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SWordNet: Inferring Semantically Related Words from Software Context
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-02)Code search is an integral part of software development and program comprehension. The difficulty of code search lies in the inability to guess the exact words used in the code. Therefore, it is crucial for keyword-based ... -
Syenite-hosted gold mineralization and hydrothermal alteration at the Young-Davidson deposit, Matachewan, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-30)The syenite-hosted Young-Davidson (YD) gold deposit is located at the western extension of the Cadillac-Larder-Lake deformation zone (CLLDZ), southwest of Kirkland Lake, in the southern Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada. ... -
The Symbolic Dimension: Meaning and Metaphor in the Archetypal Language of Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-25)The timeless task of architecture is to create embodied, existential metaphors that structure and sustain our experience of the world. This vital role has been obscured in recent centuries, but maintains critical importance ... -
Symbolic Integration of Multibody System Dynamics with Finite Element Method
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-06)A general procedure integrating the finite element method with multibody system dynamics using symbolic computation is presented. It takes advantage of both the nodal formulation and the graph-theoretical approach, so it ... -
Symbolic Modelling and Simulation of Wheeled Vehicle Systems on Three-Dimensional Roads
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-26)In recent years, there has been a push by automotive manufacturers to improve the efficiency of the vehicle development process. This can be accomplished by creating a computationally efficient vehicle model that has the ... -
Symbolic Regression and Sequence Modelling with Conditional and Dynamic Language Models
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-30)In an era where the boundaries of machine learning are continuously being pushed, this thesis presents two more advancements in the field of deep learning and artificial intelligence, with a focus on symbolic regression ... -
Symmetric Extendability of Quantum States and the Extreme Limits of Quantum Key Distribution
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-13)We investigate QKD protocols with two-way classical post-processing that are based on the well-known six-state and BB84 signal states. In these QKD protocols, the source (Alice) sends quantum signals to the receiver (Bob), ... -
A Symmetric Interaction Model for Bimanual Input
(University of Waterloo, 2006)People use both their hands together cooperatively in many everyday activities. The modern computer interface fails to take advantage of this basic human ability, with the exception of the keyboard. However, the keyboard ... -
Symmetrically-Normed Ideals and Characterizations of Absolutely Norming Operators
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-23)The primary objective of this thesis is two fold: first, it is devoted to the study of absolutely norming operators (with respect to various arbitrary symmetric norms on $\mathcal{B}(\mathcal{H})$) with an eye towards the ... -
Symmetries
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-03)Automorphisms of graphs, hypergraphs and disgraphs are investigated. The invariance of the chromatic polynomial in the rotor effect is disproved. New invariance results are obtained. It is shown that given any integer k ... -
Symmetries in Black Hole Spacetimes
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-30)This thesis covers the role of explicit and hidden symmetries in some selected topics on the properties and excitations of black hole spacetimes. To this end, the symmetries of classical physics in Lorentzian manifolds are ... -
Symmetry and Topology in Disordered Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-14)Global symmetries greatly enrich the landscape of topological quantum phases, playing an essential role from symmetry-protection of topological insulators to symmetry charge fractionalization on anyons in fractional quantum ... -
Symmetry Breaking, Order-by-Disorder, Fragmentation, and Spin-Liquids in the Magnetic Pyrochlore Lattice with Anisotropic Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-26)Within the study of frustrated magnetism, the pyrochlore lattice is deemed a fruitful ground where phenomena such as quantum and thermal order-by-disorder, moment fragmentation, and spin-liquids, both quantum and classical, ... -
Symmetry Induction in Computational Intelligence
(University of Waterloo, 2009-11-06)Symmetry has been a very useful tool to researchers in various scientific fields. At its most basic, symmetry refers to the invariance of an object to some transformation, or set of transformations. Usually one searches ... -
Symmetry of the Charge Ordering Phases in Hole-Doped Cuprates Studied by Resonant X-Ray Absorption and Scattering
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)In the underdoped cuprates, superconductivity coexists with a rich variety of other electronic orders. Understanding the nature of these orders, how they interact with one another, and the mechanisms that produce them is ... -
Symmetry Reduction and Compositional Verification on Timed Automata
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-24)This thesis is about techniques for the analysis of concurrent and real-time systems. As the first contribution, we describe a technique that incorporates automatic symmetry detection and symmetry reduction in the ... -
Symmetry, Asymmetry and Quantum Information
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)It is impossible to overstate the importance of symmetry in physics and mathematics. Symmetry arguments play a central role in a broad range of problems from simplifying a system of linear equations to a deep role in ... -
Sympathetic Imagination: Posthumanist Thought in Electronic Literature and Games
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-19)Martha Nussbaum insists on the power of “sympathetic imagining” for considering the lives of nonhuman animals. Literature, for Nussbaum, is a powerful site for imaging the lives of animals. This study extends Nussbaum’s ... -
Sympathetic Landscapes: an aesthetics for the Leslie Street Spit
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-24)The Leslie Street Spit is a five kilometre rubble breakwater on the eastern waterfront of Toronto. Built during the mid-twentieth-century as an infrastructural add-on to the existing Port Lands Industrial District, the ... -
Synanthropic Suburbia
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-30)Animals are invading the city. Coyotes are sighted on downtown streets with greater frequency, raccoons notoriously forage through greenbins as their primary source of food, and all forms of animals inhabit the surfaces, ...