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Predictive Simulation of Reaching Moving Targets Using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
(Frontiers Media, 2017-01-13)This article investigates the application of optimal feedback control to trajectory planning in voluntary human arm movements. A nonlinear model predictive controller (NMPC) with a finite prediction horizon was used as the ... -
Predictors of Alternate Level of Care within Mental Health Inpatient Units across Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-04)Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to identify clinical predictors of alternate level of care (ALC) status within inpatient mental health units across Ontario. In addition, the distribution of ALC days among ... -
Predictors of Catecholamine, Heart Rate and Blood Pressure Activity During the Type A Structured Interview : Anger-management Style
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-01)A subset of data was used from the Waterloo Longitudinal Reactivity Study (WLRS)to examine predictors of cardiovascular reactivity during the Type A Structured Interview (SI). Sex, age, total cholesterol, body mass index ... -
Predictors of Emergency Room Visits or Acute Hospital Admissions Prior to Death among Hospice Palliative Care Clients in the Community
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-29)Background: The demand for hospice palliative care (HPC) services is expected to grow due to the increasing number of seniors living into advanced old age, the changing nature of death, and the changing family structure. ... -
Predictors of Excessive Reassurance Seeking in Social Anxiety
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-22)Excessive reassurance seeking has been conceptualized as a maladaptive coping strategy to lessen psychological distress among people struggling with anxiety and depression. Surprisingly, little research has been conducted ... -
Predictors of Home Care Costs among Persons with Dementia, ALS and MS in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)Purpose: The purpose of this project was to look at the costs of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), ALS, and MS in long stay home care in Ontario, Canada. The specific goals were to produce ... -
Predictors of Loneliness and Transitions in Loneliness in Ontario Home Care Clients: Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-11)Background Older adults over the age of 65 receiving home care services are particularly vulnerable to experiencing loneliness and social isolation. Loneliness and social isolation have been associated with adverse health ... -
Predictors of Palliative Home Care Costs in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-21)Background: The demand for palliative care in Canada is expected to grow in coming years due to a confluence of factors that include population aging, a more gradual dying process, emphasis on the early provision of ... -
Preference and Performance-Based Adaptive Task Planning in Human-Robot Collaboration
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-23)This thesis delves into a central challenge in human-robot collaboration (HRC): the adaptive task planning of robots to enhance team performance, fluency, and the human agent's perception of both the robot and the ... -
Preference Elicitation in the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-25)Flexible approaches for eliciting preferences of decision makers involved in a conflict are developed along with applications to real-world disputes. More specifically, two multiple criteria decision making approaches are ... -
A Preference Judgment Interface for Authoritative Assessment
(University of Waterloo, 2023-02-06)For offline evaluation of information retrieval systems, preference judgments have been demonstrated to be a superior alternative to graded or binary relevance judgments. In contrast to graded judgments, where each ... -
Preference Uncertainty and Trust in Decision Making
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-12)A fuzzy approach for handling uncertain preferences is developed within the paradigm of the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution and new advances in trust modeling and assessment are put forward for permitting decision ... -
A preference-based, multi-unit auction for pricing and capacity allocation
(Elsevier, 2018-03-01)We study a pricing and allocation problem of a seller of multiple units of a homogeneous item, and present a semi-market mechanism in the form of an iterative ascending-bid auction. The auction elicits buyers' preferences ... -
Preferential flowpaths and fertilizer placement influence subsurface P transport across soil textures and seasonal conditions
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-14)Agricultural tile drains are a source of phosphorus (P) contributing to eutrophication. Preferential flowpaths can rapidly transport P to tile drains, but their activation in different soil textures and under variable ... -
Preferential recharge in a reclaimed tailings sand upland: Implications on solute flushing
(Elsevier, 2021-12)Study region: A peatland watershed was constructed on a post-mined oil sands lease in Northern Alberta, Canada, with the intention of replicating the function of natural wetlands removed by surface mining. Study focus: ... -
Pregnancy intention and gestational age at first antenatal care (ANC) visit in Rwanda
(Elsevier, 2019-01-01)Background With antenatal care (ANC) coverage now widely seen as a success story in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA), attention has begun to shift towards exploring the full life-saving potential that ANC holds. Objectives This ... -
The Pregnant Self
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)Pregnancy, a human phenomenon experienced throughout the world and throughout history, has been largely ignored by the philosophical community. A preference for the abnormal and the extraordinary has left this common yet ... -
Prehydrated Electron and Its Role in Ionizing Radiation Induced DNA Damage and Molecular Mechanisms of Action of Halogenated Sensitizers for Radiotherapy of Cancer
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-05)Despite advances in technology and understanding of biological systems in the past two decades, modern drug discovery is still a lengthy, expensive, difficult and inefficient process with low rate of new therapeutic ... -
Preliminary Development of a Microfluidic Tool for the Characterization of Molecular Machines
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-06)Transmembrane proteins cross the membranes of biological cells and perform integral cell functions that often must be described using quantum mechanics. Developing a better understanding of these quantum mechanical behaviours ... -
A Preliminary Field Study to Examine the Potential of Hydrogeophysical Methods to Monitor Soil Moisture Dynamics in Quaternary Outwash Materials
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-28)This thesis examines the capacity of a suite of near-surface geophysical techniques (i.e., ground-penetrating radar (GPR), electromagnetic induction (EMI) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT)) to monitor soil moisture ...