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THE PERFECT STORM: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY OF IN-PATIENT MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY (TRAUMA AND SUBSTANCE-USE): A NARRATIVE EXPLORATION
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)Given the marginalizing effects of a mental health diagnosis, individuals with a mental health diagnosis, more specifically those in early recovery of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance-use disorders (SUDs), ... -
Performance analysis of asynchronous networks
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Performance Analysis of Distributed MAC Protocols for Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-10)How to improve the radio resource utilization and provide better quality-of-service (QoS) is an everlasting challenge to the designers of wireless networks. As an indispensable element of the solution to the above task, ... -
Performance Analysis of Distributed Virtual Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2006)A distributed virtual environment (DVE) is a shared virtual environment where multiple users at their workstations interact with each other. Some of these systems may support a large number of users, e. g. , massive ... -
Performance Analysis of Drive-thru Internet Access
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-19)Drive-thru Internet is considered to be an important solution to provide Internet access for vehicles. By deploying cost-effective and high bandwidth roadside WiFi networks, a vehicle can upload/download considerable data ... -
Performance Analysis of Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-20)Solar energy is one of the most promising renewable resources that can be used to produce electric energy through photovoltaic process. A significant advantage of photovoltaic (PV) systems is the use of the abundant and ... -
Performance Analysis of TCAMs in Switches
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-26)The Catalyst 6500 is a modern commercial switch, capable of processing millions of packets per second through the utilization of specialized hardware. One of the main hardware components aiding the switch in performing its ... -
Performance Analytics for Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion of Ti-6Al-4V
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)Titanium alloys are widely used in biomedical, aerospace, marine, energy and chemical industries because of their unique properties. Ti-6Al-4V, an α+β alloy, offers desirable properties such as high strength-to-weight ... -
Performance and Degradation of a Battery-Free Water Leak Detection Device
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-21)Water waste is one of the major causes of water scarcity, and it has become an alarming issue these days. According to the reports from UNICEF, it is estimated that by early 2025, half of the world's population may be ... -
Performance and Wearability of Electronic and Infrared Stealth Textiles
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-28)The functionality of smart textiles continues to make progress, but its wearability is often not guaranteed at the same time. The rough and porous fabric surface, the added materials (eg. electronic materials) not possessing ... -
Performance characterization of shielded metal arc welding power supply designs
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-28)Engine driven welding power supplies are widely used for Shielded metal arc welding process in field applications such as pipeline industry, where there is a lack of electricity grid. Being a manual process, the welder’s ... -
Performance Comparison Between Variable and Fixed Signature Codes in DS-CDMA Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-30)In a CDMA or SCMA system, users can use a fixed signature for the whole transmission interval. But there is the possibility for two users to have highly correlated signatures. Hence, high interference exists in the system, ... -
Performance Comparison of Large Diameter Residential Drinking Water Wells
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-20)Published scientific work indicates that residential large diameter drinking water wells are at a higher risk of contamination from surface water impacts than drilled wells. The possibility of a higher incidence of ... -
Performance Comparison of Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor Web Server Architectures
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-11)This thesis examines web-server architectures for static workloads on both uniprocessor and multiprocessor systems to determine the key factors affecting their performance. The architectures examined are event-driven ... -
A Performance Evaluation of Database Systems on Virtual Machines
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-16)Virtual machine technologies offer simple and practical mechanisms to address many manageability problems in database systems. For example, these technologies allow for server consolidation, easier deployment, and more ... -
Performance Evaluation of Passive Cavitation Mapping for Estimating Ultrasound-Induced Cavitation Dose
(University of Waterloo, 2023-11-28)The development of targeted drug delivery technologies to increase the specificity and efficacy of cancer treatments and reduce the reliance on systemic chemotherapy drugs have long been areas of research. Recent advances ... -
Performance Evaluation of Recycled Asphalt Shingles (RAS) in Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA): An Ontario Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-12)Today, a large quantity of waste is generated from the replacement of residential and commercial roofs. Many of the roofs being upgraded with previously constructed from asphalt shingles. Recycled Asphalt Shingles (RAS) ... -
Performance Evaluation of Self-stabilizing Algorithms by Probabilistic Model Checking
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-08)A self-stabilizing protocol is one that starting from any arbitrary initial state recovers to legitimate states in a finite number of steps, and once it stabilizes to a set of legitimate states, it remains there unless it ... -
Performance Evaluation of WiFi Backscatter Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-29)WiFi backscatter communication has been proposed to enable battery-free sensors to transmit data using WiFi networks. The main advantage of WiFi backscatter technologies over RFID is that data from their tags can be read ... -
Performance Improvement of an Optical Coherence Tomography System by use of an Optical Pupil Slicer
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-08)Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) is a dispersed interferometric technology used to obtain tomographic images, typically of tissue for medical applications. OCT is a competing technology with confocal ...