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Production Scheduling Optimization of a Plastics Compounding Plant with Quality Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-21)Production scheduling is a common problem that occurs in multi-product manufacturing facilities where a wide range of products are produced in small quantities, resulting in frequent changeovers. A plastics compounding ... -
Production, Fractionation, and Evaluation of Antioxidant Potential of Peptides Derived from Soy Protein Digests
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-08)Oxidation plays an important role in the basic processes of life, such as the production of energy and phagocytosis employed by the immune system. However, when an imbalance between oxidants and antioxidants exists in ... -
Professional Ethics for Economists: A Reflection on DeMartino's Oath
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-16)Economists and the discipline of economics occupy positions of immense institutional and intellectual authority in the world today. Decisions made based on the advice and expertise of economists influence the lives of ... -
Profiling Alloy Models
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-03)Modeling of software-intensive systems using formal declarative modeling languages offers a means of managing software complexity through the use of abstraction and early identification of correctness issues by formal ... -
Profiling Concurrent Programs Using Hardware Counters
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Concurrency is a programming tool that is widely used in applications. Concurrent user-level threads can be used to structure the execution of a program in a uniprocessor environment and/or speed up its execution in ... -
Profiling Metal Oxides with Lipids: Magnetic Liposomal Nanoparticles Displaying DNA and Proteins
(Wiley, 2016-09-19)Metal oxides include many important materials with various surface properties. For biomedical and analytical applications, it is desirable to engineer their biocompatible interfaces. Herein, a phosphocholine liposome (DOPC) ... -
Profiling Municipal Decision Agendas: A Pilot Study of Southern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-24)Canadian local governments have been consistently described as having a relatively limited role in policymaking. It has been argued in the local government literature that municipalities abide by the mandate imposed by ... -
Profiling skin-associated archaea and bacteria with 16S rRNA and cpn60 genes
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-13)As the largest organ of the mammalian body, skin is associated with commensal microorganisms that impact host health. Characterizing host-microbe associations is critical to our understanding of skin health, function, and ... -
Profit Maximizing Hub Location Problems
(Elsevier, 2019-07-01)In this paper, we study profit maximizing hub location problems. We formulate mathematical models determining the location of hubs, designing the hub networks, and routing the demand in order to maximize profit. The profit ... -
A profit Sharing Pension Plan
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-05)As Traditional Defined Benefit (DB) plans are declining, more companies are switching to Defined Contribution (DC) plans. However, DC plans have significant disadvantages since employees bear all investment and longevity ... -
Programmable Assembly of DNA-Functionalized Liposomes by DNA
(American Chemical Society, 2011-02-22)Bionanotechnology involves the use of biomolecules to control both the structure and property of nanomaterials. One of the most studied examples is DNA-directed assembly of inorganic nanoparticles such as gold nanoparticles ... -
Programmable Individual Addressing and Floquet Hamiltonian Dynamics in a Trapped Ion Quantum Processor
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-26)Trapped ions have been gaining traction as a platform for quantum information processing (QIP) in both academia and industry over the last decade. Their long coherence time, high fidelity gate operations, and built-in ... -
Programmable stimuli-responsive zwitterionic hydrogels for soft robotic applications
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-27)As a prominent class of actuators, stimuli-responsive hydrogels have attracted significant interest in the soft robotics community for biomedical applications. Key features of hydrogels, including high water content ... -
Programmatic Representation of Quantum Many Body Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-23)The problem of simulating quantum many-body systems is fundamental in condensed matter physics, quantum computing, and quantum chemistry. The exact simulation of quantum many-body systems is generally intractable on classical ... -
Progress on the application of the NS-alpha model to wall-bounded flows
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-09)In this thesis we study the NS-alpha model of flow turbulence. In this model the closure arises through a modified nonlinearity. For the NS-alpha model currently used in published numerical studies, the parameter representing ... -
Progress or the Status Quo? Systems-thinking and Targeted Practice in Development
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-14)The policy space in which development happens spans the globe and innumerable contexts depending on the geographical, cultural, or normative scope of the intervention. Taking the complexity of the policy space, the agents ... -
Progress towards Automated Human Factors Evaluation
(Elsevier, 2015-10-23)Human factors tests are important components of systems design. Designers need to evaluate users’ performance and workload while using a system and compare different design options to determine the optimal design choice. ... -
Progressing Towards Understanding Water Use Efficiency in Southern, Ontario Canada: Quantifying Water Use Efficiency Metrics (WUE) and Investigating Soil and Plant Physiology Influences on WUE
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-14)Climate change, and corresponding temperature increases of 1.4 - 4.8 ºC by the end of the century, are expected to cause shifts in agricultural production. Additionally, shifts in precipitation patterns are expected to ... -
Progressive Disc Herniation: An investigation of the mechanism using histochemical and microscopic techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Abstract Background: The process that involves the migration of the nucleus pulposus from the innermost annular layers and culminates with the final extrusion of the nucleus has been limited to a few studies. This ... -
Progressive Lossless Image Compression Using Image Decomposition and Context Quantization
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-25)Lossless image compression has many applications, for example, in medical imaging, space photograph and film industry. In this thesis, we propose an efficient lossless image compression scheme for both binary images and ...