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An Integrated Design Approach for Improving Drinking Water Ozone Disinfection Treatment Based on Computational Fluid Dynamics
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-22)Ozonation is currently considered as one of the most effective microbial disinfection technologies due to its powerful disinfection capacity and reduction in levels of chlorinated disinfection by-products (DBP). However, ... -
An Integrated Energy Optimization Model for the Canadian Oil Sands Industry
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-28)The aim of this thesis was to develop a new energy model that predicts the energy infrastructure required to maintain the oil production in the Oil Sands operation at minimum cost. Previous studies in this area have focused ... -
Integrated estimation structure for the tire friction forces in ground vehicles
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016-07)This paper presents a novel corner-based force estimation method to monitor tire capacities required for the traction and stability control systems. This is entailed for more advanced vehicle stability systems in harsh ... -
Integrated Feature Analysis for Prostate Tissue Characterization Using TRUS Images
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The Prostate is a male gland that is located around the urethra. Prostate Cancer is the second most diagnosed malignancy in men over the age of fifty. Typically, prostate cancer is diagnosed from clinical data, medical ... -
Integrated Fluorescence Detection System for Lab on a Chip Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-20)This thesis focuses on the design of a versatile, portable, and cost-effective fluorescence detection system for LOC devices. Components that are widely available are used, such as LEDs for excitation and a microcontroller ... -
Integrated Framework Design for Intelligent Human Machine Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)Human-computer interaction, sometimes referred to as Man-Machine Interaction, is a concept that emerged simultaneously with computers, or more generally machines. The methods by which humans have been interacting with ... -
Integrated hydrologic model calibration under non-stationary climates
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-17)With global climate change, quantifying water availability for management under non-stationary conditions is, and will continue to be, a major challenge. When hydrologic models are calibrated to historic climatic conditions, ... -
Integrated Infrastructures for an Urban Lake in Wuhan, China
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)One of the consequences of China’s rapid urbanization is the disappearance, or at least, mismanagement of the many lakes of the Central Yangtze River Basin. The thesis investigates the situation by conducting a complex ... -
Integrated MEMS-Based Phase Shifters
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-13)Multilayer microwave circuit processing technology is essential in developing more compact radio frequency (RF) electronically scanned arrays (ESAs) for next generation radar systems. ESAs are typically realized using the ... -
Integrated metabolic engineering and bioprocessing strategies for production of succinyl-CoA-derived chemicals in Escherichia coli
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-15)Due to various social, environmental, and technological issues associated with petro-based chemical processes, bio-based production using microbial cell factories has been recognized as a modern biotechnology for more ... -
An integrated microfluidic device for the sorting of yeast cells using image processing
(Springer Nature, 2018-02-23)The process of detection and separation of yeast cells based on their morphological characteristics is critical to the understanding of cell division cycles, which is of vital importance to the understanding of some diseases ... -
An Integrated Model of Contex, Short-Term, and Long-Term Memory
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-27)I present the context-unified encoding (CUE) model, a large-scale spiking neural network model of human memory. It combines and integrates activity-based short-term memory with weight-based long-term memory. The ... -
An integrated model to assess asphalt cement quality on low-temperature performance and life cycle cost
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An Integrated Modeling Framework for Managing the Deployment and Operation of Cloud Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-23)Cloud computing can help Software as a Service (SaaS) providers to take advantage of the sheer number of cloud benefits such as, agility, continuity, cost reduction, autonomy, and easy management of resources. To reap the ... -
Integrated Optoelectronic Devices and System Limitations for WDM Passive Optical Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)This thesis puts focus on the technological challenges for Wavelength Division Multiplexed Passive Optical Network (WDM-PON) implementation, and presents novel semiconductor optical devices for deployment at the optical ... -
Integrated Performance Analysis and Optimum Fund Allocation for Capital Renewal of Healthcare Facilities
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-19)Healthcare facilities, including hospitals, are among the most challenging assets to maintain and modernize. An accurate performance assessment is essential for the appropriate prioritization of the subsystems that are ... -
An integrated personnel allocation and machine scheduling problem for industrial size multipurpose plants
(Elsevier, 2018-01-01)This paper describes the development and implementation of an optimization model to solve the integrated problem of personnel allocation and machine scheduling for industrial size multipurpose plants. Although each of these ... -
Integrated Photonics Structure for THz Systems Based on Silicon and Photoconductive Material
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)The field of terahertz (THz) technology has been immensely progressed over the past two decades, but integrated on-chip THz circuits and systems are still under development. This thesis is an effort to propose an ... -
An Integrated Polymer Based Polymerase Chain Reaction And Capillary Electrophoresis System For Genetic Diagnosis
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-24)Micro-Total-Analysis-Systems (µTAS) for genetic diagnosis have a great potential to revolutionize the future of health care. However the lack of µTAS, which is fully integrated, mass-producible and application oriented, ... -
Integrated Robust Design Using Response Surface Methodology and Constrained Optimization
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-19)System design, parameter design, and tolerance design are the three stages of product or process development advocated by Genichi Taguchi. Parameter design, or robust parameter design (RPD), is the method to determine ...