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Autonomous Driving: Baseline Autonomy
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-13)In near future Autonomous driving will affect every aspect of transportation and offer a significant boost in mobility for everyone. Autonomous driving techniques and modules must be chosen according to the task the ... -
Autonomous Driving: Mapping and Behavior Planning for Crosswalks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)As autonomous driving integrates with every day traffic, early adopters are initially skeptical and designers are overly cautious. With safety as the top priority, current systems are sometimes too slow at executing maneuvers. ... -
Autonomous Radar-based Gait Monitoring System
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-16)Features related to gait are fundamental metrics of human motion [1]. Human gait has been shown to be a valuable and feasible clinical marker to determine the risk of physical and mental functional decline [2], [3]. ... -
Autonomous Railway Defect Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-27)Railway defects can lead to enormous economic and human losses. Among all types of the defects, surface defects are the most common and prominent. Although various non-destructive methods can be used to detect railway ... -
Autonomous Vehicles with Visual Signals for Pedestrians: Experiments and Design Recommendations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)Autonomous Vehicles (AV) are the future of transportation and they will transform the dynamic of vehicle and pedestrian interaction. However, in the absence of a driver, it is not clear how an AV can use visual signals to ... -
Autonomous Vehicles: Understanding Adoption Potential in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-23)Many Autonomous Vehicle (AV) researchers have done surveys and interviews to assess the relationships between some population or land use characteristics and people’s intention to adopt private AVs (PAVs) and shared AVs ... -
Autonomous Vertical Recovery of Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-25)As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) prevail in commercial and first responder applications, the need for safer and more consistent recovery methods is growing. Standard aircraft landing manoeuvres are only possible with a ... -
Autonomy and Moral Obligation: People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-05)In this project I seek to evaluate how social structures and attitudinal norms impact the autonomy of people who live with intellectual or developmental disabilities, and what implications arise from that evaluation. I ... -
Autophagic cell death during Drosophila embryogenesis
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-23)The amnioserosa (AS) is an extraembryonic tissue that undergoes programmed cell death (PCD) during the normal course of Drosophila embryogenesis. AS degeneration involves morphological evidence of autophagy as well as ... -
Autophagy Regulates the NOTCH Signaling Pathway During Skeletal Muscle Cell Differentiation
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-01)Research has indicated a crucial role for autophagy during skeletal muscle differentiation. More so, the inhibition of autophagy using 3MA (3-methyladenine), CQ (chloroquine), and shRNA against Atg7 has been shown to impair ... -
Autopsy: Redesigning Urban Transportation
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)According to the United Nations’ report, State of World Population 2008, humankind has come to a turning point; more than 50% of the earth’s population now lives in urban centres. Along with considerations for housing, ... -
Autoregressive models for text independent speaker identification in noisy environments
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-25)The closed-set speaker identification problem is defined as the search within a set of persons for the speaker of a certain utterance. It is reported that the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) classifier achieves very high ... -
Availability-Aware Spare Capacity Allocation with Partially Protected Rings
(University of Waterloo, 2008-02-19)This thesis work focuses on designing a survivable IP-core network with the minimal investment of spare capacity. A span-oriented spare capacity allocation (SCA) scheme is proposed to satisfy customers' availability ... -
Available bit rate services in ATM networks
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The Average Best Solution: A Generative Design Tool for Multi-Objective Optimization of Free-Form Diagrid Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-29)This research describes the generative modeling method implemented in an open-source program (Grasshopper) as a computational tool for performance evaluation and multi-objective optimization. It explores the initial steps ... -
Average Cell Orientation, Eccentricity and Size Estimated from Tissue Images
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Five image processing algorithms are proposed to measure the average orientation, eccentricity and size of cells in images of biological tissue. These properties, which can be embodied by an elliptical 'composite cell', ... -
Avian species richness elevational patterns in mountain peatlands
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-17)Avian research and elevation gradients have been studied extensively in the last century but there is a lack of understanding of the patterns and underlying mechanisms that drive avian species richness in mountain peatlands. ... -
Avoiding Bad Query Mixes to Minimize Unsuccessful Client Requests Under Heavy Loads
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-21)In three-tiered web applications, some form of admission control is required to ensure that throughput and response times are not significantly harmed during periods of heavy load. We propose Q-Cop, a prototype system ... -
Awakening Beauty: Meaning in Contemporary Catholic Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)A Catholic church is unique among other places of worship because the space of a church forms the central place for the sacramental life of the Church, as Body of Christ, while also being an expression of it. With the ... -
Awe-Inducing Interior Space: Architectural Causes and Cognitive Effects
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-27)The purpose of the present work was to investigate whether religious monumental architecture facilitates religious feeling by inducing a sense of awe. In order to elucidate how church interiors elicit awe and otherwise ...