected. Participants stayed in the study and completed ... -
Build the Volunteer, Build the Community: An Analysis of Sustainable Waterloo Region's Strategic Volunteer Program
(University of Waterloo, 2018)A lack of effective workforce development is a major challenge to the Canadian economy. Despite moderate increases in investment in employee learning since 2012, employer investment in workforce training is substantially ... -
Build, Rent and Sell: Options for Commercializing New Technologies Arising from University Research
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This research investigates the strategic governance choices made in commercializing new technologies arising from university research. <br /><br /> Departing from the traditional licensing vs. start-up approach, it ... -
Building a Better Tor Experimentation Platform from the Magic of Dynamic ELFs
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-30)Tor is the most popular tool for providing online anonymity. It is used by journalists, activists, and privacy-conscious individuals to provide low-latency private access to the Internet. However, Tor’s specific design and ... -
Building a Framework for High-performance In-memory Message-Oriented Middleware
(University of Waterloo, 2019-11-28)Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) is a popular class of software used in many distributed applications, ranging from business systems and social networks to gaming and streaming media services. As workloads continue to ... -
Building a larger class of graphs for efficient reconfiguration of vertex colouring
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-13)A $k$-colouring of a graph $G$ is an assignment of at most $k$ colours to the vertices of $G$ so that adjacent vertices are assigned different colours. The reconfiguration graph of the $k$-colourings, $\mathcal{R}_k(G)$, ... -
Building a movement – Solidarity, activism and travel from North America to Nicaragua
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-22)Many new forms of tourism have emerged over the past two decades claiming to provide an alternative, responsible approach to international travel. Unlike ecotourism and volunteer tourism, travel centered on solidarity ... -
Building a Parc de la langue française / Retracing my steps as a designer
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-26)In 1979, Québec artist Rober Racine wrote a 190-word text that would describe his idea for Le Parc de la langue française, a landscape where one could literally meander through the French language. Although some partial ... -
Building and characterizing low sulfide instrumented waste rock piles: Pile design and construction, particle size and sulfur characterization, and initial geochemical response
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-31)A rigorous laboratory and field study to measure and compare low sulfide waste rock and drainage characteristics at various scales has been designed and implemented. The field study was constructed at the Diavik diamond ... -
Building Big: Spanning Urban Infrastructure
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-22)This thesis addresses the issue of urban fracture caused by transport infrastructure, through the design of a tenable, multi-program building with robust structural spans, as well as opportunities for the transient ... -
Building Bridges between Pharmacists and Physicians: An Exploratory Investigation via Field, Usability Studies & Control Task Analysis To Enhance Pharmacy Management System Requirements
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-25)Miscommunication between healthcare professionals can impact patient care and is costly. The information systems used in pharmacies and hospitals can contribute to this miscommunication. The present research is an initial ... -
Building Cognitive Resilience Against Alzheimer’s Disease Through Multilingualism
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-23)Background: Globally, there are 9.9 million new cases of dementia each year, meaning one new case is diagnosed every 3.2 seconds (Prince et al., 2015). The risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) increases with increasing age, ... -
Building Collaboration, Building Community: A Home for Northern Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-23)Building Collaboration, Building Community: A Home for Northern Learning explores the potential for architecture to support learning endeavors in the Canadian North. Informed by traditional approaches to northern learning ... -
Building complex number words: How and when do children learn the meaning of multipliers.
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Number words or numerals are built using a compositional system, wherein a small number of words can be combined in multiple ways to represent many different numbers. Children not only have to learn the rules for combining ... -
Building Consensus using a Collaborative Spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis System
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-23)This thesis studies the use of a collaborative spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis tool in site evaluation with multiple participants. The approach is situated within the context of three concepts of space, choice and ... -
Building Detection from Very High Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery Using Deep Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)The past decades have witnessed a significant change in human societies with a fast pace and rapid urbanization. The boom of urbanization is contributed by the influx of people to the urban area and comes with building ... -
Building Efficient Software to Support Content Delivery Services
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-28)Many content delivery services use key components such as web servers, databases, and key-value stores to serve content over the Internet. These services, and their component systems, face unique modern challenges. Services ... -
Building Fiction: The Architecture of Narrative in Harry Potter
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-29)A person does not experience architecture as a purely physical construct. Lived space transcends mere materiality, as each individual experiences the world outside oneself through the unique filter of one’s own mind. In ...