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The Silurian Amabel and Guelph formations of the Bruce Peninsula: insights into stratigraphy and diagenesis from petrography and ground-penetrating radar
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Regional study of the Silurian Amabel and Guelph (including the Eramosa Member) formations in the subsurface on the Bruce Peninsula provides petrographic details of these pervasively dolomitized rocks, defines lithofacies ... -
A Silver DNAzyme
(American Chemical Society, 2016-04-05)Silver is a very common heavy metal, and its detection is of significant analytical importance. DNAzymes are DNA-based catalysts; they typically recruit divalent and trivalent metal ions for catalysis. Herein, we report a ... -
Silver Nanoparticle Monolayers for Plasmonics and Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-01)Silver nanoparticle monolayers are plasmonic surfaces which primarily find use as a highly sensitive substrate for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), and are also found in thin film solar cells. This thesis describes ... -
Silver Nanowire Coated Threads for Electrically Conductive Textiles
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-24)The emerging area of e-textiles requires electrically conductive threads. We demonstrate that nylon, polyester, and cotton threads can be made conductive by coating their surfaces with random networks of solution-synthesized ... -
Silver Nanowire Coatings for Electrically Conductive Textiles
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-19)There has been steep growth in wearable devices over the past 5 years and the ability to seamlessly integrate these devices into textiles is an exciting next step. One crucial component of achieving e-textiles is the ability ... -
Silver Nanowire Networks in Electrochromic Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-25)Transparent electrodes are a necessary component of electrochromic devices. These electrodes are most commonly made from indium tin oxide (ITO), but this material is far from ideal. ITO is expensive, brittle and thus ... -
Silver nanowire transparent electrodes for device applications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-30)Random networks of silver nanowires are a promising option to replace conventional transparent conductive oxides, such as indium tin oxide (ITO), which are expensive, brittle, and require high temperatures and vacuum during ... -
Silver Nanowire Transparent Electrodes: Fabrication, Characterization, and Device Integration
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-23)Silver nanowire transparent electrodes have recently received much attention as a replacement for indium tin oxide (ITO) for use in various electronic devices such as touch panels, organic solar cells, and displays. The ... -
Silver Nanowire-enhanced Microflake Electrically Conductive Adhesives for Flexible Hybrid Electronics
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-08)Flexible hybrid electronics combine the power and performance of conventional integrated circuits with the large area, lower cost, and mechanical flexibility of printed, flexible electronics. To mount rigid, discrete ... -
Similar hibernation physiology in bats across broad geographic ranges
(Springer, 2021-08-23)Species with broad geographic ranges may experience varied environmental conditions throughout their range leading to local adaptation. Variation among populations reflects potential adaptability or plasticity, with ... -
Similarity and Diversity in Information Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-30)Inter-document similarity is used for clustering, classification, and other purposes within information retrieval. In this thesis, we investigate several aspects of document similarity. In particular, we investigate the ... -
Simone de Beauvoir and The Problem of The Other's Consciousness: Risk, Responsibility and Recognition
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-23)In an interview with Jessica Benjamin and Margaret Simons in 1979, Simone de Beauvoir identified the problem that had preoccupied her across her lifetime, that is, “her” problem, as the problem of the “the consciousness ... -
Simple and Accurate Calibration of the Flory-Huggins Interaction Parameter
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-01)This work improves on a standard method used to calibrate χ, the Flory-Huggins interaction parameter, in experimental systems. The common method is to fit the order-disorder transition (ODT) of symmetric diblock copolymer ... -
A simple and complex physical model of the Laurentian Great Lakes used to engage students and community members
(The Geological Society of America North-Central Section, 2015-05-19)The Laurentian Great Lakes, Earth’s most-easily recognized feature from space, is of a size, complexity, and significance that can be difficult to comprehend. To address this we have developed corresponding simple and ... -
Simple Convolutional Neural Networks with Linguistically-Annotated Input for Answer Selection in Question Answering
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-10)With the advent of deep learning methods, researchers have been increasingly preferring deep learning methods over decades-old feature-engineering-inspired work in Natural Language Processing (NLP). The research community ... -
Simple Drawings of Kn from Rotation Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-06)A complete rotation system on n vertices is a collection of n cyclic permutations of the elements [n]\{i}, for i∈[n]. If D is a drawing of a labelled graph, then a rotation at vertex v is the cyclic ordering of the edges ... -
A simple droplet merger design for controlled reaction volumes
(Springer Nature, 2017-04-01)Droplet microfluidics has been proven to be a viable platform for a variety of reactions by using uniform droplets well encapsulated by an immiscible carrier medium as reaction vesicles. Merging as one of the most basic ... -
A simple finite volume method for adaptive viscous liquids
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2011-08)We present the first spatially adaptive Eulerian fluid animation method to support challenging viscous liquid effects such as folding, coiling, and variable viscosity. We propose a tetrahedral node-based embedded finite ... -
Simple plasma assisted atomic layer deposition technique for high substitutional nitrogen doping of TiO2
(AIP Publishing, 2018-03-21)In this work, a plasma assisted atomic layer deposition system was used to deposit nitrogen-doped titanium dioxide. A simple approach was developed that requires only a nitrogen plasma and short plasma exposure times to ... -
Simple Termination Criteria for Stochastic Gradient Descent Algorithm
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-09)Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm is widely used in modern mathematical optimization. Because of its scalability and ease of implementation, SGD is usually preferred to other methods including the gradient descent ...