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A Power-Efficient Smart Lighting System: Modeling, Implementation and Evaluation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-03)Lighting load accounts for approximately one third of overall energy consumption in modern office buildings. To reduce this load, we have designed a smart lighting control system that attempts to minimize power consumption, ... -
Powerful Shocks and Cavities in the Hot Atmosphere of the MS 0735 Galaxy Cluster
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-26)Cool core clusters host bright centres that radiate away their energy in less than 10^9 yr. If uncompensated by heating, the hot atmosphere will cool and form stars at rates of hundreds to thousands of solar masses per ... -
Powers and Anti-Powers in Binary Words
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-28)Fici et al. recently introduced the notion of anti-powers in the context of combinatorics on words. A power (also called tandem repeat) is a sequence of consecutive identical blocks. An anti-power is a sequence of consecutive ... -
Powertrain Selection and Integration of a Single Shaft Pre and Post-Transmission Series-Parallel Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Camaro
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)The ever-growing concern for the environment as well as stricter emissions has fueled the drive for the automotive industry to sway away from the conventional fossil-fueled vehicle. As the pursuit of using alternative ... -
PPE Distribution Planning and Capacity Acquisition During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-27)The COVID-19 pandemic caused disruptions to global supply chains and the uncer- tainty surrounding its progression has created challenges in distributing critical supplies such as personal protective equipment (PPE). We ... -
PPLN-based photon pair sources toward biphoton quantum frequency conversion
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-03)While quantum properties of light promise much-needed enhancements to metrology, further development of quantum light sources and associated tools are needed to readily harness two-photon interactions via energy-time ... -
Practical Advances in Quantum Error Correction & Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-25)Quantum computing exists at the intersection of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and engineering; the main goal of quantum computing is the creation of devices and algorithms which use the properties of quantum mechanics ... -
Practical Coordination of Multi-Vehicle Systems in Formation
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-14)This thesis considers the cooperation and coordination of multi vehicle systems cohesively in order to keep the formation geometry and provide the string stability. We first present the modeling of aerial and road vehicles ... -
Practical Inclusion: Representing French-Canadians in the Army during the Second World War
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-26)This dissertation offers a thorough re-examination of the process and reasons for why French-Canadian representation in the Canadian Army increased during the Second World War. It argues that the army’s leadership endeavoured ... -
Practical interference management strategies in Gaussian networks
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-14)Increasing demand for bandwidth intensive activities on high-penetration wireless hand-held personal devices, combined with their processing power and advanced radio features, has necessitated a new look at the problems ... -
Practical Lattice Cryptosystems: NTRUEncrypt and NTRUMLS
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-22)Public key cryptography, as deployed on the internet today, stands on shaky ground. For over twenty years now it has been known that the systems in widespread use are insecure against adversaries equipped with quantum ... -
A Practical Method for High-Resolution Embedded Liquid Surfaces
(Wiley, 2016-05-01)Combining high-resolution level set surface tracking with lower resolution physics is an inexpensive method for achieving highly detailed liquid animations. Unfortunately, the inherent resolution mismatch introduces several ... -
Practical Multi-Interface Network Access for Mobile Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-25)Despite the growing number of mobile devices equipped with multiple networking interfaces, they are not using multiple available networks in parallel. The simple network selection techniques only allow for single network ... -
A practical octree liquid simulator with adaptive surface resolution
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2020-07)We propose a new adaptive liquid simulation framework that achieves highly detailed behavior with reduced implementation complexity. Prior work has shown that spatially adaptive grids are efficient for simulating large-scale ... -
Practical Performance Criteria and Durability Prediction Modeling of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) Bars
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-15)Glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars are becoming a reasonable alternative to steel bars in reinforced concrete members as a method to address issues of corrosion and electromagnetic interference. This growing interest ... -
Practical Private Information Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-26)In recent years, the subject of online privacy has been attracting much interest, especially as more Internet users than ever are beginning to care about the privacy of their online activities. Privacy concerns are even ... -
Practical Quantum Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-30)Current communication networks are based on classical physics and classical information-processing. However, for nearly a century, we have known that at its most fundamental level, the universe is governed by the laws of ... -
Practical Quantum Fingerprinting and Appointment Scheduling
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-24)Quantum protocols for many communication tasks have been found which significantly improve on their classical counterparts. However, many of these protocols are beyond the reach of current technology. In this work, we find ... -
The Practical Realization of Quantum Repeaters: An Exploration
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-27)This thesis is an exploration of quantum repeaters from a practical point of view. Quantum repeaters are devices which help improve the quantum communication capacity of a lossy bosonic channel (which include photonic ... -
Practical Reasoning and Rationality
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)Theories of practical reasoning and rationality have been expounded at least as far back as the Greeks. Beginning with several historical perspectives, I attempt to answer the descriptive and normative questions of practical ...