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Probing the Interactions between Mimics of Pour Point Depressants (PPDs) and Viscosity Index Improvers (VIIs) in Engine Oil Using Fluorescently Labeled PPDs
(American Chemical Society, 2019-03-18)The level of interpolymeric interactions experienced by a pyrene-labeled poly(octadecyl methacrylate) labeled with 6.7 mol% of 1-pyrenebutanol (Py(6.7)-PC18MA) was characterized by fluorescence in the presence of an amorphous ... -
Probing the interactions that drive RNA binding and self-association of hnRNPA1 implicated in neurodegeneration
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-17)The heteronuclear ribonucleoprotein A1 (hnRNPA1 or A1) is associated with the pathology of different diseases, including neurological disorders and cancers. In particular, the aggregation and dysfunction of A1 has been ... -
Probing the large-scale clustering of fast radio bursts with CHIME/FRB
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-23)Explaining the nature of extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) has puzzled astrophysicists since 2007. In this thesis, we introduce the CHIME/FRB instrument, an FRB search engine that could solve this puzzle through FRB ... -
Probing the Role of Internalized Geometric Strain on Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis
(American Chemical Society, 2019-09-09)The chemistry underlying the activation of nickel hydroxide toward electrocatalytic oxygen evolution by incorporation of iron remains a subject of debate. We extract insights into the role of geometric strain on the ... -
Probing the Unruh and Hawking effects using Unruh-DeWitt detectors
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-18)Quantum field theory is so far the best description of the fundamental laws of Nature, yet it does not fully incorporates gravitation. The first attempt toward unifying the quantum field theory and gravity is a semi-classical ... -
Probing universality with entanglement entropy via quantum Monte Carlo
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-30)Our understanding of physical phenomena hinges on finding universal core mechanisms that unite them. The concept of universality is deeply ingrained in the study of quantum many-body systems. At zero temperature, microscopically ... -
Problem Determination In Message-Flow Internet Services Based On Statistical Analysis of Event Logs
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-23)In a message-flow Internet service where messages travel through multiple nodes, event log analysis is one of the most important methods to identify the root causes of problems. Traditional approaches for event log analysis ... -
The Problem of History in the Age of Abundance
(The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2016-12-11)Our collective cultural heritage faces a serious problem: In the digital age, we can document and "remember" more than ever before. But the scale of historical material is so huge that it will decisively change how scholars ... -
The Problem of Stretching in Persian Calligraphy and a New Type 3 PostScript Nastaliq Font
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)This research is about a typeface for implementing Persian calligraphy called Nastaliq. The main purpose for developing this font was to handle stretching of letters in order to achieve line justification through a dynamic ... -
The Problem with Too Much Fear: Testing the Interaction between Fear Appeals, Message Framing and Visual Metaphors
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-28)In Canada, recreational activities account for 60% of all drowning related deaths (LSS, 2012). How can we influence people to adopt safe behaviours while engaging in recreational activity around the water? One popular ... -
Problem-Resolution Dissemination
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-23)The current problem-solving paradigm for software developers revolves around using a search engine to find knowledge about the problem and its solutions. This approach provides the developer with search results that are ... -
Problematizing eurocentric sustainability within the context of business management and exploring the pluriversality of sustainability
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-18)Business is held responsible for much of the world’s unsustainability and despite over 50 years of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility (CSR) discourse and practice, the state of sustainability ... -
Problems in Cloud Security, Access Control and Logic Locking
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-22)In this thesis, we study problems related to security in three different contexts: cloud scheduling, access control, and logic locking to protect digital ICs. The first set of problems relates to security in cloud ... -
Problems in Combinatorial and Analytic Number Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-01)We focus on three problems in number theory. The first problem studies the random Fibonacci tree, which is an infinite binary tree with non-negative integers at each node. The root consists of the number 1 with a single ... -
Problems Related to Shortest Strings in Formal Languages
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-11)In formal language theory, studying shortest strings in languages, and variations thereof, can be useful since these strings can serve as small witnesses for properties of the languages, and can also provide bounds for ... -
Problème d'expression: L'Alternance codique et ses retombées sur l'identité individuelle et collective - Étude d'un corpus littéraire franco-ontarien et acadien
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-25)Aspect central de la vie sociale, la langue est un des marqueurs identitaires des plus prononcés. Elle marque non seulement l’identité individuelle et la cohésion collective mais elle peut être en même temps un élément de ... -
Procedurally Rhetorical Verb-Centric Frame Semantics as a Knowledge Representation for Argumentation Analysis of Biochemistry Articles
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-05)The central focus of this thesis is rhetorical moves in biochemistry articles. Kanoksilapatham has provided a descriptive theory of rhetorical moves that extends Swales' CARS model to the complete biochemistry article. ... -
A procedure for determining parameters of a simplified ligament model
(Elsevier, 2017-11-03)A previous mathematical model of ligament force-generation treated their behavior as a population of collagen fibres arranged in parallel. When damage was ignored in this model, an expression for ligament force in terms ... -
Procedure-specific Risks of Thrombosis and Bleeding in Urological Non-cancer Surgery: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
(Elsevier, 2018-02-01)Context Pharmacological thromboprophylaxis involves a trade-off between a reduction in venous thromboembolism (VTE) and increased bleeding. No guidance specific for procedure and patient factors exists in urology. Objective ... -
Process Analysis of Asymmetric Hollow Fiber Permeators, Unsteady State Permeation and Membrane-Amine Hybrid Systems for Gas Separations
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-25)The global market for membrane separation technologies is forecast to reach $16 billion by the year 2017 due to wide adoption of the membrane technology across various end-use markets. With the growth in demand for high ...