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Quantifying the Effects of Water Management Decisions on Streambank Stability
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-30)Streams continuously change due to natural processes and human activities, significantly affecting streambank erosion and stability. These changes cause severe environmental issues, including sedimentation of reservoirs, ... -
Quantifying the Effects of Winter Weather and Road Maintenance on Emissions and Fuel Consumptions
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-24)Winter road maintenance (WRM) has significant benefits including improving road safety and reducing traffic delay caused by adverse weather conditions. It has also been suggested that WRM is beneficial in terms of reducing ... -
Quantifying the Frequency and Orientation of Mitoses in Embryonic Epithelia
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-18)The miraculous birth of a new life starts by the formation of an embryo. The process by which an embryo is formed, embryogenesis, has been studied and shown to consist of three types of processes: mitosis, cell differentiation ... -
Quantifying the Groundwater Component within the Water Balance of a Large Lake in a Glaciated Watershed: Lake Pyhäjärvi, SW Finland
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-20)Accurate estimates of the amount of groundwater entering a lake on a yearly basis may provide valuable information for assessing contaminant loadings such as nutrient mass fluxes and the subsequent contribution of groundwater ... -
Quantifying the Impact of Transit Reliability on Users Cost - A Simulation Based Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-27)The role of public transportation increases as travel demand increases due to the growth in population and economics. The importance of providing a balanced public transportation has increased. In Ontario, Canada, the ... -
Quantifying the Impact of Transit Rider Perception and Satisfaction on User Cost: An Experiential Sampling Approach Using Smartphones
(University of Waterloo, 2018-03-15)The aim of travel demand modelling is to accurately estimate trips in future time periods by understanding current travel behaviours. Accurate generalized cost modelling for determining transit mode share has proven elusive. ... -
Quantifying the Impacts of Flash Flooding on Dominica’s Material Stocks in Buildings: A GIS-based methodological framework for Small Island States
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-06)Economic growth is usually accompanied by extensive extraction of natural resources, especially in developing countries. From a “material-stock-flow-service” perspective, the substantial part (e.g., construction materials) ... -
Quantifying the Influence of Soil Prescriptions on Ecosystem Processes in Reclaimed Forests of Varying Age in a Post-Oil Sands Landscape in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-03)The Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) in northern Alberta, Canada contains ~4800 km2 available for surface mining, and as of 2017 ~767 km2 had been disturbed for oil sands operations. The Alberta government requires this ... -
Quantifying the Level of Intermacromolecular Interactions in Ethylene-Propylene Copolymers by Using Pyrene Excimer Formation
(American Chemical Society, 2015-07-14)A unique methodology based on fluorescence measurements is introduced to quantitatively measure the actual level of interpolymeric association between ethylene-propylene (EP) copolymers used as viscosity index improvers ... -
Quantifying the Mobility Benefits of Winter Road Maintenance – A Simulation Based Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)A good understanding of the relationship between highway performance, such as crash rates and travel delays, and winter road maintenance activities under different winter weather and traffic conditions is essential to ... -
Quantifying the Performance of Explainability Algorithms
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-26)Given the complexity of the deep neural network (DNN), DNN has long been criticized for its lack of interpretability in its decision-making process. This 'black box' nature has been preventing the adaption of DNN in ... -
Quantifying the role of reservoirs in altering phosphorus dynamics using a combination of data analysis and process modeling
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)Excess phosphorus (P) from agricultural watersheds promotes eutrophication in downstream aquatic systems. Reservoirs retain P generated from farm fields and protect downstream waters. Reservoirs also act as hotspots for P ... -
Quantifying the role of shade on microclimate conditions and water use efficiency of a subalpine wetland in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Kananaskis, Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-17)Alpine regions contribute 60 % of annual surface runoff, playing an important role in regulating the global water balance. Many of the world’s major river networks originate from alpine headwater basins, popularizing ... -
Quantifying the Shoulder Rhythm and Comparing Non-Invasive Methods of Scapular Tracking for Overhead and Axially Rotated Humeral Postures
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-27)The present research quantified the shoulder rhythm for arm postures that represent the right-handed reachable workspace and compared 3 methods of scapular tracking: acromion marker cluster (AMC), stylus and scapular ... -
Quantifying the soil organic carbon sequestration performance and carbon emissions offset potential of the City of Calgary’s Willow Biomass and Marginal Land Reclamation Demonstration Project
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-10)The primary objective of this study was to measure the soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration performance of The City of Calgary Dewatered Biosolids Land Application Program – Willow Biomass and Marginal Land Reclamation ... -
Quantifying the Technical Efficiency of Canadian Paratransit Systems Using Data Envelopment Analysis Method
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Paratransit service operators in Canada are under increasing pressure to improve the operational productivity of their services due to increased demand and tightening financial constraints. To achieve this, Paratransit ... -
Quantifying trailing edge flap control capability on wind turbines in a controlled environment
(American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2021-08)As wind turbine diameters continue to increase, the cyclic loading experienced by the turbine blade due to wind shear and yaw misalignment increases dramatically hindering the development of larger more efficient turbines. ... -
Quantifying Tree Community Assemblages on Habitation sites in the Great Bear Rainforest
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-31)Identifying how past human actions have influenced their environment is important for understanding how current ecosystems function. Heavy intertidal resource use by Indigenous Peoples for the past several millennia has ... -
Quantifying Upper-Limb Bimanual Coordination Performance Using Machine Learning Techniques for Concussion Screening
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-16)Current concussion screening and diagnosis tools rely on symptom checklist scores, along with subjective assessments performed by a clinician. This introduces high variability and bias, and increases the chances of missed ... -
Quantifying Variation in Wetland Composition and Configuration for Landscape-Scale Reclamation Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-06)Widespread loss and degradation of wetland ecosystems resulting from human land use highlights the need for a reclamation strategy (i.e converting developed land back to its original state) that can sustain ecosystem ...