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UWSpace is the University of Waterloo's institutional repository for the research and scholarship produced by its faculty, students, and staff. A service of the Library, UWSpace provides researchers with a free, secure, and long-term home for the presentation, dissemination, and preservation of their research and scholarship. By utilizing UWSpace researchers ensure their work achieves compliance with the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications.
Looking for Waterloo theses and dissertations? UWSpace contains all theses and dissertations published from October 2006 on, and a subset from 1996 through 2006, when electronic submission was optional. Older theses can be accessed by searching the library catalogue by title or author last name.
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Space-time Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Advection-Diffusion Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-22)In this thesis, we analyze a space-time hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for the time-dependent advection-dominated advection-diffusion problem. It is well-known that solutions to these problems may admit ... -
Pedagogical Approaches for Encouraging Interaction Awareness and Interactional Competence in University-Level Second Language Learners
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-22)With my dissertation, I show how learning about interactional patterns and organizational features of spoken language can be achieved for undergraduate second and foreign language (L2) learners, supported by empirical data ... -
Towards the Development of a Prototype Ion Mobility Spectrometer
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-22)Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) is an analytical technique that separates ions in the gas-phase based on differences in their mobility under the influence of an electric field. In traditional drift-tube IMS systems, an ... -
Deep Unsupervised Learning for Biodiversity Analyses: Representation learning and clustering of bacterial, mitochondrial, and barcode DNA sequences
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-22)Amid the recent surge in next-generation sequencing technologies, alignment-free algorithms stand out as a promising alternative to traditional alignment-based methods in phylogenetic analyses. Specifically, the use of ... -
Advancements in ThermOcular image processing algorithms for precise ocular surface temperature analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-22)In recent advancements in the field of Ocular Surface Temperature (OST) measurement, this thesis presents significant enhancements to the ThermOcular system, primarily focusing on its application in real-world clinical and ...