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Drinking Water Treatment Technology Resilience for Management of Severely Deteriorated Water after Wildfire
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-29)Severe wildland fire is occurring with increased frequency in many regions and can be potentially catastrophic for the provision of safe drinking water due to increasingly variable or deteriorated source quality. Deteriorated ... -
Driver Command Interpreter for Electric Vehicles: Development and Experiments
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-22)Electric-driven vehicles (EVs) are a relatively new topic in the area of alternative-fuel vehicles. EVs that have the capability for an independent wheel-drive system provide researchers and automakers with numerous benefits. ... -
Driver Response to Rainfall on the Gardiner Expressway
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Adverse weather conditions can increase travel risk. Understanding how drivers react to adverse weather, such as rainfall, can aid in the understanding of road safety patterns and traffic operations. This information ... -
Driverless Car Transit Hub
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-24)The world is moving towards automation, and manual labour is quickly becoming obsolete to avoid unnecessary human error in complex processes. As an example of this evolution, in twenty to thirty years, a new era of driverless ... -
Drivers and Implications for Water Governance: A case study of the western Lake Erie basin
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-02)The purpose of this study was to better understand drivers of water problems and their implications for water governance scholarship and practice. Drivers here are identified as social and environmental forces affecting a ... -
Driving Adsorbed Gold Nanoparticle Assembly by Merging Lipid Gel/Fluid Interfaces
(American Chemical Society, 2015-11-23)Surface forces between inorganic nanoparticles and lipid bilayer is of great relevance to biophysics, medicine, and nanobiotechnology. Adsorbed nanoparticles may influence the fluidity of the underlying lipids, which may ... -
Driving Cessation and Relocation to Retirement Villages: A Preliminary Examination of Associations between these Transitions and their Influence on Travel Patterns and Community Engagement
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-24)Introduction: Mobility is critical for independence, social engagement and quality of life, which for many seniors equates with driving. Driving cessation has been associated with depression, isolation and decreased social ... -
Driving Manoeuvre Recognition using Mobile Sensors
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)Automobiles are integral in today's society as they are used for transportation, commerce, and public services. The ubiquity of automotive transportation creates a demand for active safety technologies for the consumer. ... -
Driving Scene Understanding using Spiking Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-24)One of the applications of AI lies in developing intelligent systems for safe on-road driving, other than building and perfecting self-driving vehicles, and many others. Driving Scene Understanding (DSU) is one such area ... -
Driving under the influence behaviours among high school students who mix alcohol with energy drinks
(Elsevier, 2018-06-01)Alcohol and energy drinks are commonly used substances by youth in Canada, and are often mixed (AmED). While several studies have shown that AmED can have dangerous effects, less well understood is how AmED is associated ... -
Drop Size and Velocity Distributions in Sprays, A New Approach Based on the Maximum Entropy Formalism
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-15)A new basis for the prediction of the drop size and velocity distribution in a spray is developed, using the maximum entropy formalism. The prediction considers the imposition of integral conservation constraints for ... -
Droplet formation in microfluidic T-junction generators operating in the transitional regime. I. Experimental observations
(American Physical Society Physics, 2012-01-26)This is the first part of a two-part study on the generation of droplets at a microfluidic T-junction operating in the transition regime where confinement of the droplet creates a large squeezing pressure that influences ... -
Droplet formation in microfluidic T-junction generators operating in the transitional regime. II. Modeling
(American Physical Society Physics, 2012-01-26)This is the second part of a two-part study on the generation of droplets at a microfluidic T-junction operating in the transition regime. In the preceding paper [Phys. Rev. E 85, 016322 (2012)], we presented our experimental ... -
Droplet formation in microfluidic T-junction generators operating in the transitional regime. III. Dynamic surfactant effects
(American Physical Society Physics, 2012-08-13)This study extends our previous work on droplet generation in microfluidic T-junction generators to include dynamic interfacial tension effects created by the presence of surfactants. In Paper I [T. Glawdel, C. Elbuken, ... -
A Droplet Microfluidic Platform Used to Encapsulate Single Pre-formed Cancer Spheroids in Hydrogel Microenvironments
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-19)Cancer has been a leading cause of death around the world for many years. Even with the emerging technologies seen in these times, there is still a lack of truly personalized treatments since cancer tumors are not fully ... -
Droplet Microfluidic System with On-Demand Trapping and Releasing of Droplet for Drug Screening Applications
(American Chemical Society (ACS), 2017-01-03)96-Well plate has been the traditional method used for screening drug compounds libraries for potential bioactivity. Although this method has been proven successful in testing doseÐresponse analysis, the microliter consumption ... -
Droplet Production and Transport in Microfluidic Networks with Pressure Driven Flow Control
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-24)Droplet based microfluidics is a developing technology with great potential towards improving large scale combinatorial studies that require high throughput and accurate metering of reagents. Each droplet can be thought ... -
Droplet Production of Biological non-Newtonian Fluids and Bioassay Applications in a Microfluidic Network
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-31)Droplet-based microfluidics has been developed over the last two decades and presented as a promising platform for biochemical assay. This promise relies on the system’s ability to quantify the reagents accurately with ... -
Droplet-based Microfluidic Chip Design for High Throughput Screening Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-11)Droplet-based microfluidics has been considered as a prospective tool for high throughput screening analysis, which is highly demanded in a wide range of areas including but not limited to life science research, drug ... -
A droplet-based microfluidic platform for rapid immobilization of quantum dots on individual magnetic microbeads
(Springer Nature, 2018-06-01)Quantum dots (QDs) provide opportunities for the development of bioassays, biosensors, and drug delivery strategies. Decoration of the surface of QDs offers unique functions such as resistance to non-specific adsorption, ...